Here's a big welcome to everyone who attended the class in Farmville, NC on Saturday!
Below you will find a number of resources that will help you get started in your couponing adventure and take you to the next level of saving!
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Drug Store coupon policies:
CVS Coupon Policy can be found
HERE Walgreens Coupon Policy can be found
HERE Rite Aid Coupon Policy can be found
HERE SavingStar cash back offers:
With the cash back site
SavingStar, you don't print out a coupon to redeem at the register. You enter your store reward card numbers on the
SavingStar website (for those stores that have them), then load digital coupons to your reward cards, buy the participating products at any of the participating stores and then the coupon savings are added to your SavingStar account a couple weeks after your purchase. You can then cash out the savings for gift cards, Paypal and more.
There are a number of participating SavingStar stores in our area including Harris Teeter, Lowes Foods, Food Lion, CVS, Walgreens, Target, Walmart, Kroger, Family Dollar and Rite Aid. With some of the stores (Target, Walmart, Walgreens, Kroger and Family Dollar), you will need to take a photo of the receipt through their app or website and submit it to get your cash back.
Once you have accrued $5 worth of savings in your SavingStar account, you can cash the savings. You can choose to have the money deposited into your Paypal account or checking account or donate it to a non-profit organization. For more information and to sign up for this free cash back offer site,
click HERE. Ibotta.com cash back offers:
**** For a limited time, get a $10 sign-up bonus when you sign up with the
ibotta app HERE, start using the app and redeem a rebate! ****
Get cash back on groceries with
ibotta! The first step is to sign up on their website
HERE. Click Sign up with e-mail to register. Then you will need to download the app on your smartphone or other mobile device as well. Just go to the app store on your phone and look for ibotta. Once you have signed up and have downloaded the app, you are ready to score the digital coupons!
Here's how it works: 1. Before shopping, choose your offers through the app on your smartphone. The more you choose, the more cash back you'll earn. For each offer, you will need to complete 2 or more simple tasks to increase the amount of your digital coupons. Some of the tasks include taking a 1 question poll, looking at a recipe or watching a video. 2. Go Shopping. Buy your chosen products at any of the major retailers that Ibotta supports. 3. Take a photo of your receipt. They will verify your purchases and credit your account right away (you do not have to do this step at Food Lion. See below for details). 4. Cash in your earnings when they reach $20 or more. The money is sent to your PayPal account or cashed in for a participating gift card.
Participating stores: Ibotta works at many local retailers, restaurants, grocery and drug stores including these stores in our area: Harris Teeter, Target, Walmart, Kroger, CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, Food Lion, and various restaurants and retail stores.
Food Lion shoppers: You don't actually have to scan your receipt at Food Lion. Once you have signed up and downloaded the app, go to the Food Lion section on the app and link your Food Lion MVP card to your ibotta account, Your qualified purchases will go right to ibotta and you won't have to download any receipts. Make sure you connect your MVP card BEFORE checkout.
Like Savingstar.com discounts, the
ibotta offers do not come off at the register. They are saved to your ibotta account. Once you reach $20 in earnings, you can have it deposited into your Paypal account or cash it out for specific gift cards. You can use the ibotta savings in conjunction with manufacturers coupons and savingstar.com e-coupons so you can stack a number of different savings avenues. This app does require a little extra work as far as taking pictures of the receipts but that doesn't take long at all and the savings add up fast. See all the details about this super cash back site at their
website. Checkout 51 cash back offers:
Checkout 51 e-coupon cash back offers can be used in conjunction with paper coupons and other digital coupon programs! And you can use it with your smartphone or computer!
Here's how it works:
* Sign up on the Checkout 51
website HERE for free using your e-mail or Facebook info.
* Browse the available offers (and print out a list if you don't think you will remember them).
* Head to the store (any store) and buy the offers you want (like $1 cash back on ANY gallon of milk or .50 cash back on a package of Lenders bagels).
* Take a photo of your receipt and upload it to Checkout 51.
* Once they confirm your purchase, they will credit your account.
* When you accrue $20 in your Checkout 51 account, you can cash it out in the form of a check mailed to your address.
Additional information: This program is not store specific. You can buy the items at ANY store that offers a receipt with the items purchased listed. New offers come out each Thursday and are available until the next Wednesday. You have to buy the participating product and submit the receipt during that week to get credit. Not everyone gets the same offers so make sure you log into your account to see what offers you received. For more information and to sign up for this free coupon site,
click HERE. Swagbucks:
Swagbucks is one of my all time favorite online sites! It allows you to earn free gift cards to Target, Walmart, CVS, Amazon, Starbucks, Walmart, Kohl's, Paypal, Domino's (and many other stores) just by doing activities online. Basically, you do things like searching on their search engine (instead of Google), answering surveys, watching videos, playing games, making online purchases at major retailers through their website and more and they reward you with points called "SB points." You cash in the SB points for gift cards! I have been a member for years and have earned a bunch of gift cards. See below for a sign up bonus.
