Money Saving Challenge June 7

1. Glucose Meter Summary: So I did very well this past week at walgreens and the bayer meter deal. I managed to snag 33!! Luckily I had 10 ordered (well thought I had 20..), so an extra 15 in various store seemed doable. I ran out last sunday and snagged 2 each at 4 stores (not wanting to clear them out), then later that day snagged another 4 at 2 stores near my in-laws. So at that point, I only had 3 "extra" Qs to use. My first special order went great. They called me on Tuesday and let me know it was there and how to pick it up. The manager kindly rang me up and was happy that I helped fill in the serial numbers on the Qs. Of course the 2nd store didn't go as well, since the pharmacist couldn't manage to make a special order of 10. She did instruct her tech to sell me all 5 (in the pharmacy area), so then I had 5 more from my 2nd "special order" to find + the 3 "extra" Qs. I managed to find 3 more at stores near me yesterday and 3 more at stores near my in-laws again on Friday. I did resort to asking the pharmacy for their meters, which of course they had in stock because they had no sale signage up. In the end, I was shy only 2 of my 35 goal! And not much stress was involved at all! So that is 33 $10 RR! Plus 310 strips (since I did buy 2 Breeze meters, which do not come with strips)



2. I received 2 more magsazines on Friday and 2 more on Saturday. The two from Friday were straight to the Bookman's pile ones (Boating life and Golf Digest). I rounded up all of our mags yesterday and took them to bookmans, I received $7.50 in trade and had them donate/recycle the ones they didn't want. Then I purchased 1 book and 1 magazine for my trip this week. And I had a strange thing happen, the purchase was $6 + $2.25 = $8.25 (no tax when using trade) and I only had my newly acquired $7.50 trade credit (left the old ones at home). However, the cashier somehow gave me an additional $0.75 discount that made it a $0 OOP purchase. She didn't say anything to me about it, as I was digging around for the change, just handed me my goodies and the receipt. It shows a $.75 discount too, so I know she didn't just cheat and ring it up wrong. So maybe it is some sort of "goodwill" gesture they do when the transaction is "close" to the trade voucher in value??? Who knows...



3. I washed the dogs today at home in the backyard. They needed it and I wanted to have them as clean as possible for our "guests/babysitters" this week. This cost me about $0.50 in doggie shampoo vs. the $50-75 for a bath only at a groomer. We generally only take them to the groomer to get shaved (and bathed at that time), and we try to stretch out the time between professional groomings as much as possible. Frequent baths at home help with that!



4. I picked up a RX yesterday using a $25 transfer RX Q for CVS.



5. I ordered a $10 gift card from an old credit card rewards program. I had done this previously to "wipe out" the rewards, we never even use the card, in fact I might not even have a "current/non-expired" one. Anyway, I noticed it transferred to Chase, so either they have lower reward values or they gave me some sort of bonus for "converting" my card. Either way, I snagged a $10 gift card that I will save for xmas gifts. :-)


6. I am back up to 45 swagbucks and redeemed for another $5 amazon gift card!!