Heikinpaiva, Hancock, 01-28-12

Tomorrow is the culmination of events and main celebration of Heikinpaiva in Hancock. Events scheduled include:

* Tori Market
* Kicksled and reindeer exhibits and log burning
* Parade
* Wife carrying contest
* Scandinavian wheat weaving
* Snow volleyball
* Pond hockey
* Polar bear dive
* Finnish buffet and silent auction

For more information, see the Heinkinpaiva website. Make plans and head on up to Hancock tomorrow, Saturday, January 28, 2012 and participate in the annual Heikinpaiva celebration!

Blue Bunny® January 2012 Coupon

Remember to check the Blue Bunny® website each month for their ice cream coupons. For the month of January 2012, you can print off a coupon worth $1 off any of their 1.75 qt premium ice cream products. You are required to register at their site.

MTU 2012 Winter Carnival

If you haven't seen the statues at MTU's Winter Carnival before, check out the webcams of three of the biggies even as they are being created. Also, you can view the broomball tournaments on three different rinks at the same webcam link.

For the official MTU 2012 Winter Carnival events, schedule, webcams, and everything Carnival, go to their website. The 2012 theme is "From All Over the State, What Makes Michigan Great." Events include:

* Beard Competition
* Broomball
* Curling
* Human Dog Sled Race
* Ice Bowling
* Ice Fishing
* Skating
* Skiing
* Snow Volleyball
* Snowshoe Races
* Tug-O-War
* Sleigh Rides
* Statue Viewing

If you have a chance, check it out! This is a great Yooper Deal and a Yooper tradition.

Local Deal Websites

Local deal websites are popping up all over the web so I figured we might as well start a list for easy reference:

* Best Bets
* Radio Results Network

Also, there are many free classifieds to check for deals or some you can post your own for free, too:

* Hot Ads (local newspapers-Marquette, Houghton)
* Ironwood Daily Globe
* UP Craigslist
* up.net
* Yooper Yardsale

Yooper Freecycle groups include:

* Baraga County Freecycle
* Chippewa County Freecycle
* Escanaba-Delta Counties Freecycle
* Dickinson County Freecycle
* Gladwin Freecycle
* Keweenaw Peninsula Freecycle
* Luce County Freecyle
* Manistique Freecycle
* Marquette County Freecycle

The Freecycle website lists the Michigan chapters, so if don't find a local group in your area, check back often or start your own! As always, if you have an addition, please let us know!

Earn Gift Cards Just By Searching Web

Hey! If you haven't signed up for Swagbucks® yet, then why NOT? You search for stuff all the time, so get a bonus for doing it! I just was able to snag a $10 gift card to Domino's® because I do a lot of my web searches through the Swag site. Free pizza? What a Yooper deal!

You can accumulate points even faster when you refer people and they sign up through your Swag name. We were able to use quite a few gift cards to Amazon that were earned through Swag searching to buy Christmas presents!

Hilltop RV Closeout Price on Travel Trailer

Cruising around Yooperland via the web, I came across the Hilltop RV website. They have closeout pricing on a Catalina 29RL Travel Trailer by Coachman and they only have one left. If you are thinking about buying a trailer soon, check this out today!

Free Red Wings(r) Wallpaper

If you like the Detroit Red Wings(r), then you may be interested to know you can download free wallpaper from several of the players' websites. The ones I've found include:

* Pavel Datsyuk (12 choices)
* Nick Kronwall (3 choices)
* Henrik Zetterberg (2 choices)--click on downloads in top right corner