Gift Cards
Scott Coupon Mailer: Get $2.50 in Coupons
Be among the first 20,000 to enter the Family Dollar Stash Your Cash Sweepstakes by submitting a money-saving tip and receive a Scott Brand mailer with $2.50 worth of coupons. Six hundred people will also win $5 Family Dollar gift cards. Thanks, Freebies 4 Mom!
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New $1.50/2 Ore-Ida French Fries Printable Coupon
There is a new $1.50/2 printable coupon for Ore-Ida French Fries, and it’s only available to Swag Bucks members. Here’s what you do to grab this coupon.
If you haven’t yet done so, sign up for Swag Bucks. Do it by tomorrow (3/3) and use promo code COUPONCRAVINGS to get 60 Swag Bucks right out of the gate.
Next, from the main Swag Bucks page, click on Ways to Earn, then Special Offers. Click No Obligation Offers, then keep clicking Skip to the end. For me, the Ore-Ida coupon was the very first offer, and I was able to print out two. Once you click through to the end, you’ll also get 3 Swag Bucks.
I’m still relatively new to Swag Bucks, but have found it’s pretty easy to get started, and I can’t wait to start cashing in my Swag Bucks for Amazon e-gift cards, books, magazine subscriptions and more!
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Win One of 3 $35 Gift Certificates to Jiffy Lube
Find out more about how to stop heart disease from Jiffy Lube and www.JiffyLubeGoesRed.com and while you are there enter to win 1 of 3 Jiffy Lube Maintenance Partners for Life savings books ($100 in savings from Jiffy Lube) a $35 Jiffy Lube Gift Cards to use at any Jiffy Lube.
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Swag Bucks: Happy 2nd Birthday (Bonus Swag Bucks!)
Today is the second birthday of Swag Bucks, the rewards site where you can earn Swag Bucks by doing web searches, online shopping and more, then redeem them for gift cards.
My good friend Andrea at Mommy Snacks introduced me to Swag Bucks (she bought her MacBook Pro using gift cards she earned from the service), and while I’m still relatively new to the service, I like the way it works so far!
To kick off their second birthday, everyone who signs up for Swag Bucks between now and March 3rd using promo code COUPONCRAVINGS will earn 60 Swag Bucks rather than just 30. (Quick note that Swag Bucks are now in increments of 10 rather than 1.) Everyone (new and returning users) will also have ample opportunities to collect more Swag Bucks right away through their blog, Twitter and their Facebook Fan page. Good luck!
If you use Swag Bucks now, what have you earned using this service?
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Join My Points- It’s My Favorite Way to Earn Gift Cards Reading Emails
I have been a member of MyPoints for many years and it has always been my favorite way to earn gift cards through shopping and reading emails. Of the programs like it it seems to be the fastest, from my personal experience, earning program. Every day I get around 5-10 email ads from MyPoints and all I do is click through and I earn 5 points each. With these points I earn gift cards to restaurants and shopping. My favorite is saving up enough for a $20 gift card to Kolhs.
You can also earn points quicker by doing your online shopping through them at the stores listed on the MyPoints site- there are 100’s to choose from and you generally earn a certain amount of point per dollar spend.
Using MyPoints is a great way to offset gift costs when you save your points for gift cards for places you might do birthday or holiday shopping. Or the gift cards can just be a special treat or shopping trip for yourself.
When you join today you will get 100 points to start your account and sign up is free.
I love them. Click here to join.
LINK FIXED: Swagbucks: Start earning gifts *and* giftcards just for searching the web!
Click HERE to sign up– you earn points when searching the web which you can redeem for gifts and gift cards!
Happy Swagbucks-ing!
Swagbucks: Start earning gifts *and* giftcards just for searching the web!
Click HERE to sign up– you earn points when searching the web which you can redeem for gifts and gift cards!
Happy Swagbucks-ing!
Feeling Lucky Today
I used to enter a ton of online giveaways. It’s something I would do for 15 minutes or so when I first got home from work, but lately I’ve reduced my entries to only one or two contests a week. I typically cherry pick contests with lots of prizes and ways to win or search for small giveaways with very few entries.
This morning I found out that I won a small prize. Of course, I’m now feeling extra lucky and ready to win some more! My hopes are set on one of the fabulous prizes being offered in the Money Crashers 2010 New Year Giveaway Bash.
