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Here's What's New - Free Homeschool Curriculum & Resources
- Free ebooks: The Family Camping Handbook, Your Daddy Loves You, Paleo Lunch Recipes, and Home Canning
- Mamasource: Ranger Rick Jr. magazine for $10 per year
- How Costco Saves Us $2,000 Per Year
- Reader Tip: How we’re saving on our cell phone bill
- Cents of Style: Get the Miriam Scarf for just $6.98 shipped + 65% off striped accessories (today only)
- Target: Market Pantry canned vegetables for $0.26 per can after coupons
- Buy One, Get One Free EDGE Shave Gel coupon
- Free App Friday: 23 Free Fun & Educational iTunes apps
- Labor Day Freebies & Deals
- Natural & Organic Coupons & Deals
- Kroger & Affiliates: Download an e-coupon for a free Gatorade Recover Protein Shake
- Free Utah Early Learning Printable Pack
- Free Farm Pre-K/Kindergarten Pack
- What 4-Year-Old Joe the Garbage Man Has Learned From His First Job
- Free ebooks: Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes, Mammals, Not So Fast, Gluten-Free on a Budget, and Organic on a Budget
- Dollar General: Deals for the week of August 25-September 2, 2013
This is the weekly list of Free Homeschool Curriculum and Resources compiled by Jamerrill from FreeHomeschoolDeals.com. If you aren’t a homeschooler, but you’re a parent, teacher, babysitter, or nanny, you’ll probably find at least a few useful freebies in this list. You may also want to go through the Educational Deals and Freebies from earlier this week for more.
Download a free set of Reading Book Logs and Book Log Bookmarks. Free Months of the Year Printable Memory Cards + Matching Song! - These are great for teaching the months of the year. Free 30-Day Trial of ABCMouse.com - Full Online Preschool and Kindergarten Curriculum Free eBook: Plan to Be Flexible - Designing A Homeschool Year and Daily Schedule That Works for Your Family Here’s a Free Candy Land Multiplication Set. Frugal Homeschool Family is offering a list of FREE {or cheap} Labor Day Resources. 
Subscribers of PreschoolMom.com can download free ASL printables. Free science lesson plans, activities, and experiments - You’ll find resources for the following topics: Earth Science, Life Science, Physical Science, and more! Free character study resources: Free Homeschool Character Study Printable and 30 Free Printable Activity Cards to Build Character at the Dinner Table. Free Ancient Egypt Printable Pack and Unit Study as well as Free BOB Book Early Learning Printables (Set 3, Books 7-8). Are you working on Scripture Memory with your children? Grab these Free A-Z Scripture Memorization Posters and Flashcards. This is a neat idea – Free DIY Classroom Quilt Printables. Get free resources for Patriot Day 9/11 Activities and Printables. 
This offer is still available! FREE 18 Educational Unit Study eBooks from The Old Schoolhouse Magazine ($125.10 Value!) – Limited Time Offer You can find free copywork printables for The Hobbit. Lapbooks are a favorite with many homeschool families. Here’s a new Free Math Lapbook for PreK, K, and 1st Grade. Download a free Farm Pre-K/Kindergarten Pack. Need encouragement in your homeschool life? *Don’t forget! If you are looking for additional free homeschool resources please check the huge growing list of free homeschool curriculum and resources on MoneySavingMom.com! Jamerrill is the homeschooling mother of a large and growing family. After seasons of spending $50 or less annually to homeschool her children, she started Free Homeschool Deals in 2012 to help all families afford the homeschool life. She also has a community of encouragement for homeschool families at Holy Spirit-led Homeschooling. You can follow the homeschool goodness on Pinterest and Facebook. Got student debt? Sign up for SmarterBucks (for free!) and earn rewards that help pay down your student loans. Click here to learn more.    Related Stories 
Creatively Cheap emailed me a link her post on how Costco saves their family $2,000 per year. Wow! Here’s a snippet: Before we started shopping at Costco, our grocery bill was around $130 a week for a family of four. That is my husband and I, a four year old, and a baby. We had a $520 monthly grocery bill. And that was way to much for me. We decided to give wholesale shopping at Costco a shot in hopes of saving us a little money each month. Our first trip went ok, but it wasn't as good as I hoped. We spent $500 on what we planned on lasting the entire month. Okay, so we saved $20…Not really that great! To our surprise, the meat we bought to last the whole month, lasted two months! And we had other items last a lot longer than we planned, like peanut butter, frozen fruit and veggies, and butter. The next trip I had a new plan: Don't buy everything we needed. Some things are cheaper elsewhere and we really didn't need everything we bought last time. The second trip we only spent $280 (I planned on only $160, but my husband put some extra stuff in the buggy!). And we got the necessities to last an entire month. I plan on spending about $15 a week (or less if I can) at a near buy grocery store to get things like milk and fresh fruit and veggies (stuff that's hard to buy in bulk). So, if you add that up, we will spend $340 this month on food. We will save $180! And honestly, I think we can get out of Costco for less than $280, so next month my goal is to save at least $200. You do have to pay a membership fee to shop at Costco or Sam's Club, but ours was only $55 for an entire year. If we save $180 a month on groceries, that adds up to a total of $2,160 that we would save for a whole year! The $55 seems worth it!
