Quick Repost: My New Adventure!

Quick repost… in case you missed the announcement yesterday!  I don’t want you guys to be blind sided. 😉  Today is all about “How to Get Rid of Dry, Dull Winter Skin” and I’m sharing my all-time favs! Head here to read all about it. 

I’ve been running Freebies2Deals.com for 5 1/2 years.  Can you believe it??!  I can’t.  It’s amazing how much Freebies2Deals has grown and successful it has become because of all of you.

Before I go any further, let me just say NOTHING is changing on Freebies2Deals. No, I’m not leaving. No, I’m not selling.  I’m not going anywhere. 

With the growth of Freebies2Deals, it’s turned into more of a business.  I don’t know how to explain that in any other way other than I spend WAY more time dealing with emails from companies wanting to do exclusive discounts, giveaways or announcing special deals than I do actually doing the fun stuff— posting and finding deals!  The growth and success of Freebies2Deals has also been a huge blessing for our family financially and has been able to financially benefit Freebies2Deals readers helping them save on everything from Christmas presents to everyday household essentials. The whole thing is quite remarkable to me!  Who would have thought??!

However…. the one thing I miss (a lot!) is being able to post about whatever I want, whenever I want.  The more people who started reading Freebies2Deals, the more pressure I felt to make sure I found a certain number of things to post that would work for the majority of you, find the best deals and keep everything on a strict posting schedule.  It’s burned me out.

I feel pressure to do my absolute best for you guys, respond to your comments, answer your questions on social media and I try REALLY hard to answer every email I see.  I wake up in the morning at 7am–not because my kids are awake but because I don’t want to let you guys down.  And I know you guys are counting on me to post awesome deals and be there for you.  Be there for you on Black Friday, Cyber Monday, every Holiday and for every amazing deal that pops up. The thing is about this stress…. it comes with the territory!  And I totally understand that!  I LOVE that so many families out there use Freebies2Deals to help them save money!

If you have been a reader for awhile and know a little about me, you know that I love fashion, I love beauty, I love makeup and I love to travel. I mean, all of the money I save from deal hunting, price matching and couponing goes towards vacations, clothing or makeup.  After we got out of debt, had savings and were in a stable financial situation, my goal has always been to continuously live a fabulous life for less. So as I was thinking about how to make my life fun again, the thought occurred to me…. maybe I should just start a new blog that focuses on those things that I just LOVE??

There is no way I could just completely change Freebies2Deals and start adding in How-To’s, Fashion Posts, Beauty Posts or Travel Posts… I think there would probably be an uproar. (Haha, wouldn’t that be fun to watch?! ) I know what kinds of things you guys are looking for, what deals you guys are searching for and with so many people expecting that one thing, I knew it wasn’t something I could easily incorporate into Freebies2Deals.

So I am announcing today that I have launched a brand new blog with my sister, Alexi.  It’s called OurFashionMAP. Our goal is not to post a billion pictures of high-fashion and expensive items that are out of your price range… Our Goal is to post about EVERYDAY Fashion and Beauty Finds. And occasionally, we might share items we splurge on.  We both follow some amazing fashion bloggers out there. We drool over their gorgeous pictures and their amazing style. But we know it’s not realistic to look like a supermodel everyday (not that we will ever claim to look like models in the first place, lol). And as much as we would love to own 20 Pairs of Christian Louboutin, Jimmy Choo or Valentino heels, it’s just not realistic for most women and moms out there.  So that’s why we really want to focus on the Everyday and share some of our favorites!

Some of you might be thinking, “If you are burnt out, how can you do another blog?”  With this blog, I only have to post 3 times a week—not 50 billion like I do on Freebies2Deals.  And the most amazing part of this new blog is that nothing is time-sensitive!  That means that I can post whenever I want and schedule them to post at a certain time.  I’m positive it will give me that breath of fresh air I have been looking for and give me a chance to share more about me with all of you! I will be able to finally post about what I want to post about without having to worry about it being a good enough deal, or being related to a deal at all.  (Something that I continually worry about.)

I also think that by giving me something fresh, it will re-excite my love for Freebies2Deals!  Some of you know that with the growth of Freebies2Deals and keeping up with demand, that I actually have hired a few stay-at-home Moms (who are also F2D Readers) to help me run the website.  There are so many details and things that go into posts, social media and all of those ridiculously long Grocery Deal posts. Without them, I would have crashed a long time ago not being able to keep up.  I’ve already felt that excitement about more deal-related things to share and post for you guys as I have been building OurFashionMAP.  Just like a graphic designer or artist, sometimes you just need a little inspiration to give you that jolt you need to be fabulous again!!

With that said, I know not all of you care about Fashion, Beauty, Makeup or Travel.  And that’s totally ok!  This is what I am passionate about and what I want (and need) to share.  I get asked by you guys all of the time where I purchase clothing, how I get my hair to curl like it does, what my favorite makeup brands are… and after doing those Fashion Fridays as a test to see how many of you loved that kind of stuff too, I knew that it would be a fun blog for a lot of Freebies2Deals readers.  So if that is you, head on over to OurFashionMAP.com and take a look!  We only have 6 posts up so far.  But you will get a new post from me or Alexi every day from here on out!

Thanks to all of you for reading Freebies2Deals and being so supportive and just awesome!  Like I said at the beginning of the post, absolutely nothing will change here on Freebies2Deals.  I actually think it will get even better now that I have a creative outlet to share all of that suppressed information I haven’t been able to share before! 

Here’s a little more information about OurFashionMAP, who we are and an intro to my sister, Alexi!  Join us on thenew blog, on the Our Fashion MAP Facebook Page and Our Fashion MAP on Instagram!  And because I will always love Giveaways (no matter what kind of blog I am running) you can bet you will see a pretty amazing giveaway this next week on OurFashionMAP.  Get excited!!

Love you all,