Frances | September 30, 2009

Most of the coupon sites at the very least require you to put in your name and email address. The reputable companies give you an opt out option. Typically we will opt in to their newsletters to get access to more coupons. So far, our junk mail has not been a problem, but we use the filtering email that helps a lot with junk mail.

Now there are sites that we do not like and do not pull coupons from unless we really want the coupon. There is one site that makes you go through tons of offers before you get to the coupon you want. It is frustrating to have to mark “no” to all the questions, who has time for that? We want to print my coupon, see an advertiser or two and go.

We have set up several free email accounts. Several of the email accounts are for junk filters. With most accounts you can forward emails from several email accounts to one account. You can reduce the amount of junk email if you filter the junk mail from the original accounts before it is transfered to the one final account. If the email makes it through the first account you can always mark it as junk in the second account. From time to time I will go into email folder of the junk email to check for emails that I may want.

We only use the junk email accounts to sign up for coupons, sweepstakes, and free offers so we are not crowding our inbox with offers we do not want.

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Frances | September 10, 2009

CVS is offering a free flu shot for the unemployed (click the link for more information). This starts in October.

Don’t forget to pick up your $100 coupon book when you get your flu shot. We announced this last week on Facebook . Don’t miss a thing with Frugal Fairhope, become our friend to get our daily thoughts and deals that we may not publish on the site. Yesterday we gave away three YoBaby Meal free coupons. We will be giving away more coupons for free items this afternoon.

We love fans but we consider each readers as our friend.

We published the following last month but we have added so many readers since this last post that we thought we would bring it forward again for our new readers.

We have been hearing story after story of people who have lost their jobs and have not found a job or had to take a job with less pay. This personally hits home with us, so we have make a promise to ourselves to try and assist as many people as we can, especially those of you who are in this situation.

So if you have recently suffered a job loss here are some links to saving money that we have talked about in the past:

Out of the Box Solutions for Job Loss Part 1 of 3
Out of the Box Solutions for Job Loss Part 2 of 3
Out of the Box Solutions for Job Loss Part 3 of 3

Free medications for Pfizer customers

We started a series of posts on Silent Programs after we noticed that there are programs (government and private) that no one seems to know about that may be of interest (especially the free child and low cost health care).

Silent Program – FEMA 1835 – 1836 DR-AL
Silent Program – Charitable Pharmacy
Silent Program – Children’s Dental Assistance
Silent Programs – Discount Drug Cards
Silent Programs – WIC

Church on the Eastern Shore in Fairhope will provide a low cost health care facility in Fairhope. Clinic is still under construction but will take donations.

Free Cell Phone & Minutes

Getting out of the house and meeting new people to network is an important path for anyone who is suffering this situation. If you are a mom, check out the following local and national Mom activities:

MOMs Club of Daphne

MOMs Club International to find the closest MOMS Club in your neighborhood.

MOPS International – Mothers of Preschoolers We found the following MOPS groups in our area:

• MOPS Fairhope
• MOPS Spanish Fort
• MOPS Foley
• MOPS Mobile (2)
• MOPS Decatur

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