The Nielsen Home Scan Consumer Panel is still accepting new panelists.  This is one I’ve belonged to for years (Rachel says it’s just to skewer their results for grocery shopping … she may be right).  It’s easy and they pay you in points that buy “stuff.”  And we all know how much I love stuff…

Chili’s Free Chips & Queso. If you have Chili’s in your holiday plans, join now. You get free queso and chips right off the bat and other deals throughout the year.

AcornPoints is a new program from AboutOne that “supercharges your existing calendar and contact tools to make your household information work for you.

• Calendar-based, online organizer
• Easy, auto-magic data entry
• Completely private with
  bank-level security
• Guides you on the path to organization
• Full mobile access
• Best of all, AboutOne
  pays you to be organized!”

Okay, I don’t know exactly how this will all work (especially the paying me to be organized part), but if you give them your email, you will be contacted when they launch this program in 2012, and you will also be entered into a Kindle Fire giveaway.

If you haven’t visited A Full Cup before, it’s a site you should really check out.  It’s huge.  Right now you can see all the ads and deals for Black Friday in their 2011 Black Friday Guide.  End of commercial.

I signed up for the UPS – My Choice service when I first posted it.  So far it’s worked, keeping me informed that THEY ARE CHANGING MY DELIVERY time from one set of hours to another.  Then another email to inform me that they can’t find my address.  Then another email that they are working to resolve the can’t find my address issue and will reschedule the delivery time.  Then another email…well, you get the point.  In point of fact, the delivery is the Heinz deal from a week or so ago and it appears that Heinz cut off the street address.

And yes, it’s a pain ’cause of the delivery problem, but at least I know exactly what is going on every step of the way and I have the ability to change the delivery address if I will be somewhere else at day/time.  I like it.

This is one of the survey sites to which I’ve belonged for a few years.  Nielsen (national consumer panel) offers surveys and, if you are accepted into the Nielsen Home Scan program, a hand-held scanner to scan your purchases.  Once a week you transfer the info via phone and that’s it!  You earn points for each survey and weekly scan which accumulate quickly – quickly enough to get some great gift cards.  They’re legitimate, been around forever.  And extreme couponing must really blow their bell curve.  Why yes, I purchased 840 bottles of liquids this week and 300 cans of iced coffee last week.  You mean that’s not normal!?

Check out all the ads and deals for Black Friday @ AFullCup.com.   They also have some direct links to discussions forums about BF deals for Walgreen’s, CVS, Target, Walmart and others.  This link leads to the page with all the urls for tons of stores.  Pretty great site, actually, if you’ve never before used them.

Note, you do not need to register to see the deals, although they’d like you to…

For those of you who haven’t yet signed up for Chili’s email club, you’re missing out on a lot of offers (hey, even I signed up for it).

First thing you get when you register is a coupon for a FREE Chips and Queso.  The latest offer is valid November 14, 15 and 16:  Two margaritas, two entrees, one appetizer and one dessert for $35.  You can upgrade to Presidente for a buck or Platinum Presidente for four.

Pretend this is your photogenic family!

Okay, this is really, really cheap, but it says that you can choose from 10 Stationary Cards or 20 Photo Cards for $1.00 plus shipping/handling from InkGarden by using promo code HOLIDAYCARDS, which gives you $10.99 credit.  I checked the shipping rates and it looks like $3.99 is it for standard shipping.  So you’re talking about, what?, five bucks for 20 photo cards?

Other Shipping Rates:
5×7 Flat stationary cards- $3.29
4×8 Photo Cards- $3.99
Business Cards- $3.29