MUMMY TO THE MAX

The Emigration Group was established in 1992 with the sole aim of helping people achieve a new life overseas. The Emigration Group are a UK company dealing primarily with British and other English speaking migrants wishing to emigrate to Australia and New Zealand.
Before Ben and I had Maxwell, there was always one thing which I dreamed of and that was emigrating to another country. I always quite fancied moving to Australia as I knew a number of people who had moved over there and the move had transformed their lives.

I was always interested to hear about the new places old friends had visited over in Australia and I was always interested to hear about what jobs they were in and how there lives were progressing. I heard many successful stories about how life changing their move had been.

Maxwell is now 3 and the dream of emigrating has been put on hold however one day in the future we will try and make that dream a reality. When we are ready, I will be getting in touch with The Emigration Group to help with the move.

To celebrate how wonder The Emigration Group are, Mummy To The Max has teamed up with them to offer one lucky Mummy To The Max reader the chance to win £20 worth of ASOS vouchers - a perfect amount to buy a new swimming costume or new swim shorts for the Australian weather! All you need to do to enter this competition is enter the simple rafflecopter below. Good Luck!

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Try cheaper cuts of meat - Choosing a cheaper cut of meat, such as braising steak over fillet steak can work this winter. You can use a slow cooker to make meals and this will gradually break down the fibres in cheaper meat, giving great taste at a lower cost. You can also visit local butchers as often they can do a better deal on meat than your local supermarkets.

Swap your old electric toothbrush for a new Colgate ProClinical C200 with Absolute Radio. From today (Monday 8 July) you'll be able to swap your electric toothbrush, by registering on this page, then posting it to us free of charge.

Has anyone noticed the date today?? Its under 6 months until Christmas!!!

Yesterday was a great day for the Mummy To The Max household. I managed to save over £50 simply by using coupons and getting great deals on reduced items.

First off I popped to Boots to get myself some toiletries to take to London with me for Britmums. I went into the shop and went to the Kiosk to get the best deals off my Advantage Card.
There were some great deals including bronzer makeup down to £2.50 instead of its £5.50 price tag and 10% off deodorants/body sprays.
I then headed to the reduced section and was amazed at what I saw. Shampoo down form a £1 to 50p and dry hair shampoo from £2.50 to £1. I picked up 2 of each and headed to the checkout along with some body spray and my bronzer.
I paid for my items and once I had left the shop I found that I had been charged 50p for the dry shampoo instead of £1 and they had taken 20% off the body spray instead of the original 10%. I managed to save over £10 on my Boots shop and I also got advantage points as well as a voucher for half price sunglasses.

We then headed to Tesco, I had no plans of what to buy but my purse was full of coupons so I went around the shop working out what I could buy with my coupons and getting some shopping to feed us for the week minus fruit,salad and veg which I buy from our local market.
I had £4 Walkers coupons, £3 Fox Biscuit coupons and £5 Pampers coupons to use... I also had a lot of £1 coupons and some coupons to use from my Bzzagent trials to use.
Whilst in Tesco I spotted that they had a fab deal on Huggies Baby Wipes - 9 packs for a small £6.28 which is a great saving as I normally only see the wipes on offer at £1 a pack. Before I left my house I also spotted that Tesco were selling there jumbo boxes of Pampers nappies off at £5 so I asked for them to look out the back and to my surprise they had a box - 68 nappies for £5!!

When I went to the checkout I was unsure how much my shopping would cost as I had walked around the shop working out the price in my head and had calculated I would need to spend around £13 of my own money once I had used vouchers.

My shopping came to £49 and I got it for £11.79 which is a amazing saving! I got paid to take the Pampers nappies away as I had a £5 voucher from P&G and also a £1 voucher when you buy pampers nappies in Tesco. I also got paid to take some of the cheese's away as the voucher was more expensive than some of the products. I had a £4 off voucher for a £40 spend as well.

I had a great day of shopping and managed huge savings.


Freebies for this week:

This amazing giveaway has been provided to us by Stuck On You.

A month ago me and Maxwell had great fun reviewing many fantastic personalised items they sent us. You are able to read the review here.
Up for grabs today are 2 X £25 vouchers to use on Stuck On You.
There will be 2 lucky winners who will have the chance to win a £25 voucher each.




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