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

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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.






Living green can save you money

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As a follow up to the post I wrote about whether the Live Earth concert would make a difference in the way people live I thought I’d write about one of the comments on the Go Smell the Flowers site that inspired my post in the first place.

One of the posters seemed to believe that changing over to a green life style would cost a lot of money and might discourage people from making such changes.

Well as someone who has changed her own life style over the years to live in a greener manner I can tell you that a green lifestyle can actually save you money.

Sure the energy efficient light bulbs cost more, but they last four or more times longer than regular light bulbs and barely make a blip on your energy bill so you’ll end up saving money by using them. Plus, if you’re a little bit afraid of heights like I am you won’t have to stand on chairs, step stools or ladders as often to change bulbs.

We compost our food scraps and then use the compost. We also add grass clippings, a small amount of paper product and leaves collected in the autumn to keep our compost going then we use the compost on our garden each spring. The compost is rich in nutrients and acts as a natural fertilizer for our garden.

Growing your own food is cheaper and less fattening than buying processed food or even veggies and fruit that have been transported from the other side of the country. The fruit and veggies that you’ll grow will be full of nutrients and fresher than those you can purchase in a store, plus the act of gardening is good exercise.

If you have a small space you can grow veggies in window box planters – whether they are mounted in a window area or not. If you compost you can use the compost that you’ve made on your own to fertilize your home grown veggies. Once you purchase your initial materials the cost of growing your own food is very low.

Hanging your clothes outside on a line to dry in the sun is cheaper than running the dryer and your clothes smell fresher. Our dryer is very old and uses a lot of energy – we save a ton of money by not using it very often.

Walking, or biking more often is good for you and doesn’t cost you a cent.

Taking public transport is cheaper than paying for gas and insurance for your car and has a lower C02 footprint.

Buying a re-usable bag to bring to the grocery store has an initial cost, but if you shop at a store that charges 5 cents per plastic bag you’ll save money in the long run and keep plastic bags out of landfills.

The law says we must recycle here in Toronto – at least if you are a home owner. The city provides the various recycling containers that we use so it doesn’t cost us any money to perform this task.

If you convert your house to an alternative power source it will be expensive, but in the research I’ve done on this I’ve learned that many homes in my city that have converted actually make surplus energy and the local energy company ends up buying it back from them. So in the long run that saves money or possibly even makes you money.

All of what I’ve mentioned above can save you money and I don’t find them difficult to do at all.

Do you have any more tips or ideas?

Remortgage Guild can help if you have credit problems

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Those who live in the UK are probably familiar with the term “remortgage”. Hopefully none of you are intimately familiar with that term, as it’s often used when someone needs help with refinancing.

If you do live in the UK and have been looking for some remortgage assistance you might be pleased to know that the Remortgage Guild specializes in assisting those with credit problems and help them get a mortgage. It’s true, remortgages are possible with bad credit. Even if you’ve filed for bankruptcy, are in debt, or have County Court judgments against you the Remortgage Guild will assist you.

Just visit the Remortgage Guild website and they’ll put you in touch with someone that can give you advice, and also help you get a quote on a brand new mortgage. They do not do credit checks either. Just contact them to get some free advice with absolutely no obligation.

Getting a remortage might allow you to switch mortgage lenders and save money on your monthly payments or might allow you to have the extra money you need to achieve your goals. Visit the site and find out how the Remortgage Guild can help you.

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