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SpiralFrog: Music service offers free music and music videos

Music that is free to download. Apparently quite legal. Sound too good to be true? No, and yes.

Visitors to SpiralFrog can download more than 800,000 music tracks and 3,500 music videos of their favorite artists. According to SpiralFrog, visitors can expect to find more than two million tracks available at SpiralFrog in the near future.

How can SpiralFrog offer their service as a free service? The service is designed to be supported by advertising, with some of the advertising revenue going to the artists.

How does SpiralFrog work?

Saving money: Free discount code coupons

There is more than one way to save money.

Not that into scouring the weekend edition of your local newspaper for coupons to clip? Or, have you -- like me -- clipped coupons only to arrive at the market and realize too late you left your coupons at home?

And have you -- like me -- discovered that shopping online saves money and time? Last year, I did all my Christmas shopping online. I saved money on gas by not driving. I saved my sanity not battling to find a parking spot, not finding what I was looking for once I made my way into the store, and not standing in a miserably long line.

With the exception of food purchases and the occasional visit to the local thrift stores, I do most all of my year-round shopping online now.

When shopping online, I want to take advantage of any discount coupon codes the merchant is offering. However, these discount coupon codes are not always posted on the merchant's website where I have decided to make a purchase.

Free Chicken and Coke Coupons

A free Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich and a free Medium Coca-Cola can be yours by visiting the freechickenandcoke.com webpage and registering to receive the free coupons.

Participants should visit www.freechickenandcoke.com and register as directed between 12:01:00 AM EST on August 20, 2007 through 11:59:59 PM EST on September 29, 2007.

The promotion for the free Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich and a free Medium Coca-Cola is being offered to the first one million participants who register online.

Visit www.freechickenandcoke.com for complete details.

Coupon Mom: Saving you money

We are all about saving money!

Because it is National Coupon Month, we want to tell you about The Coupon Mom, where you can find printable grocery coupons, grocery deals by state, free samples, restaurant coupons, five free electronic books including Advanced Grocery Savings Strategies to Cut Your Grocery Bill in Half, Drugstore Savings Strategies, Cut Your Grocery Bill in Half with the Coupon Mom System, Get Free Coupons for Restaurants and Travel, and Save a Million Dollars with Coupons!, free college savings, drugstore deals, free printable coupons, pizza coupons, coupon recipes, diet program savings, gift bargains, online coupon codes, and savings advice.

A seriously generous saving resource -- and a way to do something good for others.

National Coupon Month: Coupon clipping tips

September is National Coupon Month. The Coupon Council states that "Clipping and organizing coupons for as little as 20 minutes per week can save 20 percent off your grocery bill. Over the course of a year, this can add up -- with $1000 extra dollars in your pocket." That, I believe, is a conservative estimate. At 20 percent off the grocery bill, our family of four would save double that amount of money in a year.

The Coupon Council offers a list of coupon clipping tips. Here are a few of the tips on where to find coupons and how to use coupons to save money the next time you go shopping:

Coupons: Thrifty tips to save money shopping

Saving money. Call it thrifty, frugal, or cheap but finding ways to save money is a small investment of effort to getting the best deal if you know where to look for help in getting the best deals. When you need to make a purchase, coupons are one way to keep more of your money. At the cottage, the less money we spend, the more money we have -- the more money we have, the more freedom to make choices in how we spend our time.