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During the holiday season and sometimes during the rest of the year, grocery stores offer extra points when you purchase their store brand products. By accumulating these points, you can save extra money. Let me explain what I mean using a real-life example.

In Canada, Loblaw Company operates large grocery stores and Superstores. Their product brand goes by the name of President Choice products which are as good or better than brand-name products, and usually at a lower price. During the Christmas holiday season, they have a “3 times the points”  on their President Choice products. So if you buy a product that costs say $2.99, normally you get aproximately 30 points, but during the promotion period you end up receiving 90 points. That’s a lot of extra points that you can be receiving and later redeemable for free groceries.

So my point is, when you see such promotions, if you like the product, buy it over the brand name and you’ll save in the long-run. Sometimes it makes sense to stockpile a product or buy a few extra weeks of product if you can.

There are a lot of Internet sites that show free movies and TV shows on the Internet. Don’t you hate it when you forget to record your favorite TV show or a movie on TV? I’ve done that many times. I’ve tried finding particular TV shows on the Internet to watch, but I find that many sites are just terrible! Either they lack content or the quality is poor, especially when you try to watch it in full-screen.

I have found one site that I like and that I would recommend called Surf the Channel. It has full episodes of all your favorite TV shows with episodes going back many years. The quality is very good and you can watch it in full screen.

The movie selection is excellent but some movies are not the full versions. So check the time on each before you watch.

Market research companies want to know what people think about their client’s products and their newly created commercials. Many people sign up to be part of and get paid for these market research studies. In the past, it meant that you actually had to go to an office. The extra cash was pretty good, depending on the company being researched, but it involved a lot of time to actually have to travel there and wait.

Now, many market research firms are paying you and offering you points to fill out surveys online. It usually only take about 5 to 15 minutes of your time and you can do these surveys in your free time or at work, as long as it is done before a deadline date and time. Not a bad deal to add a few bucks in your pocket without having to leave your computer.

Opinion Square
is one online company that does this. It provides its members many benefits when they sign up for their survey panel, ranging from enrollment in their OpinionRewards points program to entries into their $100,000 sweepstakes. Unfortunately, it’s only available to US residents.

It’s a known fact that people gain weight during the holiday season. If a person is overweight to begin with, by the time the holidays are over, they will have put on a few extra pounds. In the long-term these extra pounds may be very hard to lose!

I have found a way to help you lose those extra pounds. Right now if you purchase a 4 months supply of the clinically proven product Proactol, you will receive $25 off! All you have to do is use the e-voucher code PRXMAS on the order page. You can read more about this product extensively on the Proactol website. Unfortunately, this offer is only available for a limited time.

One great way to save money is to buy products with attached coupons. Now you’re obviously not going to go out and buy a product just to get the coupon. What you will be doing is buying the brand of product that will offer you an added benefit like a money-saving coupon or a free product offer. This coupon can be used towards the price reduction of a future similar purchase or the purchase of a different yet complimentary product.

Let’s take an example that I like. I like to buy healthy cereals. There’s one in particular that offers a cut-out coupon for fat-free yoghurt. So what I like to do is buy several boxes of this product so that I can have the chance to redeem these coupons for several free packages of this yoghurt. If you buy yoghurt on a weekly basis, this is money in your pocket! You’re looking at a product with a value just over $3. If not, it’s a free and healthy food alternative for you.

So when you go shopping, you may want to take a closer look at what extra money-saving opportunities a particular product brand may offer over its competition.