Monthly Contest Results

psplove is the winner of this month’s contest followed by CouponNut and TheBest in the second and third place. Congratulations guys! Here is the complete list of this month’s winners and prizes:

Here are the remaining top 20 winners:

Thanks to all of our contributing members! If you see ‘Coffee Mug’ or ‘Mouse Pad’ next to your name, check your mail in the next few weeks for a package with a cool Buxr swag..

Friends Contest Update

We don’t have a friends contest winner this month. Remember, you only need to refer 5 friends to qualify for the prize and we award up to 3 members each month! Help Buxr grow, tell your friends about our little community and win $50 next month. Click here to find more about how this contest works and how you can refer your friends to Buxr.

In last year’s blog post we collected trivia about the history and traditions of Valentine’s Day around the world. This year, we have some great tips and deals that will help you take a different path from traditional ideas, and save some money too.

Greeting Cards are still the most popular choice for Valentine’s Day.

• Make your own Valentines to give them a unique touch. Try these free printable cards, garland-style cards, creative card ideas, or these cards and decorations – it’s the thought that counts.
• For the price of an extra envelope and postage stamp, you can even send your valentines to be hand-stamped with a custom postmark and 4-line verse from Loveland CO. See details here about the popular program, now in its 66th year. Cards with US addresses should arrive in Loveland by February 9 in order to reach their destination by Valentine’s Day.

Save on gifts. Search for good online offers that you can combine with promotional codes for extra savings. Fill a CD with a favorite playlist of music. Take advantage of seasonal discounts on small consumer electronics to pick up DVD or Blu-ray players, MP3 players, or cell phones. Buy several smaller gifts and set up a treasure hunt to find them.

Special Meal

• Find a sweet deal to eat out, or plan to make a special dinner at home, creating a less-expensive meal using in-season winter foods. Breakfast in bed (try heart-shaped pancakes), lunch together, or a dinner you’ve prepared yourself can be loving, inexpensive alternatives.
• If you don’t cook, try making a pizza with added pepperoni cut into heart shapes, or just save on dinner and splurge on dessert.  White Castle will give you a photo and free dessert with your Valentine dinner reservation.
• Pop a bowl of popcorn and rent a classic romantic comedy or other favorite movie using these coupon codes.
• Make that special meal a picnic, even if you only spread out the blanket on your living room floor.
• If time permits, pack some wine and cheese in a wicker basket and surprise your sweetie at the office.

Sweet Treats

• If you’re not into baking homemade sweets from scratch, try just decorating store-bought cupcakes with heart-shaped candies or those little pastel sugar hearts that have the sayings on them.
• Make a strawberry bouquet with strawberries that you’ve dipped in chocolate, strawberry milkshakes, chocolate heart lollipops, or freeze candy hearts in ice cubes.
• Build a roaring fire and relax together with mugs of hot chocolate. Get some mini heart-shaped marshmallows to float in the cocoa. Make chocolate fondue to feed to each other by candlelight.
• Take a hike together, packing a thermos of hot chocolate or cider and some chocolate truffles.

Flowers

• The price of roses are often 50% higher for Valentine’s Day. Get flowers for less by choosing in-season flowers from the grocery store or local farmer’s market. It’s the best time of year to buy tulips cheaply anyway, and they can be just as romantic.
• Take a trip to your local nursery together and pick out a flowering perennial, another long lasting plant, or even a pot of scented herbs. Then plant it together in the back yard to enjoy for more than just a few days – a living, breathing, growing reminder of your love.

Balloons are an inexpensive treat you can find at the dollar store. Put a small love note or trinket in each one before blowing it up and put together a bouquet of them so your loved one can pop them one at a time to find each little gift.  Or simply fill your sweetheart’s room or office with lots of red and pink balloons.

Spa treats are always popular. Choose aromatherapy in a bottle, oils, lotions, and scented candles to create a basket of goodies for an at-home do it yourself spa session. Include home facial or manicure kits, and give each other massages.

Create sweet memories with photo books, framed collages, or a slide show of favorite photos in a digital frame. Drug stores and online photo sites offer discounts and free items with quick or same-day service.

