Update: Giveaway is over, random.org picked Moe as the winner (details here)

I LOVE comfortable, couture, & modest swimwear. Hapari is another swimwear company I think you can all get ready to love too:

Hapari tankinis can be worn:

• criss- crossed
• tied as a halter
• tied straight back

Great way to switch it up and not get a huge tan line!   Their tankini tops are also super long, so you don’t have to worry about pulling at them all the time. Let me repeat that, no more pulling at your top every time a wave hits you!

I’ve said before how much I love companies that know how to make something not only flattering but comfortable. Hapari also rocks some hot:

• plus size suits
• men’s suits
• children’s suits

I have some very exciting news for you all:

Giveaway: The awesome crew at Hapari has decided to giveaway a $85 credit to Hapari.com to one Cuckoo for Coupon Deals reader!

Here’s how to enter to win:

1. Hop over to Hapari.com. Leave a comment letting us know which suit you would get with your Gift Certificate.
2. Get Up To 6 Extra Entries – select the yes or no options under the “Submit Comment” button, then submit ONE comment with which shirt you like.  Selections will be saved to your comment.

The 4 winners of Freschetta Pizzas are:

1. Melanie Baker: Like you both equally!!! And cut my pizza with a pizza cutter!!
2. heatheranne: I “like” Freschetta Pizza and Cuckoo for Coupon Deals on Facebook!
3. Ann: I liked you and Pizza.
4. Dana Melendez: I “Like” Freschetta Pizza and Cuckoo for Coupon Deals on Facebook (Dana Thompson Melendez)

The winner of the Kidorable Umbrella is:

1. Nicole B.: I like the butterfly one!
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I am so excited to announce that Cuckoo for Coupon Deals now has a full Coupon Database on my site! Just click on the Coupon Database button on the sidebar of my site, or on the top menu bar, anytime to search it.

What does this mean for you?

Let’s say you need to buy juice. But it is not on sale, so no coupons are listed on a coupon match-ups list! Just go to the coupon database and search for “juice”.  All the non-expired coupons from Sunday coupon inserts, online printable coupons, drug store in-store coupon booklets, and magazine coupons will appear!  You can print printable coupons from inside the database to save you time.

This is also a great resource for bloggers doing coupon match-ups.

Blogger Link Back Love

The reason I started this series is because when I was a newbie blogger, there were so many unwritten “blogger rules & codes of conduct” I didn’t know about.   I broke them all. Not intentionally. But other people didn’t know that. There still may be blogs hatin’ on me thinking I’m a jerk.  I have learned the rules and strive to be an ethical blogger, and would love to teach anyone thinking of creating a blog, or new at their blog, the lessons I learned the hard way.

I run a coupon deals blog.   I try to find original deals, but I also post hot deals my fellow coupon bloggers post. I have most coupon blogs in my Google Reader.

1. I browse their posts until I find one I love.  Let’s say I find a great Kraft Cheese sale at Target, on Deal&More’s site.
2. I see who Deal&More used to help find the deal, i.e., they say “Thanks,  CouponSite” at the bottom of their post.
3. Then I click on the link to go to “CouponSite” to make sure it is the original source.  Often, it is not.
4. CouponSite.com may have on their post of the Kraft Cheese deal “Thanks, SamsCoupons”
5. So I go to Sams Coupons. They have no links back at the end of their post, so it is probably their deal.
6. I run a Google Reader search for Kraft Cheese and see which blogs post for the deal is the oldest.  I see who they linked back to.

This way I can verify who originally posted a deal.  This may seem time-consuming, but it is important to give credit to the person who originally found the deal.  Often it takes a long time to find original deals. Sometimes I give credit to multiple blogs for a deal, for example a blog added new information to a previous deal so I credit both the original deal poster and the blog that I found out new information on.

One time I posted an original deal that took me a very long time to verify and get worked up.  Another blog posted it on their site word-for-word copying me, and didn’t link back.

UPDATE: Giveaway has ended, view winners here.

SnorgTees are best known for their shirt “If Life Gives You Lemons, Keep Them, Because Hey, Free Lemons”. But they’ve got a ton of other shirts up their sleeves (Cheeseball alert! I can be so lame. Sorry.) Anyways, what more can you say about hilarious shirts?  The ones shown above are my two favs, although they have lots of great ones for guys and gals.

My husband got one and loves it.  100% super soft cotton and 100% cool.

Giveaway: 1 Winner Will Win A Snorg Tee!

HERE’S HOW TO ENTER TO WIN:

UPDATE: THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED, PLEASE VIEW WINNER HERE.

There’s a million swimsuit companies.

