How to use +UP Rewards to lower your Out of Pocket expenses

Okay one GREAT thing about the +UP rewards is that you can use the +UP Reward to lower the amount of money you spend out of pocket.

For Example, at the beginning of July there was a $10 +UP Reward when you bought 4 of the John Freida Products.

So for the first transaction it was like this
4 X John Freida Products (2 of the Frizzease and 2 of the Root Awakening Products)

I used the following coupons AND My Wellness Plus card to spend less money Out of pocket to begin with.

2 X $3/1 off of John Frieda Root Awakening product
2 X $2/1 off of John Frieda Products Excluding Root Awakening
$5/$20 purchase Video Value coupon

So My OOP Was about $10 + Tax BUT I earned a $10 +UP Reward So really I only bought the John Frieda for the amount of the tax.

On the next transaction, I used the $10 +UP reward to only spend $4.11 OOP instead of the $14.11 it would have been if I hadn't had the +UP Reward.

4 X John Freida Products (2 of the Frizzease and 2 of the Root Awakening Products)
2 X Stayfree 24 count with Bonus 8 pads (BOGO Free Sale)
2 X Lay's Chips (BOGO FREE Sale)
1 X Marlboro Special Blend Cigarettes

I used the following coupons
2 X $3/1 off of John Frieda Root Awakening product
2 X $2/1 off of John Frieda Products Excluding Root Awakening
1 X Stayfree BOGO FREE Coupon (makes BOTH of the Stayfree pads FREE)
Wellness Plus $10 +UP Reward
50 cents off of $5 Snack Wellness coupon
$5/$25 purchase Video Value coupon

Total OOP Was Only $14.11 for BOTH Transactions and earned me ANOTHER $10 +UP Reward
for a future purchase.

Coupon clipping services On Ebay.com and on the web

Okay when I first started clipping coupons and heard about coupon clipping services, I thought NO WAY was I ever going to actually PAY for coupons. But 3 months later, I realized what a time saving economical service they provided. :-)

For example, I just recently spent $36.15 for 50 of the $2/1 Pampers 60+ count wipes coupons (that is from 3 Ebay.com auctions and that includes the shipping and handling) So i spent 72 cents per coupon.

So I had 50 Pampers wipes coupons that I used at Wal-Mart to buy 50 Pampers wipes (which only costs $1.97 at Wal-Mart) so I only had to pay for the tax on the wipes.

50 Pampers wipes = $98.50
- $40.65 ($36.15 + $5.91 in tax)
Savings of $63.76 overall

Now if I had been able to purchase the coupons through a coupon clipping service INSTEAD of thru Ebay.com where I was bidding on the coupons I would have spent less per coupon.

Normally, most coupon clipping services normally charge anywhere from 5-20 cents per coupon depending on the value of the coupon.

BTW You are not actually buying coupons from the coupon clipping services on Ebay or on the web, you are paying for their time and effort to collect the coupons you are wanting.

Rite Aid week of 6/27/2010 (FREE M&Ms, FREE Stayfree Pads, FREE Crest Pro Health Toothpaste AND More

Here are the best deals I see at Rite Aid for the week of 6/27.

M&M Pretzels: buy-one-get-one-free
Use buy-one-get-one-free coupon from 6/27 Red Plum insert
Final Price = Get 2 for FREE

Stayfree Pads: buy-one-get-one-free
Use buy-one-get-one-free coupon from 6/27 Red Plum insert
Final Price = Get 2 for FREE

Huggies Little Swimmers Swim Pants: $6.99
Use $1.50/1 printable coupon
Receive $1 Single Check Rebate
Final Price = $4.49


John Frieda Hair Care: Buy 4 for $20
Use 4 $2/1 or $3/1 coupons from 6/6 Smart Source insert
Receive $10 +UP Reward
Final Price = as low as 4 for FREE


Kellogg’s Cereals (Select): Buy 2 for $5
Use $1/2 printable coupon
Receive $1 +UP Reward
Final Price = $1.50 each


Crest Pro-Health Sensitive Shield Toothpaste: $2.99
Use $1/1 coupon from 6/27 Red Plum insert
Receive $2.99 Single Check Rebate
Final Price = FREE plus possible overage

Loving those RED Clearance Stickers tonight at Wal-Mart :-)

Sooooo Proud to say that I used coupons on or found ALL of the stuff in the picture in clearance section/travel section.

