More CVS Deals This Week

Ahhh, I really enjoy shopping at CVS. They make getting great deals fairly easy. This week there are multiple deals to watch out for, especially if you are an Ibotta lover like me. Here are THREE ways to make some money and get products at the same time!

First, Tena products are buy one get one half off. $4.59 for a pack of pantiliners + $2.30 for the second. You get $2 ExtraBucks for each ($4). There also is a printable coupon for $2 off one (print two) - you make about $1.70 on this deal.

Second, Starbucks Iced Coffees are $1.25 this week. There is a printable coupon for $1 off plus an Ibotta rebate for $1 as well; you make $0.75 on this deal.

Lastly, Gatorade Propel electrolyte waters are on sale for $1.25. You get $1.25 ExtraBucks plus an Ibotta any brand rebate on sports drinks for $0.20, meaning you make $0.20 on this deal.

With my stacked up ExtraBucks I have saved up, I will look at buying the Sally Hansen Airbrush Legs to do the Virtual Vox for Influenster. I am hoping that, if I keep doing tasks fairly consistently, I will get into more Vox Boxes and continue getting invited to do other things. I also hope to win a prize or two along the way...! Keep your fingers crossed and I'll update you as my current Voxes finish up over the next few weeks.

I am still awaiting my PINCHme box from last month and my incoming BzzAgent kits. I will definitely make updates on the site once those are here and show everyone what they contain. I hope the International Coffee box has a sugar free version I might be able to buy for myself - and if not they should DEFINITELY make one that is sugar free! I will be sure to express my desire for such if there proves not to be one available.

Get out to CVS and get some freebies this week folks! I hope to get there tomorrow night I think to partake in the goodies. Keep it freebie and tune in for more deals as I find them!

Great Deal at CVS!

So, I found a wonderful deal at CVS. They have Oral B battery powered toothbrushes for $7.49 with $4 back in ExtraBucks on each. They also have Colgate toothpastes for $3.49 with a $2 ExtraBucks return. $10.98 so far with $6 of that coming back as ExtraBucks. I had a $0.50 coupon and a $1.50 Ibotta rebate, so $8 total in savings. CVS also has a coupon (tacked on the end of a receipt actually) that is $3 off $9 in oral care products; $8 + $3 = $11 - I offically got my set of toothpaste and toothbrush for free! (I also had another $2 in ExtraBucks that I used on this receipt and purchased a gallon of milk - which got me another $1 in ExtraBucks so I spent about $1 total on the milk and the rest).

Here's the photographic proof! Happy shopping freebie hunters!

 My ExtraBucks from the purchases.

My purchases - note the savings from coupons.

So, this is also the first time I've ever used an electric toothbrush of any kind. For me, it is an odd thing, but I think I do like it. Makes your mouth feel funny for a long time afterwards. I will follow up later on this new freebie of mine. I also got accepted to a VirtualVox on Influenster for Sally Hansen Airbrush Legs, which I might partake in. I will check it out soon.

Keep it freebie!

BzzAgent Campaigns On The Way!, WalMart deals

I have recently been invited to not one but two upcoming BzzAgent campaigns within a week of one another. I will be participating in the Secret Outlast campaign and the International Delight campaign! I will be receiving these products for free (either directly in the mail or a coupon for the products) in return for me trying them and passing my opinions along on how I like them (and spreading the word to you guys!).

My two sets of campaigns on the way from BzzAgent.

I also visited WalMart today and found two great deals; my current coffee maker is the Hamilton Beach FlexBrew, and I found one in a busted up box for only $30 (I paid about $50 a year and a half ago for mine brand new) - but brand new with no issues. I am thrilled! I have a clean, new coffee maker ready to go instead of my dirty, heavily used machine if anything may happen to it. I also found a wonderful Veggetti Pro (regularly about $25) for only $12 in the same store!! I immediately had to grab it; as someone who is a low carb fanatic I will put it to great use making veggie noodles and other salads and such.

