I received an email from Southwest this morning stating that they have partnered with e-Miles to provide their customers additional ways to earn Rapid Rewards Bonus Points. For those of you unfamiliar with e-Miles (here is my e-Miles review). I absolutely love Southwest as I fly with them on a regular basis for my consulting gig. Even though I am a member of the rewards program for all the airlines I have travelled in, Southwest is by far my favorite. Southwest Rapid Rewards allow you to convert reward points into Amazon gift cards, which is what I used to purchase all mine presents last Christmas!

Right now if you sign up for e-Miles you will receive 250 Rapid Rewards Bonus Points and a chance to win 100,000 bonus points when you enroll by June 15, 2012! Even if you don’t like to read marketing ads, I would suggest at least sign up to get the 250 Rapid Rewards Points!

Contributed by Milford Woods

I used to think that coupons were stupid and a huge waste of time. That was until I saw a show called Extreme Couponing. On the show, people get thousands of dollars worth of groceries for free or close to it. I wanted to be able to do that, so I started buying the Sunday newspaper and going to all the stores collecting ads. This was very time consuming and expensive. I also wasn’t able to do as good as the people on the show. I remembered that most of the people on the show used the internet to find coupons and match ups to ads. I decided then that I would get internet service, so I went to satellitestarinternet.com and signed up. With my new internet service, I went to the Southern Savers website. Southern Savers offers numerous store ads and tells which coupons to use and where to find them. Most coupons were printable, so I was able to stop buying the expensive Sunday paper. Now I can go to a store and pay next to nothing for buggies full of groceries.

Thanks for the post from Barney Crosby

We upgraded our internet service provider by logging onto wirelessinternet.net. Now, our internet service is fast enough that we can stream movies through our blu-ray player in our bedroom. We joined Amazon Prime and there are hundreds of movies and television shows that you can watch for free as a member. The other cool thing is that you can rent movies ( like the ones you would rent at Blockbuster) the day that they come out. You can also rent them in HD. The rental period is for forty-eight hours, so you don’t have to worry about returning the movie or getting charged any late fees. The other day, my husband and I rented “50/50”. It was a great movie. We thought that the HD moviecost $4.99, but when we looked at our credit card bill, we had only gotten charged $2.58. Somehow we ended up getting a discount! It was awesome!! I will be renting movies on Amazon Prime again soon, it is literally so easy and you don’t have to waste any gas money!

Guest post written by Sidney Owens

When my son and I moved into this new house a few months back I knew I had to do something to make him feel more at home. He was really missing his friends back in Akron and because of my new job he was home a lot by himself after school but I didn’t really have a choice. I went to go online and look up Satellite TV Specials and found a good satellite plan for us and my son’s been having a ball watching movies on TV before I get home. He’s always said he wanted to do something with film and I think he’d be great at it so it’s nice to see him spending his time studying some of the great old classics. I know he gets a kick out of it and it’s better than him being out and about running amok in the neighborhood so it’s fine by me! He seems to be getting used to it here and hopefully it won’t be long before he totally feels at home in our new place. I know I’m starting to!