Savings Summary Saturday - September 22

Items sent for:

• I will now be posting "Taking Advantage of" entries.  This will show any offers that I send for.

Grocery Shopping (and other savings) this week:

• Starting to post again to Ebay & Yardsellr & Listia.   My goal is to post at least one item a day.
• sent out 4 books for paperbackswap.com
• Received 2 months of pills from my OBGYN = approximately $50 in savings
• received a patient savings card from my OBGYN for my prescription = $10 in savings per month
• Listia - "sold" 3 gift cards - receive 23,563 in credits
• turning off the A/C when we can & opening up the windows.  Weather isn't cooperating too much - it'll start with being cool in the morning, but then gets in the high 70's by the afternoon, making the house hot.
• Donations:
• bought $10.82 in clearance at Unleashed for Loudoun County Animal Shelter.
• bought $116.96 at Office Depot which all items are 100% back in rewards.
• Walgreens - Alka Seltzer Allergy was on clearance for $2.24 for 48 ct. & I picked up all 5 of them - when it rang up - it was bogo!  WOOHOO!  Zed is set with his benedryl for quite a few months now!
• Office Depot - picked up a couple of items that were 100% back in rewards and I used my $20.52 in rewards.
• Unleashed - bought a couple of items on clearance for the pups.

Gas Savings:

•  Used Exxon card for points on Upromise.

Things we got in the mail:

• Nutrish dog food sample
• coupons for Victoria's Secret
• 2 books from paperbackswap.com

Rewards programs: (not updated this week)
MyPoints (personal account) - 13679 points (13279 points -last week)
MyPoints (coupon account) - 3711 points (3575 points-last week)
Swagbucks - 2969 points (2735 points-last week)
Listia - 20926 credits (17596 credits last week) $0 paid out for shipping (when buying credits it is 1 cent/credit)
Postpoints -3115 points (3025 points last week)
mycokerewards - 5892 points (5312 points-last week)
Bondrewards - $26.81 ($26.41 - last week)
Upromise - $17.91 ($17.44 last week) available for transfer
Capital One Rewards - 6346  miles (5341 miles-last checkin)
Thanks Again - 1075 points (1027 points last week)
Viggle - 59645 points (56063 points - last week - haven't really been checking in
NCP - 42950 points (40777 points last week)
Daily Feats - 1694 points (994  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 - requested local lawyer information from our financial planner on 8/2.
• 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.