Fundraising Friday and a shopping tip :)

Sorry for the lack of posts since last friday!

We still have the two fundraisers going on right now. To read more about those go here

I know that money is tight right now,  for everyone. It's hard to donate money.  I break it up and donate something every month instead of a big lump sum and that helps me from feeling the hit of the donation.

I also am a crazy coupon lady as a lot of you already know, not crazy enough for a show...I won't be buying pallets of toilet paper anytime soon...but I still coupon and am able to save a lot of money.

I learned about this new shopping app on Hip2Save, and used a fellow hipper's referral code.  I was rewarded with a free lindt bar.  So I decided to make a trip to Walgreens.  They were running some other good deals that I wanted to grab.  The Scrub Bubbles are on sale for 2 for $6 and you earn a $2 RR, there are $1/1 coupons on coupons.com, so I used 2.  The Snickers are on sale for $0.49 and I had a $0.75/2 coupon. The glade starter kit is on sale for $4.99, and you earn a $2 RR.  I also had a $3/1 coupon from the glade site.  And then my lindt bar :) Full price, no sale.

I had a $4 RR from last week that I rolled into this and I used some of my balance points (another loyalty program that Wags does) and ended up paying $1.28 out of pocket (OOP) and earned my $2, and $2 RR.  Then I went to my smart phone apps :)

Shopmium is the new one.  To get the app you go to their site located here and to get a free lindt Chocolate bar you need to enter in a referral code. Mine is GMAKHAPC.  Thanks for using mine and if you sign up, feel free to add your referral code in the comments and hopefully someone else will pay it forward and so on.  All you do is scan the barcode of the item you bought and take a picture with your camera (all done on your smart phone) and you're done! BOOM! I got money back for the lindt chocolate bar and the glade starter kit.

So using my apps, and getting my RR's from walgreens I spent $1.28 OOP and earned $2 and $2 RR, earned $4 from shopmium and $2 from Checkout51 basically making money on my trip last night.

So I can donate even more to the march of dimes this month :)

and PS I tried that mega shower foamer last night, IT IS AWESOME! GREAT product! And no they are not paying me for saying that.