Saturday, May 26, 2012

Savings Summary Saturday - May 26, 2012

This is for the last 2 weeks since I didn't get around to posting last Saturday.

Grocery Shopping (and other savings) this week:
  • CVS shopping highlights
    • (2) Kraft bbq sauce - on sale for $1 used $1/2 - 50 cents each
    • (2) Gain dish soap - on sale for 1 - used $1/2 - 50 cents each
    • (2) Secret deodorant - clearance for $1.74 - used $1/1 - 74 cents each
    • Allegra - on sale for $17.99 - used $5/1 manufacturer coupon and $4/1 CVS coupon
  • Money made on yardsale - $70.
  • Office Depot
    • dropped off 9 toners from work - the cashier was great & ringed me in for 10 toners!
    • Used my rewards to get the following & paid only $12.33
      • toner ($29.99)
      • kitchen trash bags ($16.99)
      • (larger) binder for my coupons ($18.49)
Gas Savings:
  • saved 70 cents per gallon at Shell using my Giant card plus 2 cents per gallon by using my Shell Supersaver
  • Hubby used our Exxon credit card, which will have points towards Upromise.
Things we got in the mail:
  • Entertainment Weekly (mycokesrewards.com)
  • Fitness Magazine (goldrewards.com)
  • Tide pod sample
  • coupon for Dole salad from Giant food Shape magazine
  • Office Depot work rewards coupon for $43.61
  • Olay skin test from P&G
Rewards programs:
MyPoints (personal account) - 12787 points (12727 points -last week)
MyPoints (coupon account) - 3320 points (3290 points-last week)
Swagbucks - 2604 points (2500 points-last week)
Listia - credits 14157 credits (14157 credits last week) $0 paid out (when buying credits it is $0.10/credit) - I haven't posted anything on here lately.
Postpoints -2940 points (2925 points last week) - I keep forgetting to log on this daily!
mycokerewards - 4859 points (4742 points-last week)
Bondrewards - $25.91 ($25.71 last week)
Upromise - $16.03 ($15.59 last week) available for transfer
Capital One Rewards - locked out (3591 miles-last week) - haven't gotten around to unlocking the account :P
Thanks Again - 898 points (898 points last week)
Viggle - 55,165 points (55,152 points - last week) - haven't really been checking in
NCP - 39920 points (39200 points last week)

New Year, New Goals - (I need to get on this!!!!)
  • Use rewards programs to get gifts and daily stuff - no action this week
  • Use Restaurant.com coupons - no action this week.
  • Buy a New Car - BOUGHT IT! (BTW - paid cash for this).
  • Set up an Estate - no action this week
  • Monthly Review/Net Worth (new as of 5/9/12) - I saw this idea on Couple Money. I don't take enough time to review our net worth and keep track on how we are doing.

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