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CFO Reviews is only a few months old, but mama blog Chief Family Officer will be turning three next Saturday! The week-long celebration will kick off on Monday with the first giveaway, so don't forget to stop by. Here's a sneak peek at some of the prizes:
There probably aren't many of you, but just in case you read CFO Reviews but not Chief Family Officer, I wanted to let you know about a series I've been posting for the last three weeks called Creative Strategies for Coping with Rising Costs. It has ideas and strategies for maintaining your lifestyle in the current environment of rising prices.
Now through Tuesday, you can enter to win a 1 GB reusable flash drive with TaxCut 2007 Premium Federal + State, courtesy of H&R Block. Just head over to CFO and leave a comment.
And then, please head over to Free Money Finance and vote for me in round 2 of his March Madness tournament. My post My best financial move this year: The Infrequent Bills Account is in Game 16, up against a comprehensive post on Financial Strategies for Infants and Young Children by My Dollar Plan. I'm losing 9 to 5 at the moment, so I would really appreciate it if you would head over and vote for me in the comments! Thank you!
In my never-ending quest to make the best use of my limited time, I'm going to cease the somewhat-daily roundup of links to freebies, contests and giveaways, and instead put up individual posts for the best ones that I come across. I will also post more reviews here, as well as other material that I think is appropriate, relevant and useful. And of course, if there's something that you would like to see, I'd love to hear from you (you can email me at cfoblog [at] gmail [dot] com).
In the meantime, here's a quick reminder that you can find roundups of freebies and giveaways at PRIZEY, Freebies 4 Mom, and An Island Review (check out the widgets in the right sidebar). The "Sites I Like" over in the left sidebar are also all excellent. In fact, I've been a Start Sampling member for almost 10 years now and love that I don't get any spam, just quality samples from them.
The flu bug that Alex caught early last week is now making its way through the rest of our family. Posting will be slow while I recover, so thank you in advance for your patience!
I'm sorry for the lack of posts! Things have been so crazy around here - mix together an injury requiring a trip to Urgent Care on Saturday evening, a stomach virus, and family birthdays, and you get a whole lot of chaos and a super busy mommy.
So I apologize for not bringing you the usual links to samples and giveaways, and I promise to get back to my usual posting routine as soon as I can. In the meantime, I highly recommend you check PRIZEY for giveaway links, and sign up with Start Sampling for (what else?) samples, which often include one-year magazine subscriptions.
Oh, and there's a huge sale going on at Amazon
You can use these Amazon search methods at The Consumerist to find great deals, or check out sites like SlickDeals for listings. Happy shopping!
I love chocolate. If I were a poet, I'd write an ode to it, but since I'm not, let me just say that I have tried to stop eating it but never succeeded for long. Because of chocolate, I understand - at least a little - what it's like to be a smoker trying to give up cigarettes. I know chocolate is harmful to my health, especially in the quantities that I consume over the course of a day, week, month, year. It's certainly part of the reason why I have some pounds to lose. But even knowing that it would be better for my health hasn't been motivation enough for me to stop eating it.
Earlier today, though, I read Adrienne's post about the connection between chocolate and child slavery at Baby Toolkit. And I'm appalled to discover that my chocolate addiction has been facilitating child slavery in Africa.
The remedy? Why, a boycott, of course! Adrienne's asking that people avoid chocolate gifts this holiday season. So I hereby pledge to buy only fair-trade chocolate products from now on (she says those are untainted). Fortunately, Green LA Girl recently directed me to a fair trade chocolate gift basket that I'll be sending to my chocolate-loving friend.
I also promised Adrienne that I will try to get my sons' daycare to terminate their See's Candies fund raisers that are held every Easter/Passover and Christmas/Hanukkah season. I know there are other fund-raising options out there because we've discussed them in the past, so we should be able to find something more compatible with our school's goals.
I'm not giving up chocolate completely, but I am going to do my part to reduce child slavery. Are you?
Originally posted at CFO 11/15.
There are so many freebies and giveaways out there that I can't keep track of them all personally. I do try to update you on the ones I think you'll find most helpful and interesting, but just in case you want even more, I've added some handy widgets to the right sidebar.
First up is the widget for PRIZEY, which lists lots of giveaways.
Next is Freebies 4 Mom, which lists lots of freebies.
Last but not least is Baby Cheapskate, which lists lots of deals to be had.
I apologize for the lack of posts. This is the busiest time of year for me and I have so many things to do. I'll try to get a new list up tomorrow, but in the meantime, head over to PRIZEY for some giveaways to enter and to Freebies 4 Mom for some free stuff.
I'm sorry I didn't have time to post a list of links today. I'll try to get one up for you tomorrow!
Jeremiah of Z Recommends has teamed up with some other bloggers to bring you PRIZEY, a new blog tracking blog contests and giveaways. Not unlike what I do here, but we have different focuses. PRIZEY has made things extra easy with an integrated calendar for deadlines, so be sure to check it out and add it to your feed reader.
