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How to Get the Most out of the Fuel Rewards® Program + Get Instant Gold Status and save 5¢/gal

July 17, 2017ShoppingFuel Rewards, Shell, TravelAlicia

A few months ago I began using a cash-back credit card for all expenses because my bank accounts have been hacked one to many times after using a debit card to purchase something. Side note… I pay the credit card off every month. I would NEVER recommend using a credit card if you don’t have the cash in the bank to cover your expenses when you make the purchase.

Given that, you can see how I would be very happy to learn that I can save 5¢ per gallon at Shell gas stations just by using my Fuel Rewards® member number at the pump. Shell is giving “Instant Gold Status” to new Fuel Rewards® members as well as all existing Fuel Rewards® members. Members with Gold Status automatically save 5 cents per gallon at the pump. Now I’m getting 5% cash back from my credit card AND saving 5¢ per gallon at the same time! Gas is starting to feel like a steal. I just hope gas prices don’t skyrocket again.

On top of that, once you’re signed up you can stack your rewards to save more at the pump. Combine your rewards from Gold Status with rewards from everyday activities like shopping, dining and traveling.

How to get started with Fuel Rewards®

Register to become a Fuel Rewards® member and get Instant Gold Status at Shell.
Visit a participating Shell station and swipe your Fuel Rewards^® card or enter your Alt ID to redeem your rewards.
- You’ll save at least 5¢/gal for being a Fuel Rewards^® member with Gold status.
Swipe your payment card, and then purchase up to 20 gallons of fuel at the lower fuel price.

How Does Stacking Work?

When I signed up for Fuel Rewards® here, I was prompted to enter the information for the credit card I will use at the pump. This is how it tracks your ‘stacked rewards’; from your linked credit card purchases. For example, I will earn 20¢/gal for every $300 I spend on hotels and rental cards with my linked MasterCard. Another way I can earn extra $ off Shell gas is by spending $50 or more at Teleflora, in which case my $ off will bump up an extra 10¢/gal. Some offers are for a limited time and some are every day offers.

Dining out is another way you can cut your gasoline cost by 10¢/gal.

Dine at participating restaurants and pay with your linked Mastercard^®, Visa^® or American Express^®card.
Earn 10¢/gal for every $50.00 you spend across all participating restaurants, bars and clubs.
Rewards earned while dining out will post to your account within 10 days.

Tips

Link all cards you regularly use so you don’t miss out on any eligible purchases. They do not store your card number, so your information is secure. And they will never charge your card.
Want to stay in? You can also earn Fuel Rewards® savings for ordering take-out from participating restaurants.
No need to spend all $50 at once. Grab lunch here, enjoy a night out with friends there. We’ll keep track of your purchases and add 10¢/gal to your account every time you hit the $50 threshold.
Download the Fuel Rewards® mobile app to easily find participating locations near you.

Enjoying saving at the pump and always use your credit card responsibly!

Redeem Fuel Rewards® savings with your Fuel Rewards® card or Alt ID at participating Shell stations. Fuel Rewards® savings are limited to 20 gallons of fuel per purchase per vehicle, or fraud limits placed by Shell and/or limits placed on your payment card by your financial institution, each of which may be lower. Fuel Rewards® savings must be redeemed in a single transaction. Once you begin to dispense fuel using your Fuel Rewards® savings, you must dispense to the 20-gallon limit or you forfeit any remaining discounted gallons of fuel. For example, if you only pump fifteen (15) gallons of fuel, you would abandon the remaining five (5) gallons of discounted fuel. If you have a rewards balance greater than the current per- gallon price of fuel, the price will roll down to the maximum capability of the fuel equipment, and your remaining rewards will be saved for a future fuel purchase. Dispenser may require a price of up to 10.9 cents per gallon. It may not be possible to combine multiple discounts and/or rewards in a single transaction. For purchases of $75 or more, please go inside to pay. Unbranded diesel and alternative fuels may not be eligible. The Fuel Rewards® program is owned and operated by Excentus Corporation. Offer may be modified or discontinued at any time without notice. Not valid where prohibited by law. Other restrictions may apply. See fuelrewards.com for complete Fuel Rewards® program details and Terms and Conditions. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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March 9, 2017Coupon codescoupon code, FashionAlicia

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iOS App, Moodivator, Motivates and Helps Patients as they Manage Depression

December 5, 2016Healthapp, Depression, ios, MoodivatorAlicia

This post was developed in partnership with Pfizer as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central.

