Kellogg's Gas Card Reward Program Ends

The popular rebate that Kelloggs had been offering to get back a $10.00 prepaid debit card when you send in UPC's from 10 of their "healthy" cereals has ended prematurely. The program was advertised to last until April 30, 2012 or "while supplies last". It has been so popular that Kelloggs ran out of cards to give out. Click here for more information.  Requests that were postmarked prior to April 2, 2012 will be fulfilled.

World's Best Cat Litter Money Maker and Free Cat Food!

World's Best Cat Litter has a Try Me Free Offer to get back your purchase price up to $12.99. Click here to print the rebate form.

You can turn this into a money maker by printing out a $3.00 coupon from Smart Source:  Click Here

 

 

The limit is one per household. This is a new form for 2012, so if you did this rebate in 2011, you can do it again.

If you don't have a cat, this makes a nice donation to your local humane shelter. If you do have a cat, you can get a FREE can of Hill's Science Diet Tender Dinners cat food at Petco with this coupon: click here

The coupon is valid now through April 30th, 2012 and you must be a PALS member to redeem coupon. It is easy to sign-up in store or click here to sign up online.

General Mills Rebate & Safeway

Here is a great "Try Me Free" Offer from General Mills that is only good at Safeway or its affiliate stores (Carrs, Dominick's, Genuardi's, Pavilions, Randalls, Tom Thumb, and Vons). You must include UPC's and an original cash register tape showing purchases made between 2/5/12 and 3/31/12.

I read about this offer online, and since we did not receive it locally in our inserts, I traded with someone in California for it.

The rebate gives your purchase price back on 10 different General Mills products:  Cheerios Dulce de Leche flavor cereal, Cheerios Multigrain Peanut Butter flavor cereal, Fun-da-Middles, Yoplait Greek yogurt, Yoplait Greek yogurt with Granola, Ocean Spray Fruit Shapes, Progresso Soup, Totino's Pizza Stuffers, Pillsbury Breakfast sandwiches,  and Nature Valley Protein bars.

I was able to find 8 of these products at my Safeway and had coupons for 4 of them. I paid about $18.52 for my groceries, and I hope to get nearly $30 back on the rebate!

Here are the coupons I used:

Cheerios Multi Grain Peanut Butter cereal - save .80

Multi Grain Cheerios Peanut Butter - Save $1.00

Ocean Spray Fruit Flavored Snacks - .50 off in the General Mills insert of 2-5-12

Fun-Da-Middles Cupcakes - .50 off in the General Mills insert of 2-5-12

Safeway doubles coupons up to .99 face value with your store rewards card. A nice bonus on this purchase was that I received a Catalina coupon worth 20 Box Tops for Education!

Kelloggs Cereal Rebate - $10 Gift Card

Here is an awesome rebate on Kelloggs cereal. Submit 10 UPC's from the following participating cereals and fill out the Kelloggs Rebate Form by April 30th to receive a FREE $10 prepaid debit gas card in return. No cash register tape needed. This deal is a limit of 5 per household!

• Kellogg's All-Bran® Original
• Kellogg's All-Bran® Bran Buds® cereal
• Kellogg's All-Bran® Complete® Wheat Flakes® cereal
• Kellogg's Smart Start® Strong Heart Antioxidant cereal
• Kellogg's Smart Start® Strong Heart Toasted Oat cereal
• Kellogg's Corn Flakes® cereal
• Kellogg's Corn Flakes® Touch of Honey cereal
• Kellogg's Raisin Bran® cereal
• Kellogg's Raisin Bran® Crunch cereal
• Kellogg's Raisin Bran® Extra! Cereal
• Kellogg's Crispix® cereal
• Kellogg's Product 19® cereal
• Kellogg's Mueslix® cereal
• Kellogg's® Cracklin’ Oat Bran cereal
• Kellogg's® Lowfat Granola with Raisins cereal
• Kellogg's® Lowfat Granola without Raisins cereal
• Kellogg's® Lowfat Granola Original cereal
• Kellogg's® Fruit Harvest Strawberry/Blueberry cereal
• Kellogg's Rice Krispies® cereal

This offer was originally marketed towards AARP members, but you do not have to be a member or even over age 50 to receive the gift card. Also, it is advertised as a "gas card" but you don't have to use it just for gas. The card can be used any place where Discover is accepted.