My final tally for the month of June with Ibotta is $22.35 in rebates. Not bad for a first timer; I will be working hard to gather more rebates during July. I really love the idea of stacking coupons, sales, and Ibotta rebates to maximize savings. With the Gold Peak deal, I even made money buying bottles of tea this month! I am so excited to work towards more savings and hopefully stretch my dollars even more.

The coming weeks should be exciting with all the freebies coming my way. You guys should keep it freebie too and try out some of my favorite sites. I'll give some of my affiliate links below.

BzzAgent: http://u.bzz.com/ch7xu

PINCHme: https://www.pinchme.com/ (no affiliate)

Smiley360: https://smiley.socialmedialink.com/ (not sure where my link is)

Influenster: www.influenster.com/r/1134889

Klout (new site for me, will post about soon): http://www.klout.com

Schoola: http://www.schoola.com/stitch?ref=cp-3X2e6h9G2 (USE my link for signing up to get a free credit for clothes! Anytime someone uses my link I get credits too!)

Ibotta: https://ibotta.com/r/obhlpgd (obhlpgd is my referral code that can be used as well, I receive $2 per person that signs up and you join my team which increases our rebate potential!)

Great Ibotta Deals, New Bzz Campaign!

I have been binge watching Grey's Anatomy and not keeping up very closely with the blog so I greatly apologize. I have become a dedicated Ibotta user and found a great deal with it at Publix (today was the last day unfortunately on the coupon I used though). Their in-store coupon flyer had a buy one get one free coupon for Gold Peak Tea (so two for $1.49). I get $1 back for each bottle of tea, so I make $0.51 per transaction with my Ibotta rebates! They make a bottle that is unsweetened, which is great for me since I do not use sugar. They are pretty good with some lemon and stevia mixed in so I can't complain for getting paid to buy something. Publix also has all Coca-Cola 12 packs on sale for buy two get two free (4/$9.98); with the (expiring today) in-store coupon of buy two Dr. Pepper 12 packs and get $2 off, I got four 12 packs of those for $5.98!

I am also super excited to announce my SECOND BzzAgent campaign - I will be receiving the Secret Outlast Gel deodorant and testing it out for free thanks to BzzAgent. This will be my second deodorant campaign (I did a Virtual Vox for Influenster as well but I did purchase the product with my own money) that I've done recently - I hope I get a good scent in the mail. I will be excited to see how well the product works, especially since it is a gel. I have never used a gel deodorant any time in recent memory; I typically buy or use solids. Thanks so much (as always!) to BzzAgent for being a great website for those of us who like to be at home product testers on the side.

I also should be receiving my next PINCHme box in the mail soon - it shipped three days ago, so it'll be here next week actually. Maybe I'll get lucky and get some larger (or multi use) samples in this box. PINCHme is definitely another company I'm thankful for; they really started a large part of my freebie journey! Once I realized there were resources out there for people to "professionally" test products for free in exchange for their honest opinions, I was in! For a low income family, it can be a blessing to have a few extra items coming in without having to pay for it. Making ends meet otherwise could definitely be harder.

I am very excited to look through the new in-store coupon booklet that should be coming out this next week at Publix. I don't know what it might have in it, but I hope it involves Coca-Cola 12 packs in some way (since they are already so ridiculously priced and my fiance drinks them exclusively). Keep your eye out for great Ibotta deals or coupons and tip me off - I might even feature your tips on my Facebook feed!

Ibotta

I am not going to make this a long entry, but I am really enjoying using Ibotta. So far I have gotten a lot of rebates and am up to almost $12 in redeemable money. I am not sure quite yet what I'll spend it on when I decide to redeem it; should I buy more necessary items or get something "nice" for myself?

Many of the items available on Ibotta are ones that I buy somewhat regularly or are ones that could potentially be a good deal, especially with extra coupons and/or sales. I am getting some baby items for super cheap soon (Beech-Nut coupon and an Ibotta rebate stacked), and I can get produce items in whatever amount I like and get a $0.20 rebate on whatever I buy (I am not above buying single pieces of produce to get free items). Other items I buy a lot - bread, milk, eggs, butter for example - are all useful too since I have to buy them no matter what. I even got a rebate on energy drinks that my fiance drinks all the time!