Found the following:
(18) Old Spice After Hours Body Wash 1.7 oz (travel size)
(2) Huggies Natural Care 40 count Travel wipes (near travel section in my Wal-mart)
(1) Dove cool moisture body wash 1.8 oz (travel section)
(1) Dove Intense Damage therapy conditioner (Travel section & was marked down)
(12) Old Spice Assorted scented Body Sprays ( Regular deoderant section)
(2) Dove Powder Deodorant (used the $2 IP got them for 48 cents EACH)
(1) Noxzema deep cleansing cream (Clearance was HALF Priced)
(3) Edge Infusion Shave gel
(3) Gillette Odor Shield Body Wash (FREE With Coupon)
(1) Small Johnson & Johnson First Aid to Go kit (FREE in Travel section)
(1) Crest 3.5 oz tube (FREE with coupon)
(3) You Paint it figurines (1 little race car and 2 dinosaurs)
(1) You Paint it 6 Piece Monkey Set (Craft Clearance section bought for my little Monkey Butt Nephew Nick)
(2) Small two piece basket sets with handle Clearance for ONLY $2 EACH Set
Gonna go back and get some more of those. They'll be great to sort out the stuff in the bathroom cabinet.
Laughs these are the only things I paid full price for:
(1) Suave Smoothers Kids 2-in-1 Shampoo Cowabunga Coconut
(1) GermX Blaster blueberry Germ blaster hand sanitizer
(2) 2 piece set of sponges for bath (travel section)
(1) Cool Dino-Fizz Egg (its got a cute T-Rex in the middle)
(1) Set of Paints

One Of My BEST FINDS of the Night Was (2) SHEET SETS For ONLY $2 for Full SIZE and $4 for FULL SIZE Sets Uuuggghh Of course the stupid Queen sized sheets were still $21 eventhough they were marked down

Passed out more WeUseCoupons Business cards to folks, LMBO I was telling one chick about the ways I've been saving money and earning prizes and such with Ebates.com and Swagbucks.com also. Told a bunch of folks about WUC and being able to trade coupons with others to get the coupons you need when you go shopping.

Just an overall GREAT NIGHT EVENTHOUGH I TOTALLY FORGOT some REALLY Important stuff on my list to buy.



Coupons Used:
9 BOGO Old Spice Body Wash
(2) 50/1 Any size Dove Shampoo, Conditioner, or Body wash Q made them 49 cents EACH lol
(3) Buy Edge Shave Gel get Gillette Body Wash FREE
(2) Dove IP (internet print) Q's made them 49cents Each
(2) $1/1 ANY Huggies product Q's
(1) $1/1 Crest
(1) $1/1 ANY Johnson&Johnson product Q's

The other stuff I may not have used coupons on but were already
Ridiculously LOW Prices that I COULDN'T Pass them by.

I'm gonna go back and grab up some more of the handled tote baskets, they'll fit Perfectly in the deeper under the bed containers I have.

Swagsbuck code

It's not here, it's in the Swagbucks blog.

Read the post about Swagbucks Search&Win partners before 4:30 pm PST (7:30 EST) for your chance to snag 15 bonus Bucks.

Swagbucks + Fragrancenet.com = FREE STUFF

I got GREAT DEAL for you if you combine a Fragrancenet.com Giftcard from Swagsbucks

and the FREE Shipping code 3FSEM I got from Fragrancenet.com in my e-mail.

You get FREE Stuff well at least $5 worth PLUS you don't have to pay for Shipping and Handling.

I ordered SEVEN Different vial samples and only paid 23 Cents

Plus Since its St. Patty's Day and I've been LUCKY enough to WIN 2 Different Giveaways from stockpilingmomsDOTcom


I'm GIVING AWAY a FREE $5 Swagbucks Fragrancenet.com Gift Card on my Blog

Sooooooo Do YOU have the Luck of the Irish on your side?

You'll get:
One entry for following my blog.
One entry if you Tweet about this giveaway (put a link in your post)
One entry if you come back to my blog and post the word Daily for your Daily entry.

Just For Fun if you Upload a picture of you in GREEN
You'll get 2 entires just upload the picture in one post and
just say LUCKY in the second post

Enter as many times as you like.

I'll announce the winner of the Random.org drawing on March 20, 2010 at 9 PM EST.

Fragrancenet.com FREE SHIPPING code good till March 22 HURRY

Free U.S. Shipping - 5 Days Only

No minimum purchase required

Earn bucks by putting up YOUR Unique Picture on your Profile

Your Face - Our Swag Bucks Take charge of your Swag Bucks account today by uploading a photo that's as unique as you are! In early April we'll be going around and hooking up everybody who uploaded a photo with 13 Swag Bucks!

I've already taken a picture and made myself purple lol

So here's my picture on my Swagsbucks Profile



It's pulled a little out of proportion because I was stretching the picture into a larger size.
The original was WAY too small to be put on here. lol

Thanks and hope you upload your picture in time to earn the 13 Swagbucks.
The Swag Guy will award the Swagbucks in early April.

Go ahead be unique and show people what you look like.
If you go to Photobucket.com, you can upload your picture and add text to your picture.
You can do regular text or glitter text, add stickers, make funny faces, add devil horns or angel wings to your picture.

