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We Are Finally Ready To Get Grilling! Summer With Sears
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New Grill for Summer
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Making Memories by the Grill
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Our Backyard Bonanza
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Orderly & Easy Summer Cooking with Sears Grilling Is Happiness
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Get Your Grill On with the Help of Sears!
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A Summer of Grilling
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We’re Smokin’ Baby!
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Fire up the Grill
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Sears Outdoor Living
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Kelly Carpenter-kellysluckyyou.com
Tips for Your Own Patio Makeover on a Budget! Sears has a fantabulous online catalog that even includes Style Tips! Tip #1: Create a focal point Tip #2: Paint Tip #3: Clean Tip #4: Accessorize Tip #5 Find a Bargain
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I love layaway. It’s a great way to make big purchases in small bites
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Andrea Kruse-adventuresinallthingsfood.blogspot.com
We Are Finally Ready To Get Grilling! Summer With Sears
To help with this backyard transformation I turned to Sears as part of their #SummerWithSears campaign. To get us ready for all the big grilling holidays coming up, Memorial Day, Father’s Day, 4th of July and my daughter’s 3rd birthday I started by looking through Sears’ Online Catalog. I fell in love with this Kenmore 4-Burner Gas Grill. It was a great deal and also by shopping and ordering online I was able to get an even better discount. Did you know you can make your purchases using Paypal? Checkout was quick and easy and all we had to do was wait for our confirmation email and then go pick it up. Pick-up day was almost like Christmas for me. The best part was they already had assembled our grill, so we could take it home and start grilling right away. We had just enough room for it on the back of the truck. Under the tarp the flatbed was loaded with strawberry and watermelon starts for the farm.
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Mallery Schuplin-mallerysdeals.com
New Grill for Summer After looking through the Sears online catalog we checked out the local ad and that is what got us to stumble upon this steal of a deal grill! It was $229 in the catalog, $170 online and $149.93 at our store! We were able to use a $15/100 coupon code since we bought it online and picked it up in store. SCORE! All of their patio furniture, decor and grills are on sale so I would recommend setting your preferred store to see what rockin’ finds are at your store! I do know that you can get $80 off Kenmore 4 burner gas grills and 20% off cushions and lawn furniture right now. We did not take advantage of the free in store assembly, all throughout May, because we were on a time table when we picked up our grill. I had no idea that Sears offers a layaway, free in-store assembly and free delivery on orders of $499.99+! Isn’t she beautiful?! I literally could not sleep because I was so excited to have our first grilling experience! Grilling always seemed like it was so easy compared to cooking in the house and I wanted to be inducted into the cool kid club!
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Holly Lefevre-504main.com
Making Memories by the Grill And, thanks to Sears, the #GrillingisHappiness campaign, and Collective Bias I had the opportunity to find that new grill none-toosoon! We have a grilling tragedy happening in my house right now. Our current grill has seen better days…in fact, I am not even sure it can grill anymore…it is time to put it out of it’s misery. Online checkout was SO SIMPLE! I selected to pick up my items at the local Sears store – and guess what - that option is Free! During checkout, I finally registered my Shop Your Way Rewards card. Time to start getting credit for those purchases! I have had a card for awhile, but am anxious to learn more about the rewards and program. I received 4100 points for this shopping trip!
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Whitney Baugh-itsgravybaby.com
The Beginning of a Beautiful Summer Instead of heading right to the store, now we can research and shop online to make sure we buy the best quality product for the best price. Justin and I utilized the Sears online catalog and the Grill Finder at the Grilling Is Happiness website to find the perfect grill and accessories. The catalog offered a wealth of information at a quick glance. We liked being able to see several options on one page with the features and price clearly listed. After we placed our order, we waited on e-mail letting us know our items were ready for pick-up. Next came the fun part- spending time with our family and friends while trying out our new grill and smoker. Hubby couldn’t buy just a grill, he had to have a gas smoker too. He assembled them both Saturday, then we took them to the river and put them to use Sunday.
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Once home, we did a little online research and found that we had really scored some great deals at Sears.
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Randi Dukes-dukesandduchesses.com
Our Backyard Bonanza We love grilling in the summer months {actually, all year round} but we’ve always loved the idea of having some alternative outdoor cooking methods as well. We decided to check out the options available at Sears. The Sears Outdoor Catalog had me drooling and wishing I was in the market for more than just something to cook with. Some new outdoor furniture would be a great addition to my patio. I’d gladly retire my handme-downs and forest green chair cushions {sorry, Mom}. For our purchase, we tested the layaway option offered at Sears. It was very simple and very quick to set up. In addition to the layaway program, I also signed up for the Sears Shop Your Way Rewards program and earned lots of points for my purchase. We came home with a gas smoker {yep, we’re Texans!}, a turkey fryer kit {wait till you see what we used it for}, and a small gas grill. The perfect set up for some backyard family fun! And a heck of a deal.
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First we looked at the current online catalog and drooled over patio sets.
