How to Fix Untucked Dress Shirts

If you have a little boy in your home and you attend religious services of some sort, then you might run into this same problem:

Untucked dress shirts!  It drives me crazy!

We'll have Hunter dressed for the meeting and the next thing you know, he's running through the house screaming and carrying on like almost 2 year old little boys do, and his shirt tails are hanging out of his pants.  When he was a little baby, I used to use this method all the time, but as he got older, it was easier to keep them tucked in.  Now he's like a madman and there's nothing that holds him still.  So we're back to the method.  

Now there are a couple of stores that sell dress shirts with a "onesie" type fastener, but they can be rather expensive. 

So I wanted to share how we keep our little boy's shirt tucked in nice and neatly:

Sheet Straps, or some of you might call them Sheet Suspenders.  

You know what I'm talking about right?  The little contraptions you use in your bedroom to keep your sheets from flipping off the mattress.  You can buy them at Walmart for less than $5 and you can even order them on Amazon.com (so if you have Swagbucks and redeem them for Amazon gift cards, well, they'd be free for you!)

This is what we do:

On the bottom front of the shirt, fasten the sheet straps on each side of the button.

Have the baby lay on his tummy and fasten the sheet straps about a hand's width apart on the backside of the shirt.

And that's it!  Honestly, it's the easiest way I've learned to keep his shirts tucked in.  

He looks so handsome!

It works for us and I hope it helps you too!

This has been linked to:

• Works for Me Wednesday at We Are That Family
• Thrifty Thursday at My Coupon Teacher
• Frugal Friday at Life as Mom

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I know I have already told y'all about Swagbucks.  But I cannot help but send out a reminder.

There are quite of few of us who are doing without a credit card and working only with cold-hard-cash.  This presents an obstacle when we'd like to purchase something online (at Amazon.com for example).  Well, Swagbucks comes to the rescue.  It really is NOT too-good-to-be-true.  It is NOT a gimmick.  You really DO get "paid" to use the Swagbucks search engine. 

This is how it works:

Sign up and register at Swagbucks.

Install the search box by downloading the Swagbucks Plugin (replace your Google search since they don't pay you to search).

Then you search.  It can be anything from yahoo, pickles, brown leather shoes...anything.  Completely at random, Swagbucks will reward you with a Swagbuck (usually it's 1-5 Swagbucks but on Fridays they have Mega Swagbucks Day and you can win as much as 100-500 Swagbucks!)  for using their search engine.  They unofficially limit the number of times you "win" a swagbuck.  I've read on several blogs that you can receive a Swagbuck every 4-6 hours.

Once you have enough Swagbucks, you can trade them in at the Swagbucks Store to receive e-Gift Cards to various stores.  The most popular is Amazon.com.  You can trade in 45 Swagbucks for a $5 Amazon.com e-Gift Card.  It's that easy. 

We've been using Swagbucks since May 2009 and I've received $60 worth of Amazon.com e-Gift Cards.  We've used these to purchase DVDs and books.  Most recently, I purchased a French Baguette Pan, French Bread Pan and a Mini USB cord.  All through Amazon.com!  It's fabulous to get things for FREE!  And it truly is FREE since searching with Swagbucks is FREE and they reward you with FREE Swagbucks and you trade them in for FREE e-Gift Cards! (I hope my High School Grammar teacher doesn't read my blog, she'd die of the grammatical errors in that one sentence!)

So if you are a "Googler" then you should give Swagbucks a try.  It's so easy! 

What are you waiting for?!

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You know how much I love to get FREE magazines, but this offer is really good despite not being free. I actually have a subscription to this magazine and it's about to run out. It has lots of great crafty ideas you can do with your children and great kid-friendly recipes.

You can get Disney Family Fun (1-year) magazine for only $5 through Amazon.com! It will say $9.95 but when you add this magazine to your cart, you'll see $5 automatically deducted at checkout.

If you've been redeeming your Swagbucks for $5 Amazon.com eCards, this will really be FREE for you!

Thanks Bargain Briana!

Enjoy!

Swagbucks - Black Friday Deals!

There are going to be some great Black Friday deals from Swagbucks. They are going to be offering a different gift card each day from Friday November 27 - January 1, 2010 at extremely discounted prices.

When you search using Swagbucks, you randomly receive a swagbuck (ranging from $1-3 normally and occasionally $5). When you accumulate enough swagbucks, you can redeem them for products and gift cards. 45 Swagbucks can be redeemed for $5 Amazon.com eGift Card. It's FREE to search and it's FREE to redeem your Swagbucks.

Go HERE to sign up!

Enjoy!

Swagbucks

If you haven't signed up for Swagbucks, what are you waiting for? You can redeem $5 Amazon.com gift cards for 45 swagbucks. In turn, you can use these gift cards for ANYTHING you can find on Amazon.com. I'm saving mine for a huge box of diapers. Which will be FREE since searching using Swagbucks is FREE. It's a win-win situation.

What is Swagbucks? Learn more by reading their Frequently Asked Questions.

How does Swagbucks work? Search, Earn, Redeem...

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Have you heard of Swagbucks but haven't signed up yet?

Bargain Briana has an incentive to do just that! If you are a new member, you can earn 5 Swagbucks by just signing up through her site. Check out all the details HERE. Hurry because this expires Friday April 10th!

It's so worth it...I only started about 2 weeks ago and have accumulated 21 Swagbucks! 45 Swagbucks can be redeemed for a $5 Amazon.com gift card...so what are you waiting for?!?!

Enjoy!