Birthday Gifts for Beautiful Moms & Family

***Happy Birthday!***

For the “no sign-up” birthday freebies I recommend that you call your local store or restaurant to confirm they’re still participating in these birthday promotions.

What free gifts are your family getting that I haven’t included? I’d love to hear your comments to help me keep this list updated each month! Please let me know if you find any links that aren’t working.

Stores:
Ace Rewards – $5 off $20 coupon
Border Rewards – free dessert and 15% coupon
Crayola.com – birthday card, 15% coupon upon sign-up
DSW Rewards – $10 off $10 when you join, plus birthday coupon
Mary Kay- 30% off birthday month, free shipping
Hollywood Video – free rental on your birthday, no sign-up
Sephora – vanilla cupcake bath & shower bubbles
The Children’s Place – coupon for 15 or 20% off
The Coconut ScrapShop – gift certificate
Disney World or Disneyland – free admission on your birthday

Restaurants:
Applebee’s – free dessert (no sign-up)
Arby’s Extras – free food w/purchase
Black Angus Prime Club – free dinner w/purchase
Buffalo Wild Wings – free dessert
Duke’s Chowder House – free entree
Famous Daves P.I.G. Club – free food, kids included
FirstWatch Cafe – free entree
Friendly’s Birthday Club – free ice cream or kids meal w/ purchase
Fuddruckers – free shake w/purchase
Joe’s Farm Grill – free meal plus dessert
Joe’s Crabshack – free appetizer w/purchase
Lone Star Steakhouse – $15 gift card
Macaroni Grill- free dessert w/purchase
Maggiano’s– free dessert, $10 coupon with sign-up
Moe’s Southwest Grill – free entree
Noodles & Company – free entree
Orange Julius – free food
Old Country Buffet– free buffet when you buy one
On The Border – free food
Outback Steakhouse – free dessert on your birthday, no sign-up
Papa Murphy’s – free food
Provino’s – free meal, no sign-up
Qdoba Mexican Grill – free burrito w/entree purchase
Quizno’s – free cookie
Ram Restaurant- free Mile High Mud Pie
Red Lobster – $5 coupon
Red Robin – free burger
Rita’s – birthday discounts
Ruby Tuesday – free dessert
Schlotzky’s – free sandwich
Sonic Cruisers – free food
Subway – free meal w/purchase
Texas de Brazil – free meal w/purchase
Texas Land & Cattle- free food w/purchase
The Melting Pot’s Club Fondue – free dessert with purchase
Timber Lodge Steakhouse – free food
T.G.I.Friday’s – coupon

Sweet Tooth:
Baskin Robbins Birthday Club – free ice cream
Bruster’s – free ice cream
Caribou Coffee – free drink
Cold Stone Creamery Birthday Club – free ice cream
Culver’s – free sundae when you buy one
Dairy Queen– free Blizzard when you buy one
Dunkin Donuts – free ice cream
Krispy Kreme– free dozen when you buy one
Marble Slab Creamery – free ice cream
Sheridan’s Frozen Custard – free treat

Kids Only:
Check with your local grocery store because many give discounted or even free birthday cakes to celebrate a 1st birthday.
Applebee’s – free meal for child, fill out postcard at restaurant
Bob Evans Kid Times Birthday Club – free food (12 & younger)
Burger King – free kids meal
California Pizza Kitchen – free meal (10 & younger)
Cheeburger Cheeburger – free kids meal
Chuck E. Cheese’s – free tokens (12 & younger)
Denny’s – free meal (10 & younger)
Geoffrey’s Birthday Club – free toy with $3 or $5 coupon (ages 2 to 10)
Marble Slab Kid’s Club – free ice cream (12 & younger)
Michael’s The Knack Kids Club – coupons all year long (12 & younger)
Shoney’s Kids Club – free meal (10 & younger)
Sonic Wacky Pack Birthday Club – free meal (13 & younger)
Target Birthday Club – sign-up to get some treats
The Old Spaghetti Factory Kids Club- free meal (12 & younger)
Zaxby’s Kidz Club – free meal (10 & younger)

Pampers has a program called Gifts to Grow and every time you buy Pampers diapers, training pants and wipes for your little one you collect points.

Once you’ve become a member of Pampers.com, you can start collecting points. Just find the Gifts to Grow code inside each package and enter the code online at Pampers.com. You can redeem your points anytime you choose from the Gifts to Grow rewards catalog. This program has been extended to March 2010.

The codes you find on Pampers products are only good once but I’ve collected a few Pampers points that everyone can use. Enjoy!

GIVE09UNICEFGTG – 3 points
HAPPYHOLIDAY089 – 3 points
WELCOME2GTG0809 – 1 point
OHAMANDAAWGTG08 – 1 point
DONTFORGETGTG08 – 1 point
WELCOMEBONUS089 – 1 point
THRIFTYMOMMYGTG – 1 point

I just found this site and I think it is fabulous! If you’re anything like me, from time to time you just get sick of your hair but you’re not sure what look would work for you. This site not only lets you see what you’d look like with other styles but with celebrity styles. Hollywood Hair Virtual Makeover. At in style . com you can download a picture of yourself and add different celebrities hair styles to see how they would look on you. You can even change the hair color and add highlights! So before you make that haircolor plunge…try before you buy!

This just came out Feb. 1st!!! My favorite printable coupon source, coupons.com, just released about 30 new coupons!

You can access them by clicking here.

There are some excellent coupons available this month, including a $1.00 Kellogg’s cereal coupon. Print your coupons fast, because once they’re gone, they’re gone!

Other Coupons of Note:

$2.00 Boost Kid Essentials Drink
$1.00/2 Yoplait products
$1.00 Fiber One cereal or other Fiber One product
$1.00 Yoplait Yo-Plus 4 pack
$1.00 Quaker Fiber & Omega-3 Chewy Granola Bars
$0.50 Betty Crocker Cookie Mix
$0.75 General Mills cereal (variety of flavors)
$1.00/1 package of Velveeta
$1.00 Bertolli Oven Bake Meals
$0.50 Cottonelle Toilet Paper

Several magazine and movie coupons as well!

Tips for using printables:

• Print in color (not required, but it seems to make cashiers more likely to accept them).
• Use Internet Explorer when printing.
• Print several on one page to save paper.

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” -Sir Cecil Beaton

I thought it would be nice to begin this blog with a few inspiring quotes.

“Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” -Charles Dickens