Both Sears and Kmart offer free in store pickup, letting you shop thousands of gifts online in the comfort of your own home before picking up your items in store in 5 minutes guaranteed (or whenever you’re ready). With in store pickup you’ll avoid lines, busy stores and the wasted time of walking down every aisle. The bow on top: You can have a friend or relative pick up your order and pay in store with cash, if you prefer. Now it’s no question that you should try free in store pickup at Sears or Kmart but there’s now a question of, what will you do with more free time over the holidays? A few ideas include: volunteering at a shelter, making gingerbread houses with the kids or simply putting your feet up and enjoying the view of the Christmas tree.

I am so thankful that Sears and Kmart are helping me save time this holiday season!

Disclosure: “Presented by Mami Innovative Media, this is a sponsored post on behalf of Sears and Kmart. All opinions expressed here are my own.”

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Digital Folio  is a FREE comparison-shopping app that finds and tracks price savings for you! It provides real-time pricing updates and comparisons on a wide variety of products. (Current product categories include Computer Printers, Personal Audio Players, Camcorders, Children’s Car Seats, Point ’n Shoot Cameras, Televisions, Computers, Blu-Ray Players, Refrigerators, Microwaves,Washers, Dryers, and Dishwashers. New categories always in the works!) Since you download the app to your IE or Fire Fox browser, the Digital Folio intelligent shopping list is always with you as you shop across the Web.  Adding products to your list from five of the top online retailer websites (Amazon, BestBuy, Sears, Target, Walmart) is as easy as drag ’n drop. The real-time price comparisons happen instantly, giving you price updates across each of these major retailers as you shop the Web and the prices of your saved items automatically update, even when you’re offline. You can even manage group shopping with shared lists which allows you to share your list or registry with friends and family so everyone can co-shop and compare in real time. Digital Folio is more than just a revolutionary intelligent shopping list. It compares a product—or an entire retailer listing page—in seconds, saving you hours of time normally spent visiting multiple sites. Plus it’s much more!

To kick-off the holiday shopping season we will be having the #DigitalFolio Twitter Party with Resourceful Mommy Tuesday, November 8, 8-9pm EST. Follow @ResourcefulMom and @DigitalFolio and participate in the party to be eligible to win one of six (6) $25 Target gift cards or the one (1) Grand Prize $100 Target gift card! Before the party, make sure you download the Digital Folio App into your browser, you never know what kind of questions @ResourcefulMom is going to ask, so you want to be familiar with it before the party. Also, on Wednesday, November 15, all registered Digital Folio users will be eligible to win a $200 Target gift card that will be awarded by Digital Folio a week after the party !

So right now…

1. Mark your calendar for 8-9pm EST Tuesday November 8th for the #DigitalFolio Twitter Party
2. Download Digital Folio into either Internet Explorer or Fire Fox
3. Play with the app for a few minutes looking at  Computer Printers, Personal Audio Players, Camcorders, Children’s Car Seats, Point ’n Shoot Cameras, Televisions, Computers, Blu-Ray Players, Refrigerators, Microwaves,Washers, Dryers, or Dishwashers.
4. Leave me a comment that you have indeed downloaded the app and what your first impressions are.

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Finalists will be selected from September 7-10 and beginning September 11, fans can vote for their favorite confession and help three lucky finalists win brand new appliances. Not only that, but Kenmore will donate $5.00 for each video submission and $.50 for each vote cast to the Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots & Shoots program, which aims to make positive change happen — for our communities, for animals and for the environment. With tens of thousands of young people in almost 100 countries, the Roots & Shoots network branches out across the globe, connecting youth of all ages who share a common desire to help make the world a better place. So, even if you don’t submit a video, mark your calendars and start voting on September 11th so you can help a great cause (and, watch some fun videos).

The contest rules are listed at the Kenmore website. To submit your own video, or watch those that have been submitted check out Kenmore’s YouTube channel.

I submitted a video, my YouTube name is PrincessTinkFL so please, if by some miracle I am chosen as a finalist, vote for me

I wrote this post while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Kenmore and received a gift card to thank me for taking the time to participate.

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When I went away to college I moved in with two girls I had never met before. We had a good size triple room but I did not fit in at all with the other 2 girls. I had an 8am class, they came in most mornings at 3am after partying all night and slept until noon. I thrived at campus activities, mixers and club meetings…they partied. It was not a match made in heaven. Sears has created CampusReady on Facebook a set of apps aimed at getting to know your roomate, decorating your dorm room and going back to school in style.

There are 3 parts to Campus Ready: RoomMate Matchup, Dorm Room Designer and Gift Getter. RoomMate Matchup is a great tool to see how compatible you and your roommate will be. It is a quiz that explores your likes and dislikes. This is a great way to start communicating with the stranger you will be rooming with. Once you get to know each other Dorm Room Designer helps you design your room before you step on campus. Last, but most importantly Gift Getter is a gift registry for decking out your dorm room and going back to school in style. Just will out your wishlist and share it with your friends and relatives and (hopefully) the gifts will start rolling in.

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