As with a large percent of the parenting population, and population in general, my iPhone is like a third hand. There are few times you’ll find me walking through my home without my iPhone in my hand or pocket. It embarrasses me a bit to say that, but not too much. I don’t carry my iPhone around so I can check Facebook, Instagram or Pinterest, instead, I use my phone as a productivity and quality of life enhancement tool. For just about every task I do throughout the day, I use an app that corresponds with the task or activity. From setting a timer for laundry to looking up a recipe for dinner, there’s an app for that. I use a workout app to guide me through my exercise routine and an audiobook app to listen to a book while I’m folding laundry or cleaning. I recently added one more app to my daily routine called Moodivator.

Having struggled with depression since high school, I’ve tried many ways to cope. One coping mechanism that’s stuck with me is mood tracking. Situational experiences often have the most significant effect on my mood. These experiences include trying to give both kids attention at the same time, having dinner ready at a reasonable time while finishing my workday, and vacuuming the floor for the 3rd time in one day.

Tracking my mood with Moodivator™, a free iOS app from Pfizer, allows me to see patterns in my mood that I might not notice otherwise. For example, consistent use of Moodivator the last couple of weeks showed me that I felt ‘not so good’ in the evening hours. This is likely due to both kids wanting attention at the same time and I feel like a ping-pong ball bouncing off the walls from child to child. Seeing this pattern in the palm of my hand, made me think about how to best remedy the situation. It’s hard to ignore something that’s in your face like that. Moodivator motivated me to make a couple of small changes that have had a significant impact on my life including spending time with each of the kids separately so I can give him or her my undivided attention. You’re probably thinking duh, but it just didn’t click until I saw the pattern in front of me.

I will show my therapist my Moodivator™ report so she can help walk me through steps I can take to reduce the feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression I occasionally feel. Showing my therapist my Moodivator report gives her the opportunity to put the puzzle pieces together in a way that I may not have the know-how to do, which may enhance my and my family’s quality of life significantly.

You don’t have to suffer from depression to experience mood changes, so using Moodivator is not just a great tool for those who have been diagnosed with depression but, in my opinion, a great app for everyone.

See how Moodivator™, in the palm of your hands, can help you as you as you manage your depression in the Mooditavor video.

Download the free Moodivator app in the iOS App Store to set adjustable and customized goals and track your mood over time. You can also share your progress with your care team via the app.

The Moodivator app is not a treatment for depression and does not take the place of your doctor’s care or advice. This app also includes information about a prescription treatment option for depression.

We Put Charmin® Essentials Strong To The Test And…

September 14, 2016Home & GardenCharminAlicia

This post was sponsored by Charmin as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central

We are a family of four which is nothing compared to a family of five or more when it comes to spending. From what I understand, once you have more than two kids, they entertain each other – which is great, but obviously it costs quite a bit more. Saving money is something on almost everyone’s mind and a few years ago I went on a ‘let’s buy generic’ kick for a few months to try to save money. By the end of a few months, you’d have thought we were a family of eight based on what I was spending on the quantity of generic items vs. name brand. Generic brands are often not as high quality and don’t hold up as well as name brands resulting in the usage of a higher quantity of the product meaning you have to buy it more often. We found that generic brand toilet paper was either not strong enough or not soft enough. Raise your hand if you like rough, tissue-paper like toilet paper. Not one of you raised your hand but I’ll bet you’d raise your hand to getting a free roll of Charmin Essentials Strong! See below for details.

I chose Charmin Essentials Strong as our first package to try. It quickly got comfortable in our bathroom, as you can see, doing what the boys do; enjoy a good read on the loo. But look how strong it is! It can hold a magazine with no hands!

