Happy New Year!!

My first post in 2010~

I would say that last year pretty much rocked at saving money as far as coupons go. I will still need to upload all of my pics and I will upload my spreadsheet totals as well from the end of the year and see where I'm at.

A new site that I found to start trying products is:
http://smile.ly/5600.cfm

It's a site that lets you start trying products and letting other people know about them. You earn points as well which is cool. I've gotten quite a few GC this past year from stuff like this. I will be doing a whole post on ways to earn money doing surveys and even just reading emails later in the month. Stay tuned!!

Rebate Checks!!

I finally got some rebate checks from Staples in the mail. I was starting to get concerned about them. I got two rebate checks from Staples for $7.36 and $17.98.

I also got my July SCR from Rite-Aid for $23.69. I have not received SCR from June yet, so I emailed them and they responded that it has been over 30 days to send them my address and they will verify it and then stop payment on previous check and issue me a new one. Very happy at the quick turnaround on this so far.

This means that I get to add money to my money left to spend column!!



Left to Spend: $181.57
Made: $1061
Money Saved: $3845.02

8/8 Walgreens RAGU

I was soo happy to get in on this deal at Wagreens on the Ragu. Usually when I go there is only one jar left, but I hit the jackpot this time! I got 12 jars of Ragu and 4 jars of Skippy.

Plus, all the other great stuff....

OOP: ZERO!!! (although, used up all my gift cards, oh how I LOVED the rebate program!!)
Saved: $191.33

OOP: $ 2.21
Saved: $ 24.24

OOP: $ 1.01
Saved: $ 28.88

Left to Spend: $132.52

Made: $1061
Money Saved: $3845.02

August 6, 7, and 8 at CVS trying to find Electrasol and Visine

I have three cards, I had thought I was going to retire the other two because I haven't used in a LONG time. ACtually, over $100 expired ECB on each of the other two cards, but I thought that the deals on electrasol and visine were so great this week that I needed to bring the other two cards back. Basically, I will be using the ECB earned from those to get my newspapers the next couple weeks and put them back into retirement, lol.

OOP: $ 1.06
Saved: $ 38.74

OOP: $ 1.32
Saved: $ 18.60

OOP: ZERO
Saved: $ 9.99

OOP: $ 0.42
Saved:$ 23.28

OOP: $ 8.47
Saved: $ 17.00

OOP: $ 1.92
Saved: $ 28.45

OOP: $ 0.40
Saved: $ 11.47

OOP: $ 2.43
Saved: $ 28.45

OOP: $ 0.01
Saved: $ 0.49

OOP: $ 4.96
Saved: $ 26.90

OOP: $ 3.07
Saved: $ 28.99

And, the updated totals!

Left to Spend: $135.76

Made: $1061

Money Saved: $3600.57

8/7 WalMart, Tide detergent trial sizes

OOP: $0.24

Saved: $5.00

only had to pay tax, but that's all right.

Left to Spend: $159.82
Made: $1061
Money Saved: $3368.21

Free Stuff in the Mail

Got my free book!! Also, finally got my free korres stuff. UPS guy sent the stuff back, but then they sent it back to me. I also got a free panty coupon, the others require purchase of a bra, so not using them.

8/1 CVS Newspapers and Candy

OOP: $0.22

Saved: $31.86

OOP: $0.12

Saved: $43.19

Left to Spend: $160.06

Made: $1061

Money Saved: $3363.21