Here’s what’s unique about Essential Swimwear:

• Their swimsuit tops are all very modest and very long.
• You can mix-and-match any top to any bottom.
• You can get a small top and a large bottom or any other variety of sizes.  It’s not one-size-fits all!
• They have  a very easy size chart for you to measure yourself, so you get the right size of top and bottom to order.

I can’t wear one piece swimsuits because my top is not the same size as my bottom. Ok I said it!  And most 2 pieces are immodest and you are pulling at the top all the time to have it cover your stomach.  That’s why I am lovin’ essential swimwear because they have both of these problems covered!

I got the blue top shown above, then instead of the blue bottoms I choose the skirt bottom (shown below) because it hides more, if you know what I’m sayin’…

Giveaway: 1 winner will get to choose any top and any bottom of any size!

HERE’S HOW TO ENTER TO WIN:

1. Sign up for Essential Swimwear’s newsletter and leave a comment telling us you’re on the email list.  Click on “Join Email List”, all you have to enter is you email address – there’s no other info to enter so it’s very quick.

Optional Extra Entries – please submit another comment for each extra entry:

1. Subscribe to my email newsletter or RSS feed. On the top left-hand corner of this page.
2. Become a follower of Cuckoo for Coupon Deals on Facebook.
3. Follow me on Twitter.
4. Become a fan of Essential Swimwear on Facebook
5. Follow Essential Swimwear on Twitter.
6. Blog/Tweet/Update status on Facebook/Myspace about the giveaway.
7. Grab our button and place it on the sidebar or blogroll of your blog/site. Leave a link to your site.

There are now a total of 8 entries available per person! (Please be sure to leave separate entries for each one.)

UPDATE: Giveaway has ended.

My daughter’s had a little tea party with their dolls, while taste-testing Peeled Snacks.

What we though:

• We all loved them.
• Although they are dried snacks, they are not hard. They are soft, chewy, and moist.  Other dried bananas I’ve tried are hard and crunchy, with little flavor.  These somehow retained the flavor and weren’t crispy.
• I like the convenient packages to travel on-the-go or for church
• I love that they are 100% fruit (no sugar added)
• I think their price is  a quite high.  If you order online, make sure to sign up for their newsletter (at the very bottom left-hand-side of their page) because you’ll get free shipping, which helps with cost. OR you can get these at Whole Foods and Starbucks.
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Out of 287 entries, the winner of the Clutch Coupon Binder Giveaway selected by Random.org is:

Julie, who’s email address is “possum7000@”. Her winning comment was: “I’m a subscriber too!”

In her comment #36 she said she’d like the “Turquoise and Chocolate Polka Dots Coupon Clutch Binder”. I have emailed Julie and if she doesn’t respond in 48 hours a new winner will be selected.

Thanks to all those who entered.  You can visit CouponClutch.com until April 30th with code “cuckoo” and get 10% off, plus if you select from their drop-down list that you only want the cover and not the binder, you will get an additional $5 off.

Or if you are a Spanish Fork, UT resident: you can be the first person to email me at Deidre(at)cuckooforcoupondeals.com and say you want my old red binder and you can have it FREE. View my coupon binder tutorial here (I explain how to put together a coupon binder, from clipping to sorting and categories), my old red binder is the binder I used in it.  Warning: You may just find people coming up to you asking if you run Cuckoo for Coupon Deals.  Just kidding.

Sorry I don’t have time to co-ordinate schedules and meet up to give away my old binder.  I can leave the binder at Fresh Market in Spanish Fork at Customer Service with your full name on it.  Who knows, it may just be full of baseball card holders and random coupons…

I was just at Walmart and found some cuckoo deals:

Strawberries $1.25/lb

Airwick Freshmatic iMotion $5.68
- $5/1 (S 3/7)
Final Price = $.68!

Travel size games $5.24
- $4/1 Hungry Hungry hippos printable coupon
- $4/1 Connect 4 (S 3/21)
Final Price = $1.24

Pampers Cruisers w/ Dry Max Jumbo Pack $8
- $2/1 (RP 3/14) This coupon says “cruisers” on it, and did not beep.
Final Price = $6

Please go HERE to view a list of Walmart coupon deals that have been confirmed in Utah.

UPDATE: THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED, VIEW WINNERS HERE

Remember  over here when I gave away 8 slice cutters? I got great reviews from all the people who won.

I was the first blogger Slice ever had review their product, and they thought it was so good that they have started offering these to several other bloggers to giveaway. My site has grown so much since my first giveaway, they thought I better host another one too.

They sell for just $6.03 here on Amazon.com and they are eligible for free super saver shipping!

Thanks to Slice for giving me 25 slice safety cutters to giveaway -there will be 25 winners! According to their site, “the recessed ceramic blade lasts longer than steel and never rusts. Ever.” So I can use my slice to cut coupons forever, sweet!

Cuckoo Level: 5 out of 5