Please note: the address on the form is incorrect and will result in your rebate being returned. The correct address is:

Kelloggs Gas Rewards Card

P.O. Box CAMB

Battle Creek, MI 49016

Click here to go directly to the downloadable form.

To get a coupon for $4.00 off four boxes of Kelloggs cereals:  click here . If you don't see it immediately, try zip code 34102.

Next week Giant will have an Instant Savings offer on Kellogg's cereal. Buy any 4 boxes in a single transaction and instantly save $6.00 off your bill. You should be able to combine the coupon above with the instant savings for a good deal, then save the UPC's for your rebate!

Refunding for Fun and Profit

I started refunding about two years ago. I began slowly, doing a refund here and a refund there. This month I reached my all time high for refunds. Below you see a photo of the 26 checks that I have received in 2012 totalling over $172!!

What is wonderful about these refunds was that I received them all for purchasing grocery items like meat and cheese or on items that I got for free with coupons or drugstore rewards!

The pink check on the left hand side is my Single Check Rebate from  Rite Aid . I entered my receipt info for purchases that qualified for rebates on-line, and at the end of the month Rite Aid sent me a check for the total amount. You can either deposit this check into your bank account or use it to shop at  Rite Aid for future purchases.

All of the checks in the middle and the big pink ones on the right are from beer companies, but I didn't purchase any beer to receive them. In some states you can not be required to purchase alcohol in order to receive a rebate, and Virginia is one of them. These are called "No Beer Purchase Required" rebates - abbreviated as NBPR.

These forms are often difficult to find, so I trade coupons or box tops for them. I got these refunds for purchasing snacks, pizza, meat, fruit, deli items or whatever crazy thing the beer company decided to give a refund on. Look for them on the beer/wine aisle of your supermarket.

Most of the refund amounts are small - anywhere from $1.00 to $6.00, but this just goes to show that little amounts can really add up. I never buy something just because I have a refund unless it is a "Try Me Free" offer. But if I can get something for free with coupons and a sale AND send off for a refund on it, then that's profit in my pocket!

Weekly Round-Up #5 - February 1-7

I've been tracking my spending on groceries and toiletries since the year started, and I've been averaging about $45 per week. I did very little shopping during the first week of February.
Here is what I bought:

Purchases



CVS Freebies

Food
- Gallon milk (1)

- Half-gallon of milk (1)
- Loaf of bread (1)
- Pom Wondeful bars (4)
- Combos (8)                               
- Market Pantry Mac N Cheese (4)
- Cadbury Creme Egg (1)
- Ghirardelli chocolate (1)

- Sunshine Cheez-Its  (2)
- Planters Trail Mix (2)
- 4 lb bag of Oranges (2)
- Gatorade 32 oz (2)
- Lipton Onion Soup Mix (2)
- Knorr Pasta Sides (3)
- Hillshire Farms Beef Kielbasa (2)                                                          



Michael's Freebies

Household 
 -Roll of Camoflauge Duct Tape
- 3-Pack of Sachets
- Speed Stick deodorants (6)
- Stayfree maxi pads (4)
- Hallmark cards (3)
- Ricola cough drops (4)
- Brainstrong Gummie vitamins
- Pure Spring hand lotion

Other

 - 2 Free Onion Rings at Burger King

 - 2 Free Big Macs and French Fries at McDonalds with coupons
                                                                                                          from Living Social 

Refunds

- Blue Moon NBPR Oranges - $3.00

- Colgate-Palmolive Black History Month Promo - $5.00  (See my post of February 2nd)



Rite Aid Freebies


Expenditures    
CVS - $1.46
Rite Aid - $5.36
Safeway - $4.25
Giant - $4.09
Bloom - $9.87
Target - $1.08
McDonalds - .45
Michaels - .50
                               
Total: $27.06




I made a few mistakes this week or I wouldn't have spent so much at Rite Aid and Safeway, but overall I'm happy. The deodorant and Stayfree pads will be going to the food pantry with me tomorrow. Food stamps cannot be used for toiletries, so these are frequently requested items.

