Wednesday, 3 June 2015
Target-Date Funds: Look Under the Hood
Up to 20% off at Olive Garden!
Olive Garden is offering up to 20% off your entire bill, through June 7, 2015.
Print your coupon at the following links:
Tuesday, 2 June 2015
Walgreens: Deals for the week of May 31-June 5, 2015
Balance Register Rewards
Buy 6 Stride or Trident Gum at $.67, Get 2,000 Balance Reward Points
Use $1/3 coupon from the 5/17 SmartSource insert
Free after coupon and Balance Reward Points
Buy 4 Chex Mix, Gardetto’s or Bugles at $1.50, Get 2,000 Balance Reward Points
Use $1/2 coupon from the 4/19 SmartSource insert
$0.50 each after coupon and Balance Reward Points
Buy 3 Garnier Fructis Shampoo’s at $3, Get 3,000 Balance Reward Points
Use $1/1 coupon from the 5/31 RedPlum insert
$1 each after coupon and Balance Reward Points
Buy 1 Kraft Mayonnaise at $2.99, Get 1,000 Balance Reward Points
Use $.50/1 coupon from the 5/10 SmartSource insert
$1.49 after coupon and Balance Reward Points
Register Rewards
Buy 1 Colgate Mouthwash (16.9 oz), Toothpaste or Toothbrush at $3.49, Get $2 Register Rewards
Use $0.75/1 printable or $0.50/1 coupon from the 5/31 SmartSource insert
$0.74 after coupon and Register Rewards
Buy 1 Crest Toothpaste, Oral B Toothbrush or Scope Mouthwash at $2.99, Get $1 Register Rewards
Use $1/1 coupon from the 5/31 P&G insert
$0.99 after coupon and Register Reward
Buy 1 Secret Clinical Strength Deodorant at $7.99, Get $1 Register Rewards
Use $2/1 printable or coupon from the 5/31 P&G insert
$4.99 after coupon and Register Rewards
Other Deals
Bisquik – $1.50
Use $0.50/1 printable
$1 after coupon
New to shopping at Walgreens? Be sure to head over and check out Walgreens 101 where I explain in detail how to maximize the mileage of your money at Walgreens. See the full list of deals at Walgreens this week over at Passionate Penny Pincher.
Monday, 1 June 2015
BIG NEWS… and a crazy deal that you don’t want to miss!
What Is Make Over Your Mornings?
Make Over Your Mornings is a 14-day online course that includes videos, a workbook, and step-by-step projects.
This 14-day course is designed to help you revolutionize your productivity, streamline your routines, invest your time in things that truly matter, and find more joy and peace in the process.
If you’ve ever wished that you could figure out how to get more done, have more organization in your life, and find time to spend on things you love, the Make Over Your Mornings Course is for you.
It’s not about following a one-size-fits-all system (because every woman and family is different!), but about creating a morning that is in line with your life, your strengths, your family’s needs, and your unique situation.
What Do I Get When I Purchase This Course?
When you purchase this course, you’ll get immediate access to all of the following:
- 14 high-quality videos with motivational encouragement from me — one for each day of the course.
- A behind-the-scenes peek into our everyday home and lives via short video clips throughout the course.
- A comprehensive workbook with 14 chapters filled with practical ideas and inspirational encouragement.
- Daily projects to guide you on your 14-day journey and help you implement and apply what you learned from the daily video and chapter.
- Printable worksheets to walk you step-by-step through some of the projects and motivate you to follow through.
- Additional links and resources for each day, if you’d like to dig deeper on a subject.
The course videos and materials can be accessed via any desktop computer, laptop computer, smartphone, or mobile device. You can choose to print the workbook or download it to your computer or phone.
This course is self-paced and you have lifetime access to all course downloads. You can begin it at any time and you can go at your own pace!
How Much Does It Cost?
In all honesty, knowing how much we invested in this course, my team wanted to charge more for the course. And I know we could. But I am very committed to making this course affordable and accessible for every woman — not just those who have a lot of wiggle room in their budgets to invest in online courses.So, the course — including all the videos, the workbook, and the projects — will regularly retail for just $17. However, because I wanted to do something really special on launch day, we’re going to kick off this course with the following special prices — some of these are the lowest prices you will ever see on this course. Period. So get ’em while you can!
The Crazy-Can’t-Miss-Low-Low-Low Launch Sale Prices:
25% Of All Sales From Our Site Today Will Be Donated to South Africa!
You all know that when I visited South Africa in January, I left part of my heart there. But I also came back so stoked because I realized that we could use opportunities like this Make Over Your Mornings course launch to make a huge impact in the poorest communities there.
