FREE at Whole Foods Market, Fairfield, CT

Today I picked up donations to our school garden from Whole Foods Market, Fairfield.  With gratitude, I feel compelled to highlight some of their upcoming FREE events.  Gotta love FREE-

~Aimee, TFF

Free Massages - Mondays and Thursdays throughout April  5:00 – 7:00 p.m. 

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Your Monday and Thursday  nights just got better!  Reduce your stress; increase your energy and relieve tension headaches.  Relax and enjoy a chair massage from licensed massage therapists from Massage Envy

Value Tours.  Free of charge.  Every Tuesday in April.  10:30 – 11:30 am.

Learn about the great values at Whole Foods Market.  Find out about their family brands, Weekly Sales, Everyday Deals, the Whole Deal Coupon book and more.  (Marilyn and I went on one of these.  It’s worth taking the tour to find out what deals they offer and to ask all the questions you are dying to ask!)

Seventh Generation Inc. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Toxic Swap.  Sunday, April 22^nd  10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Drop off your conventional cleaning products and receive a coupon for a free Seventh Generation product (up to $7.00).  The first 60 customers receive a coupon, so be there early.

What’s Cooking? Class Series: Springtime Veggies   Sunday, April 22nd    1:00 PM

Come see  what’s cooking at the Cooking Station. This is a new series of classes with cooking tips and techniques. Chef Michelle will demonstrate knife skills and kitchen tool usage, as well as demystify how to work with an artichoke and Fairfield’s ‘Veggie Pledge’ food of the month: Asparagus. She may even ask you to join her for a hands-on experience. Free of charge.

Asparagus bundled (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Coupon Giveaways at Coupon Class

If you’re from around Fairfield, CT, remember to sign up for the two Coupons 101 classes at Fairfield Woods Branch Library January 23rd and January 31st from 11-1. There are stacks and bins of excess coupons that will be distributed for free. Also note: WE ARE SETTING UP A PERMANENT COUPON EXCHANGE AT THE BRANCH LIBRARY! Ongoing source of coupons!

Bargain Alert of the Day for Fairfield, CT

Big winter sale at The Children's Place. Don't miss it!

Aren’t you tired of missing all the really great Children’s Place sales? There’s one going on right now–winter stuff for $2.99 and under (not too bad of a sale).

Best Bet: Although we shop at the store on Black Rock Turnpike, the store in the Trumbull Mall seems to always have more styles, more of a selection, and just more clothing on sale.

Bargain Alert of the Day for Fairfield, CT

If you spot a coupon booklet at the service desk of any store, grab a few before they're gone.

 

(Back and at it slowly after a week of what may have been the flu…) 

If you poke around the service desks of any given Stop & Shop, you are bound to find some hidden gems–meaning, booklets with coupons in them. The courtesy desk workers barely know about them (as a Frugal Fairfielder found out). So, ask. It doesn’t hurt. And, the coupons in the booklets are pretty good–stack them with manufacturers’ coupons to create big bargains. This particular booklet shown above was found at the courtesy desk of the Stop & Shop on the Post Road in Fairfield near the circle (near the McDonald’s). 

One booklet is called the “Meal Makers Savings Book” — inside you’ll find $15 in store coupons (save $1 on a number of things, such as sausage, rolls, muffins…). 

There’s another hidden gem from Stop & Shop that I’ll post tomorrow. Inside, there are coupons for free veggies, etc. Be on the lookout for that Monday… 

By the way, in case anyone was wondering, we do not work at all for any of the stores mentioned on this blog! We just shop there!

Fairfield Moms Go On a Clothing Diet

Join the clothing diet and save money!

A couple of Fairfield moms have decided enough is enough when it comes to buying clothes, so they recently joined The Great American Apparel Diet to take on the challenge of not buying any new apparel for an entire year. The Great American Apparel Diet originated in Seattle, and has gone nationwide thanks to a little press.

Cathy Curley, one of the Fairfield moms and new members (see her profile and posts at www.thegreatamericanappareldiet.com/author/catherine/), says she decided to join because, although she’s already frugal, she wanted to do something more tangible to take control of her family’s finances.

“Some of the women who are on this diet have closets full of new items with tags still attached—it’s tough for these women to go on a clothing diet,” she says. “Though I’m not like that, I joined so I could feel that being frugal is more of a choice than an imposed prison sentence, and this is a good way to connect with others to have my voice heard.”

There is some flexibility (meaning loopholes!) on this diet: shoes, accessories, and of course, undergarments are not considered apparel, and you can still buy for family members. Some members have held clothing swaps, or joined threadsup.com (more on the service in another upcoming post),

To join the apparel diet revolution and save quite a few bucks along the way, log on to: http://www.thegreatamericanappareldiet.com/rules-for-participation/

Bargain Alert of the Day for Fairfield, CT

Don't miss out on your Stop & Shop coupons for February.

For those of us with Stop & Shop loyalty cards, you should have already received, or will receive today, your monthly coupons by mail. Don’t throw it out! It’s not junk mail–last month, the savings were pretty good (a 20-lb. bag of rice was free, for example–that was somewhere between $7-$9 of free rice–though this week they are offering a smaller bag).

Good Bet: Don’t sneeze at a 5% discount. Every penny counts. For a $50 bag of groceries, you will get $2.50 shaved off your receipt.

Best Bet: Take advantage of these free items from Stop & Shop! They are good stockpile items. And…freeze the butter and rice if you have too much of it on hand already. It’ll keep beautifully. 

Remember: If you haven’t received your coupons by week’s end, print this page out and go to the service desk to ask why you haven’t received yours yet.(They may have them at the desk to give out–don’t quote us, but it’s possible.)