I stated in my Mother’s Day post that some changes were coming. Well, Daycare Deals is moving. Blogspot allows me to customize more than WordPress, so I chose to move. I’m sorry for the inconvenience, but please bookmark the new link for the best daycare and savings information! This blog will continue to be open, but I will be posting on the new one. Find the most current information at http://daycaredeals.blogspot.com/.

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Use this code “031604025496″ FIVE times to get 50 free points. Note: Make sure to list NatureMade as the partner.

After getting your 50 points, you can get Rewards. A coupon for $1 any Coke product costs 50 points. They have other rewards though. The coupon will come in the mail, and you could use it for free soda the next time Dillons, WalMart, Target, etc has Coke 2-liters for $1!

Here are the best of Dillon’s Deal this week:

Dillons Chocolate Milk (Gallon) $1.88

Carl Buddig Lunchmeat .50

Red Seedless Grapes $1.29 lb

Hillshire Farm Ultra Thin Beef, Turkey or Ham Tubs 8-9 oz. $3.33
Use $0.35/1 Hillshire Farm Deli Select Lunchmeat coupon from the 5/2 RP insert

Final Price: $2.63

Tropicana Orange Juice 59-64 oz. $2.38
Use $1.00/1 Tropicana Trop 50 coupon  3/14 RP insert
Or Use $1.00/2 Tropicana Pure Premium or Trop 50 coupon 4/18, 4/25 RP insert
 

Final Price: $1.38-$1.88

Yoplait or Dannon Yogurt 4-6 oz. $0.44
Buy 6, Use $0.40/6 Yoplait Yogurt Cups  or Yoplait Original or Light Smoothie coupon 3/21 SS insert

Final Price: $0.31 ea.

Pepsi 2-liters: 1.25 each for 4 but get 2 Free (equals out to .84)

Note: There is a Catalina offer with this sale:
Buy 3 Pepsi Product 2 liters and get a FREE Redbox Rental code
So 6 bottles should get 2 Free Redbox codes!

Coca-Cola or 7-Up products 2 Liter bottles $1.00*

*Find out how to get a coupon for $1/any Coke product in my next post. That coupon would make a Coke 2-liter free!

Lean Cuisine Entrees  $2.00
Use $1.00/5 coupon  5/2 SS insert

Final Price: $1.80 each

McCormick’s Grill Mates Spices 2.4-3.4 oz. $1.50
Use $1.00/1 McCormick Seasoning Blend, Spice, Herb, Extract or Food Color coupon 4/25 RP insert
or Use $0.50/1 McCormick Grill Mates Blend, Marinade Or Spice Rub coupon  4/18 RP insert

Final Price: .50

French’s Worcestershire Sauce $1.50
Use $0.50/1 French’s Worcestershire Sauce coupon 5/9 SS insert or HERE

Final Price: .50

Bush’s Best Baked or Grillin Beans  $1.69
Use $1.00/2 Bush’s Grillin’ Beans coupon 4/18 SS insert

Final Price: $1.19 each

P & G MIX AND MATCH:

This P&G deal is still going: Buy 4 participating items and get $4 off your purchase.

Tide Laundry Detergent (Select Varieties Liquid 50-65.6 oz Powder 70 oz): 5.99

(-$1) when purchase 4 products

Use $1 off any Tide detergent (exp 5-31-10) from 5/2 P&G Saver

Final Price: 3.99

Cascade Select Action Packs: 9.99

(-$1) when purchase 4 products

Use .50/1 Cascade Complete Pacs or .25/1 Cascade ActionPacs (exp 5-31-10) from 5/2 P&G Saver

Final Price: 7.99-8.49

Pampers Jumbo Pack or Easy Ups: 8.99

(-$1) when buy 4 products

Use 1.50/any Pamper Diapers or Pants  (exp 5-31-10) from 5/2 P&G Saver

Final Price: 6.49

Charmin Bathroom Tissue (6 Mega or 12 Big roll): 6.99

(-$1) when buy 4 products

Use .25/1 Charmin product (exp 5-31-10) from 5/2 P&G Saver

Final Price: 5.49

Get a .50/1 16oz Daisy sour cream coupon. This goes straight to printing, so have your printer ready.

Homes: Registered homes will no longer exist. All registered providers will be converted to licensed homes and renamed Family Day Care Homes.

Inspections:  Future providers will be inspected initially. Current providers will be inspected on a risk-based system. (This means that homes judged to be the riskiest will be inspected more often than those who always are in compliance.)

Supervision:  The state wants to establish supervision standards for caring for children 5 and under. Basically, they want to make sure that providers are watching children instead of taking care of other duties. The biggest mandate is supervising sleeping children. With this bill, providers must check on sleeping children every 15 minutes—not just babies but toddlers too.

Parent Access: KDHE will be asked to come up with an online system that lists safety information and inspection violations.

Education Requirements: All current providers are “grandfathered” in, but all future providers must have at least a high school diploma or GED.

Ground for Revoking Licenses: Licenses would be revoked if a provider had repeatedly violated the regulations or contributed to the death or serious bodily harm of a child while in care.

Fire Extinguishers: All homes must have a fire extinguisher that is serviced and easily accessible.

Fees: Fees would increase to $75 plus $1 times the maximum number of children–$85 for licensed homes; $81 for Family Day Care Homes. Late fees would cost 100% the original fee.

Current Registered Homes: All Registered daycares would operate as Registered homes until the providers had met all requirements to become licensed.

Other Changes: Providers’ licenses would require an expiration sticker.

Child Capacities: The bill does not change the number of children a provider can care for; Licensed homes are still capped at 10 and Family Day Care Homes are capped at 6.

Licensing Hours: The bill does not state if Family Day Care Homes must also meet the requirement of 15 hours of training/required readings. It does mandate that KDHE promote regulations for handwashing, diapering, fire drills, and more.

For more information, see these links:

http://cjonline.com/news/legislature/2010-05-08/daycare_bill_passes_senate

http://skyways.lib.ks.us/ksleg/KLRD/2010ConfCommRpts/Ccrb2356_001_01.pdf

http://kac.org/ftp/File/Briefs/myth_fact(1).pdf

http://kac.org/ftp/File/Briefs/HB2356_grid.pdf

Thanks Dayna for bringing this to my attention.

*Please comment if you have questions/concerns about the bill . This is how I understand the bill. If Imissed something, please let me know.

WalMart is offering many samples today.

1. Sign up here for a sample of Old Spice Body Wash.

2. Sign up here for a sample of Secret Clinical Strength deodorant.

3. Sign up here for a sample of Dove deodorant.

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