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Frugal Back To School Shopping

This year is flying by and it’s already time to start back to school shopping.  This is often a dreaded task…one that tends to leave you feeling broke.  Year after year you try to stick to a budget only to find that you’ve blown through it even before you’ve checked everything off the list.  Is there any way to stay within budget AND save money?  Yes.  Here are a few things that you can do to save money on those back to school essentials. (Check out DealTaker.com’s Back to School shopping lists for elementary, middle/high school, and college students for a list of general supplies.)

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There are No Turbotax Coupons

In recent years, people have learned that they can save money by looking online for promotion codes and coupon codes. Turbotax does not even have a place to input such codes.

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It is Always Best in Chrome

When it comes to shine and glitz, nothing stands out more than Chrome.  In this case, I am not talking about the shiny, metallic substance that often adorns cars and other items.  I am talking about Chrome Bags.  Chrome has developed and is selling some of the most incredible laptop and messenger bags I have ever seen.

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Koupon King in Atlanta Doing Black Friday Spot on WXIA

Doughnuts with Danica

One of the great treasures each school year with my kids is an event called “Doughnuts with Dad”.  I always get the date on my calendar and carve out the hour and a half to go up to school, hang out with the kiddos, see their schoolwork, and eat doughnuts.
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Jersey Mikes Frisco is Joining the Avon Walk Crusade

Jersey Mike’s Sub Shop, a few miles away from our office here in Plano, TX, makes really good sandwiches. They slice the meats to order, they don’t skimp on the portions and everything is fresh. It costs a little more than that place with the Sandwich Artists, but it is totally worth it. 
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The World’s Fastest Half Mile

Morgan Shepherd’s team is one that is not the highly funded type like Roush-Fenway or Hendrick Motorsports, but it really has quite a following (and Morgan being the center of that following).  From the moment that fans found out about the fact we were sponsoring the Bristol race (the Scott’s Turfbuilder 300) on March 22, 2010, they began flocking to the DealTaker.com website.

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“Pinktober” – Embrace it This Month

I have the privilege of writing a column for our parent company’s publications that gets into several of our newspapers each week.  OK, so I have written two columns so far and this week’s just got out online at GoDanRiver.com. 
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’09 Avon Walk for Breast Cancer LA – The Video

It was five weeks ago yesterday that our Affiliate Marketers Give Back Team completed the 40 mile Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in Los Angeles.  Our team of Missy Ward, Chris Pearson, Brook Schaaf, Lynette LaPlante, Melissa Salas, Brian Clark and myself raised over $50,000 in the fight against breast cancer.  The video is about 11 minutes long (as short as I could get 16 hours of walking) but shows our fortitude to not only give, but participate.

How and Why Creativity Matters

A friend of mine shared this on twitter. I love things like this that inspire awe and wonderment. What can we each do to encourage creativity?