You can invert colors on your picture or go VanGoh with your photo or do an Andy Warhol and make your one picture into a 4 pane picture like I did.




You can make your picture really artistic/funny/whacky/crazy/uniquely YOURS! :-)

Heads Up NEW SwagBucks Code Good till 5 PM EST Today

Heads up there's a Code in the First Comment under the
"TSG Presents: Great Moments in Movie History - A Tribute"
on the Swagbucks Blog

I got my 6 Swagbucks Come on go out and get yours

Hurry It expires at 5 pm EST

Coke Rewards Program

If you drink a bunch of Coke products like Powerade, Sprite, Coke of course, than I'm sure you've seen the codes in your Coke caps.

Go to mycokerewards.com to turn them into GREAT prizes.
Everything from FREE Drinks to sweepstakes entries.

Check out the website addy and start collecting Coke cap codes today.

Or If you don't want them, send them here and I'll post them for my followers to use. :-)

Here's your first FREE Coke Code :-) Just cut and paste into the My Coke Rewards page
Just Post with RBM (redeemed by me) or RNBM (redeemed NOT by Me) in your post
Thanks from Jamie

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WOW I got ALL of THIS for LESS than $30 @ Walgreens Trip

WOW I got ALL THIS for LESS than $30 Today at WAGS

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Bought everything in this picture for ONLY $26.63



CLEARANCE ITEMS
(5) Nestle Crunch Minis (Clearanced for $1.29 EACH)
(1) Mushabelly 8 inch Toy Cow (Clearanced down to $3.99 from $7.99)
(2) CHRISTMAS Markdowns Originally 2/$10 CLEARANCED for $1.25 Each
I got Iced Peppermint and a Sparkling Cranberry Shower gel/lotion combo
in REALLY Cute FABRIC Gift bags
Found 3 other Christmas markdowns but they were TOO expensive for my taste
$14.99 marked down ONLY half off? Come On Now Its MARCH
(1) Jane Lip balm Clearanced for $1.09
(4) Cool Animal erasers only a QUARTER Each
(1) Snappers Foam fronted Single subject notebook $1.24 markdowned from $2.99

SALE ITEMS
(4) Reach Single Total Care Toothbrushes ($3.99/3 - BOGO Q = $3.25/4)
Only realized AFTER the trans was thru I could of used (2) $1/1 Reach IP
on that transaction to make it $1.25/4 Blah OR
If I had only bought 3 this would of been a MM of $1.75
(3) Listerine Total Care mouth rinse ($3.99/3 - (3) $1/1 Q's = 99/3 + tax)
(3) J&J First Aid mini Kits (was $1.79 on sale $1.25 - $1 = ONLY A QUARTER)
(3) Dawn Dish detergents (sale 99each - 75 cent Q = 24 cents EACH)
Bayer Aspirin 81 mg 64 count Sale $2.99 - $1 Q = $1.99
(2) Travel sized Colgate for 99 cents - 75 cents Q x 2 = 50 cent for BOTH
(1) Walgreens Playing Cards 79 cents each (picked up just for fun of it)

Total OOP was $26.63

Wags Savings was $39.20
Coupons Used was $26.44

Total Value of items was about $92.27
I saved about little less than 71% off of Retail YAY ME

Forgot to add I had (2) Nestle Candy Q's print off of the Cat machine
(1) $1/3 bags of Nestle Candy (LMBO I grabbed the LAST 3 bags Markdown Nestle Candy )
(1) $1/4 Bags of Nestle Candy

Also had a monthly $3,000 contest Survey on one of my receipts

HURRY There's a SwagsBucks Code HERE

Okay there's 2 different Swagbucks Codes on these two Facebook pages :-)

2 codes outs
one on yaysave on facebook worth 15
one on fanwall for swagbucks at the top

Hurry look here SwagBucks Fanwall for 6 points today
the other 15 point Swagsbucks code is here on Yaysave page

Swagbucks.com

Swagsbucks.com is a great company I've joined. I get rewarded just for surfing the web and using their search feature on their toolbar.

I've already won over a 1,000 points in the short time I've been using the Swagbucks toolbar!

I've had fun hunting down codes during Swagbucks hunts and I've also redeemed points for contests to win more FREE Swagbucks and redeemed some points for FREE Gift cards and certificates to buy things like Perfume sample vials.

I just recently turned in a $5 e-card from Fragrancenet.com for 4 different perfume spray vials. I LOVED the J.Lo Sunkissed Vial the BEST!

If you want to join Swagbucks.com, just click on this link or just click on my Swidget badge on the side of my blog. :)

Join Swagbucks.com and follow my blog to get hints at where there are SwagCodes just waiting for you to scoop them up. :)

UPDATE:Recyclebank Problem with Flipswap Points

WOW Talk about QUICK customer service

I was on the phone about 3pm this afternoon with the customer service woman expecting to have to fight for my missing points and SURPRISE she AUTOMATICALLY just added my missing points for me.

