Savings Summary Saturday - December 31

Grocery Shopping (and other savings) this week:
Saved 54% at Giant this week.(paid $65.38; $120.39 before savings)
Savings Highlights:

• Best Life Spread - paid $0.67 each (sale price of $1.67 each plus a 50 cent coupon that was doubled!)
• Coke Zero Liter - money maker of $0.99 each (sale price of $1.00 each plus a 99 cent coupon that was doubled!)

Gas Savings:
Saved 30 cents per gallon using my Giant card at Shell.  Plus I used my Shell SuperSaver card to get an additional 2 cents off per gallon.

Money received this week (AKA thank goodness for Christmas gifts!)

• $50 CASH from a contractor
• $25 Michaels gift card from The Segalls

Things we got in the mail:

• Entertainment Weekly (from Mycokerewards.com)
• 2 books from Paperbackswap.com
• Fitness Magazine
• calendar from The Humane Society

Donations this week (got to get them in before the end of the year!):

• Donated money to Ashburn Fire & Rescue
• Donated money to Jill's House

Rewards programs:
MyPoints (personal account) - 6,797 points (6,762  points -last week)
MyPoints (coupon account) - 2,730 points (2,640 points-last week)
Swagbucks - 1,928 points (1,891 points-last week)
Listia - 14,623 points (14,578 credits-last week) $0 paid out (when buying credits it is $0.10/credit)
Postpoints - 2,250 points (2,235 points as of Dec. 3)
mycokerewards - 3,923 points (3,896 points-last week)
Bondrewards - $20.71 ($20.61-last week)
Upromise - $12.47 ($12.47-last week) available for transfer
Capital One Rewards - 1,686 miles (1,586 miles-last week)
Thanks Again - 0 points

New Year, New Goals

• Use rewards programs to get gifts - Another WHY HAVEN'T I DONE THIS moment - What about using gift cards for daily stuff!  Thanks to Crunchy Frugalista for the idea.  While I can usually get better deals at the store for laundry detergent & stuff, I could definitely use this idea for dog food!
• Use Restaurant.com coupons - no action this week
• Buy a New Car - no action this week
• Set up an Estate - no action this week