Chicken Predator, TenMarks, Slowness

First off, I really have had a slow time of things around here recently. I have no real fun stuff to fill everyone in on. I am being lazy I admit (watching a lot of TV shows on Netflix), but even still I've gotten little to no mail lately. I got a sample of L'oreal's straight hair line but I don't like it; it made my hair look greasy today and it's just not for me. I will go back to regular shampoo and a leave in; for me, the results I see with that type of product combination are astounding compared to almost everything else I've ever tried.

We have a bobcat or small cougar loose on our property. This feline hunter has killed almost all of my chickens (there is supposedly one hen left). I am very sad about this situation; eggs are so expensive now that I really do need my backyard flock around to keep eggs. I currently do have tons of eggs thankfully so I won't have to make myself sad with purchasing $2 or more a dozen eggs at a regular store.

For my son this summer we've been utilizing TenMarks, an Amazon subsidiary company that has online lessons for school-aged kids through the summer. In the past it was a paid service, but this summer they had it available for free. It has been useful and given us some good lessons regarding shapes, fractions, values (greater than, less than, equal to). We are using it almost every day right now at least once just to keep him doing some kind of work. He is very difficult to teach and stubborn as hell to get into the mood to even do anything, but once I can get him to concentrate for a few minutes he actually does very well. His reading is outstanding, so we have been focusing primarily on math all summer. He has read a chapter in Tom Sawyer out loud to me before and we've read a few pages of Harry Potter book 1 as well. I wish I could get him to really love reading like I do! Just a reminder though - he is only six, so his level of education for his age is outstanding!

I used my Target gift card today to buy my dad a Father's Day card (which will be late, sigh), a pack of paper plates, some candy for Chris, and a box of chocolate raspberry coffee pods for me. It's a rare occasion when I buy myself some K-Cups; they are super expensive but they taste so good with so many crazy flavors. I'm gonna enjoy them for a few weeks while they last.

I am expecting a PINCHme box in the next few weeks (it hasn't shipped yet). I hope to get some new campaigns from my favorite sites soon; we'll see. Keep it freebie in the meantime, guys.

We Are Home!!! - Ibotta

After a very fun (but exhausting) weekend away at my mom's and Florida Country Superfest, we have returned to our home and are very happy to be here. The festival was very entertaining in many ways between the people and the show itself; Zac Brown Band was by far my favorite show just because I like bands that can do any kind of music, including covers of other genres. Kenny Chesney was also a great show but predictable; I easily guessed the encore song and had heard him perform all of the other songs he did at this show last year when we went to FloraBama Jam. The seats themselves were nice even though they were up a bit; we were in the SHADE the entire time! Lucky us, free seats that were perfect!

From our seats in the stadium.

I am known for getting free samples as much as possible and freebies through other sites too, but I am soon to see new budgetary restrictions on my grocery shopping... so I have decided to give Ibotta a shot. I have heard good things through a family relative, so I downloaded the app today. I already am a little frustrated; I unlocked a rebate and it expires before tomorrow but I can really use it! It's not like I live somewhere that I can just go redeem it anytime I like. I think I am going to have to get used to using this app; any suggestions as to maximizing my rebates? Coupons and bargain shopping are easy, but this puts a whole new layer of complications to the process! I need the savings though; we are cutting our food budget per month by more than $60.

I didn't notice anything very exciting in the mail after being gone since Saturday; I had a sticker from Harley Davidson I had sent off for a while back (which my fiance quickly took away lol), but other than that the mail was very unexciting. I have also joined a few more survey sites in an effort to continue to bring in financial income beyond my regular job and small candle business. I am desperately trying to keep us out of debt this year so I can afford to BUY a home next year (I've been renting and wasting my money for far too long). Cross your fingers.