Savings Summary Saturday - April 13, 2013

Items sent for:

• n/a - nothing this week.

Grocery Shopping (and other savings) this week (and previous week):

• Giant
• Paid for our groceries with the rebate card we got from Hyundai.
• Home Depot
• is there any such thing as a cheap trip to the Home Depot?  I did use several gift cards (Swagbucks, Capital One Rewards & the balance on the Hyundai card) and saved about $100.

Gas Savings:

• Had hubby used the Shell Saver card and Giant gas points this week (since the Jeep is full) - saved 60 cents per gallon.

Income (Starting to post again to Ebay & Listia. My goal is to post at least one item a day.):

• Listia
• listed several items that didn't sell last time plus a couple of new items
• Craigs List
• listed items that didn't sell on Ebay

Items received in the mail:

• free Rolling Stone magazine (rewardsgold.com)
• People magazine (signed up for 3 free magazines when shopped at Peebles)

Rewards programs:
MyPoints -  15555 points (personal account) - 15450 points -last week
MyPoints -  5097  points (coupon account) - 5052 points-last week
Swagbucks -  755 points (738 points-last week)
Listia - 46635 credits (46520 credits last week)
Postpoints - 3360 points (3,350 points last week)
mycokerewards - 6937 points (6937 points-last week)
Bondrewards - $27.61 ($27.56 - last week)
Upromise - $22.48 ($22.48 last week) available for transfer
Capital One Rewards -  2306 miles (2196 miles-last week)
Thanks Again - 1075 points (1075 points last week)
Viggle - 13574  points (10898 points - last week)
NCP -  48335 points (48090 points last week)
Daily Feats - 2467  points (2390 points last week)
ExpoTV - 220  points (220 points last week)
IBotta -$3.50 ($3.50 last week)
Jingit - $0.30 ($0.30 last week)

Not sure if I'll be continuing Daily Feats - their rewards aren't that great - they basically are just coupons for money off offers - no free gift cards :(

2012 New Year, New Goals - to continue in 2013!

• Use rewards programs to get gifts and daily stuff -
• Use Restaurant.com coupons -
• Set up an Estate -
• Monthly Review/Net Worth
• I created a new budget with only one income and used Quicken so that I am able to run reports to see how well we are staying on track.
• See From D.I.N.K to O.I.N.K.- March summary