We are pleased to partner with the KSO (Knoxville Symphony Orchestra) to offer you and your family a great afternoon out at one of the KSO’s Family Concerts.
This KSO Family Concert is Sunday, November 22 at 2:00 PM at the Tennessee Theatre. The concert is entitled “Shall We Dance?” and explores various types of dance music.
Join Lucas Richman, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and Picardy Penguin as they explore the exciting world of music with your family. This concert begins at 2:00 PM at the Tennessee Theatre, but arrive …

Day 3 ideas come from Honey. She is a great frugal friend and when she left a comment that she was putting the free meat thermometer in a gift basket I told her that was a great idea. She offered to write a guest post on how to assemble other frugal gift baskets and I could not say yes fast enough. So enjoy Honey’s great ideas.

Here are some gift ideas. By being creative and practical you can give gifts that will be well received without spending too much. Think about …

The Budget Christmas tip for Day 2 comes from my mother.
Every Christmas she would get out a pile of envelopes, write names on them and then put a certain amount of cash in each envelope. (She even had one for wrapping paper, ribbons, etc.)
That is what she took Christmas shopping with her. When the money in your envelope was gone she was done shopping for you.  It kept her right on budget.
I do a lot of shopping online for Christmas but when I do hit the stores I use this …

As I was thinking about this series I thought- is it too early for posts about Christmas?
I decided it is not. If you are like my mother you have been Christmas shopping since December 26th of last year so this series is actually really late. If you are more like me you are just realizing that we are half way through October and you are just starting to think about your Christmas list.
As a side note, I know everyone has different ideas/traditions around holiday gift giving. This is something THE …

We had hoped to head to the pumpkin patch today, but it was cold and rainy.  THE HUSBAND and I  had to rethink the morning.
We decided instead to take the boys to the free Lowe’s Build & Grow Clinic. It was really fun. They had fun banging away with hammers and I had fun watching them in their cute work aprons.  Then we walked around the store checking out lights,  swing sets,  carpets and whatever else the boys saw.
After exploring the tools section (The HUSBAND’s favorite place on earth), we …

Thanks to our friends at AC Entertainment…
I am happy to announce the winner of the Imagination Movers Twitter Trivia Tickets Give- Away…

Congrats to @saveApenny
You will be notified via Direct Message (DM) through Twitter about how to claim your tickets to the show and the Imagination Movers CD.
Thanks again to AC Entertainment for sponsoring this contest and thanks to all the ‘tweets’ who participated.
You can see all the responses here…
If you didn’t win tickets to the show, tickets are still available for the October 13th shows here and here

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It’s time again for another Imagination Movers Tickets Give- Away thanks to our friends at AC Entertainment.

In order to win this contest you must have a Twitter account.
Answer the trivia question below, by replying to @couponkatie and @AC_Ent and include #IMTICKETS (be sure to include the ‘#” and no spaces).
So your answer should look something like this: “@couponkatie @AC_Ent the answer to the question is (your answer here) thanks for the chance to win #IMTICKETS”
*(1) Entry per Twitter account.
*The winner will be notified via Twitter.
*Contest ends Sunday …