funny thing is i never really take the time out to calculate how much i am saving. i tend to just try to keep as much of my money in my pocket as possible which i have been pretty good at doing as of late. Organization is key. This seems pretty strange from someone who is 97% disorganized with her coupons and stockpile in which both are everywhere
. but i have messed up where rebates are concerned because i've lost forms or receipts in a sea of cous and it did cost me plenty tho i've made that money back yardselling still i don't want to lose anything so i've created a rebate binder to house the forms and the receipts. What stores do you have because that would be a big help. Like i hav walgreens cvs and rite aid. also target and walmart. Like mcmama said form (rebates) are great. If you live in a state where you do not have to purchase beer or wine to do the wine/beer companies rebates then you can come out ahead plenty! We use to be one of those states and the companies would put out forms for meat, pizza, chips etc and that was the best time! Some products have try me frees on them like i just found dry cleaners secret 1 count with a rebate on it up to 2.79. I also had a $1 coupon on any size so im making $1
several months ago i had a basement flood due to heavy rain and overworked sewer systems and not knowing the basement flooded, i placed a serious amount of my SP in that basement and lost most of it. However like i stated awhile ago GOD has blessed me because i have over 10 times more than what i lost in the basement. I have so much stuff i don't know where to put it which is why i've been buying lots of storage. I have at least
200 bottles dish liquid
5-6 hundred toothbrushes including electric
literally a bunch of bags of candy
maybe over 200 bars soap
hundreds of tubes of toothpaste
tons of packs of kotex from the walgreens FREE register rewards
stocked up on handsoap from the CVS monthly .99 sale so i have alot of that also long story short i have alot of stuff. You'd think i have a store with the amount of stuff i have.
Another key idea is to read the boards to see who's doing what deal. Like one poster posted about earning $40 ECB at CVS if your CVS takes expired cvs cous so she helped us get ECB and i got over $400 from that deal thanks to her. In some way we are all responsible for each other's stockpiles because each deal someone puts out there helps add growth to your stockpile. Before i even started reading freebie boards i did alot on my own and didn't know that i could go to boards and share with other people. But i personally stopped posting as much because of certain people trying to force me into submission of where i got said deals even trying to pick fights with me. Some were even downright rude when i posted my deals. But that was awhile ago and even if you run across people like that don't let them discourage you. you'll fin d cashiers just as nasty when you really start to save.
my general rule with a tearpad of coupons is to take what i need. That doesn't mean take every single tearpad known to man which is what some people tend to do out of greed. Also sometimes you havet to look directly on shelves for rebates because i came across a rebate that had 'blended in' with the products and you wouldn't have even known that a tearpad was there. So i try to keep my eyes wondering about to see if i spot a coupon.
i'm eventually going to take stockpile pictures again.
new here & wondering what you save...
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