April MP3 Downloads Freebies and Deals

On to the free music...  You can start here on the bestsellers list.  The top 100 free downloads are in the list on the right.  Some are singles, and some are entire albums.   Find your favorites, or try out some new artists.  When it's free, anything goes.

Here are a ton of free kids' songs.  My girls love the Sleep Like a Princess one.



Some more freebies for the grownups:



Here are some great free singles. Blondie!




Don't forget the cheap MP3s for the month:

• Amazon now has my favorite $2.99 whole album downloads, with a lot of awesome options.  They change the list up every week, so keep checking back.  I love getting a whole album for less than a few singles would have cost.

• The $5 whole album downloads are still a decent deal, and this changes monthly.

Amazon April FREE and Cheap Kindle Book Deals

I haven't done a good Kindle book thread for a while, so here it is.  There are just so many great ones available free or under $2 right now, including some of my favorite books.

I'll start with the Kindle bestsellers.  The free bestsellers are in the list on the right, but if you also look on the left, you'll see many books for under $5.  Did you know you don't even have to have a Kindle in order to read these free books?  Amazon has reader apps for many different types of devices.  You can download that HERE--free.





You can get any kind of book for free!   These books change DAILY!  If you see one you like, click quickly and get it.  Check that bestsellers list every day for more great freebies.

 Here also is the Kindle Daily Deal.  This changes (obviously) every day, so bookmark this page.

The top Kindle books for $3.99 and under.  While they aren't free, it's nice to have a good cheap list to work from once you've downloaded and read EVERY free book there is.  (Is that possible?)

 These are some favorites from some of my favorite authors. $1.99 and $2.99 for these books is great.

 

Awesome Ames Kids Night

Valentino's has free kids' meals on Tuesday, and now from 5:30-7:30 pm on the first Tuesday of every month, our favorite face painter will be there.  Cindi from Princesses and Pirates face painting is just the best.  It's amazing how fast she works and how wonderful her paintings look.  My kids have always loved finding her at different events and the Farmer's Market.

 

 So, go to Valentino's on May 7 from 5:30-7:30 and check her out, eat some free pizza, and have fun. 

Swagbucks Special Event

I know I have mentioned Swagbucks many times, but if you still haven't tried it, it's a great time to start!  They're having a Spring Into Action event, with lots of extra earnings opportunities through the end of April.  Right now, you will get 50 extra Swagbucks for signing up using the code SPRINGIN2SWAG.

Lately, I have been earning about $50 per month from Swagbucks, and I basically do all the earning in the first hour of the day while I drink my coffee and read around the web.  Since Swagbucks has added more ways to earn since my original Swagbucks post, here is my official list of ways to earn.

• Get 1 SB every day for answering the daily poll on the answer tab at the top.
• Get 1 SB every day for the NOSO stream on the discover tab at the top. (just click no thanks on 3-4 offers)
• Go to the front page, and there are always a lot of 1 and 2 buck videos.  Just click through and open all of them and let them run.
• Earn anywhere from 6 to 100 on a search win.  I usually get one every morning and just do a few searches till it happens.
• After that, I go through the special offers tabs under discover.  My favorite areas are RadiumOne (always lots of 1 and 2 buck videos) and Peanut Labs (tons of good surveys).  The PaymentWall page also has surveys.  I tend to avoid the other walls simply because they don't have the easy earnings I look for.
• Also under the answer tab are the Swagbucks surveys.  You can get 1 buck for disqualifying from the surveys, so some days that is what I am for.
• Print your coupons through Swagbucks (also under the Discover tab) and get 10 SB per coupon that you print and use.  I always make sure to leave the coupons I won't use at the grocery store.  Then I still get my 10 SB and someone else gets a savings on the items. 
• Watch videos for SB.  This is under the Watch tab, and you'll get 3 SB for every 10 you watch.  I rarely use this earnings opportunity.  I don't have the time in the day, and I don't think the time required makes it worth it.
• I prefer using my mobile phone to watch videos with SBTV Mobile.  The videos continue to play with very little effort on my part, and I get 2 SB for every 5 videos.  This is something else that I make part of my morning routine.
• My favorite new earning opportunity is the daily goal.  Every day there is a new goal, and you will get a 10% bonus for every day that you meet the goal.  If you hit the goal every day of the month, you get an additional 200 SB in addition to the daily bonus.  You can receive over 500 SB bonus just for reaching the goal every day.
• Use your earnings to buy rewards.  My rewards always start with $5 Amazon Gift Cards, because they are the best deal.  At 450 SB each, it makes each Swagbuck a little better than a penny.  You are able to buy 5 of each type of reward, so my next goal is a $25 Amazon Gift Card.  I generally get this much each month, so $50 total.  

It's as easy as that.  There are many other ways to earn--you can use the shop and earn area, though I prefer to do my shopping through Ebates.  You can earn Swagbucks playing games as well.  You can earn Swagbucks by referring your friends, so please use the link I posted if you like the information I provided.

These are my earnings for each day in April so far. The first number is the daily goal, the second is my actual earning for the day, and the third is the bonus I received for making the goal.

 4/11/2013

80

109

8

 

 4/10/2013

90

107

9

 

 4/9/2013

110

138

11

 

 4/8/2013

90

167

9

 

 4/7/2013

70

200

7

 

 4/6/2013

70

115

7

 

 4/5/2013

90

239

9

 

 4/4/2013

100

156

10

 

 4/3/2013

80

113

8

 

 4/2/2013

90

199

9

Happy Earning!

HyVee Stacking Savings

This is a great week to shop at Hy-Vee.  Right now, there are a ton of awesome ways to save.  Let me go through it all. 

• First, Hy-Vee is again doing the promotion where you buy a small deep freeze for $189.99 and get the equivalent of that amount back in groceries.  This promotion lasts through 3/25, so you have a bit for this one.

• Also, you have the fuel saver program, which I have found to be an awesome opportunity to save on my gas and groceries.  I have been regularly saving 40-60 cents a gallon!  With 20 gallons, that savings can really add up.
• NOW, I have just discovered that you are able to link the Fuel Saver card to Saving Star!  Saving Star works IN ADDITION to your other coupons.  
• If you use HyVee coupons, plus manufacturers' coupons, then get Fuel Saver gas savings and Saving Star payouts, you can really add up a lot of savings from one shopping trip.