I was thrilled to learn Charmin® Essentials Strong provides a big Charmin roll at Scott® 1000-like price*. That makes my wallet happy. To think toilet paper can make someone happy is sort of strange but thing about how unhappy you are when you visit a public restroom and have to use tissue-paper like toilet paper. That’s why I bring a ziplock bag of Charmin Essentials toilet paper with me on road trips. Really.

The boys in my house often felt the need to use a pound and a half of toilet paper every time they.. well, you know.. and now because they’re using Charmin Essentials Strong they aren’t getting nagged by me about using too much toilet paper. It doesn’t take many sheets of this toilet paper to do the job. Less ripping during wiping! Just look at how strong Charmin Essentials Strong is! It easily held my iPad mini and my husband’s iPhone and this wasn’t a quick photo capture. My husband spent a while getting just the right angle. He’s awesome like that.

Our pipes appreciate that Charmin Essentials is clog-safe so if the boys still decide they must use tons of toilet paper, I can rest easy knowing that Charmin Essentials Strong will break down once in the toilet and pipes.

The bottom line is – did you get that? – Charmin Essentials Strong is awesome not only because it’s super strong and soft, but also because it is giving consumers more of what we want in toilet paper at a comparable price to the product we may currently use.

Take the #CharminEssentials TP Swap Challenge!

Charmin invites you to upgrade your Angel Soft® for Charmin Essentials Soft and Scott® 1000 for Charmin Essentials Strong. To participate, simply Tweet your TP swap out request to @Charmin using the hashtag #CharminEssentials and #Promotion, and Charmin will send you a free roll! See terms and conditions here.

Scott® 1000 is a registered trademark of Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.

*based on MSRP

Essentials for a Motion Sickness Kit, Including Dramamine® for Kids

September 6, 2016TravelDramamine, Motion Sickness, road trip, TravelAlicia

This post was sponsored by Dramamine® as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central.

My kids were blessed to get Tim’s good looks, Sebastian got Tim’s calm demeanor and my shyness, and Madelyn got her ‘happy crazy’ emotions from me, and motion sickness which can be a bummer because we love to travel. Travelling was easy with Sebastian. We grabbed paper, crayons, toys, snacks, a drink, and off we went. With Madelyn we’ve had to create an entire road trip departure routine that includes, but is not nearly limited to taking Dramamine® for Kids.

Over the years (she’s 10 years old now), I’ve had a couple of ah-ha moments during her bouts of road trip or amusement park motion sickness. One, was she was less likely to suffer motion sickness if we had cool air circulating in the car the entire road trip. The second most substantial ah-ha moment related to Madelyn’s motion sickness was “gosh, we ought to have a car-sick kit in the car”.

I’ve put all sorts of things in our car-sick kit over the years. It took a few years to figure out exactly what I needed in the kit and here it is…

What’s inside our motion sickness kit:

Dramamine® for Kids
Dramamine® Non-Drowsy Naturals – for myself
Hairband – to hold hair back when needed
Pain medicine – Madelyn sometimes gets a headache on road trips
One-time use toothbrushes
Toilet seat covers
One-time use zipper bags
Tissues
Moist wipes
Lip balm
All inside a clear, sturdy zipper bag so contents are easily view-able

You never know when motion sickness will strike so I transfer our car-sick kit to whatever vehicle we travel in, and take it in my handbag when we go to an amusement park or on a boat. I was so glad I didn’t forget to take Dramamine® for Kids on our recent cruise! I wasn’t sure how the movement of the ship was going to affect Madelyn and while given she is affected by motion sickness easily in the car, the ship didn’t seem to have the same affect so she was generally well with the rocking of the boat. However, I quickly pulled out the chewable grape flavor Dramamine® for Kids a couple of nights when we really felt the swells. Madelyn felt better within minutes.

We trust Dramamine® for Kids because it works for Madelyn and is the only medicated motion sickness relief product formulated just for children ages 2-12 from the #1 Pharmacist recommended brand. If for some reason she doesn’t take Dramamine® before we head out on a road trip and then gets motion sick, it’s comforting to know what Dramamine® for Kids treats symptoms of motion sickness on the spot and prevents nausea, dizziness, vomiting and queasiness.