The Parent Bloggers Network

With a veritable recession upon us, we’re all trying to get by on the lowest common denominator regardless of our income level. Whether it’s snagging a brand name purse at half-price or catching a sale at your local grocery store to stock up on essentials, everyone loves to save money.

So we want to know, what was your best bargain find EVER? Share pictures and/or tell us how you found it - and while you’re at it, make sure to share any bargain hunting tips or favorite must-visit websites that help you save at a time where wells are drying up everywhere.

This week, we’re working with Couponers.com - a coupon and deals shopping platform that averages over 100 new coupons and discounts daily from hundreds of your favorite stores. Instead of picking deals for you, Couponers.com constantly updates new offers in a searchable and organized format so YOU can easily find the best deal for YOUR needs.

Here’s how to participate:

Write a post about your greatest bargain-hunting successes. Post anytime this weekend - Friday, August 15 through Sunday, August 17.

Make sure to link http://www.couponers.com and http://blog.parentbloggers.com somewhere in your post.

Then email us the link to your post at parentbloggers@gmail.com.

We’ll be linking them up on our blog all weekend long, so be creative with your title!

What can you win?

We’ve got three $100 gift cards and five $50 gift cards from your choice of one of over 750 Couponers.com stores (like Barnes and Noble, Restoration Hardware, and the perennial fave, Amazon - just to name a few).

Eight lucky winners will be drawn at random.

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Thanks to everyone who participated in last week’s Blog Blast sponsored by Burger King!  Congratulations to our randomly chosen winners - SusieJ with her post Call the Security Guards, They’re Here Again and Sacred and the Profane with her post This Is What I Get for Bragging - they both won a $250 VISA gift card!

Updated below: Canadians, please feel free to join in and WIN!

As parents, we’ve all taken our kids out to eat, and many us have paid the hard price of trying to enjoy a meal with a little one (or ones) sitting at the same table.

Tell us your “dinner out with the kids” horror story - and tell us what you do now to avoid the food on the walls, juice on the table, and sanity gone totally out the window. Do you just not go out with them anymore? Do you bring a babysitter? Or do you stash some sort of magic toy that occupies them while you scarf down your meal?

We’re teaming up with Burger King to promote their new promotional kids’ meal toys by Crayola - perfect for boys or girls, and definitely worth tucking into your bag before heading out to eat.

Here’s how to participate:

Write a post about dining out with your kids. Post anytime this weekend - today, August 8 through Sunday, August 10.

Maker sure to link http://www.ClubBK.com and http://blog.parentbloggers.com somewhere in your post. Also, please include the following blurb:

“This post was written for Parent Bloggers Network as part of a sweepstakes sponsored by Burger King Corp.”

Then email us the link to your post at parentbloggers@gmail.com.

We’ll be linking them up right here all weekend long, so be creative with your title!

What can you win?

We’ve got two $250 VISA gift cards to spend on gas so families can still go out to eat together without having to worry about the high cost of gas at the pump.

Two lucky winners will be drawn at random.

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The $15 Rule

A Dinner I’d Like to Forget

An Evolving Battle

As the Stomach Churns

Being THAT Family

Birthday Dinner or Not?!

Call the Security Guards, They’re Here Again

Didn’t This Used to Be More Relaxing?

Dining Out with the Kids

Dining Out with Small Fry

Eating Out: Worth the Public Humiliation?

Food Face-Off

Forks and French Fries: A Dinner Time Fit

Going Out to Eat Is a Nightmare

Going Out to Eat Just Got Harder but We Still Do It!

Good Kids

How About a Little Grabby with Your Pancakes?

How Not to Be a Jerk with Kids in Public

I Very Nearly Left CJ in Utah. On Purpose.

The Manners of Eating Out

Mommy Eats Bugs

Monkey Manners

My Secret to Treating Kids Out to Lunch and Finding Time for Me

The Naked Baby Walk of Shame

Oh Man, I Am That Circus at Your Local Fish Restaurant

Our Recipe for Success

Out on the Town

Reality Bites

Restaurant Meltdowns

She Got the Chef’s Compliments

Sometimes We Are That Family

THAT Family

They Lock the Doors When They See Us Coming

Thinking About Going Out to Dinner with a Colicky Baby?

This Is What I Get for Bragging

We Were THAT Family

What Table Manners?

Who Wants THOSE Kids?

Why We Don’t Go to Restaurants

Why We’ll Never Be Welcomed Back for Dim Sum Ever Again

Will We Ever Win?

Worst Dining Experience Ever