Free Ideas

• Say “I Love You” in 365 different ways! February 14th isn’t the only romantic day of the year. Make your Valentine a love jar filled with 365 slips of paper that each share another reason you love them. Or count out 365 candy hearts or Hershey kisses, to celebrate every day of the year.
• Make free “vouchers” for helpful or relaxing activities. Give them a handmade stack of IOUs for anything from doing the dishes to taking the dog out for a walk on a rainy day. Or decorate an empty jar with 10 blank pieces of paper inside, for them to make their own wishes that you promise you’ll make come true.
• Send emails or text messages declaring your love all throughout the day. Send a funny little valentine every hour on the hour.
• Play Love Scrabble, where the words you spell out are related to love and Valentine’s Day.

Since Valentine’s Day falls on Tuesday this year, you could plan to celebrate later or on the weekend, when you’ll have all day to enjoy and prices will be as much as half-off. No matter how you celebrate, Valentine’s Day can be wonderful and inexpensive if you keep it simple, fun and – above all – personal.

Recognizing this inefficiency, the US Congress in 2007 passed legislation which went into effect January 1 of this year, mandating a change that regular light bulbs must use less energy. The requirement to achieve new standards has spurred innovation in lighting and given consumers three new choices.

New light bulbs

Each of the new products has unique characteristics that will affect your buying decision, based on application and price. Buying light bulbs is not an easy task anymore, shoppers in the lighting aisle now have to make a lot more decisions before making a purchase.

• Halogen Incandescent Bulbs have a filament like regular bulbs, but operate more efficiently because the filament is encased in a glass capsule with a halogen gas atmosphere. These last up to 3 times longer than equivalent incandescent bulbs, producing a whiter, brighter light for the same number of watts, and can be dimmed. Although they use 28% less energy, they still produce a lot of heat.
• Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) are the best value because they are moderately priced, last 10-20 times longer than an average incandescent bulb, and use only 25% of the energy required. The CFL floodlights are perfect for outdoor lighting or for use in places where the lights are left on for long periods of time. You save both time and money because you replace them less often. Many cannot be dimmed, and frequently turning them on and off affects their performance and life. Because CFLs contain a small amount of mercury, they must be properly disposed. You can take unbroken ones to home improvement centers for free recycling. Visit this link to search for CFL recycling center locations near you.
• Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are the longest-lived and most cost-efficient product, but unfortunately cost the most initially to buy. Also the color of the light emitted may be objectionable to some people, they cannot be dimmed, and are best-suited only for particular applications. But their small size, durability, color production, insensitivity to moisture and cold, and longevity make them an outstanding choice for Christmas lights, motion detectors, flashlights, car dashboards and taillights. They brighten instantly, even in cold weather, and their performance is not affected by turning them on and off.

The government’s goal in this changeover is for the average home or business to consume less power for their lighting needs. You however want to maintain the amount of light to which you are accustomed. So in order to accurately assess the brightness, you will have to begin using lumens instead of wattage to compare bulbs. Here’s a visual guide you can print and carry with you to help convert watts to lumens when shopping for light bulbs.

Helpful resources

There are several useful resources online to help you through this transition.

• Sylvania has created a chart that shows many bulb replacement options.
• Use this light bulb energy savings calculator to see how the lighting in your house compares to the U.S. average and get an idea how much you can save when you switch to energy-efficient bulbs.
• Here’s another chart to help you decide which bulb is best for your home and budget.
• Visit this Energy Star Choose A Light Guide to visualize the effect of light temperature choices and understand bulb-specific light choices.

Choose wisely where to place long-life energy-efficient bulbs, like placing CFLs or LEDs in hard to reach areas or lights that are often left on for long periods of time. Although the new bulb choices are more expensive than the old incandescents, they’re continuing to improve and drop in price. Buying the cheaper halogen incandescent bulbs may seem like a good idea, but it doesn’t really save enough energy to save you money in the long run. With lighting costs accounting for 25% of your electrical bill, it’s easy to save by changing a few bulbs to CFLs or LEDs.

The innovations described here are only the beginning. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reports that Lighting Science Group in collaboration with Google will produce an Android@Home Intelligent LED bulb later this year. The bulb will have an embedded chip that will allow people to control it using an Android smartphone, tablet or computer.

There are several options: you can sell the cards to one of these sites for cash, swap the cards for different ones, sell the cards locally or to friends and family, or give them away either as gifts or to charity. To make your job easier, we reviewed many popular gift card exchange sites and selected the most reputable among them. Look here to find phone numbers and Internet links to verify the balance on the gift cards you want to sell.

