This is a pregnancy / baby blog and can you believe we are already talking about college.   I remember reading when my daughter was born that the cost of a standard public  four year college would be over $100,000 or more by the time she was old enough.  Ughhhh – that’s a lot of money to come up with!!  It’s never too early to get started saving for college.

The best thing we did for college savings was enroll in Upromise and I can’t recommend it enough as it is completely free.  Basically Upromise has partnered with numerous companies and when you buy from those certain companies, they donate to your college fund.   You can register all your grocery cards and when you buy certain products at your grocery store, you get money donated to your upromise account .  It’s basically money for free.  You don’t have to buy things that you wouldn’t normally buy.   You will also register your credit card / debit cards with Upromise.   No, they don’t charge your cards at all.  This is also a way of knowing what you bought so that you can get credit to your upromise account.

There are dining programs, travel programs, mortgage lenders – - all different types of ways to get companies to donate to your Upromise account.  We have earned the most with our upromise credit card.  Everything we charge on this particular cards gets us money in our upromise account.

You also have the option of linking your Upromise account to a college 529 account.  Upromise will then rollover the money you have received from Upromise in to your investment account.

There honestly is no downside to this.  Since 2000, we have earned $6,000 toward my daughters college fund.  This is $6,000 we would not have had for college without upromise.  Friends and family can also sign up for their own upromise account and then “link” in to your so that their money goes to you.  This is great for grandparents to do and is also part of how we receive our upromise money.  Grandparents don’t have to play favorites, they can donate their account to more than 1 grandchild and you can have more than one child on your account as well.  Will this money pay for all of  college, not a chance but it will certainly help.

Upromise – Turn your everyday spending into college savings

It’s that time to offer our bloggers more savings. We thought we’d mix things up a little for the month of February with a different type of discount. How does 5% off your next order sound!!

To redeem your coupon: enter “FebSale” (without the quotes) inside the shopping cart where it asks for your voucher code. Once you Recalculate your order total, you will see a 5% discount added to your order!

This coupon is good for all items at www.MiracleMunchkins.com

Happy New Year Bloggers!  We have some exciting changes coming this year to our website.  We will be unveiling a whole new look, a new logo and  some exciting new designs and products.  

Along with that comes some great savings and discounts!  For the entire month of January, we will be offering Free U.S. Ground Shipping off of our printed items for every order of $55 or more!  This is a great value and available only  for future orders if you visit blog.

To redeem your coupon: enter “Jan Shipping” (without the quotes) inside the shopping cart where it asks for your voucher code.  Once you Recalculate your order total, you will see a discount added to your order for the same amount as the cost of ground shipping.

One of the very first things we want to do for our bloggers is offer free stuff!  Who couldn’t use something for free??  So for the entire month of November 2008, we will be offering Free U.S. Ground Shipping off of our printed items for every order of $55 or more!  This is a great value and available only if you visit blog.

To redeem your coupon: enter “Nov Shipping” (without the quotes) inside the shopping cart where it asks for your voucher code.  Once you Recalculate your order total, you will see a discount added to your order for the same amount as the cost of ground shipping.

Need a faster shipping method?  If you need a faster shipping method such as 2 day air or next day air but still want to use the coupon, no problem at all!  Just select which shipping method you need, enter in the voucher code and you will still receive a discount in your shopping cart good for the amount of ground shipping.  This means that your 2 day air or next day air shipping cost will be cheaper for you.

What products is the coupon good for?  The free U.S. ground shipping is good for orders over $55 for all printed items such as our entire birth announcement line (every single style!) holiday cards, party invitations, baby shower invites, baptism invitations, thank you cards, and candy wrappers. 

Where can I find these printed products?  Just visit our website at www.miraclemunchkins.com 

• Our entire line of birth announcements can be found at http://www.miraclemunchkins.com/birth_announcements.htm
• A good starting place for all invitations is http://www.miraclemunchkins.com/invitations.htm
• Thank you notes can be found here http://www.miraclemunchkins.com/thankyounotes.htm
• Candy wrappers – http://www.miraclemunchkins.com/wrappers_shower.htm

Any questions, just email us at email@miraclemunchkins.com and we’ll be happy to help or post in the comment section below