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Upc Codes

Here are two reasons why to save those upc codes on baby products.

Gerber will send you $5 worth of coupons if you send them 10 Upc’s for their Gerber graduates. How you sign up for this is going to their website, www.gerber.com and clicking on special offers. You need to sign up for the Start Healthy, Stay Healthy Resource center and they will mail you loads of useful coupons. They send coupons every couple of months and they are perfect for tripling. Even if you’re not a new parent these coupons might be useful for someone you know.

Beechnut is having two offers going right now. The first one is if you send them 48 upc’s they will send you 4 1.00 off 10 product coupons. The second one is if you send them16 upc’s for their new let’s grow products. 2 1.00 off 4 products. To participate go to www.beechnut.com and special offers.

Beech Nut is having an offer right now for any babies that were born on January 1, 2009. They are offering $5 worth of free beech nut food. So if you know anyone who had a baby on January 1 lead them to the beech nut website.

If you don’t do anything else…

Go and buy three papers today! There are amazing coupons. Right now for example you can get electrasol dishwasher tablets from Walgreens for 3.49 there is a 2.50 off coupon and Walgreens has their rebate program which will give you an additional 1.50. You make .30 cash! And get a great name brand product. There is tons of other money saving coupons this week and a lot of them do not expire until March or April. If you don’t do anything else today go and buy at least 3 newspapers.

Well we have survived another year. Looking back on this year Tyler and I have realized that we have accomplished a lot. We bought a house, had a baby, realized we were in debt, and started to fix our mistakes. The biggest growing we have done happened this year. We stopped denying that we were in trouble and started to seek help. We have hope now and are excited about accomplishing our goals.

We have been blessed this past year. We have a happy healthy little boy! He is the joy of our lives and we could not imagine life without him. We are grateful for the knowledge given to us on how to be wise stewards of our money and to help others. We are blessed to have close family and friends around us who are supportive and always willing to lend a hand.

As we look forward to another year of Brokefamily.com we cannot help but be excited! We have so many things to share as well as to learn.

From our family to yours may you have a blessed New Year!

-Tyler, Robin and Ethan

Recently Brokefamily has been a little under the weather. We of course were not prepared for this and were sent scrambling to the store paying full price for emergency items. Since we are starting to recover we came up with a list of helpful items to have on hand so we can start purchasing them on sale or with coupons to have ready.

· Pain and fever relievers. Stock both children’s ibuprofen and children’s acetaminophen (or the infant formulations for kids under two) and jot down the correct dose for each approved by your doctor.

· Adult Pain Relievers

· Saline nose drops or spray

· Flat cola or ginger ale

· Cool-mist humidifier

· Facial tissue

· Power Aide or Juice type drink

· Pedialyte

· Dayquil or Nyquil

· Allergy Relief Meds

· Everyone’s Favorite Soup

· Jello Packs unless you have time to make Jello

· Stomach Relief Meds.

· Coffee for those who are caught staying up with two babies all night. (This would be me when both Tyler and Ethan were sick)

Similac was on sale this past week at CVS so I decided to take advantage. Here is the breakdown of what I did.

First Canister: 1 5.00 formula check, 1 5.00 of $15 or more cvs coupon, 1 Similac Coupon for 1.00, and 1 Bonus Buck for $1.59.

It was fun to watch the cash register as all of this was happening. Total Price was $9.40.

Second Canister : 1 5.00 formula check, 1 5.00 of $15 or more cvs coupon, 1 Similac Coupon for 1.00, 1 Bonus Buck for $1.59, and finally 1 Bonus Buck for $3.00.

Total Price was $6.40.

2 canisters of formula full price would cost me $49.98. After Coupons I paid 15.80. But really since I had a CVS gift card for transferring my prescription I ended up paying Nothing!!!