free chick-fil-a on the first saturday of each month!

It is well known that I lurrrrrrv Chick-fil-a. Max loves Chick-fil-a too! Here he is as a puppy with his favorite toy: a Chick-fil-a cow!

Well, if you are like us and adore the yummy food that is Chick-fil-a, then you are in luck! On the first Saturday of every month from 8:30 to 10:30 Chick-fil-a gives away a free chicken biscuit or a 3-count of chicken minis to every customer who shows up in their pajamas! Thank you to Gloria from funandfrugal.com for her post on this topic. {if you haven't checked out her site yet, please do. it is stock full of great deals, especially if you live in the Cleveland/Chattanooga area!}

Don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity for free food! I don't know about you, but my mouth is watering just thinking about getting my chicken biscuit on Saturday...

P.S. You may want to call your local Chick-fil-a to make sure they are participating in this great deal. I do know that the one in Cleveland is doing it. :)

birthday freebies.

For birthdays, husby and I try to be as frugal as possible {although it is hard at times...especially when one of your main love languages is gift giving.} We try to not go overboard. One thing that has always helped me in preparing for husby's birthday is coupons and birthday deals! Last year on husband's birthday we went to the Zoo, ate at Buffalo Wild Wings for lunch, went to the movies {and got soda and snacks}, and had a nice italian dinner and dessert at Provino's...all for under $40. This was made possible by the wonderful coupons and birthday deals I had been saving up and researching the weeks prior to his big day.

In preparation for husband's birthday this year, I have also been doing quite a bit of research on any birthday deals I can find {some of them are valid a week before and a week after your birthday as well!}

My suggestion is that any time you sign up for a birthday deal, don't use your main email account. I have set up a yahoo account just for these purposes. Because normally when you sign up for any deal a restaurant has, they will automatically put you on their email list...and that can be kind of annoying.

Here are some of the birthday freebies I have found:

• Friendly's. Free ice-cream cone {good for one month.} --> this is one of my favorite restaurants, but we don't have one in Tennessee.
  
• Moe's. Free burrito on your birthday.
• Baskin-Robbins. Free 2.5 oz scoop of ice-cream on your birthday {good for one week before and one week after your birthday.}
• Cold Stone Creamery. Free ice-cream {good for one week before and one week after your birthday.}
• Provino's will give you a free meal AND dessert on your birthday {when you show I.D., no sign up or coupon needed.}
• Outback will giveyou a free dessert on your birthday {no sign up necessary.}
• Red Robin will give you a free burger on your birthday {good for one week before and one week after birthday.}
• And did you know that DisneyWorld and Disneyland give you free admission on your birthday?!

Well, that's all I have time to share for now. Hope some of these deals come in handy for you. Now I'm off to finish getting ready for the rest of today's festivities!

Happy Saturday!

have a lovely weekend.

{photo by me}

I hope you'll all have a very happy weekend. Any exciting plans? Sunday is husband's birthday, so we will be birthday partying it up for the next couple of days. It will be marvelous. Celebrating the existence of those you love is oh-so-much-fun!

Looking for some ideas on what to do this weekend?

• If you're on a tight budget, here are some ideas that might spark your imagination: 100 Things to Do During a Money Free Weekend
• Love photographs and crafts {I sure do!} Maybe you can turn a Scrabble board into a picture frame, make a photo wall calendar, or create some DIY cardboard hipster frames.
• Going out to eat at all? You can buy one blizzard at Dairy Queen and get one for 99 cents with this coupon, at T.G.I.Friday's buy one entree get one free, if you join Beef'O'Brady's email list you will receive a coupon for a free appetizer with the purchase of an entree. {all of these coupons were found via funandfrugal.com You should definitely check it out!}
  

Whatever you end up doing this weekend, I hope you'll have a lovely one.