Popular gift card sites

Compared to the last round, the list is a bit longer. We updated information for two sites that withstood the test of time, removed eBay which we no longer recommend for the reason listed below, and added four new sites to the list.

	Plastic Jungle may well be the best site to sell your unwanted cards, with lots of merchants and an outstanding track record since 2006. You can enter information about the cards you want to sell online and instantly see what they’re worth to cash in, up to 92% of the value. They provide a shipping label so you can send them your cards for free, and within two business days they’ll send you a cashier’s check or Paypal payment. You can add 5% more to that if you choose an Amazon.com gift card by email instead. Contacting their customer support is easy, with quick response through their Facebook and Twitter accounts. All transactions are guaranteed, and they accept either plastic cards or electronic exchanges.
	Gift Card Rescue has been around for four years, providing step-by-step videos to help anyone list and sell their cards online. They pay up to 90% and send a check within two business days of receiving your cards, but they only buy plastic cards from merchants on their list. You can get a 5% higher redemption value if you accept payment in the form of an Amazon.com gift card by email instead.
	Card Pool is a fairly new site that pays up to 92% cash within 24 hours of receiving your cards. The value varies based on the popularity of the cards. They provide free shipping labels, and accept some cards electronically for select merchants as well as merchandise credit cards. Card Pool is owned by a subsidiary of Safeway, Inc. and has collected glowing reviews from television networks and newspapers. Although I consider this a top site, I rank it third because it has no easy search function and does not include cards for movies or accessory stores like hobby, hardware, office supply, health or pet stores.
	Swapagift will buy almost any gift card at 60-70% of its value, so it’s a good site to use for cards that you find hard to sell. In fact, that’s all they do, they don’t sell or exchange anything. They’re unique because you can sell online to their sister web site Giftcards.com, or take your gift cards to the physical address of one of 685 certified partner locations to sell them in person. You can choose payment by check or pick up a MoneyGram at a location near you.
	GiftCard Swapping will make you an offer of 60-75% for cards from a merchant on their preferred list or post your cards for sale to other customers for a flat service fee of $1.99 when they sell. The rate they will pay is not as high as other sites, but they also offer a third option to give you more value for your cards. It’s one of the best sites for swapping your unwanted gift cards for other cards of equal value. However, there’s a $3.99 transaction fee, which would not be worth it unless the cards are high value.
	Monster Gift Card has a unique price match guarantee, they will match or beat any competitor’s advertised price. You have a choice of selling your cards for cash or Monster points that can be used to purchase other cards. Personally, I find the points system confusing and not worth the hassle. Just take the cash.

The last word

We only recommend sites that guarantee the transaction and make the offer before you send them your cards. We consider eBay a poor choice to sell gift cards, because the hassle and potential for fraud is too great. Even if you get a good price, the auction costs and Paypal fees will reduce your net gain. But there’s no need for gift cards to sit unused, if you can safely trade them for cash or cards you really like. Even though you don’t get the full amount back, getting 80-90% in cash from a reputable exchange site is still better than having a card you can’t use.

One more cash option

There is one interesting option to convert prepaid bank gift cards to cash. If you are willing to pay the 2.75% per swipe, you can transfer the value of each card directly to your bank account! Sign up for a free Square Card Reader here and download the free app by visiting squareup.com/app on your iPhone, iPad, or Android device. A headset and GPS are required. The reader will be mailed to you. If you prefer to pick it up at a nearby retail location like RadioShack or BestBuy, it costs $10 and comes with a $10 redemption code.

While most retailers have kept basically the same return policy as previous years, rule changes are making returns a lot more difficult this year at many stores.  Some years ago major retailers began requesting identification with returns so they can track customers who make frequent returns.  These days, retailers are refusing returns from shoppers who have no receipt, are past the specified return period, or have made too many returns within a given time period.  But help is available, and customers who are denied a return or exchange can request a copy of their Return Activity Report from The Retail Equation by sending an email at this address. Then they have the option of disputing the report, with TRE acting as an advocate for them with retailers to resolve return issues, usually within 30 days.

Return Policies

Too late — For some retailers, it’s already too late to return anything purchased last month.  If you have items from Marshall’s and TJ Maxx or electronics from Staples, the deadline has passed on January 2.  For most other stores, you’d better get those items back this month, and even as early as January 24 for Best Buy.