GREAT Customer service and turns out that they have been having a lot of complaints like mine about the Flipswap people offering one thing and than not wanting to give the customer the points.

If you turned in a cell phone to Flipswap and are missing your points, just call Recyclebank's customer service number at 1-888-727-2978

The customer service woman was REALLY nice and very understanding about the situation.

I'm happy I called because now I have my missing points :)

Thanks from Jamie

Recyclebank Problem with Flipswap Points

Okay I figured I would check out Recyclebank.com and see how many points I would get for turning in some of my old cell phones.

I filled out the information they asked me about the make, model and condition of the phone (Razur) with cosmetic damage to the case and water damage (nephew threw it in our toilet)

Well long story short THEY said it was worth a total of 204 points, I figured great that would be 4 of the $4/20 CVS rewards deals (I would have sent for 1 each month since you can't redeem more than one per month)

I just got an e-mail stating:

We wanted to update you that the device you sent to Flipswap for recycling has been received and reviewed. However, the device received by Flipswap did not match with what was submitted at RecycleBank.com for the following reason:

The condition stated did not match.

We have credited your account 10.0 RecycleBank Points as a thank you for helping keep your electronic device out of the landfill and recycling with us.

You can see this Points credit reflected now in your Account at Recyclebank.com.

Grrrrrrr When I read that I was sooo mad I could of Spit nails!! I feel like it was a bait and switch sorta situation. I've already sent them an email telling them EXACTLY that. And that I didn't appreciate them backing out of what they had promised. I want the points they promised or I'm calling the BBB on them. It's not like they just took off 10 to 20 points for one reason or another. They took over 190 points away from what the ORIGINAL quote was!!

I'll update later about what they tell me or if me and RecycleBank can come to a compromise about this or not.

thanks from Jamie

I've got to apologize for being so slack on posting

I'm sorry for being so slack on postings lately.
I'm back on here and will be posting daily now. :-)

OMG All I can Say Is SCORE lol

Okay I went shopping at a couple different Walmarts yesterday. I found a couple of different desk type calendars marked down from like $5 down to $1.50 to $2.50 at the first WalMart (Smithfield, NC) true the calendars were good from August of 2009 till July of 2010 but I figure I can use white out to use the 2009 pages for this year instead of throwing them out

The Biggest score was finding a 18 month desk type Calendar for ONLY 2 CENTS I thought that it was a mistake but I had the guy in the electronics area scan it for me and YEP YEP it was only 2 whole Pennies I now have (2) of the desk type calendars on the wall next to my computer desk now (one for trains/auctions/RAOKs etc I've received and one for Envies/RAOKS/Trains I've Sent out

I found a couple different Wallets marked down from $5 to just A DOLLAR (insert picture of me drooling) Sorry Wallets are my weakness In the jewelry part, I found these ADORABLE Lionel Train keychains (both the picture insert kind of keychains and soft rubber Oooohhh soooo cute Teddy Bear Conductor Keychains for just a QUARTER Each!!) and Marked down jewelry.

I was passing out business cards about WUC and pretty soon I was out of the dozen or so business cards I'd brought with me. So I started writing on spare pieces of paper and even gave one worker the WUC web addy on a scrap piece of cardboard from the box she was stocking toothpaste out of

I was leaving WalMart and was returning the cart to the corral things in the parking lot when I spotted an aluminum can in the parking lot already crushed. I snatched it up and was sorta laughing when I said it was money not trash to an older lady who was walking past me. She laughed said she agreed about that and I went on to start telling her about WUC and how I was saving money using more coupons and trading and riding coupon trains.

That's when I gave her the business card with WUC addy and she dropped a bomb on me Saying she had been saving aluminum cans at her house since her son (I think) had been 12 and he was now about 20 some years old. And she asked me if I wanted them! I said I sure would go out to her home and pick up the aluminum cans from her house I have no ideal if its 4 bags of cans or if its an entire garage full of cans I just know that they're free to me

I've got her home address and her cell number, I'll call her today and see when is a good time to come by and pick up the aluminum cans. I'll be going straight from her home to the recycling center

I thought we were through talking and she started to walk off towards her Cadillac when she turned back around and asked if me, my sister, and our friend Heather wanted some clothes she was gonna take to the Salvation Army. We said sure and went over to her Caddy and she proceeded to give us a bunch of clothes. The day had started off pretty crappy for Heather because she had a blow out early that morning but she ended up with at least half a dozen different pieces of clothes for work including a LAMBSKIN Leather Jacket!!!

Mrs Massengil was just a REALLY Cool older lady that I never would have met if it wasn't for WUC So THANK YOU for making this Website