Kellogg's Cereal Rebate - Get a $10 Prepaid Debit Card!

One of the ways that I keep my grocery bill so low is by sending away for rebates and refunds on the products I buy. I especially love the ones that offer a prepaid debit card. There is no check to deposit at the bank - I just activate the card and take it to the supermarket with me.

Kellogg's has a great promotion going right now that is super easy because it doesn't require a cash register receipt. All you have to do is collect 10 UPC's from specified cereals, then send them off to get a $10 prepaid VISA card in the mail. Best of all, the limit is 5 per household, so you could end up with $50 in free groceries!

This promotion runs until April 30th and you can download the form to send in HERE

Kellgg's offered this promotion in 2011 and I did it 5 five times. I already have enough UPC's to send in and do it again in 2012!

Novartis OTC Recall

                                                  

Earlier this month Novartis, a company that produces many over-the-counter medications, announced a recall of  Excedrin^® and NoDoz^® products with expiry dates of December 20, 2014 or earlier as well as Bufferin^® and Gas-X Prevention^® products with expiry dates of December 20, 2013 or earlier. These products may contain stray tablets, capsules, or caplets from other Novartis products, or contain broken or chipped tablets. You can read the full press release here.
    

                                 

If you have any of the recalled items in your medicine chest (open or not) you may be able to take them to a local supermarket or drugstore for a refund or store credit. If you prefer, you can mail the bottles back to Novartis and receive a check for the suggested retail price plus $2.00 to cover your postage. For instructions on which products to return and how to return them, click here.

 

I had four boxes in my stockpile that I got for free with coupons, and which I will be returning for a profit!

Get Your Forever Stamps Now!

The U.S Postal Service has announced that the price of a First Class postage stamp will increase by one cent to 45-cents this Sunday, January 22, 2012.

I use stamps a lot to trade coupons through the mail and send off for refunds, so I'll be picking up several extra books of stamps today before the rate hike takes effect.

The Forever stamp will always be valid as first class postage on standard envelopes weighing one ounce or less, regardless of any subsequent postage increases.

More Harris Teeter Super Doubles Deals!

I make another run to Harris Teeter today for more free Smart Balance milk. I also found some new ZVR electronic store coupons at the Harris Teeter website that can be matched with manufacturer's coupons in recent inserts earn you a profit on your shopping:

Starkist Tuna - $1.00
Use .50 manufacturer's coupon from the Red Plum insert of of 1-1-2011
and add the ZVR for .50 onto your VIC card for a .50 money maker!

Aquafresh Extreme Clean Toothpaste - $2.49
Use the $1 manufacturer's coupon from the Red Plum insert of 1-1-2011
and add the ZVR for .75 onto yourVIC card for a .25 money maker!

K-Y Jelly (2 oz) - $4.19
Use the $3 manufacturer's coupon from the Smart Source insert of 1-8-2012
and add the ZVR for $3 onto your VIC card for a $1.81 money maker!

Some other freebies that were not mentioned in my previous posts:

V-8 Smoothies are $3.69, on sale Buy One Get One Free
which means they really ring up 1/2 price at $1.78 each
Free with the $1 coupon from the Smart Source insert of 1-8-2011 doubled

Celestial Seasonings Tea - look for ones that say "Holiday Tea"
They have been marked down to $1.89
Free with the $1 coupon from the Smart Source insert of either 11-06-2011 or 12-04-2011

I picked up some more Honey Bunches of Oats cereal with my $1 coupon from the Walmart website (no longer available) - it was on sale 2/$5, so after the coupon doubled it came to .50 a box.

Here is aother deal that I did:

I bought 4 Campbell's Microwave Soups, on sale for $1.25 = $5.00
I used 2 coupons from the Smart Source of 1-8-2012 for .50/2 = $3.00
I got back a Catalina for $1.25 OYNO

Then bought 4 Progresso soups, on sale for $1.59 each = $6.36
I used a coupon for $1 off 4 cans from the Smart Source insert of 12-11-2011 = $4.36
I paid with the $1.25 catalina from the Cambell's soup - $3.16
and
I will send off for the Progresso "Rich & Hearty" Try Me Free Offer to get back $2.89