If you live in the United States, and have friends and family living abroad, I can assure you that there is nothing quite like a sweet surprise, of receiving greetings, from faraway places.  I have been living abroad for the last five years, and it always warms my heart to receive a little surprise text message to make you feel special.

Right now you can use Rebtel SMS and save up to 65% on your international texts!  Sending international texts with Rebtel is the same as any other SMS service with one exception – the SMS is sent to a cheap local number rather than an expensive international number and no internet connections or downloads are needed!  Should you prefer to send SMS’s from your computer however, Rebtel does give you the option to send international SMS’s from a variety of mobile apps or even online texting from your internet browser.

Right now if you sign up with Rebtel you will receive 100 free international SMS messages credited to your Rebtel account when you make your first minimum deposit of $10. Just use the voucher code: 100freesms before July 25th to take advantage of these savings and remember you will also receive $25 in cash back when you sign up as a new Rebtel user using your beruby account!

Did you know that in the last year, 17% of couples who married, met on online on a personals or dating site? With online dating making close to $4 billion a year, meeting your true love via cyber space has reached new demands.  Now you can use Skype as a unique way to set up a few dates and really get to know your potential significant other before meeting in person. Here are a few interesting Skype tips and factoids to help you get in the dating spirit this summer!

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With inflation out of control and food prices reaching new heights, you have to be creative these days to save a buck or two and still have a happy, healthy household!

Today beruby is sharing some great ways that you can save on your next trip to the grocers.

1. Plan your meals in advance. Planning ahead can help you avoid impulse shopping and limiting your trips to the grocery store will help to save time and money.
2. Check your newspapers for the items that are on sale for the week and try to design your weekly menu around a few choice and reduce prided items.
3. Create a list so that you don’t spontaneously add impulse items to your cart.
4. Bring a calculator and pay attention to multiple deal advertisements.
5. Stock up on the items you need when they are at their lowest price but keep in mind they will probably go on sale again at another time. With that in mind, do you really think you need 12 cans of corn?
6. Determine the way you can combine coupons with other deals such as store discounts, double coupons or buy one, get one free deals. Use grocery coupons at stores that have the items you need, already on sale.
7. Pick up the Sunday newspaper! 75% of grocery coupons are hidden inside.  You can also take advantage of the electric coupons that the store issues when you use your discount card.  If you don’t have a card — what are you waiting for?
8. Grocery stores also offer some of their best deals and printable coupons directly on their websites.

Use your beruby account to visit coupons.com and EARN $0.13 when you print them out!

April 16th is National Eggs Benedict Day! There are plenty of silly holidays out there, any excuse to celebrate! But, we are pretty sure this one takes the cake — or English muffin!

As legend has it… some guy by the name of Benedict, a fancy wall street broker staying in the Waldorf Hotel, woke up one morning with a sizable hangover, with a craving for greasy comfort food.   Mr. Benedict, fuzzy headed and not feeling 100%,  carried himself down to the hotel’s breakfast buffet where he proceeded to order up some buttered toast, poached eggs, crisp bacon, and a side of hollandaise…

The maître d’ thought this combo sounded pretty tasty and would be a perfect addition to the Sunday brunch menu.  Eggs Benedict was immediately added to the Waldorf breakfast and luncheon menus, but not before the ham was substituted for bacon and an English muffin replaced the toast.

Since the 1900’s, there has been a variety of ways Eggs Benedict has been created — here are a few from Wikipedia worth sharing!

• Veggie Benedict, also known as California Benedict, replaces the bacon with avocado and tomato.
• Irish Benedict replaces the ham with corned beef hash or Irish bacon.
• Pennsylvania-Dutch Benedict replaces the ham or bacon with scrapple. Popular in the eastern region of Pennsylvania.
• Eggs Benedict Arnold replaces the English muffin with a biscuit and the hollandaise with country gravy, and also cooks the poached egg longer, so that the yolk is fully cooked.
• Eggs Pope Benedict substitutes German pumpernickel bread for the muffin and German bratwurst sausage for the bacon. It was created when Benedict XVI became pope in 2005.
• Goose Benedict was invented by James Delingpole. It consists of goose fat spread on an English muffin, with a fried goose foie gras stuffed with black truffle and black pudding, topped with a gull’s egg Hollandaise sauce.
• Huevos Benedict replaces the English muffin with a twice-folded warm corn tortilla, and the ham with avocado. Also, salsa roja and cilantro are added on top of the hollandaise sauce.
• Eggs Frederick substitutes tomato ketchup for hollandaise sauce.
• No Eggs Benedict! Click here for a vegan version of the famous recipe!

For all of your timers, poachers, beaters, egg cookers and bowls, shop Chef’s Catalog and save 5% in Cash Back rewards when you shop using your beruby account.

The daily deal domain is intoxicating. With so many offers helping you to spend less, the world of restaurants, shops and entertainment opens up allowing for new discoveries at merchants that you never even knew existed. In one click you can stumble upon discounts on anything from burgers, to massages, to trips to tropical islands.

While you can take advantage of these great values for yourself, another idea is to use these offers as gifts. Send your partner or parent to get pampered at the spa one day for less than half of what it might have regularly cost. Take your child to his or her favorite restaurant for their birthday, or purchase a family deal for an experience at an adventure park, the theater or purchase an activity like ballet classes or martial arts training.

Just be sure to check the conditions that apply to see when and how you can use them, as well as the expiration date. So the next time you have a birthday, anniversary, or another occasion coming up, shop with a daily deal site — you never know what you might discover!

Let Deal Chicken help you find a great deal in your neck of the woods!