So here’s the deal: the greatest needs right now are for a two-classroom facility and two Enviro-Loo toilets at the Reagoboka Centre (read more about our visit there here). The cost of both of these combined is $14,000.
For 24 hours, beginning at midnight tonight (June 2, 2015), during this crazy, once-in-a-lifetime deal, we will be donating 25% of ALL direct purchases from our site to the the ministry in South Africa.
And since I’m a big, big dreamer, I am praying that, with the sales through our site, we’ll raise $14,000 for South Africa. Will you join me in praying for this?
That will make every single long hour and day poured into this project so very worth it. Best of all, I hope it encourages you to know that by purchase the course, you’re not just making a difference in your own life — you’re helping provide basic necessities for some of the neediest children in South Africa, many of whom don’t have parents and are barely eeking by.
What Are You Waiting For?
Go over to MakeOverYourMornings.com to find out all the details on this course and then be sure to take advantage of the crazy low-low-low prices we’re offering today only!
P.S. Not sure if this course is for you? We designed it with every woman in mind — whether you’re working, stay at home, married, single, or have kids or not. If you purchase it and find it’s not what you expected or doesn’t live up to your expectations in any way, we are offering a 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked! So, there’s literally zero risk in purchasing this! Go pick up your copy here.
Hefty Slider Bags — just $0.50 at Dollar Tree!
If your Dollar Tree has Hefty Slider bags for just $1 per box, buy 2 and use this $1/2 Hefty Slider Bags coupon to get two boxes for just $0.50 each.
IWT gives back. Help us build schools for children around the world
I’ve told some of you how I grew up in a middle-class family of 6. My dad worked and my mom stayed home with us.
We would eat out maybe once a month — only when we had a coupon to the local pizza place. We’d share 2 Cokes with the entire family, we’d each get 2 quarters only to play video games, and we would never, ever order appetizers.
When I got to high school, my parents told me that I needed to get good grades to go to college. “But you have to find a way to pay for college because we don’t have any money!”
It was always a running joke…but really a half joke. They didn’t have any money, but there was always this sense that things would be ok. As they told me, “if you’re good enough to get in, they’ll take care of you.”
I still remember how my family rarely ever ate out/vacationed, but parents told us if we ever needed something for school, they'd find the $
— Ramit Sethi (@ramit) May 20, 2015
I ended up applying to ~65 scholarships, which paid my way through undergrad and grad school at Stanford. If you’re curious how I did it, you can read about it here.
But this is where the story really begins.
See, I’d grown up in a family where we had to make do with what we had. We weren’t buying fancy clothes and we certainly didn’t have a lake house or an annual vacation. Our vacations were driving to LA to visit family, and my mom would pack lunches for us on the way so we wouldn’t have to stop at a restaurant. Feeding 6 people gets expensive.
But once I got these scholarships and got to Stanford, my entire world opened up.
I realized there’s an entire world of people who want to say YES to you — not say no. One of the things I loved about college was how all the doors were always unlocked. It was a subtle sign that once you were here, you were trusted.
Same with my scholarships. I once wrote them and asked for funding to travel to Hawaii for a conference. They said, “Sure, let us know the details and we’ll send a check.”
For a college kid with no money, this is mind-blowing.
Later, when I was starting to write IWT, I was consulting with some venture capitalists. One of them said, “Do you want me to put $50K in to help you out?” It was like he was asking me to pass the salt.
He offered to “put in” $50,000! Just like that!
This kind of thing didn’t happen to me as a kid.
It was the beginning of the realization of the existence of this entire world of people who want to help you. They have money, they have connections, and they actually WANT to help people.
When you wake up every morning with the knowledge that the world is there to help you IF you add value, it changes everything.
However, I also realized it’s not as easy as it looks. Once I graduated, I wanted to give back. I created something called “The Sethi Scholarships,” where I was going to give away $1,000 to a promising student.
Exactly 0 people applied.
This was free money and not a single person applied. I shut the program down.
So I learned a few things:
- There’s a world out there where people have money, connections, and they want to help people
- If you don’t know about this world, you have no idea it even exists. But it’s very real
- Getting into this world is difficult, but not impossible
- The masses don’t believe it exists, and worse, are actively resistant to the idea that there is tons of opportunity if you work hard (and yes, with some luck)
This is exactly what I’ve been trying to show you with IWT over the last 10 years.
But for the last couple years, I’ve been having this feeling in the back of my mind.
