Cartwheel and ETST

I am excited to be partnering with Target this holiday season for promotion of their Cartwheel app. This post is sponsored by Target.

Holiday Zeal 2013 (proper noun, of course) has obviously commenced around these parts, but it now has even more reason to be celebrated, and it involves two good things:  cool stuff and saving money.    

It’s no secret that I’ve been a longtime Target lover or that my kids recognized the bullseye logo shortly after their first word.  Brett jokes that we’d save on gas money if we just had a tram built between our house and Target–har har, very funny.  It’s not my fault that their holiday aisles are the Keepers of Happiness.  In all seriousness, as a longtime Target shopper, I’m thrilled to be using their new Cartwheel app to save money on things we already buy.  I’ve never been very good at clipping coupons and I forget to look at ads, but the Cartwheel app?  This works for us.  I have Brett hooked on it too. Cartwheel allows you to easily browse Target collections and categories to find numerous deals on everything from groceries and toiletries to clothing and toys.  You simply tap any deals that interest you to make them part of your personalized Cartwheel collection, and all applicable savings are applied to your receipt when you check out.

We dove into their holiday aisles this past weekend to take the festive up a notch in our home and used Cartwheel’s “Deck the Home” Collection to find several great deals–20% off all Smith & Hawken home décor, 10% off Holiday Indoor décor, 15% Threshold candles and holders and more.

Oh, and we had fun doing it.  Thankfully, the holiday music sampler is appropriately positioned so that we can shop and have a dance party at the same time.   Except the girls fight a little over who gets to push the buttons. 

I saved $9 alone on our new Smith & Hawken wreath and took my bottle brush tree obsession to new levels.

I’ll be sharing some of my favorite Target moments and finds on IG and Twitter over the holidays (their ornaments this year? I die.). In the meantime, you can begin saving money by downloading the Cartwheel app for free in iTunes or in the Google Play store for Droid devices–you just need a Facebook account to login (or, after tomorrow, you will be able to log in using your Target.com login).

Thank you Target and Cartwheel for partnering with us, and thank you readers for supporting the sponsors that help support this blog and our family.