So, a few days ago, on the news, I heard about a woman who lives in our area named Kathy Spencer. She's an extreme "couponer" in my area. She has a website, www.howtoshopforfree.net which gives some helpful advice. Through it, she had a website listed, www.couponnetwork.com. Coupon Network is AMAZING! Some of the coupons show you how you can earn money back after a purchase! For example, we bought 4 boxes of Post Pebbles (were on sale at Shaws for $2 each) and we got $3 back for our next purchase! It's free to join and you can list your "favorite" store which will show you what deals on groceries are in your area! So, we had a plan to get a good deal at Shaws today!
Knowing about this new website, Coupon Network, is where we started our savings today. We knew that Post Pebbles cereal was on sale this week, 2/ $4, and if you bought 4, you'd get $3 back. Therefore, we bought $8 worth of the cereal with one transaction. After the transaction, there was $3 towards our next purchase. There was a deal for 3/ $6 Sun Chips. We had 3 coupons for $2 off any two Sun Chips. We bought 6 Sun Chips which would have been $12, but with the coupons, it ended up being $6. We also had 5 FREE Sierra Mist with any Sun Chips purchase coupons. The Sun Chips and Sierra Mist coupons were from the Frito Lay newspaper inserts from the newspaper 2 weeks ago. We had a coupon for FREE Uncle Bens Ready Rice. A coupon for 2 FREE jars of Beechnut babyfood and $1 off 6 Beechnut babyfood jars (on sale 55 cents each). FREE Beechnut baby cereal coupon, so got Oatmeal Cereal. FREE Suave professionals coupon. Grand total would have been $60. We paid $14 TOTAL! We Savings 77%! Not bad!! In case you're wondering, our free coupons usually come from Facebook promotions and signing up for certain programs, etc.
Also, I recently started something called SWAGBUCKS. If you join, you do searches (like you would anyways), fill out surveys, do tasks, etc. You earn swagbucks, which you can use to buy neat things, or get prizes, etc. I joined about a month ago and have already earned $15 worth of Amazon.com gift cards. Just sayin!
Yesterday, Nick went to CVS and got pain medication, Tylenol Precise heat pads and Carefree pantiliners FOR FREE! We had a $5 coupon for Tylenol Precise and it was on clearance for around $2. You can use the overage for other purchases, plus we had a CVS coupon for $3 towards ANY pain medication! Savings 100%!!