Read the whole post with all sorts of great tips and price comparisons here. I was very interested to read this article because we’re supposed to be getting a Costco in our city in the not-too-distant future. What do you think? Does shopping at Costco save you money? Got student debt? Sign up for SmarterBucks (for free!) and earn rewards that help pay down your student loans. Click here to learn more.  Related Stories 
Erin emailed in the following tip: My husband and I are both teachers for a public school district, and in our state (Minnesota), Verizon gives state employees a discount on our cell phone bill (12%, I believe), just for bringing in a pay stub one time. As you can imagine, this has saved us a lot of money in the past three years! If you’ve never tried asking your cell phone company (or any other utility company) if they give discounts to certain types of employees or union members, you might consider giving it a try… Who knows? You might save big! -Erin
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Here's a round-up of current Natural & Organic Deals and Coupons, with thanks to Andrea from The Greenbacks Gal: Natural and Organic Coupons: $1.00/1 Late July Tortilla Chips, $0.75/1 Cascadian Farm, $1.00/2 Earthbound Farms Products, $1.00/1 Jolly Llama Sorbet Pops, $1.00/4 Pack Izze, $1.00/1 Evol Burrito, and Buy 4 Gerber Organic Pouches, Get One Free. For a full list of Natural and Organic coupons, go here. 10 Free Ecobonus Points: Get 10 Free Ecobonus points that can be cashed in on organic and natural coupons or on eco-friendly products. $80 in Natural and Organic Coupons Giveaway: 10 entrants will win $80 in natural and organic coupons. Includes Bear Naked, Method, Dr. Bonner, and more. Eco-Friendly Reusable Diapers: Get a 5 pack of eco-friendly reusable diapers for just $16. Vitacoco Coconut Water as low as $0.93/each: Combine a Buy One Get One 50% off Sale with a $10 off $30 order referral code to pay only $0.93/each for Vitacoco Coconut Water. 7th Generation Free & Clear Baby Wipes $0.03/each: Apply the $2.00 off coupon to your order to pay just $0.03/each for 7th Generation Free & Clear Baby Wipes. Whole Foods Market Coupons: Be sure to print the July/August Whole Foods Market coupons you will use before the end of the month. Although the coupons will no longer be available to print, they won’t expire until the end of September. Save 20% on Charlie’s Soap: Take advantage of this sale price to stock up on The Greenback’s Gal reader favorite Charlie’s Soap laundry detergent at 20% off. $20 Off BJ’s Wholesale Club Membership: Do you live near a BJ’s Wholesale Club? Get a $20 BJ’s Wholesale Club Membership Discount and shop their large selection of organic produce and products. Free Amazon Kindle Books: Amazon currently has these specialty diet eCookbooks available for free download: Eating Gluten-Free on a Budget, Paleo Freezer Recipes, and Easy Raw Food Recipes. Andrea Green of The Greenbacks Gal is an organic coupon expert. What if you could find affordable organic and eco-friendly products on a budget? Eco-friendly moms need affordable solutions. Andrea finds the best green deals, helping hundreds of families save on the frugal, green lifestyle. Nothing makes her happier than to help people realize being organic doesn’t have to cost more.
