Friday, February 22, 2008

Tips for saving money.

A few people lately have asked me for links to websites that help me save money so I have decided to write a post about it.

If you like online shopping at all a must know website is ebates. This website gives you from 1%-25% cash back from online purchases made. Plus they have online coupon codes you can click on as well to save even more money. I always make sure that once I have found a product I want to buy online, I go to ebates, check out first if they have a coupon code, then check out the percentage back for that merchant. You can save a good amount of money this way throughout the year. They will send you checks in $10 increments.

My next site that I use to find out good deals and free items is imommies. This is the site that I have found free magazine subscriptions, free groceries, and other free product offers. The best part is she really spells out what you need to do for the free groceries and gives you examples. She also provides a list with all of the UPC codes so that when you go to do your shopping you are confident the items are on the list.

Once I hear of the grocery promotions I like to go to mygrocerydeals to find out what items are on sale each week at my local grocery retailers. After you get into the site to look at the grocery store sales you can look at the left side for the coupon buttons and print out online coupons that you can use at your grocery store. I try to print out as many of the item that I can. Many sites only let you print out two but some sites you get lucky on and can print out more. You can use these online coupons at Safeway, walmart, target, and many other grocery chains. Just ask before you start shopping and they will let you know.

Often times the coupons from mygrocerydeals may not be enough so I check wowcoupons which has a list of many other printable coupon sites.

Antoher good blog to check out for current deals is couponing craze. She often takes pics of what she got and explains what she did to get them. She is lucky though, her local grocery store doubles coupons. None of mine do. I could only imagine how much I would save if I had a store that would do that.

If youlike to enter daily contest like the one I entered to win a whole case of larabars, then check out Laura Williams Muslings. I check her site daily and just enter some of the contest that I think I might like to win. Most of them are as easy as just putting a comment on the website and don't require anything more. That was how easy the Larabar contest was. (Now you are all my competition darn it! hee, hee)

The last website I like to use is mypoints. They send me about five mail adverstisements a day that I click on and earn points. Most of the time I don't read the advertisements. If ebates doesn't offer the online merchant then I use mypoints and earn points on what I shopped for. Each year through the points I earned I have had enough to earn at least one $50 dollar giftcard. This year I earned one and we will be using it for Rainforest Cafe! Yippe!

One last website I just remembered is vocalpoint. Once I signed up with them I have recieved so many valuable coupons and such. Just yesterday I got a $2.00 Welch's Grape Juice and a bunch of $1.00 off coupons as well. I have even gotten free razors in the mail, coupons for other free products, etc. This website has really paid off and it is free to join. I rarely get any email from them either. Most of what I get is free coupons or products in the mail.

Anyway, happy shopping, hope this helps some of you!

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