Well, I have officially had a full year of couponing!!I started October 2008. Once I saw some of the things I could do, in January 2009, I started a tally of all my savings, including rebates, online surveys, couponing, etc.
Here are my totals for 2009:
Savings - $8207.28
**This number includes my savings shown on the bottom of my receipts-coupons from the newspaper inserts, printables, coupons I asked for from different stores, Passbook coupons, money I found on the ground, and any giftcards I won or received. Obviously, if I paid for the GCs myself, that’s not really saving.
***This number DOES NOT include savings from gas. I got $.10 per gallon at Kroger throughout the year, and did not include that in my totals.
Surveys - $9.33
**I could have been paid a TON more money than this, however I just didn’t have the time to do surveys. Oh well, $9.33 more than I did have!
Rebates - $1480.86 -- $334.11
**This number includes manufacturer rebates, Walgreens EasySaver rebates and (2) $500 giftcards I won. I included the $1,000 worth of GCs to my savings, because I paid bills, bought groceries, etc with the GCs. I also requested my WAGS rebates in giftcard format ($146.75 worth), so those are also reflected in my "savings" tally. So for simplicity sake, my rebates only totaled $334.11 ($1480.86 - $1000 - $146.75).
These rebate are awesome! Not only can I use coupons to get my out of pocket expense as low as possible, but I can submit a rebate to make a profit! Here are a few examples of those:
1-12-09 - When the EasySaver was still going, there were times I could "double dip." On this trip I was able to get the EasySaver WAGS Rebate and $8.00 Orajel & $4.00 Windex rebate.
3-14-09 – Not only was I able to get 4 FREE boxes of Cereal, I got a $7.00 RR at WAGS and got a $1.00 rebate on each box purchased.
6-20-09 – CVS had the Vitamin Shampoo/Conditioner on sale Buy One Get One Free, and some of them had "Try Me Free" stickers. So after the rebate, I was able to get 2 free hair products.
6-23-09 – Just like CVS with the Vitamin hair product, Walgreens had Organix S/C on sale BOGO Free with "Try Me Free" stickers. I got 2 for FREE.
7-14-09 – Kellogg’s $10 Fuel for School - nothing like free cereal
10-27-09 – I profited $3.24 on Ziploc bags with this SC Johnson Rebate
10-29-09 – Kroger had a huge Mega Event, where Tombstone Pizza was included. Plus I had MFQs. I was able to profit $7.38 after all was said and done.
11-24-09 – I was able to profit HUGE with the new Kraft Rebate from buying 10 boxes of Wheat Thins.
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Grand Total Savings/Earnings - $8207.28 + $9.33 + $334.11 = $8550.72
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