Sharefaith is a company that provides churches with access to over 11,000 photo, video, PowerPoint, and other media files. They provide templates for sermon slideshows, church bulletins, brochures, posters, etc… However, if you are a blogger, you might also consider using this company for your blog images if pictures are important to you.

They offer a 2-week free trial membership, during which time you can access their library of current media files (new media is added as holidays and seasons come along). However, their year-long membership is fairly inexpensive (especially when you consider not having to take the time to design or pay someone else to do so!), for $85 (the current discount) for an entire year of access to all files. Or for the super frugal, you can just enter their current giveaway (ending Feb 6) for a free year’s membership and hope to win.

I also recently learned about their sister site, ShareHolidays, which allows you to download unlimited templates (with membership) for greeting cards. This would be a super idea if you send out personalized cards that you want to look snazzy.

Thanks for you patience with lack of posts! I have many, many posts and series I’ve been wanting to post on and some I’ve even already written, but for now I need to say no. I’ll be taking a break from Saving in Greenville through the end of August. At that point, I’ll come back and re-evaluate keeping up this site.

In case you’ve been curious…

• We did turn on our air conditioner in June. Electric bill doubled, but still not too bad, as it was quite low before. Once we turned it on, I was amazed at how much energy I still had in the afternoons, when I had been quite hot and miserable before.

• We bought our first pack of diapers! For $3.99, but we made it 17 months without having to pay for any. Right now we’re using BumGenius cloth diapers during the day and disposable at night and for traveling. (She’s also working hard to potty train herself, but we’ll wait one more month to work a little harder since we’ll be going through some major transitions in the next month.) We’ve used BumGenius occasionally since our daughter was a few months old (started out with only 2), but since I doubt I’ll be able to get lots of free diapers for our next daughter, I plan to actually invest in purchasing several more. I may also attempt to go do this. If you are wondering about “modern” cloth diapers, I highily recommend this brand!
• We are still loosely operating on our $750 annual grocery budget; however, my records were on a computer that “died,” and I need to take time to go through the receipts again and calculate everything. For now, I’ve just been keeping our weekly average to around $15/week or less and saving receipts.

There are a lot of great deals going on right now, and I’ll just link to a few:

• Free picture package (a rare thing for PP) from The Picture People (through July 25); also read about how to get portraits from The Picture People for less here, courtesy of my friend Kim.
• 80% off at Restaurant.com with the code NAPKIN (through July 28)
• Triple Coupons at Ingles (not the greatest coupon policy, but might still be some good deals)
• I use these cloth Swiffer wipes and use and rewash them. (We also use cloth napkins (from Old Time Pottery) in place of paper, and rags in place of paper towels, most of the time.)
• Swagbucks now offers Paypal as a prize option: 70 swagbucks gets $5 via Paypal. If you haven’t signed up yet, you can sign up here and earn 5 points just for joining by entering the code NEWBIE (through July 24). (Some other new prizes are cerificates to Bumkins (baby product/cloth diapers (!!)), restaurant.com certificates, iPods, and more…)

Deals in Greenville:

• Take a Wal*Mart receipts to Checkers at the Wade Hampton Taylors location, and get a free checkerburger (not sure how long this deal lasts).
• My friends Ashley and Natalie are hosting a “Here We Grow Again” children’s consignment sale July 29-August 1. I will unfortunately be helping and bidding farewell to my husband that weekend, but check out the details here.
• Yard sales are still going on! I have really found some great deals this year: $20 for a only $250 double jogging stroller, 50 cents for a $100 baby backpack carrier, $3 for a wooden kids desk/tool workbench, $3 for a $70 painting, and the list goes on, just in case you need inspiration. For the best info on Greenville area yard sales, I recommend checking Craigslist, especially Friday evening for an updated list of yard sale advertising. I also recommend visiting community/subdivision yard sales when possible, as they tend to have better prices and selection and many sales going on within walking distance. (Community sales have slowed down, but there should be a few more near the start of schools before the “season” totally ends.)
• Free haircuts in Spartanburg.
• Free ultrasounds for expectant mommies. (ongoing)

I may hop back on a few times to share a really good deal, so you may want to subscribe to this blog in order get updates rather than spending time checking back on the site. Feel free to use the forum to share deals, particularly those in Greenville. And, if you don’t already subscribe to/check Money Saving Mom and Southern Savers, I highly recommend doing so, the first for deals everywhere, and the latter for deals down “South,” particularly for Publix deals. Oh how I love shopping getting groceries for free at Publix (P.S. All the current ads/deals on right the sidebar are still going, and deals I’ve personally done and benefited from.)

If you have a site/blog about deals in Greenville, feel free to comment on this post or leave a note in the forum so local readers can keep up on deals.

Each Monday through August 3, McDonald’s is giving away free samples of their McCafe Mocha. I had read online that this may only be a regionaly deal, but have confirmed that it is indeed being given away here in Greenville (visited the Traveler’s Rest location last Monday).

Today from opening to 2:30p.m., you can swing by Long John Silver’s to get a FREE fish taco!

Update: The Cherrydale location is offering this until 5p.m., though the website states otherwise.

From Tom:

Just thought I would let you know that there is a mail in rebate offer in the
frozen pizza section at Ingles.  You can get a free after rebate Digiorno or
California Pizza Kitchen Flatbread Melt (Normally 3.18 and 3.53 respectively)
with no other purchase necessary.  It is one per household and is only available
through July 12.

I’ve also seen these forms at Bi-Lo, and they may be at other locations, as well.

You can also try PediaSure, a nutritionaly shake/drink for children, for free with a full rebate up to $12.99. Just make your purchase before July 31, but your form does not need to be received until August 31 in order to receive this rebate. Go here for the rebate form; there was also a rebate in one of the recent Sunday newspaper coupon inserts for this.