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Alicia Kirby-themamareport.com
Orderly & Easy Summer Cooking with Sears Grilling Is Happiness I’m happy to report that Nana is officially ready for summer grilling. In fact, just this weekend she had her first grill out of the season and in her new home. This might not seem like a big deal to some, but Nana loves to grill in the summer. But rather than heading to the store with three little boys in tow, we turned on our laptops to shop for the necessities. And the best part is that we didn’t have to pay for shipping! By choosing to pick up our items in store, we were able to shop in the comfort of our respective homes. Sears actually has a site dedicated to preparing families for the upcoming grilling season titled Grilling Is Happiness.
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Jeannette Fender -jmanandmillerbug.com-
Get Your Grill On with the Help of Sears! So as we started our preparations for the kick off of summer next weekend with Memorial Day, we had to get the grill and outdoor area ready for the festivities that are sure to follow. With Father’s Day, 4th of July and just regular weekend bar-b-que’s, my goal this year was to add a touch of sparkle to our outdoor space. But we had a problem. Our grill has been used and used and used and used. And it was on it’s last leg. So, if we were going to keep up the grilling excellence that is an expectation in our home, something HAD to be done! And it was Sears to the rescue! I started out by sitting down with the hubby to look at the local deals and check out the Sears Online Catalog. Let me just say, you can get so sucked in! I fell in love with so many of the ideas and had a very hard time focusing on what we were looking for. And Sears makes it so easy to visualize magical make overs of your porch or patio with the wonderful outdoor living options that they present! Each and every page spurred another great idea in my head of how to transform our space for the Summer months. However, as soon as we clicked on the grill page and the hubby’s eyes landed on the Kenmore grill, it was love at first sight.
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A Summer of Grilling It looks so much better with the gorgeous grill on our deck… the colorful dishes don’t hurt either. This is going to be great for cookouts with family and friends. I love how this grill looks. It’s about two times bigger than our previous grill plus it has a side burner to keep food warm. Oh, and it is easy to light which means that I can cook out any time I want and I won’t have to wait for Alan to get home to light the grill. I’m excited to get the summer parties started.We’ll be grilling out with friends and family for holidays and also for everyday meals. I’m so happy we decided to update our grill at Sears. They had a great selection plus I was able to find fun summer dishes to add some color to the deck. If you are looking for a new deck I really recommend checking out the selection at Sears. Be sure to watch their sale circulars for special promos like free grill sets, free assemble, and same low price all summer.
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What are we smoking next week?
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Emmi Langer-mommys-freetime.blogspot.com
We’re Smokin’ Baby!
We decided to shop at one of my my husband’s favorite stores, Sears. We’re a military family and I love that Sears supports our troops with programs like Heroes at Home and discounts on items like tools. Not to mention you can use your Shop Your Way Rewards card to rack up some points on your purchases that can be redeemed later as gift cards! We’re both big time online shoppers so it seemed obvious for us both to pull out our computers and start there. Luckily, Sears has an online Outdoor Catalog (like their Christmas catalog-don’t get me started on that! LOVE IT). I started looking at grills immediately. I wanted a new one. The hubs immediately went to the patio furniture because he hates our glass tabletop. There were so many choices. We went straight for the smokers, found the one we wanted and continued shopping while the cashier went to see if it was in stock.
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Julie Kieras-ayearwithmomanddad.com
Fire up the Grill
I used the nifty Grill Finder online tool to see what grill was recommended for our family and usage – it was fun, but the grills I like are out of our price range for this visit. The online variety for decor was fantastic and I got so many inspiring ideas… like a grilling pizza stone, a fire pit, solar lighting! I focused on cleaning up the grill area, improving seating and lighting, and creating additional seating space in our driveway to extend the patio area. My local Sears didn’t have the fire pit and lighting options I’d wanted from the online catalog, so I had to change up my decorating plan. Instead, I decided to get this hanging votive chandelier to light up the inside of our gazebo – now we’ll have a lovely nighttime space to chat after dinner! I think a feature that draws the eye upwards creates the illusion of more space… don’t you?
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Andrea Kruse
http://adventuresinallthingsfood.blogspot.com/2012/05/we-are-finally-ready-to-get-grilling.html
Mallery Schuplin
http://www.mallerysdeals.com/2012/05/14/did-you-grill-for-mothers-day-grillingishappiness-cbias/
Holly Lefevre
http://www.504main.com/2012/05/making-memories-by-grill.html
Whitney Baugh
http://itsgravybaby.com/2012/05/the-beginning-of-a-beautiful-summer-grillingishappiness/
Randi Dukes
http://www.dukesandduchesses.com/2012/05/our-backyard-bonanza-cbias.html
Alicia Kirby
http://themamareport.com/cooking/orderly-easy-summer-cooking-with-sears-grillingishappiness/
Jeannette Fender
http://jmanandmillerbug.com/2012/05/get-your-grill-on-with-the-help-of-sears-cbias-socialfabric-summerwithsears-searspatio.html
Deb Thompson
http://justshortofcrazy.com/2012/05/a-summer-of-grilling-summerwithsears.html
Emmi Langer
http://mommys-freetime.blogspot.com/2012/05/were-smokin-baby-summerwithsears.html
Julie Kieras
http://ayearwithmomanddad.com/2012/05/fire-up-the-grill-for-a-summerwithsears/
Kelly Carpenter
http://kellysluckyyou.com/my-before-and-afters-tips-for-your-own-patio-makeover-on-a-budget/
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