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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Budget-Friendly Family Vacations - Review and Giveaway - Ends 3/15

Recently I was able to review a wonderful company called RedWeek. RedWeek is a website where people can find out about timeshare rentals, as well as buy, sell, or exchange timeshares. They are rated A+ with the Better Business Bureau and have been featured in USA Weekend. Renting, buying, or selling a timeshare is made simple on this site. There are no middle men, no commissions, and people can find tremendous savings through this site.

The RedWeek site is extremely easy to navigate. Along the top there are simple tabs to take you wherever you wish to go. You can find a timeshare rental or find timeshares for sale. There are timeshares throughout the world listed on the site. You just type in the search where you want to look, or you can use their world map and click a continent, then country, and start looking! I had a lot of fun looking around for different rentals available everywhere.

Although I do not have my own timeshare to sell or exchange, everything is well explained for those two options. It is simple. If you plan to sell your timeshare, it is as easy as listing it, then you just wait for the emails with offers. For exchanges Redweek works with a timeshare exchange provider to help facilitate the exchanges.

There is an area called RedWishes where people can post where they want to take their budget-friendly vacations for a six week period for $9.99. It works like classified ads, and you just have to wait for offers from people willing to rent or sell their timeshare to you. There are forums and a resource tab. In the resources people can find FAQ and a link to the RedWeek blog.

As you look at available timeshares you can see the picture of the location, and read about it. There are reviews about the resorts, and a list of amenities. The rentals list the price per night, how many people the timeshare can hold, and the dates it is available. It's very easy to look through and compare.

I have loved going through RedWeek. I have been looking all around for a place to take our family for vacation. I want somewhere nice but without spending a fortune. I have that option with the timeshare rentals on RedWeek. I cannot wait to rent my first timeshare through RedWeek this summer for our family vacation!

The people at RedWeek have been generous enough to offer one of my readers a 2 year membership to the RedWeek site, so they can find their own timeshare rentals. Enter on the rafflecopter below for your chance to win. This giveaway will end 3/15.

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Monday, February 27, 2012

Pinterest Monday - St. Patrick's Day Recipes

Pinterest Monday From Musings From A Stay At Home Mom

Pinterest is a fun meme hosted by Musings From a Stay At Home Mom and her new co-host Mama to 4 Blessings. The idea is to post our Pinterest finds for the week. With a very proud Irish husband, St Patrick's Day is important. The problems is, I don't do the whole corn beef and cabbage thing. So I have found some really yummy looking treats I want to try making with the kids. Enjoy!

Source: tastykitchen.com via Melissa on Pinterest

Source: kromadesign.blogspot.com via Melissa on Pinterest

Source: sheekshindigs.blogspot.com via Sue on Pinterest

Source: myownlabels.com via Antoinette on Pinterest

Source: bettycrocker.com via Macaroni Kid on Pinterest

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Butt Bench - Review and Giveaway - Ends 3/7

I don't know what I was doing before I got my Butt Bench! Seriously, I wish I had known about this wonderful company through any of my four pregnancies. Now that I have one, I'm going to get lazy in the bathtub, I can tell.

For my review I received a 15" Cedar Bench. My bench was shipped quickly and packaged well. I loved opening that box. The smell of Cedar was just amazing, and I was so excited to get my bench installed and start using it.

Installation was so simple! If you have a tile wall you just have to line the suction cups up to fit between the grout, add a little water, and then push the bench towards the wall. The same goes for wall panels, you just don't have to work around the grout. Removal (for cleaning because that's the only reason it's leaving my tub) was also very simple. You just have to pull the tabs on the suction cups. So easy, right!

I love using my new Butt Bench to sit on while I shave my legs, or just to relax when I am taking a shower. My children think it is a wonderful addition to the bathtub. It makes a great place for their toys to have little get togethers during bath time. I also love that the bench has increased my storage space in my bathtub. With a seven person family we have so much stuff everywhere! Now I have a ton of added space for storing stuff, while still having room to sit and use my Butt Bench.

If you would like to buy your own Butt Bench then just stop by their website. They offer several colors and sizes of benches, as well as bathtub safety items and handheld sprayers.

The wonderful people at Butt Bench have offered to give my readers a chance to win a Butt Bench of their choosing ARV starting at $43.95. There will be one winner, U.S. only. Enter below for your chance to win!

Pizza Hut Gift Card Giveaway - 3 Winners!!

Pizza Hut Logo Belong's to Pizza Hut

Fellow blogger Kathy over at Been There Done That with Kat is very generously giving away three Pizza Hut gift cards in honor of her new site at My Blessings Unlimited! Stop by her site and look around. She will be periodically having giveaways on her site with items from the Blessing's Unlimited Catalog. Be sure to stop by and thank Kathy. Also stop by some of the other bloggers involved in this giveaway! Thanks so much and good luck!

Giveaway runs from 2/25/12 til 3/3/12.

Prizes:

Prize #1 - $20 Pizza Hut E-gift card

Prize #2 - $10 Pizza Hut E-gift card

Prize #3 - $5 Pizza Hut E-gift card

12" Green Earth Frying Pan by Ozeri - Review and Giveaway

I was recently given the chance to review an item from Ozeri. After looking through all their great products I chose the 12" Green Earth Frying Pan. It has a smooth ceramic non-stick coating and is 100% PTFE and PFOA free.

When my pan arrived I was so excited. It was shipped very quickly and packaged well. I immediately loved the color of the pan and how sturdy it felt. I could not wait to find something to cook in it so I made my twins eggs for breakfast.

This pan is amazing! It heated evenly, which is something that I have typically had troubles with in other pans. Also, nothing stuck to the pan. I didn't have to use tons of spray or butter to keep my pan from becoming a disaster and my eggs from sticking. Then the cleanup of the pan was so simple. Since nothing was stuck to the pan, as soon as it cooled, I just washed it with soapy water and it was done. No extra scrubbing here!

This pan received a big 5 stars in our house, and I would definitely recommend this pan to others. It is already making my cooking time much easier.

You can purchase your own 12" Green Earth Frying Pan at Amazon. The great people from Ozeri is going to give one of my lucky readers a chance to win their own 12" Green Earth Frying Pan! Enter below on the rafflecopter for your chance.

Pinterest Monday is a fun meme hosted by Musings From a Stay at Home Mom where bloggers post their Pinterest finds.

This week I am posting breakfast recipes. I was inspired to find some good breakfast recipes when the Casserole Queen posted a delicious looking breakfast dish. So lets all get hungry!