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Hey Smart Mom,

I know you are always looking for bargains. When it comes to book, music and movies, why not check out Half.com its easy and simple and can save you tons of money on everyday things.

Check out Half.com

xoxo
-M

Best way to save on groceries and household products

My favorite ways to save on groceries involves clipping coupons. These are the strategies I use when doing this. 

Target

Target takes both a Target Coupon and a Manufacturer coupon so you can double up on the same items. Secondly, You can use the Cartwheel App (Available on any smartphone and get another percentage off certain products). Third, if you apply and get approved for a Target Card you can save an additional 5%.  I get ALL my manufacturer coupons either from the inserts in the Sunday newspaper or from Coupons.com

My Local Grocer (Shoprite) throws pretty good sales weekly. They also have a smartphone APP with digital coupons. Their Price Plus card also has special deals available. I am sure that ALL grocer's loyalty cards have specials attached to them. I get the coupons from their insert in the Sunday Paper, the coupons or Coupons.com.

Coupons.com is now my go-to source for specials. They have coupons for anything imaginable in one place. 

Sometimes I also check out the Krazy Coupon Lady. She has her products listed by alphabetical order and if your looking for a specific product she will usually tell you how to get the best deal for it!

-Happy Bargain Hunting

xoxo-

M

My Review of the Evenflo Exersaucer Triple Fun Active Learning Center, Life in The Amazon

When my husband and I are were registering for baby products we already knew we were expecting a boy. However, when choosing things for baby we were very cautious in not going to overly "boy" just in case we decided to have a 2nd child and it was a girl.

We both love the ocean and tropical places so when we saw this excersaucer it caught our eye because it had a tropical theme. I loved the sounds it made and the animal theme. Evenflo Amazon Excersaucer.

This Excersaucr usually retails for about $100 but Amazon has it for 84.99, which is a pretty good savings. e

What I love about is the colors and the fact that it teaches babies about "Cause and Effect". My son already knows that if he bounces the blue lizzard will light up and play music.

Moms! we all know it is a pain to ask our hubby's to put things together, however, I was able to put this together fairly quickly myself, you just need a screwdriver, The directions are fairly easy to follow and once you have the base assembled putting the toys in is the easiest part!

What I love about this is that he will be able to use for years to come, Once he is done using it as a saucer it can become a play table. This  comes with 11 age-appropriate toys and fun music help baby achieve developmental milestones. Excersaucr

What I love most is that the seat cover is machine washable to that if there are any accidents you can easily wash it. The toys are also easily removable so you can use them on other evenflo products. 

I give it 5 out of 5 stars!

Best Clothing for Babies

I know that we are always looking for clothing for our babies.

One of the best clothing lines I have found is called Little Me. I ADORE their clothing..It is so soft and so cute. Best of all they have a HUGE selection for boys which is rare and if you have a son you know how hard it is to find cute clothing for boys. They have the cutest two piece outfits and the best one piece pajamas. I cannot say enough good things about this line.

Of course Little Me has an even more extensive collection for girls and it is so ADORABLE!!.

The saddest part though is that their sizing for Pajamas only goes up to 9 months. My son is wearing between 9-12 months so I am trying to squeeze as much as I can out of the 9 month pajamas and outfits we have left.

Little Me is so high quality that you can wash it over and over again and it does not fade. All moms know that we wash tons of clothes for our little ones almost everyday. To wash clothes I use Dreft Detergent or Tide Detergent.

Dreft Detergent
Link to Little Me Clothes

My Review of the Chicco Cortina Stoller

Hello Mommies! 

 I'm sure of you so many of you out there that are expecting a baby are so overwhelmed with the variety of products out there available for babies. Well I am here to help you out. I'm going to review the products that I chose for my son every so often. First let me tell you about how I came to the decision to buy the products I did. I owe it all to my wonderful neighbors who told us that we had to buy this incredible book called Baby Bargains.

Baby Bargains Book- Buy Here

Let begin with my stroller.

I chose the chicco stroller and car seat combo, I chose it because of the rating it received online as well as the review that the Baby Bargains Book gave it.

Chicco Cortina Stroller: Buy Here
Retail Price: 329.99

This car seat it comes with is the Chicco Key Fit 30 has been great it was easy to install in my car without too much complication, it also meets FAA standards for travel on an aircraft, I will be using it next month on an aircraft.

The stroller has been great. first and most importantly it is light weight and very very easy to fold. You just pop up the handle and bam it folds without a struggle. It is easy to put in and take out the car seat carrier as well. Also when my son sits in the stroller without the car seat it is very comfortable. It is also able to handle walking. We walk alot and it has held up pretty well.

The only con I have is that sometimes the reclining mechanism get stuck and you have to jiggle it a little to get the seat to go down. But I've heard this is common in all strollers. Second, the cloth gets a little dirty to quickly, but again I heard this is common when you have children!!! ;-)


Well I hope this review helped you out a little bit...Below I'm going to add some links to accessories I bought for the travel system.

Stroller Rain Cover
Extra Car Seat Base
Stroller toys
Chicco Key Fit Caddy

Cool way to invest without even knowing!

Hello Smarty Pants Mommies!!

So one cool App I have been using lately is called "Acorns". This app is available on Smartphones. What this app does it invests your spare change. You do have to connect it and link it to your bank account. In my case I am often weary of this but nevertheless I decided to give it a try. So I linked it and in less than one month I have invested $75.44. This is pretty awesome because what they do is they take "Round Ups" from your everyday purchases and then each time you get to $5.00 they invest it in stocks.

Now the cool part is that you choose how they invest your money. You can choose from one of 5 categories, which are: Conservative, Moderately Conservative, Moderate, Moderately Aggressive and Agressive.

I chose to go with moderately Agressive. Acorns invests your money in the following categories and in the following ways if you choose to go with moderately aggressive.

Large Company Stocks- 0.13 cents of every dollar purchases the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)
Small Company Stocks- 0.25 cents of every dollar purchase the Vanguard Small Cap ETF (VB)
Emerging Market Stocks- 0.14 cents of every dollar will purchase the Vanguard ETF (VWO)
Real Estate Stocks- 0.22 cents of every dollar will purchase Vanguard REIT (VNQ)
Corporate Bonds- 0.21 cents of every dollar invested will purchase PIMCO investment Grade Corp Bd Index ETF (CORP)
Government Bonds- 0.05 cents of every dollar will purchase the iShares 1-3 Treasury Bond ETF (SHY)

I will update you guys on my progress monthly.

So this is in no way a way to get rich BUT it is a way to get your foot in the door of investing especially if you are just starting out like me.

I am just writing this independently, I am in no way being paid by Acorns. Also I am not responsible for any monetary loss you may have by using this app.