Savings Summary Saturday - June 30

Due to vacation, this is for 2 weeks.  I have also added a new category - Items sent for.

Items sent for:
Free oranges (6/19/12)
Grocery University (6/19/12)
Free subscription to O Magazine (6/23/12) - Dailyfeats.com
Free $5 off of $35 at Walgreens (6/23/12) - DailyFeats.com

Grocery Shopping (and other savings) this week:

• Harris Teeter had Super Double coupons - double up to $2.  I did all of our shopping there and saved 51% (paid $97.09, saved $100.88)
• Kashi cereal - 3.89 - used $2 coupon = free
• Kraft Dressing - on sale for $2.29 - used $1 coupon, doubled = 29 cents
• Beggin' Strips- on sale for $2.50 used $1/2 coupon, doubled = 1.50 each plus used a coupon buy 2, get one free =  $1 each
• CVS - I stopped by to drop off a Redbox rental (which was free) and went in to get my coupons from the scanner
• V05 conditoner - 49 cents per bottle (clearance) - got 3 of them!

Gas Savings:

•  Hubby used Exxon card which gives us UPromise $.

Things we got in the mail:

• Target makeup bag with samples & coupons
• Entertainment Weekly (mycokerewards.com)
• Fitness Magazine
• notepad from animal charity
• License plate holder from Hyundai

Rewards programs:
MyPoints (personal account) - 13029 points (12787 points -last week)
MyPoints (coupon account) - 3465 points (3320 points-last week)
Swagbucks - 2667 points (2604 points-last week)
Listia - 17722 credits (14157 credits last week) $0 paid out (when buying credits it is $0.10/credit) - posted boxtops & Campbell labels this week - so I'll have to pay stamps on 8 envelopes
Postpoints -3005 points (2940 points last week)
mycokerewards - 5175 points (4859 points-last week)
Bondrewards - $26.21 ($25.91 last week)
Upromise - $17.44 ($16.03 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 - 993 points (898 points last week)
Viggle - 55,165 points - last week - haven't really been checking in
NCP - 40390 points (39920 points last week)
Daily Feats - 526 points (0 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.

Friday Fragments - June 29, 2012

Friday Fragments Episode 204

• I didn't think I would make it through the week this week at work - It was one of the busiest weeks in a LONG time.  I ached a lot and was exhausted every evening (from walking at least 10K steps on Wednesday, Thursday & Friday), but I made it.
• The Jeep made it 80,000 miles this week!
• Ever walk outside and smell smoke - like a house is on fire?  That happened this week.  Come to find out, it was from wild fires . These are over  90 miles from our house!  Crazy.
• Random compliments I got this week -
• That I'm a good public speaker - this was from our guest speaker at our tenant meeting
• That they loved my personality - this was from a tenant who met me for the first time.
• That I had the best A/R (accounts receivable) in the division - from the VP of our division & he said it with all but 2 (out of 11) airports on the call

Friday Fragments - June 22

Friday Fragments: Episode 203

Things I learned this week:

• There's no way that we will ever get hardwood floors with dog - all we heard all week was click, click, click of the toesnails on the floors.
• Zed doesn't do well at the beach - emotionally & physically.  He didn't finally relax until about Wednesday.  Before that he had to constantly be with us and did not just lay down.  Physically, he was constantly scratching.  Since we've been home (5 hours), no scratching.
• One day, we want to have a place at the beach.
• The more I'm not at work, the more I want to retire.  I need to really stick to the plan to pay off the mortgage.
• Read "self-help"/"learning" books even if you think you know all about it.  I had some ah-ha moments when I was reading "How to Shop for Free" this week.  It has been motivating.