If you are looking for pumpkin carving templates I've gathered up some of the best sites online.  I'm not the pumpkin carver in my house - that duty goes to my husband.  Carving pumpkins is a great way to decorate for Halloween and if you're not good at free hand carving maybe these pumpkin stencils can help.  If you want to be more creative than the old triangles for eyes and nose route, check out these sites:

DLDK's - A large array of pumpkin carving patterns with instructions.  A few of my favorites are the ghost and haunted house templates.

The Pumpkin Wizard - They offer nearly 800 patterns with 470 pumpkin carving templates free.  They're worth checking out!

Pumpkin Masters - They only offer four free downloadable pumpkin patterns but they are awesome.  You'll also find some Halloween recipes and facts.

Paper Pumpkins - This site is more targeted towards kids.  It has some great kid friendly stencils as well as Halloween images to print and color, games and printable masks.

Stoneykins - The pumpkin carving patterns here are phenomenal!  They only offer 100 free stencils, however, they are spectacular.  You'll also find a nice tutorial.

I hope you find these pumpkin carving designs as much fun as I do.  Have fun carving your pumpkin this Halloween.  Have a safe and spooktacular Halloween!

I want to tell you about this great web site - RetailMeNot.  Did you know when buying items and services online there are often great discounts readily available?  This is where retailmenot.com comes into play.

This is a great way to save money while your doing your shopping this Christmas or anytime.  With the economy the way it is, coupons are a big plus and this is a great source for online coupons.  Also it is less of a hassle to shop online; not to mention the money you'll save on gas.

More and more people are doing their shopping online and you may not even know that many times there are coupon codes readily available where you can get discounts for what you order.

For example, if you're shopping at amazon.com; go to RetailMeNot and type in the address - amazon.com and press the "Get Coupons" button.  You should be presented with coupons, if any, are available at this time for this store.

They claim to have over 100,000 coupon codes, so there is a good chance you'll find one you can use.

Another great thing is the FireFox Extension.  If you use Firefox as your web browser - you can grab the new RetailMeNot.com Firefox extension and never miss coupon savings again.  It tells you when a site you're on has coupons!  You can't beat that.

You can also find a tutorial and a RetailMeNot online community.  It's free!  So what are you waiting for?  Go get your coupons and start saving today!

On The Oprah Show today, Stephanie Nelson, the Coupon Mom gave some tips on how to grocery shop using coupons.  She is the MOM behind couponmom.com, a site where you can get free coupons as well as download the  free eBook, Cut Your Grocery Bill in Half. 

In today's economic climate we can use any and every tool we can to cut corners.  Coupons are an excellent way to save money.  And with eCoupons there is no clipping required.

You can also find restaurant coupons as well as free offers.  I highly recommend you check out couponmom.com for all your grocery coupons.

So come on and be a thrifty mom; be a coupon mom.  It's free and you can start saving money on your grocery bills today!

If you clip coupons, use coupons or would like to clip and use coupons, check out couponsuzy.com.  It is free to register and you can get coupons for a myriad of products, as well as, coupons specifically for deals in your area.  Just print the coupons of your choice out, clip and save.

Check out Coupon Suzy and happy shopping - and happy savings!

I haven't posted in Freebie Fridays in awhile but came across this web site Thunderfap.com that truly offers free samples, no shipping fees or strings attached.  You can check out there FAQ page. 

You can get free food samples such as, Teddy Grahams trail mix, Pringles and cereal to a free Arby's beef n' cheddar sandwich free on your birthday.  You can also find free beauty product samples, free books (from cook books to religious-themed) and free kids stuff.  You will also find free pet stuff, free T-shirts and much more. 

Be warned that you do need to supply your name and mailing address, otherwise, how would they send you the free stuff.  So you will probably start getting a lot of junk mail.  If getting free stuff (plus you will also receive coupons with your free stuff that will help when you go grocery shopping), is worth getting some more junk mail, then I highly recommend Thunderfap.com.

The reason companies give away free samples is in the hopes that you will try their products and like them, and become a loyal customer.  This is why they send coupons along with the sample so you will go buy it.  I found that many of the freebies offered are for things I do use.  If you can get coupons for stuff you would normally buy anyway, this is a win-win situation.  Especially with the soaring prices at the grocery store.

I will also suggest that if you need to supply an email address, use a secondary email account.  You can get a yahoo or hotmail account quickly and easily.  This way you don't need to be concerned about spam in your primary email.

Did you know that you can go to Wal-Mart.com and hover on the "In Stores Now" button and then click on free samples?  I just found this out, and wanted to share it with you. 

I hope you find some good freebies out there.  If you know of a great freebie site, share it with us.  Hope to hear from you!  Enjoy life!!!

Did anyone catch  dateline.msnbc.com last night?  You and I may be rich!  However, we may not know for a while.  It seems that everyone and their cousin starting searching to see if they had money coming to them as well.  So everyone wants to know if they have unclaimed money waiting for them...and you may continue waiting for a day or so.  Here is a news story on it.

