One Cheap Chick

The Family Fun magazine web site has a lot of fun ideas for Valentine's Day. Check them out here.

Buy five participating Quaker products at Target this week, and you'll get a $5 Target gift card. The deal also applies to these oatmeal cups, which are priced at $1.02. I don't normally buy them, but if you buy 5 for $5.10, you get the $5 Target gift card. That makes them in effect only 2 cents each. When I bought the cups this morning at my local Target store, I also used coupons worth $1 off any Quaker oatmeal, which turned this deal into a money-maker. Go here to read more about this deal and to print off these coupons. Thanks MoneySavingMadness.com! There are actually a number of good deals at Target this week. Read the TotallyTarget.com blog and CouponCravings.com for all of them!

Ride a bus, light rail or a high-speed FrontRunner train for free on Friday, Feb. 12. All Utah Transit Authority services — except for ski bus service —  will operate for free that day. Go here for details.

By the way, four people can ride round-trip on FrontRunner, TRAX and local buses on one pass for $12. For information about UTA's group pass promotion and other ride passes, go here.

I picked up two Valentine Friend Pack coupon booklets from McDonald's yesterday after fellow frugal mom Greta send me a message letting me know they are available at a few Salt Lake area locations. The booklets cost $1.50, but they are filled with $12 worth of coupons. I'm still using the winter coupon booklets I picked up in St. George over the holidays. The Valentine coupon booklets I picked up have 12 coupons good for free items, no purchase required. They include three small cones, three bags of apple dippers, three small apple juice or milk jugs, two hamburgers and one cup of coffee. 

I have a call in to McDonald's to get a complete list of locations selling these booklets. But so far, I do know the locations at 9000 South 1300 West and the 9000 South 4000 West locations had them. Call ahead before you go; these booklets tend to sell out quickly. A store locator is here.

While most McDonald's locations along the Wasatch Front don't sell the coupon booklets, I haven't had a single problem with any location refusing to accept them. Thanks Greta!

Just a reminder: Denny's has scheduled another breakfast giveaway, on Tuesday, Feb. 9,  from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.  For more information about this promotion and others being offered by the restaurant chain, including free birthday meals, go here. Note: This was an extremely popular promotion last year, with long lines for the entire day.

Amazon.com has 170 Blu-Ray titles on sale for less than $10 each. Thanks MojoSavings.com! Go here to check out the sale.

I took all those game coupons available on Coupons.com to several stores last week and was able to get a number of Hasbro card games and travel-size board games for only 24 cents to $2 each. I also used the coupons on two full-size games that were on clearance, including the Harry Potter version of CLUE. (shown above)  It was on clearance at my local Wal-Mart for $15, and using a $4 off coupon good on any CLUE game, I got it for only $11. (Amazon.com has it for $35.99) I purchased some of the games for birthdays this year and put some others away for Christmas. The good news is that there are even more of these coupons available. Go here to read more! Thanks CommonSensewithMoney.com!

Box Tops for Education is offering a free booklet filled with $10 in coupons.  Go here  to request one. Thanks MoneySavingMadness.com!

There are a bunch of free coupon booklets available right now. I have signed up for them all - after all, you can never have too many coupons, right?

Don't forget, for each dozen doughnuts purchased through Valentine's Day, Krispy Kreme is giving out 12 free "Share the Love" Valentine's Daycards. Each card includes a coupon for one free doughnut. For more information about this promotion, go here. For a list of participating stores (both of Utah's stores in Layton and Orem are part of this promotion) go here.

The Salt Lake City-based Tracy Aviary is offering free admission to anyone wearing a Boy Scout uniform on Wednesday, Feb. 10. Go here for more information about the offer and other promotions.