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The Deal Locker has coupons and coupon codes for garden related items

Everyone has to shop whether they enjoy shopping or not. I’ll bet that most of us shop several times each week whether it’s a short trip to the corner store, buying a coffee at work, going grocery shopping, visiting department stores to shop for clothes or appliances or perhaps purchasing items online.

We all shop.

So why not save some money?

I had no trouble discussing this site as I love saving money and the Deal Locker is most definitely a great site in which to find free online coupons that you can use when you are shopping in retail stores or while shopping online.

There are literally tens of thousands of deals, and coupon codes for thousands of products and stores.

Besides the wide range of coupons and the potential to save money, I like the fact that members of the site can add coupons and coupon codes that they’ve found on their own to the site and in this way share some fantastic deals with other users of the Deal Locker website.

Another thing that I like about Deal Locker is the fact that they only show coupons that are working. They do not list expired coupons and there’s no switching from one coupon to another with a poor deal when you click on a coupon like some coupon sites tend to do. Each coupon on the site has also been user rated, so as you browse through the site and you find a product or store that you’d like to see coupons for you’ll be shown the recommended coupons first which have been rated by site members and which are coupons that are most likely to work for you when you try to use them.

There’s another tab at the top of your search list and it’s marked “All Coupons”. Some of the coupons in the All Coupons section have been found to not work well for everyone who’s tried them. At least Deal Locker has this rating system. You can save time by checking the user ratings and by picking coupons that are guaranteed to work or that have worked for most people.

On the main page you’ll see that there are tabs at the top that allow you to browse through the store listings and categories. You could also just use the search box and type in the name of the item you are hoping to find coupons for, or the store for which you’d like to find coupon codes.

So you’re probably saying to yourself that’s great that I can find coupons and save some money by visiting this site before I go shopping, but do they have any gardening coupons? You bet they do!

I actually found three different areas with coupons related to gardening. There are garden coupons, gardening coupons, and gardens coupons. The garden coupons section has the most coupon listings at the moment with 18 different coupons and coupon codes. I found Henry Field’s Seed and Nursery Coupons and Lillian Vernon Coupons as well as coupon codes for Spring Hill Nurseries, Home Depot and many other well known garden related stores and nurseries.

I’m sure if I really browsed through all the categories I’d find many other sections that could be related directly to gardening as well.

Visit the Deal Locker yourself and see if you also think that this is a great site to find all kinds of coupons and deals. I don’t know about you, but I’m bookmarking this site.

Clearing up a few things about Green Thumb Sunday

by Tricia

I’m not sure why, but lately it seems people who want to join Green Thumb Sunday are questioning putting the blogroll on their site.

As it says on the Join Green Thumb Sunday page the blogroll does not have to be in your sidebar. You can put it in a post or on a page (depending on your blogging platform) and link to that page or post from your sidebar.

The blogroll does have to be on your site if you want to be an official member of Green Thumb Sunday. The blogroll helps promote all of our sites to any visitors who happen to be on one of the Green Thumb Sunday members sites. It also easily allows members of Green Thumb Sunday to visit one another on Sundays and through the weeks to see what each member has posted for each Green Thumb Sunday.

How can you participate without knowing who the rest of the members are? Green thumb Sunday is not just about making a post on Sundays, it’s about visiting other gardening and related websites, getting idea’s from what others are doing in their gardens, and I suppose to encourage others in their gardening and landscaping endeavours.

Yes the blogroll is getting long. I knew it eventually would. That’s why I’ve always allowed the members of GTS to put the blogroll on a separate page of their site.

Another thing that looks nice and keeps your sidebars tidy is to roll up the blogroll into an expandable menu. On many of my blogs I use Flooble’s expandable script to roll up my menus, category lists, archives and so on to keep the sidebars tidy. You can customize the look of these expandable menus so that the colors suit your blogs theme too. Try it out if you’d like to.

There’s also been a few people lately who didn’t realize I suppose the blogroll would actually produce a list of blogs on their site. I think that they thought the code I was sending would just be the Green Thumb Sunday logo. The logo is in the email that I send out to people who want to join, but so is the blogroll code. The only thing that you must do in order to get on the list is put the blogroll on your site.

Another misconception that I’ve heard recently is that people think only gardening blogs are participating. Some have hesitated to join because they don’t have a gardening blog and others have decided not to join when they saw that not everyone on the list was a gardening blog.

Let me clear this up. Green Thumb Sunday is open to all. I’d love everyone to participate each Sunday but I realize that you have lives and can’t always do that. Participation is required at least once a month though.

Any kind of blog may join. All that is required is that when you make your Green Thumb Sunday post is that it be a photo of something to do with gardening, nature, wildlife or a landscape. Most people opt to post photos of the plants that they grow in their gardens or even house plants but you do not have to only post photos of plants.

I’d also like to remind all of the members of Green Thumb Sunday that we had a major slow down last winter. Now that it’s summer in the areas where most of our members live I’d like to suggest that you take some extra photos and save some of them for winter. Or during the winter months take some lovely outdoor photos of snow, ice on trees, sunlight sparkling through an icicle … anything like that is perfectly fine. Lets just keep this going through the whole year this year. 🙂

Mosquito repellers

by Tricia

Well it’s just about mosquito season here. I imagine some of you already have mosquito’s in your gardens.

I hate them! I always swell up quite a bit where they bite me. If it’s not an allergic reaction is definitely an enhanced reaction to their bites … so you can see why I don’t like being bit by them.

Now with West Nile spreading throughout North America I’ve got even more reason to not want to be bit by these pesky blood sucking critters.

Do you do anything to prevent mosquitoes from biting you, or to deter them from your yard?

Naturally rules such as not leaving standing water in a bucket or container apply here … but what else do you do to keep from getting bitten?

I’m not big on chemicals. Not on me or in my yard. We do however use citronella candles, and citronella oil in our tiki torches. That helps to some degree, but it doesn’t totally keep them at bay.

What do you do?

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