I Love Free Things--and Rene for finding them!

I have got to give a big shout out to Rene today for being a wonderful hubby and paying attention to the Money Saving Mom on our local newscast in the morning. He heard a great deal from CoastalContacts.comwhich offered a free pair of glasses and standard lenses (some restrictions applied). I will say that I am a bad blogger for not remembering to post this before the offer expired (it ran from 9am est today until noon).

I was able to get a $89 (Retail:$260) pair of Vera Wang glasses for only the $20 shipping cost. Yay Rene! I'll still have to go in and have them fitted I am sure but hey, $20 is a great deal.

I would highly suggest you stop my and check out the website because they have a lot of great designer frames for super cheap! You can also "like" them on Facebook to get updates on sales, promo codes and events.

Enjoy!

Improving Myself--add it to the list

Item #2 on my 2011 List...

Improve myself professionally. This one is going to be a bit of a struggle for me. Not because I don’t want to better myself in my career but because I find myself finding excuses about when do I have the time? So I’ve given myself a short (very short) list of self help/sales books that I want to read. I guess they all can’t be fun reads….

1. The Little Red Book of Selling
2. The Power of Nice
3. Good to Great

2011...

“2011 List”

This year I was a bit late when it came to creating a resolution/goal/list for 2011. My main reason was that I was pretty impressed with my attainment of things from last year. Some of my plans are still there from my 2010 list (getting home to PA, keeping in better touch with friends, finishing the wedding scrapbook) but I’ve also added some new items for my 2011 List.

This year I thought of my resolutions as an ongoing list that I can add things as they come to mind that I want to do this year. I am going to start letting you all know about my ongoing “list” for this year over the next few days.
First and foremost I have decided to create a will read list of books this year. I still would love to read at least 12 but these are some of the titles I need to get to….


My Will Read Books of 2011

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (just bought it for my Kindle!)
Re-Read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows before the movie comes out (started and sitting on the night stand)
Freedom
Full Dark, No Stars
The Art of War
The rest of the Sookie Stackhouse Novels (# 8- #10 the 11th comes out this year)
Safe Haven
The Hangman’s Daughter
More to come I’m sure….