Aim to please — Walmart’s stated goal is to satisfy customers, but there are still lots of specific rules. They offer exchange, refund, or repair during their 15-30 day return period that started 12/26 for all purchases made before Christmas.  This policy applies to electronics including TVs, cameras, computers, DVD and music players; all other items have a 90-day return period.

Without a receipt, Walmart gives customers the option of a cash refund (if the purchase was under $25), a shopping card for the amount of the purchase (if it was over $25) or an even exchange for another product.

In the event that a customer has returned more than three items to Walmart without receipts within a 45-day period, their cash register system automatically flags the transaction, and a manager has to approve the return. These cash register messages remain for six months and only disappear if there are no more returns during that time period.

Strict policies — Target probably has the tightest return policy. They’ve reduced their return period for computer hardware, cameras and camcorders from 90 days to 45, and they enforce this policy even though it may not be posted at service desks in every store. Although they’ve dropped restocking fees, they will still deny refund or exchange on open items.  Toys R Us has a similar policy– a 45-day return period, open items are not returnable, and they impose a frequency limit on returns without a receipt.

Relaxed returns — Some of the most lenient retailers include Kohl’s, Macy’s, Nordstrom,  LLBean, and Zappos.com, with no deadline on most items.  Macy’s now applies a customer return label to many items, so a receipt may not be necessary. But they, like JCPenney and Express, require all tags in place for returned apparel like special occasion dresses.

The following sampling of a dozen retailers, who have more simple return deadlines that could be compiled into a table, illustrates just how diverse the policies are this year.

Amazon actually has 30 different product-specific return policies, with a special page of links to check them, as well as a returns center page for return labels and authorization. If you miss the deadline to return Amazon items, they have that covered, too — you can check this page for the option to sell anything purchased from Amazon.

Overstock.com doesn’t accept any returns on large TVs, and is one of the few retailers we found that still imposes restocking fees, which can be as high as 60%.  Best Buy dropped their restocking fees but shortened the return period by a week, except for Reward Zone members.  Sears reduced the return period for computers to 30 days and jewelry to 60 days.

Gift cards — If you received some gift cards you can’t use, either as gifts or in exchange for returned items, you still have another option to get rid of those as well. Websites we reviewed here will pay 85% to 96% of the value of those cards, because there’s such a growing market to resell them. You can choose payment in cash, through Paypal, or an Amazon.com gift card that will give you an extra 5% more. 

Monthly Contest Results

TheBest is the winner of this month’s contest breaking CouponNut’s long winning streak. bemicmom and CouponNut follow in the second and third place. Congratulations guys! Here is the complete list of this month’s winners and prizes:

Here are the remaining top 20 winners:

Thanks to all of our contributing members! No one gets our swag this month since we only mail it once to each monthly winner and everyone above by now has already received a Buxr coffee mug and mouse pad. If any of you haven’t then please do let us know.

Community Updates

We had a very busy holiday shopping season at Buxr. You have been posting a lot of great deals and gift ideas for Christmas. We held two Kindle Fire giveaways in December, one on Black Friday and another one for best BUXR acronym later during the month. Check out the pictures of the prize, sueskabuxr, the winner of the first giveaway, posted here. Also, while you are at our discussion board, read the winning acronyms we have chosen for the second giveaway. Yes, we had more than one prize!

Friends Contest Update

We don’t have a friends contest winner this month. Remember, you only need to refer 5 friends to qualify for the prize and we award up to 3 members each month! Help Buxr grow, tell your friends about our little community and win $50 next month. Click here to find more about how this contest works and how you can refer your friends to Buxr.

Once you make a choice, though, you’re locked into a platform for ebooks unique to each device. The screen resolution for both are identical and equally good for reading. While Amazon has a larger number of books available, the Nook has an edge with interactive children’s books and the ability to record narration with the built-in microphone. Both devices support Wi-Fi connectivity and lack Bluetooth or GPS. The Nook only allows 1 GB of the 16 GB storage for user content, but expandable MicroSD storage up to 32 GB offers additional space for content that can be accessed offline. As long as you have Wi-Fi connectivity, you can access all of your Amazon content from the free Cloud Drive without loading it directly onto the Fire.

