So much for getting back into the swing of this next week (posted 3 weeks ago)! This is some of the items from the last 3 weeks.
Items sent for:
- nothing lately. I've been slacking on checking e-mail & blogs. :P
Grocery Shopping (and other savings) this week:
- Bought Avon skincare on Ebay - $4.99 plus free shipping - used my Ebay rewards and paid only $2.89!
- Free Capitals stuff (from the first game of the season)
- 2 free Capitals shirts for being a partial season ticket holder.
- Schedule magnet (game giveaway)
- CVS
- Scored a great deal on Coke products. 12 packs were on sale for 4/$10, used a coupon for a free 1.25 liter when you buy 3 12 packs and used my $4.50 ECBs
- Dollar Tree
- Dining Out
- used a $2 coupon from a school fundraiser booklet that we have (paid $20 for the booklet - saved $7 so far)
- Petco
- They were out of the 30 lb bag of food so the manager gave us (2) 15 lb bags for the price of a 30 lb bag (saved $7)
- used a 10% off coupon
- used $5 Petco rewards
- Eastern Mountain Sports
- Hubby needed some stuff for his trip north so we stopped here. We signed up for their rewards program and the manager gave us a discount of 15% off! He even said he wasn't supposed to. BONUS!
- Giant
- Angel Soft - on sale for $4.99 (regularly $8.45) used a store coupon and a manufacturer' coupon for $1/2 - paid $3.99 each
- Campbell Skillet Sauces - on sale for $2 (regularly $2.59), used a manufacturer's coupon for 75 cents that doubled - paid 50 cents each.
- General Mills cereals - on sale for buy 2 get 1 free ($4.79 each), used 2 manufacturer's coupons for 75 cents that doubled - paid $2.19 each
- Special K chips - on sale for $1.99 (regularly $3.79), used 2/$1 manufacturer's coupon
- Giant 35 count bottled water - on sale for $3.99, used 1/$1 store coupon - paid $2.99
- used store coupon on beef for $1.99/lb - saved $7.52
- Premio sausage - on sale for $3 (regularly $4.49), used 55 cent manufacturer's coupon that doubled - paid $1.90
- Tysons Grilled Chicken - on sale for $4.99 (regularly $8.49), used 55 cent manufacturer's coupon that doubled - paid $3.89
- used a $8 off $50 coupon that was on the Sunday paper
- Total saves in this trip 47%
Previous weeks items
- CVS
- Nature's Made Vitamins - BOGO - used $7 & $3 manufacturer's coupon (received from Nature's Made rewards program)
- Used $5 gift card received from Viggle
- used $3 ECBs
- paid $2.15 for 2 bottles of vitamins, (3) 2L of coke zero, & Pepto-bismal
- Dairy Queen
- used a BOGO coupon for 2 large blizzards
- Giant
- previous weeks' savings - 44% and 47%.
Gas Savings:
- Used the Exxon credit card which gives us money back on Upromise.com
- Haven't filled up the Jeep since January 11 and when I did, I saved 60 cents per gallon by using my Giant card.
Income (Starting to post again to Ebay & Yardsellr & Listia. My goal is to post at least one item a day.):
- n/a - been cleaning a lot & figuring out what I should sell and what I should just donate.
Things we got in the mail:
- CD from swapacd.com
- Rolling Stone magazine (Rewardsgold.com)
- MyCokeRewards coupons for a free 12 pack (2 coupons)
- a free book to review & blog about (check out my blog on January 31 for the review & for a future giveaway!)
- Purina cat food sample (for donation)
Rewards programs:
MyPoints- 14920 points (personal account) - 14820 points -last week)
MyPoints 4707 points (coupon account) - 4527 points-last week)
Swagbucks - 3401 points (3375 points-last week)
Listia - 41401 credits (41,396 credits last week) $0 paid out for shipping (when buying credits it is 1 cent/credit)
Postpoints - 3260 points (3,245 points last week)
mycokerewards - 6652 points (6468 points-last week)
Bondrewards - $27.21 ($27.16 - last week)
Upromise - $20.99 ($20.99 last week) available for transfer
Capital One Rewards - 8756 miles (8341 miles-last week)
Thanks Again - 1075 points (1075 points last week)
Viggle - 50230 points (50,089 points - last week)
NCP - 45720 (42950 points last week)
Daily Feats - 1695 points (1694 points last week)
ExpoTV - 120 points (70 points last week)
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.