I have to admit that I haven’t given back as much as I wanted.
Maybe I’m still a little gun-shy from my experience starting a scholarship and nobody even applying. I don’t know.
But I could have never made it to this level without the help from people with their financial support, their advice, and their introductions.
And I’ve been itching to give back. In a recent interview, I mentioned that giving back would be a priority for IWT going forward. After all, I was given opportunities by scholarship foundations, professors, mentors, friends, and of course, my parents.
So I thought about what I could give back. I realized — with IWT, we’ve built one of the most amazing communities in the world. Together, we’ve learned about the game being played around us, and we’ve done amazing work to improve our finances, our careers, our businesses, even our inner psychology.
Imagine what would happen if we directed our energy and resources towards helping other people for just a few minutes?
Imagine how much good we could do.
About 2 months ago, I decided to do exactly that.
I was in NYC, shooting a day of interviews for my Brain Trust program. I invited one of my friends, Adam Braun, into studio to talk about his organization, Pencils of Promise.
Adam’s organization has built more than 300 schools for over 30,000 students around the world and has been driven by a movement of everyday people. He wrote about it in an amazing book that kept me up until 3am.
Here’s what happened.
He came in and did an amazing interview. Here’s a clip:
But once he left, I sat down and recorded something. Adam doesn’t even know I recorded this, and he doesn’t even know I’m sending this email right now!
That’s why I recorded this:
Effective today, IWT is launching a campaign to create schools for underprivileged children around the world.
Because of our scale, we can make a huge impact.
And I decided to go one step further.
IWT will match any donation 2-to-1, up to $100,000.
That means, if you donate $100, IWT will write a check for $200, making your total donation $300 — automatically tripling the impact you’ll have.
This is an unheard-of match. But because of IWT’s size and the success of our business, we can afford to do it. More importantly, I want to do it. This is the very best use of “leverage” possible — giving back to people who need it.
100% of donations go to building schools for children in countries like Laos, Ghana, and Guatemala.
You and I already know the power of education. We’ve spent years improving our own careers, our businesses, our finances. Let’s spread the benefit of education to the rest of the world.
I can’t wait to see what the IWT community can do together.
Click here to make a donation (matched 2-to-1 by IWT).
Thanks,
-Ramit
P.S. I’ve been wanting to give back for years. I hope you’ll join me in making this an amazing display of the power of the IWT community. IWT is tripling the impact by matching your donation 2-to-1. Even a $20 donation (which we’ll turn into $60) helps build schools around the world for poor children. Click here to donate.
IWT gives back. Help us build schools for children around the world is a post from: I Will Teach You To Be Rich.
Real Agent Guard: Real Estate Safety App
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Acorn, an influence company. All opinions are my own.
If you or someone you know is a real estate agent, or someone who plans on selling a home, then the service I am sharing with you today could potentially save your life. As someone who has owned a couple of homes and was house hunting as recently as last year, safety is definitely something that came to mind when going through the process. I know several real estate agents, many of whom happen to be women, and many times I have thought about the fact that I would feel a bit uneasy going alone to show a home to a complete stranger day in and day out. When I heard about Real Agent Guard, I was intrigued, because I know that if I was showing a home or holding an open house all by myself, I would certainly want some sort of security plan in place in the event that I was ever in danger. I would also want to know that my home is safe if I put it on the market and had strangers touring it several times a week.
Real Agent Guard is an agent safety app that provides easy to use, real-time monitoring of agents, and it also seeks to prevent violence by making it clear to potential perpetrators that the agent is being monitored. The app allows for real-time geo tracking, plus you can take and upload photos (of clients’ license plate numbers, for example), and set a check-in timer. If you do not “check in” at a certain time, it will alert the agency and/or a specific contact who can call and check in on you. If an agent misses check in, or uses the “panic” button or failsafe pin function, the agency or designated contact person can contact the police and forward the URL to authorities to track the agent’s real-time location and see any photos they’ve uploaded, etc.
Agents can also set up video monitoring at open houses using their laptop. Simply login and turn on the video monitor and your laptop acts as a security camera, recording surveillance video throughout the open house. I set it up in my living room/office so you can see it in use. Here, my laptop acts as a security camera and is recording footage of the room.
I know that this type of security monitoring would certainly provide peace of mind for me if I had to show homes to strangers, and I’m happy to get the word out about it and hopefully help protect any agents from possible violence. If you know a real estate agent or someone putting their home on the market, feel free to spread the word. Check out this video for even more information. You can connect with Real Agent Guard on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ for more info and updates.
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-Erin
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