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If you were with us last year you might recall a little blog I wrote about tulips — http://blog.beruby.com/us/2011/05/13/the-tulip-and-the-butterfly/

With Spring in the air and Easter around the corner, there is no better time then to reintroduce the bulb brought forth by the Turks… In fact, it is the national flower of turkey and means Turban in Turkish.

Here are a few more fun facts about the versatile flower:

• Tulips symbolize imagination, dreaminess, perfect lover and a declaration of love.
• Tulip bulbs are a good replacement for onions in cooking.
• Tulips come in every color except blue and black.
• If you add a bit of sugar to the water of your vase your tulips will live longer.
• Tulips continue to grow after being cut, up to an inch or more, and its best to cut them under water.
• If you would like your tulips to stand straight up as an arrow, drop a penny in your vase!

Right now SAVE 6.00% when you purchase 30 Tulips for $30 using your beruby account!

Summer has ended and fall has crept up on us rather quickly… the weather, the leaves, the time and even beruby is changing.   Winston Churchill once said “There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction” and today we bring you two BIG changes that will set us apart from the rest!

Requesting Payments — Now all it takes is $1!
If you are a United States resident, you can now request a withdraw from your balance once you have your first confirmed dollar… and, since you earn your first dollar when you join the beruby community that means you can practically request a payment from the very first day you log in as a beruby user!

In addition, we have also made a  major change in the payment process: to validate your payment, you will need to provide a cell phone number in order to confirm your withdrawal. This change is necessary to insure our users that no one else can log into your account and collect what is not theirs.  As you can see, we are now providing even greater security to your beruby account.

Please note: If you choose to withdraw less than $10.00 from your account you will be charged a $ 0.99  processing fee to cover administration costs.  Payments over $10.00 however, will not be charged this fee.
If you are not a US resident, you will not be able to withdraw from you account until you have reached a minimum balance of $10.00.

distinguishing beruby — beruby just for US!
Since beruby’s conception in 2007, we have paid attention to our advertisers, how they think and how they approach the world of Internet advertising.  We have since come to the conclusion that in the global world, the majority prefer to advertise locally. Virtually all our advertisers within the United States specifically request user traffic from users residing in the United States.  To meet these requests from our advertisers, we have adopted the following measures:

• As of today, beruby will only be serving newly registered users who reside in the country specified. This will only affect NEW USERS. For example, If you are already a member of beruby and you do not live within the United States you will still have access to your account.  However if you live outside the United States you will no longer be able to register on beruby US, you will have to register within your designated country.
• To address the needs of users residing in other countries, beruby intends to launch our services in additional countries. This year, we are pleased to announce the launching of two new beruby sites: beruby Argentina and beruby Mexico.

Communication is the Key:
We at beruby want to be your homepage and we want to make things more relevant to you as our users.  Therefore, we rely on your feedback. We also want to know what you think, while we make more efforts to communicate to you the various news, features, etc.. happening in the world of beruby.   You can always stay informed about beruby by visiting our blog, Facebook, Twitter , as well as periodic newsletters and emails.

We hope you take advantage of our changes and continue using beruby.

Do you have questions? Leave a comment!

If you are wanting to take advantage of sales, discounts, promotions and other various opportunities but don’t want to go through the hassle of scouring through the internet for coupon codes or having to fill out countless registration forms, then look no further — beruby has your answer!

Itemize IT!

We all love saving, especially during the holiday season when times are tough! If you have ever shopped on line or even browsed through catalogs then it is probably very likely that your email inbox is routinely clogged with deals of the day, offers of the week, etc.  I myself receive tons of offers and it has gotten to the point where I don’t even have the time to look at it anymore.  

Itemize.com is a perfect solution to get a handle on the coupon craziness — they literally do all the dirty work for you.  Itemize.com sorts through hundreds of offers and only informs you of the ones that match your profile preferences.  Depending on how you set up your preferences, you can enable Itemize.com to scan through your email, looking for the receipts of items purchased over the last 18 months to determine the deals best suited for you based upon your sales history.

Let Itemize.com save you time and money. Find them right here at beruby.com!

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You can find Itemize.com on beruby…

… here and in the category Shopping>>General Shopping.

And now, there ’s a new way to wear it!

Audrey Hepburn, Marylin Monroe and Greta Garbo — all ladies who graced our movies screens in the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s and who continue to fashionably inspire us today.

The most popular vintage gal to make a comeback is none other than Audrey Hepburn.  Inspiring a number of celebrities today with her look, Audrey Hepburn was one of the world’s most stylish women – creating many fashion trends.  Hepburn’s most recognizable wardrobe pieces and hairstyles come from her 1961 romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Her french twist, big sunglasses, long cigarettes and, of course, the little black dress have become synonymous with class and femininity.

If you are looking to emulate Hepburn or just have a love for vintage — Here are some tips to get that vintage look without spending too much money!

First check out the vintage selection at ROMWE.com, the hottest new site for online vintage clothing at fabulous prices!

One of the easiest ways to put together an amazing vintage outfit is to combine something vintage with something a bit more modern, perhaps something you already own. Spend a little time researching and browsing through ROMWE.com for the particular style of vintage clothing you really love.

Earn 2.33% cashback when you purchase vintage clothing at ROMWE.com.

Earn 1.17% cashback when a member of your network purchases vintage clothing at ROMWE.com.

Save $10 off orders of $50 or more at ROMWE.com and receive free shipping on the entire site when you use COUPON CODE: STREETFASHION3

You can find ROMWE.com on beruby…

… here and in the category Shopping>>Fashion and Accessories.