The Money Crashers giveaway includes over $9100 in prizes, including over $3000 in cash and $1100 in gift cards, not to mention lots of other great items like Amazon Kindles and Apple iPods. With so many prizes and so many ways to earn extra entries I think there’s a good chance I might just win.
If your interested in learning more about this contest head over to the Money Crashers site before January 31st. That’s when this contest ends.
End of Year Wrap Up: $4,875.05 in Savings!
Ok, so it’s a little past the end of the year, but not too far past. I finally got around to tallying up all of the money I saved and earned as a result of coupons, rebates, loyalty cards, online surveys, eBay sales, cash back sites and blogging last year and I am pleased to report that I earned/saved a grand total of $4,875.05. The following is a breakdown of my savings…
I received $809.05 in the form of mail-in rebates, primarily from the Rite Aid Rebate Plus program along with a whole host of rebates I received from ‘Try Me Free’ stickers I found on the front and back of popular products. In addition to the mail-in rebates I received another $233.97 from various cash back websites including those that provide additional cash back for referring new members. I earned the most by far from Ebates referrals.
I earned $170 in gift cards from various survey sites. I selected four $25 gift cards to Macy’s, two $10 Shoppers Warehouse cards and one $50 gift card to Home Depot. I also earned $78 from Pinecone Research.
In total I sold $408.06 worth of unwanted items on eBay. The list included CDs, popular books and a hodge-podge of new and like new cooking supplies.
I earned nearly $900 in ad revenue from this blog. I have minimal advertisements, due the strict restrictions of BlogHer Ads, so I was quite surprised by that total. Thanks to this blog I also received a number of books, which were sent for my review and a handful of free household products, including a beautiful Le Creuset oval dish.
From January 1st through December 31st of last year I also saved $1395.97 using a combination of coupons and weekly sales at Giant Food and saved over $800 at CVS stores using sales, coupons and the infamous ECB program.
Lastly, I earned $80 worth of credit by referring readers to Groupon.com. Funny enough, when I posted about my success with Groupon I didn’t even know that the site provided referral credit. I just wrote a post to document my experience.
I must say that I am more than shocked that the total for all of these efforts reached $4,875.05 in savings. Each act in and of itself is very small. I earned a few cents back for purchasing something through Ebates. I saved a couple of dollars at the grocery store by matching sales with coupons and I earned a few dollars here and there by filling out online surveys. I had absolutely no idea that all of these tiny efforts would result in such huge savings.
I’m not certain how my numbers will compare this year. I have much less clutter and therefore much less stuff to sell on eBay. I think my Ebates referrals have nearly tapped out, I haven’t received a new referral credit in ages, and I’m not sure how much I will earn in ad revenue from this blog. Still I plan to continue clipping coupons, searching for sales and submitting rebates. You just never know how much it will add up to.
Weekly Roundup: BCS Championship Edition
Tonight Alabama and Texas play for the BCS Championship. As an Auburn man, I don’t have a favorite, but I’ll be a homer and pull for the Crimson Tide since they are from the same conference. I’ve enjoyed the bowl season this year, and look forward to tonight’s game. Feel free to share your predictions in the comments below.
The Frugal Roundup
Customer Service: Enthusiastic Phrases I Would Love to Hear. I would love to go back in time to when companies actually cared about their paying customers. (@My Super-Charged Life)
Debt Update: December 2009. Adam updated his debt totals for the end of December. (@Money Relationship)
Six Financial Steps for Each Life Stage. Check out this great little post on financial things you should be doing during different stages of life. (@Wisdom Journal)
6 Important Tasks After a New Baby’s Birth. Having a baby soon? Check out these simple, yet ofter overlooked, tasks for when the little one arrives. (@Fiscal Fizzle)
Want Better Results for 2010? Commit to Fewer Things. Fresh off my New Year’s post declaring this year’s handful of goals, I came upon this post which makes the case for committing to even less. (@Scott H Young)
Best of the Rest
- 8 Questions to Ask Before Buying “Stuff”
- How an Average Canadian Woman Became Financially Independent
- Setting Goals: 5 Financial Milestones to Aim For By Age 30
- 25 Questions That Provoke Thought
- 10 Simple Money Moves for 2010
- 3 Things to Do Today That Will Improve Your Finances in 2010
- Eight Ways to Avoid Wasting Gift Cards
- 31 Days of Organizing for a Better 2010: Create a Budget
- Ignoring Finances When Young is a Risky Game
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