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Guest post by Jill Jarvis who blogs at BigKidSmallCity.com
When our son was 4 years old, we decided to start a Garbage Can Curbside Service where Joe could his neighbors trashcans out and back in on trash day for 25¢ per can. The business was started in lieu of an allowance, as a way to teach Joe about money but also to avoid a situation where he felt entitled to it. The work was easy enough for a 4-year-old, but just hard enough to create learning opportunities. Over the last 1.5 years, Joe has learned a lot of valuable life lessons! Four of the lessons are: 1. Responsibility Joe was excited to start this service, to help the neighbors and earn money for Legos. But there have been many weeks when Joe has not wanted to do his work. However, he learned that his neighbors would be stuck with stinky trash cans if he did not show up, so he went to work anyway. He may grumble about it some weeks, but he always gets it done. 2. Self-Reliance Joe gets to make all the decisions related to the Garbage Can Service. He gets to decide on expanding the business or quitting it. He also gets to spend the money. When the decisions are bad, like he spends all the money on candy and cannot afford a special toy, he learns. When the decisions are good, he also learns. He then understands what good and bad decisions feel like and is able to self-correct as he goes. 3. Independence By making his own money, Joe is somewhat financially independent and is able to make some purchases on his own. Joe buys Legos but also chooses to donate money to US Soldiers through the USO. Also, by making his own business related decisions, with guidance from his parents, Joe has become more confident in his decision making ability. I’m hoping this 2nd skill will prove useful on the playground, in middle school and beyond. 4. Understanding the Value of a Dollar As soon as he started collecting money, Joe began to understand what money is worth. He quickly learned that there are 4 quarters in a dollar and that it takes 6 quarters to buy an ice cream and 200 quarters for a fancy Lego set. Joe has also learned that if he is saving up for something, he must do his job a set number of weeks before he will have the money. So, if he wants a simple Lego set, he will need to work less than if he wants the deluxe set. Joe has also learned about loans. We have been out when Joe really wanted to make a purchase, but did not have his quarter jar. He has had to decide if he would take money from his parents, and then pay it back, or wait to buy his treasure. It turns out that he thought loans were just free money. When he discovered he had to pay the money back, he opted to wait. As his parents, my husband and I have had to put in effort to help supervise Joe in rolling out trash cans each week, but these four life lessons are well worth the minimal time and energy. And the best part about starting the Garbage Can Business is that the lessons have been automatic. We have not had to stage discussion; we just do the weekly work. Jill is an engineer for a telecommunications company and a mom to the Jarvis family. She likes the first job but loves the second. Jill and the kids explore Houston and blog about the adventures, along with lunch box ideas and Joe the Garbage Man stories, at BigKidSmallCity.com.
Got student debt? Sign up for SmarterBucks (for free!) and earn rewards that help pay down your student loans. Click here to learn more.  Related Stories  Here are the best deals at Dollar General this week, with thanks to Anna from Dollar Store Deals for her help with compiling these:
Buy 3 participating Kraft products, Get $2 off Instantly at register Kraft Anything Salad Dressing, 16 oz – $2
Use $0.55/1 coupon from the September All You magazine
$0.79 each after coupons A-1 Steak Sauce, 5 oz – $$1.34 after savings Jell-O No Bake Dessert, 12.6 – 19.6 oz – $2.75
Use $1/2 coupon from the September All You magazine
$1.69 each after coupon Kraft Mayo, 30 oz – $2.34 after savings Kraft Miracle Whip, 30 oz – $2.34 after savings Miracle Whip Dipping Sauce, 12 oz – $1.67 after savings Crystal Light Drink Mix, 6 – 10 qt – $1.34 after savings ————————————————————————————— Bic Cristal Pens, 8 pk – $0.50
Use $1/1 printable
Free after coupon Hamburger Helper, twin pk 11.2 – 11.6 oz – $2.50 Twin pack
Buy 4 and use $0.80/4 printable
Or buy 3 and use $1/3 coupon from the 8/18 SmartSource insert
$2.17 each after coupon Febreze Air Effects, 9.7 oz – $2.75
Use $1/1 coupon from the 7/28 P&G insert
Or buy 2 and use Buy One Get One Free coupon from the 9/1 P&G insert
As low as $1.38 each after coupon Purex Crystals Scent Booster, 28 oz – $4
Use $1/1 printable or coupon from the 8/4 RedPlum insert
Stack with $1/1 DG printable
$2 after coupons Gillette Satin Care with a Touch of Olay Shave Gel, 7 oz – $2
Buy 3 and use $6/3 coupon from the 8/11 RedPlum insert
Free after coupon See the full list of deals at Dollar General this week here. Got student debt? Sign up for SmarterBucks (for free!) and earn rewards that help pay down your student loans. Click here to learn more.  Related Stories | | |
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