With the high cost of gas and the potential failure of troubled banks, we could all use some good news, especially in the form of money you didn't even know you had.  In fact, finding money you didn't know was missing is a pretty darn good feeling, right?

You know that feeling you get when you find in a pair a jeans a $5.00 bill you forgot about...well it might just be me.  Anyway there seems to be a lot of unclaimed money out there that we the public didn't know a thing about.  You can check at MissingMoney.com and see if you are one of them.  Just be patient, remember everyone else is searching too.

So if you were featured on Dateline.MSNBC.com  last night, congratulations, you know you have unclaimed property!  For the rest of us...well here is to finding out we're rich!  Good luck.  Oh, and if you find out you have missing money, let us know.  We would love to hear about it!  Hope to hear from you.  Enjoy life!!!

Are you *qualified* to start an Internet business? If you're like most people, you probably measure your qualifications by your technical skills...

• Your ability to design a web site...
• Your ability to write sales copy...
• Your ability to drive traffic...

But the reality is, NONE of that matters.

Building a business is a FORMULA. If you can understand instructions and follow the formula, you WILL make money online. So if it's that simple, why do SO MANY people fail at it?

Personality!

See, there are certain personality traits -- inherent in some, but LEARNED by others -- that allow people to easily succeed, and other traits that cause people to constantly FAIL. If you could identify those traits, wouldn't you have a better chance at being successful?

Well, here's your opportunity to find out...

... because I've been authorized by none other than Derek Gehl *himself* to offer you a FREE copy of his brand-new report, which lays out the exact traits necessary to succeed online.

The report will be available within the next 48 hours, and is based on Derek's personal observations following a DECADE of working with thousands of successful Internet entrepreneurs from around the world.

And like I said: he's allowing me to offer a copy to all of you for free... no strings attached.

When you get it, you can do one of two things:

• Nothing... which is definitely an "unsuccessful trait".
• Study it and figure out if you have the inherent prerequisites for success, or if you need to LEARN them.

So if you would like a copy of this report, for FREE, go to:

http://www.marketingtips.com/qualify/t/1260157

Have you been searching for FREE quality information that you can use to build a successful online business, but getting totally frustrated by the lack of *useful* content out there?  Believe me, I feel your pain!  I was in the exact same boat that you're in right now... No matter how *much* I searched, I just kept coming across  the same old recycled tips from a bunch of so-called "experts," which turned out to be nothing but thinly disguised plugs for products nobody needs or even wants! But then I came across Internet marketing guru Derek Gehl and his team at the Internet Marketing Center... ... and I quickly discovered that not all experts are created equal!

See, thanks to a lot of advice and help early on, Derek took a $25 investment and turned it into $60,000,000 in online sales -- and now, in appreciation for the support he received when he was starting out, he's determined to give back. (For instance, in the past couple of weeks alone, he's given away over $450,000 worth of free eBooks. Talk about being committed to helping YOU succeed!)

Anyway, Derek's now offering FREE TRIAL subscriptions to his exclusive members-only online profit newsletter, "Secrets To Their Success," and he's agreed to reserve a few for you!  If you haven't heard of "Secrets To Their Success" before, be prepared to be blown away, because every month, Derek and his team put together TWO extensive case studies of real people like YOU who have created online businesses that make a minimum of $100,000 a year. And these are NOT just "fluffy" personality profiles... Using intense "question and answer" interviews, Derek totally *dissects* each business, and exposes every tip... every strategy... every tool they used to start, build, and grow their businesses to their current success. You'll even hear about the mistakes they made, and how they suggest YOU avoid them!  You should check it out.

Like I said, it's totally FREE to try.  Here's the link to find out more: Secrets To Their Success.  Enjoy!

By the way,  Derek might be *enthusiastic* when it comes to giving stuff away, but he's not crazy. He's only got a limited number of FREE Trial subscriptions to go around (he IS running a business, after all), and once they're gone, they're gone... ... and I have NO idea when they'll be available again (the last time he offered them was over 3 years ago)!  So you should claim your FREE TRIAL right away. Just go to Secrets To Their Success.

I know that school may be out for most of us for the summer, but I think it is important to continue your child's education.  Just because your kids are on their summer vacations doesn't mean the learning should be on vacation as well.  When learning is fun kids learn easier and quicker.

A to Z Teacher Stuff is a great resource for lesson plans, tips, printables and more and a great site to find summer lesson plans and ideas.  And the best part - it's free!  Which makes it a great site for homeschool material.  Whether you homeschool or not, you will find great ideas that you will be able to do with your child / children and they won't even know their learning!  So check it out for great free homeschool materials.

Oh, and a little bit of advice from me - keep reading!  It will help to reinforce their reading skills.  If you want your child's reading level to improve ( or at least not decline) during the summer, continued reading is the key.  You can find great summer reading programs at you local libraries or just simply make it a routine of reading to your kids every night at bedtime.  And let your kids see you reading.  It will build a lasting love of reading in your children!

My son loves R. L. Stine's  Goosebumps ( I know... he is only 5 ), and enjoys reading them before going to bed.  We would love to hear what your kids are reading right now, so share it with us.  Hope to hear from you!  Enjoy reading!!!