Weekend Scoop: Celebrations, The Cloud and More

by Kay Lynn

My husband and I celebrated my upcoming birthday early last night with dinner out with my sons, daughter-in-law and grandson. We had good food and enjoyed being together.

It was a little bittersweet because my youngest will finally be leaving the nest next month and landing across the country. I don’t know when I’ll get us all together again.

Changing topics…Have you heard about Amazon Cloud? Everyone gets 5 gig of free storage for music, documents, photos or whatever. There are two things I really like about this new product.

You can get up to 20 gig of free storage with the purchase of any MP3 album for a year
There is a cloud player that allows you access to your stored music anywhere using a web browser

Giveaways

Don’t forget to enter my two giveaways running right now. Enter to win a copy of David Bach’s latest book, Debt Free for Life which ends Tuesday at 5 pm.

The second giveaway is for a chance to win up to $50 in Amazon gift cards and ends on April 15th. The code should be in today’s feed (sorry it was missing yesterday but I had technical lameness). Enter now!

Invest it Wisely is celebrating one year of blogging with a big giveaway bash with 15 prizes and the grand prize of $150 gift card. The other prizes are pretty sweet especially since I’m one of the sponsors. Hurry and enter before or on April 16th!

Do you still have a landline? Let Wise Bread know for your chance to win one of three $20 Amazon cards. This one ends at end of day on Monday.

Mom’s Plans is giving away a $45 CSN Stores certificate. I recently bought a wood filing cabinet from there and love it! Entries close on April 8th.

Around the Web

Is the high cost of gas getting you down? Read my article at Couple Money on five lifestyle changes you can make to save gas.

Carnival of Money Stories @ Funny About Money

Carnival of Personal Finance #302: Opening Day Edition @ Money Beagle

Totally Money Blog Carnival #12 @ Debt Free Divas

Yakezie Carnival @ Control Your Cash

Family Finance Carnival: TV Families Quiz Edition @ PT Money

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Written by Kay Lynn Akers

Kay Lynn is the founder of Bucksome Boomer and is passionate about helping readers through the materials on this site. Read her other site, Two Savvy Sisters, for help stretching the budget with deals and steals.

Kay Lynn has written 592 awesome articles.

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Invest It Wisely April 2, 2011 at 5:03 pm

Thanks for sponsoring and for promoting the giveaway! 🙂

Melissa April 4, 2011 at 7:29 am

Sometimes our house is so crazy with 3 little ones that I can’t wait for some peace and quiet. But then I remind myself how quickly time goes and that there will soon be a day when the house will be empty and I will be longing for the craziness. I am glad you could have a nice birthday dinner with the whole family.

This is my birthday month too. I am loving all of those free dining out birthday treats.

Thanks for promoting my giveaway!

Little House April 5, 2011 at 4:42 pm

Happy Birthday! (This is my b’day month too. 😉 – I guess a lot of us bloggers are Aries?! ) I’m glad to hear you were able to celebrate it with your family. Have a wonderful month!