How do you get these SB points? There are lots of ways.
* Search online: Each time you need to search for something online, use the Swagbucks search engine on their website (instead of Google). I actually have the Swagbucks toolbar installed on my desktop and it places a search box right on my screen making it super easy to search. Every once in a while, they award SB points just for doing the searches I used to do using Google.
* Take surveys on their website
* Answer the daily poll
* Watch videos through their website or multiple mobile apps (I earn about 80 - 100 SB a day doing this)
* Use their online shopping portal (I do most of my online shopping at major retailers who are part of the Swagbucks Shop and Earn program (like Amazon.com, Kohls.com, Walmart.com and more) and earn Swagbucks every time I shop. Recently I was credited with 562 SB points (worth $5.62 in gift cards) for an online purchase I made at Kohl's recently.
* Play games
* Participate in special Swag Code events
* Enter the daily Swag Code (which we usually let you know about here on the blog each day). Swagbucks posts bonus codes on their Facebook, Twitter and blog pages each day. If you have the Swagbucks Mobile App, it will buzz when there is a new code. When the code becomes available each day, one of us posts it here on the blog so we can all get it. The codes are only valid for an hour usually. Once you get the code, you then copy and paste the code into the Swag Code box at the top of the homepage of
Swagbucks.com HERE. Look for the circle with the words Swag Code next to it.
BzzAgent: Another program I recommend for getting free products to sample, free product coupons and coupons to share is BzzAgent. Click
HERE for their website.
Recyclebank: Not only will you learn about great ways to become more eco-friendly in your home and throughout your community with Recyclebank, you will also be able to earn freebies, coupons and gift cards to places like Panera, iTunes, Best Buy and more! It's free to join
HERE and you can start earning points right away by doing easy activities like watching videos about recycling, pledging to recycle certain products and reading articles about eco-friendly topics. They often offer $10 off a $50 purchase coupons for Harris Teeter. My Food Lion and Lowes Foods stores will take these as well as competitor's coupons.
KelloggsFamilyRewards.com: This is a free program sponsored by Kellogg's that allows you to get high value coupons for Kellogg's, Keebler and other products when you buy participating products. Once you sign up at the site, enter your store reward card numbers and the points will be automatically added to your account when you buy participating products. You can also upload your receipts to earn points. See more details on the
Kellogg's website HERE. Sometimes they offer bonus codes through e-mail on on their social media pages that can be entered on their website. Once you earn enough points from entering codes, you can redeem them for various things like printable coupons. You can redeem 850 points for a $1.00/1 coupon for various Kellogg's products like Kellogg's cereal, Eggo waffles, Keebler crackers, Keebler cookies, Cheez-It crackers, Morningstar veggie burgers, Pop Tarts and more. And these coupons will double when Harris Teeter offers the Super Double promotion!
Sending expired coupons to U.S. military overseas: Click
HERE for information on sending expired coupons to our military. You can donate your manufacturer coupons that are expired up to 6 months to our US military overseas who have access to an on-base commissary.
Daily Smart Shopper blog newsletter: You can have an e-mail sent to you once a day with a list of all the new posts I have made in the last 24 hours. If anything interests you, just click on the link and it brings you to the blog on WRAL. It's a good way to remember to check the site daily so you don't miss any new printable coupons or good deals.
To sign up for the blog, go to the home page of the Smart Shopper blog and click on the newsletter link on the right side of the page. Look for "Get the Smart Shopper e-mail newsletter". Once you sign up, WRAL will send you an e-mail once a day at 3:00 PM with the list of newest information I've posted. Of course, it is free to sign up.
If you signed up at the class (or took a class at WRAL and were automatically signed up), it will be about a week before you start receiving your blog e-mails. Until then, feel free to read the blog daily through wral.com and click on Smart Shopper.
Questions: Feel free to post your couponing and money-saving questions in the Share the Deals & Questions post I make every day on the Smart Shopper blog. You can submit your questions and share any deals you find in the Comments section at the bottom of the post. In order to post anything, you will need to register, which is free and easy to do.
Thanks again for coming to the class and please share your experiences as you embark on your couponing journey.
As I always say: "It's your money, spend it wisely!"
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