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SnapSaves; Another great way to save on groceries.

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So I wanted to share another great way to save money each week with your cell phone or your computer and a digital camera. SnapSaves is a website (and free app on your smartphone) where you can save money on products you buy at the grocery store anyway. Another way to earn money is a $1 for each friend or familiy member who signs up under your link. If you do have a smartphone I recommend downloading the app because you get bonus offers for using it rather than just through their website.

You can order a cheque when your account reaches $20 or you can hold off for a higher amount if you like. You need to upload a photo of your receipt (purchased in the last 48 hours and/or a selected date range) with one or more of the items on offer. Once it’s been processed (takes 20 mins to a few hours typically) it will be applied to your account.

It may take a couple practice runs if your receipt is long and you have to upload multiple photos in sequence but once you get the hang of it it’ll be worth it I promise. An example of the savings I’ll be grabbing on my next grocery trip looks like:       

  • $1.00 for any grocery bill over $50 (Bonus App Offer)
  • $1.00 for Stouffer’s regular frozen dinner (All Varieties & Bonus App Offer)
  • $1.00 for Stouffer’s Bistro frozen dinners (All Varieties & Bonus App Offer)
  • $1.00 for Lean Cuisine Selections frozen dinners (All Varieties & Bonus App Offer)
  • $1.00 for Lean Cuisine Fresh frozen dinners (All Varieties)
  • $1.00 for Nordica Cottage Cheese
  • $1.00 for Lysol Disinfectant Toilet Bowl Cleaner
  • $1.00 for Panebello Pizza (All Varieties)
  • $1.00 for Planters Lightly Sea-Salted Deluxe Mixed Nuts
  • $2.00 for Tetley English Breakfast Tea 60s
  • $2.00 for Tetley Pure Ceylon Tea 60s

Those were probably a little over half of the total offers available on my app, the only ones I was interested in. Don’t feel like you need to do each offer unless you really want the product or will add it to a gift for someone else. You can also use coupons in store to sometimes double or triple your savings. If you search through flyers to scope out the best prices on these offer it can reduce the cost even further to as a little as less than a dollar or even better… FREE!!!! 🙂

If I get seven people to sign up under my referral link above then I will reach my goal of $20 for the week. If I average this each month then I will be saving $80 per month. That’s another $960 per year or a nice vacation somewhere south in the spring!! So if you haven’t signed up already please click on the image above for my referral link.

 

 

 

Very Successful Shoppers Trip :)

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Saved $59.66 plus earned 8000 Optimum points ($10)

Saved $59.66 plus earned 8000 Optimum points ($10)

So I just wanted to brag about how much I love Shoppers and their Optimum Rewards Program. I always get emails with coupons for accumulating more points. This trip I earned 8000 ($10 worth of points) just for spending $30 or more on food and snacks. Of course, I saved the majority of my money buying leftover candy from Halloween.

You can add $10 to the total savings at the bottom of this receipt if you count the points value earned this trip.  Shopping for points is something I enjoy doing and it’s been the best way to earn free stuff for buying the things you were going to anyway.

Stay tuned for more updates on the Shoppers Optimum deals and points events as well as a few other great rewards programs I belong to!!

Swagbucks – FREE gift cards for doing regular online activities

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(Click Banner to start earning FREE Swagbucks)

(Click Banner to start earning FREE Swagbucks)

One of the easiest ways to make ‘money’ online is by signing up for your FREE Swagbucks account. I’ve had a lot of success searching the internet and earning swagbucks to put towards gift cards from places like Amazon, Starbucks, Paypal, Facebook, just to name a few.

I tend to put a lot less time into trying to earn Swagbucks than I do trying to save money through couponing and price matching flyers. If you spend a lot of time searching the internet you may as well earn goodies while doing it right?