The bottom line is a toss-up, and the best one for your needs is based purely on your personal preference. Neither have a camera or 3G capability, and apps for each are offered through proprietary app stores rather than the Android App Market. Amazon Kindle Fire at $199 offers much more available content, built-in music and movie stores, and free cloud storage for Amazon content. The Fire has no microphone. The $249 Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet has expandable storage, free in-store retail support, and the ability to record your voice reading kids’ books. It does have interactive kids books, but fewer available apps, and no built-in movie or music store.

Remember that neither device can offer the email, browsing or video quality of the $500 iPad. But for the price, both of these e-readers are feature-rich and an excellent value. I have to give the edge to the Kindle Fire, for the extensive content selection and the rubberized case back that feels so comfortable in my hand. So if you don’t find one among your gifts this year, you can easily afford to buy it for yourself.

Fluids

• Check your antifreeze, the fluid in your radiator should be close to a 50-50 mixture of coolant and water. Since water will freeze at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, adding coolant lowers the temperature at which the contents of your radiator will freeze to as low as -34 degrees F, keeping it circulating in very cold weather. Test the mixture and add coolant as necessary.
• Oil gets thicker in cold weather, and if it’s too thick it won’t do a good job of keeping your engine lubricated. Check your owner’s manual to choose the right viscosity for your car. Switch from a thicker viscosity oil in the summer months to a thinner grade oil in the winter for easier starting. Synthetic oil is less susceptible to extreme temperature changes.
• Check your other fluids, making sure they’re full. Use windshield washer fluid with deicer in it, because plain water will freeze.

Tires

• Add air to your tires, cold temperatures compress the air and your tires will become under-inflated. Your tires typically lose 1 pound per square inch whenever the temperature drops 10 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Make sure your tread depth is good enough for traction on ice and snow. Use all-season tires or switch to chains or snow tires, depending on the area where you live or plan to drive. Traction is very important in ice and snow, and especially in hilly areas.
• If your vehicle has a 4-wheel-drive system, make sure it’s working properly and that every driver in your family knows how to engage it.
• Make sure you have tire-changing equipment in good working order and check the air in your spare tire, too.

Visibility

• Wiper blades only last about a year, so consider changing them before the winter season, replacing them with some that are specially designed for maximum visibility in the winter. These blades are designed with a protective rubber housing insulating the blade from snow and ice build-up. Pop your blades up when the car is parked during freezing rain or snow, to prevent them from freezing to your windshield.
• Make sure your heater and defroster are working properly so you can keep the windshield clear. Keep a can of deicer and a plastic scraper handy.
• Make sure that you can be seen by checking that all your lights work. This is important in low visibility conditions.

Power

• Very cold temperatures can reduce a vehicle’s battery power by up to 50 percent. Load-test your battery, starter, and alternator to be sure they are all working properly. Most auto parts stores will do it for free. Make sure your battery’s posts and connections are corrosion-free. If they’re corroded, you can clean them with baking soda, water and a small wire brush.
• Check belts and hoses and carry spares, because cracked, worn or frayed rubber won’t stand up to the nasty cold. This type of preventive maintenance can keep you from getting stuck.

Safety

You can buy an emergency kit, like this one from Sears w/ free year of road assistance, but it’s easy and cheaper to assemble it yourself from items you have around the house. Carry these items with you in the trunk of the car for the winter season.

• Flashlight with fresh batteries, flares
• Safety kit, tool kit, first aid kit
• Jumper cables, tire gauge, and tire chains
• Snow brush, ice scraper, small shovel
• Blankets, with an extra set of warm clothing, boots, hat and gloves for each passenger
• Emergency food supply and bottled water, and hard candies to keep your mouth from getting dry
• A fully-charged cell phone and power adapter
• Windshield washer fluid, and extra windshield wipers
• Paper towels
• A bag of abrasive material such as sand, salt or non-clumping kitty litter, which can provide additional traction if a tire gets stuck in snow

In general, you’ll want to apply a good coat of wax to help protect your paint from road salt, snow and ice. Swap out your carpeted floor mats for a set of water-resistant vinyl or rubber mats. Keep your gas tank filled to prevent the gas lines from freezing, and maintain enough fuel to stay warm if you get stranded. Running the engine for 10 minutes every hour can help keep you warm if you have to wait in the car for assistance.

Planning a driving trip this holiday? Print and follow this Winter Driving Checklist.

