Although Cape Cod has a great selection of stores for most all of your shopping needs, sometimes it is just more exciting and easier to shop online.  Best of all, you do not even have to leave the house to shop online!  No waiting in lines at the Cape Cod Mall and no sitting in traffic along suicide alley.  All you need is a computer, the Internet, a comfy chair and of course some money to spend!  When I go shopping online I always make sure to look for online coupons so I can get the best deal I can find. One of the web

sites that I like to use is the Coupon Chief.  They have a huge selection of coupon codes for all of the big and small retail shops online and they are updated on a daily basis.  The best part about the Coupon Chief is that it is FREE to use and you do not even have to sign up if you do not want to.

Whenever I shop online and I am at checkout I always look for the box that says “coupon code” or “promo code”. If I see that box I immediately do a Google search for a coupon code.  Most times I find a code that works and I save some bucks!

If you are a Cape Cod business and you have an online store you can submit your website to Coupon Chief and add coupons so your online shoppers can save a few bucks at checkout.  Why not increase your online exposure and market your online store to people from all over the country.  It is FREE and easy to sign up too.

I was browsing the Coupon Chiefs homepage today and I was looking for promo codes for stores we have here on the Cape, I saw codes for Best Buy, Home Depot, Kmart, Ace Hardware, Sears and so many more.  The list goes on and on.  Recently I purchased a laptop on the Best Buy website, used a promo code, and then I picked up the laptop at Best Buy in the Cape Cod Mall. I saved money, did not have to wait in line and I got the product that I wanted when I had time to pick it up.

Shop smart, save money…use coupons!

This is a sponsored post, however I DO use online coupons regularly and I recommend that everyone do the same.

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My daughters recently turned 1 and 3 and only 2 weeks apart!  I had a birthday party for both of them on the same day and invited family and friends to our home.  The girls received many great birthday cards and gifts.  After the party I was looking through the birthday cards and noticed that they were just to cute to just throw out.  I decided to cut the fronts of the cards off and set them aside to use as recycled birthday cards.

If you want to do this too… All you need to do is cut down the fold of the card and save the front half.  Throw out the back half.  When you are ready to reuse the card just write your message on the back of the card front.  Viola, a FREE and recycled birthday card!  You can do this with Holiday cards and greeting cards too.

You can also cut out specific images from a card, punch a small hole and use as tags for gifts.  My mother in law has been reusing cards as tags for many years, especially on her Christmas gifts.

By reusing greeting cards you can save $2.00 – $5.00 per card and more!  Let the savings begin.

Other great ideas for reusing greeting cards and birthday cards:

1. Cut out images from a card that you like and attach to a gift as a decoration.

2. Cut a card into strips, laminate and use as bookmarks.  Great as gifts too!

3. Cut cards into various shapes and use in a scrapbook or in a photo album.

4. Turn your cards into postcards….View how here.

5. Cut a section from a greeting card and write a note to your child and place in their lunchbox.

6. Use card cutouts as name tags at a holiday dinner table.

Some neat faq’s about greeting cards:

Americans buy almost 7 billion greeting cards annually, representing close to $7.5 billion in retail sales. Like most forms of paper, greeting cards impact the environment adversely during their disposal and production alike, initially consuming virgin resources (trees, water, fuel) before ending up in landfills as part of the approximately 85 million tons of paper waste generated by Americans in 2006.

Recycling greeting cards, which can be done in communities that accept mixed paper in their recycling programs, is one way to keep greeting cards out of the waste stream. Reusing greeting cards is another, creative way to keep them out of landfills. The fewer greeting cards purchased to begin with the less their environmental impact. If all Americans trimmed their card list by only one card, the savings would amount to 50,000 cubic yards of paper.

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