There are many activities you can do other than simply searching online to earn your gift cards. I’ve earned almost $20 in gift cards with minimal effort (only using a handful from the list below). The activities available include:

  • Searching
  • Swagbucks Toolbar
  • SBTV
  • Special Offers
  • Shop Online
  • Trusted Surveys
  • Trade Ins
  • Invite Friends
  • Swag Codes
  • Play Games
  • Sweepstakes

I will be adding more posts on my own tips and tricks about how I’ve earned my first $15 in Gift Cards.

-Erica

My Couponing Ways

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Happy Thanksgiving!!! I hope everyone enjoyed their turkey or ham dinners they made or didn’t make. I had both so it was a very good thanksgiving this year. I had my parents over as well as my husbands mother over Sunday for turkey and today my brother-in-law and his daughter came over for ham. I am telling you I am so full I won’t be able to enjoy my hot turkey sandwiches. I say that now but that will change tomorrow :).

So onto how I come to obtain my giant stacks of coupons. Well the main source I get them from is the Superstore flyer board. Depending on each store there can be a range of tear pads from 10 different products to 20+. Like when Erica and I took a trip to Yarmouth last weekend we went to check out the Superstore there and the board had at least 20 different products. Some of them even had multiple tear pads, so I didn’t feel bad with taking extras. Trading on Facebook groups is another place I get lots of coupons. If you type in Canadian Coupons the search bar will come up with a lot of different groups and pages pertaining to Canadian Coupons. There are groups that are strictly for giving away, not trading, coupons if you realize you have too many. There is something called RACKs, Random Act of Coupon Kindness, that people will do to pick someone to give their envie (envelope) to. Someone will ask a question, example “What did I have for dinner tonight?”, and the person who answers the correct answer will get the envie. To get a good amount with trading I usually make around 5 or more trades per day. Just look through the photos or files of trades that other people have and send them a message telling them what you are interested in and ask for a WL (Wish List).

Oh yes! The Wish List!! I almost forgot about that. The most important thing for trading is know what type of coupons you want. Go through your cupboards, fridge and freezer and write down everything you usually buy and add it to your WL. Here is my WL to give you an idea:

Wish List: Expiries must be November 2013 and later
RRRRRRRLF:
Coconut Oil
Stagg Chili
Cat Litter
Shake and Bake
Tin Foil
Hamburger (not chicken or turkey)
Any Canned Food
VH Steamers
$2/BOGO Healthy Choice Steamers
Pop
Chips

Food & Beverage
Canned food
Pop
Chips
Ketchup
Mustard
Relish
Maxwell House Instant Coffee
Bread
Eggs in shell
Meat (good on any)
Frozen Dinners
Any type of Steamers
Kraft Dinner
Brick Cheese (Cracker Barrel/Kraft)
Fruit & Veggies– fresh, canned or frozen
Bread– sliced not buns
Cereal
VH Sauces (not korean bbq sauce)
Milk (regular)
Juice (frozen/box/container)
Ritz Crackerfuls

Baby
$3 Pampers (not WUB2)
Pampers Wipes (Nov. exp and later)
Good Start (not alsoy)

Medicine
Advil
Infant/Toddler/Kids Tylonol or Advil
PMS relief

Cleaning & Home
Paper Towel
Sunlight and Gain Laundry
Garbage Bags
Recycling Bags
Any cleaners
$1.50 Scrubbing Bubbles

Pets
Beneful dog food
Whiskas cat food
Cat Litter

Miscellanious
Batteries

Health & Beauty
Men’s/Women’s deoderant
Men’s/Women’s body wash
Men’s shampoo
Feminine hygene products

Always looking for Stamps, $3 Zantac, GC to Walmart/Sobeys/Loblaws/Dollarama/Giant Tiger/SDM, CT money

 

A way to get hv (high value) and FPC (Free Product Coupons) is to either email or call the company directly to say how much you enjoy using their products. You don’t have to write a book, just keep it short and simple.

It’s only 9:40 pm and already my mind is going blank. There is just so much information on couponing it’s making my mind go blah. So I will have to give more information tomorrow when I’m more awake and rested, well as much rest as baby Des will let me have. So good night from Little Spinney and Baby Des.