Maybe you have budget constraints, hate shopping, or simply enjoy the thrill of finding those last-minute bargains, whatever the reason is we are here to help you make sure your Christmas gifts come on time for the holiday. Please read these quick shopping tips and then scroll down for the round up of shipping deadlines from several popular merchants.

Good prices abound, but not everything is a good deal

1. In general, although their stock is plentiful now, Christmas decorations, paper goods, and calendars reach their lowest prices after the holidays and through January.
2. Watches and jewelry don’t have the best discounts either, and are usually excluded from department store coupon offers.
3. Most of the heavily-discounted electronics and HDTVs advertised this month are off-brands.  Look for major brand price cuts after the holidays and into February.
4. Laptop deals are usually not very good in December, with one exception – the 17-inch desktop replacement prices are dropping fast. That’s probably because the hot items everyone wants this year are tablets and smart phones.
5. Wait until after the holidays to get the best deals on linens and towels, those go on sale in January.

There are definitely some good choices at the best prices of the year

1. Toys (of course!) – retailers have the most stock on hand for this season.
2. Bicycle prices reach the lowest level in December.
3. If you’re looking for cookware or small appliances, this is an opportunity to multiply your savings by combining online sales with coupon codes.
4. You should be able to find some great deals on tools and hardware, too, including garden items.
5. This is the month to go after Blu-ray movies, disk sets, and video games. Game console bundles are being offered with bonus gift cards and other extras.

Read the fine print on returns

1. Some stores, like Walmart, will allow online gifts to be returned to any of their store locations. Others, like JCPenney, will pay for return shipping of online purchases.
2. Some stores, like Target, require a receipt (or gift receipt), limit the number of returns, and only offer store credit, which may be restricted to the the same department as the original gift. Toys ‘R’ Us/Babies ‘R’ Us gifts returned by mail are credited back to the original form of payment (the buyer’s), so return that gift to a store if you want to get a merchandise credit.
3. Notable exceptions are Kohl’s, Bath and Body Works and Coldwater Creek, who have no deadline and require no receipt.
4. Best Buy has free shipping through December 27, and temporarily removed restocking fees for holiday gift returns only through January 4, 2012 (without exclusions). Read the policy here.

2011 Shipping Deadlines

To be sure your packages arrive in time for Christmas, here’s a compilation of shipping deadlines from popular retailers, including links to their coupons and deals. The dates were collected from store websites, advertisements, email distributions, and calls to customer service. The information is subject to last minute changes by the retailer.

Monthly Contest Results

CouponNut is the winner of this month’s contest. siggy38 and sandyshore follow in the second and third place. Congratulations guys! Here is the complete list of this month’s winners and prizes:

Here are the remaining top 20 winners:

Thanks to all of our contributing members! If you see ‘Coffee Mug’ or ‘Mouse Pad’ next to your name, check your mail in the next few weeks for a package with a cool Buxr swag.

Community Updates

A few things have happened over the past month. I mentioned in the last monthly update that we awarded a record number of members in a daily contest. Since then we broke that record and it now stands at 10 awards. The particular contest day falls on November 29, which is the contest immediately following this year’s Cyber Monday!

Another important update is related to the influx of new members our community has seen this past month. All newcomers will now have to prove that they have the skill to distinguish a bad deal from a good one before they can fully participate in the contests. More details about this change can be found in this discussion topic.

One more change was introduced just yesterday and has to do with the number of deal votes members can make daily. The limit we added however is fairly high and should not have any practical implication for most of the members. I updated the wiki to mention it, but some of you already noticed the change and are discussing it.

Kindle Fire Giveaway

Our last giveaway was a blast! 170 of you have participated and one lucky winner will have their Kindle Fire tablet from Amazon in mail later this week. We have prepared another giveaway for you guys, this time with a little twist. To participate, you need to come up with an acronym for BUXR. Here is an example:

• Best
• User submitted
• Xtremely
• Reliable deals!

To enroll, please post your entry as a comment to this discussion. We will select the most creative acronym and announce the winner next Tuesday. Kudos to DebsFreebies who came up with the idea for this giveaway. Do you have an interesting idea of your own for our next giveaway? Please let us know!

Friends Contest Update

We don’t have a friends contest winner this month. Remember, you only need to refer 5 friends to qualify for the prize and we award up to 3 members each month! Help Buxr grow, tell your friends about our little community and win $50 next month. Click here to find more about how this contest works and how you can refer your friends to Buxr.