Day Four - Walgreens and Hotprints

This morning I created my free photobook at hotprints.

Walgreens
Stayfree $2.99 get $3.00 Back plus I used $2.00/1 off 3/28 RP
Reach Total Care floss 2x3.99 used BIGI 1/3 RP plus $2.00 in add coupon
Plackers Dental flosser $2.00 get $2.00 plus I used 0.50 4/18 RP

My Savings: 15.48 plus free photobook

Birthdays Freebies

One of my favorite bloggers http://freebies4mom.com/ created a huge Birthday sign up list. You can score free gift cards and goodies just being a member of different websites.

My favorites are

Academy Birthday Club, they promise to send you a $5 Gift Card for your Birthday
Lancome and Sephora will treat you with free gifts

Starbucks will let you have a free drink

Red Lobster will send you a $5 Gift Card.


here is the complete list of Happy Birthday Freebies 4 Families from Freebies4mom.

This Upcoming Weekend

This upcoming weekend my daughter and I plan a good shopping spree. I am very excited because I have plenty of free cards available to spend.

Victoria Secret
I still have to use my Reward cards from Victoria Secret, so I found new coupons for a free lipgloss with any purchase at http://slickdeals.net

Kohls
As I said in my previous post I got a free $10 gift card in my mail

JC Penney
I got 2x$10 of $10 coupons in my mail

Aeropostale
http://www.aeropostale.com/ running a promotion with $10 of $10 coupons on their website.

Marshals
I got my $50 reward card from Discovery and it's a free money, since I received it just because I was using Discovery credit card.

Why Do I Use Credit Cards?

I know some people say "no" to credit cards.
But if you use credit cards wisely, you actually can be in a good shape.
I pay for everything with credit cards... but I pay off my balance every time statement arrives.

Discover Card
When I use Discover card, I earn 1-5% on all purchases plus if I do online shopping, I shop through Discover website, which usually give me an additional 5%.
When you accumulate enough money, you can get gift cards to different stores, which are usually with some benefits too. You pay $45 dollars and get $50 gift cards...
I love shopping, so I usually get Marshals card and then use it for my shopping sprees... it's like free shopping.

Kroger Card
I usually do most of my grocery shopping at Kroger. So about a year ago I got Kroger Master card. so now I earn an extra points every time I am shopping at Kroger plus get krogers checks, which usually around$15 for free food every couple of months. Add to this an extra 5c on gas and lots of good coupons, which arrive to my mail.

Continental Master Card
They gave me points for signing up and then I was able to accumulate enough points to buy a round trip ticket to Russia for my mom. Right now I have enough points for one roundtrip ticket inside the USA.

From time to time my credit cards send me gift cards just because, asking me to use their card with a gift card. I got gift cards to Red Lobster from both Continental and Discovery.

None of my cards have any annual fees. I never pay any interest because I pay off my balance every month. But I enjoy all extra benefits of using credit cards, like a credit for a month on all payments, free stuff and discounts.

I am usually not a big spender but paying most of the bills (cell phone, electricity, insurance, tv, cable, grocery, gas, etc) with credit cards help me to accumulate enough points to indulge myself later for some extra stuff.

Day Three

I didn't do much shopping this week yet.

Walgreens

Nature Bounty Vit-D $5.00 get back $5.00 plus I had a coupon for $1.00
U by Kotex $3.49 get back $2.49 and I had a coupon for $1.00
Nice and Easy Hair $6.99 get back $2.00 and I had a coupon for $2.00
Savings: $13.49

CVS

Hershey Chocolate buy $10 get back $5.00
Thermacare heatwraps 2x$2.49 get back $4.98
Savings: $9.98

Kohl's
I got a free gift card in the mail as a mail in promotion.
Savings: $10.00

Total savings for Day three: $33.47

Day Two

Ok, today is my Shopping Day Two...


Yesterday I got my free sample from Kotex and Puff from Vocalpoint.

Walgreens
New Kotex Ultra 3.49
Got free with $1 coupon and Walgreens $2.50 RR
Savings: $3.49

Target
5 boxes of Kellogs cereal 2.39x5=11.95
Used 3 different coupons from Kellogs website -5.00
Got Target gift card(Kellogs pormotions) -5.00
Total paid 1.95
Savings: $10.00

Payless Shoes
Bought 2 pair of shoes for my son for total of $6.86
Shoes one was 14.99 on sale for $4.00
Shoes two was 19.99 on sale for $6.00
Payless running promotions BO get 1/2 of another one,
Plus I got %20 discount coupon from Kroger (another one came to my cell phone)
Savings: $28.00

CVS
after scanning my card, I got another $1.00 for paper goods, so
I got two more rolls of toilet paper.
Savings: $1.00

My Total Saving for the Day Two: $42.49

Day One

Ok, I want to start tracking my frugal journey for better life...
so I will write here what I was able to get for free or very unexpensive.

Office Depot
Here you can read what you can get for free from Office Depot this week.
You still have to pay now but then you will get a gift card from Office Depot, which you can use for your future purchases... so it means FREE... :)
I got
2 Office Depot® Brand Colorful Tote: Green and Pink
2 Bankers Box® Stor/File™ Recycled Basic Strength Storage Boxes, Pack Of 5
1 Natural Spring Water, 0.5 Liter Bottles, Case Of 20
Total savings : $48.25

Walgreens
I picked my 2 x 8x10 photos, which I ordered last week for free with special codes from Walgreens and Snapfish
2 x Carefree (combined Walgreens and Manufactured coupons from Good Houskeeping)
Total savings: 4+2=$6

CVS
Dove Shampoo paid 4.49 get back 4.49
CVS single paper rolls 4x.50=$2.00 used CVS coupons
Total Savings: 6.49

Total savings for my day One: $60.74