Weekend saving results

Newest savings results:

A carefully planned trip to the grocery store resulted in savings of $52.73. We also both took our lunches on Monday for another $12. Finally, much to his chargrin, but my oldest son did get his haircut at home saving us $18. No worries, we have been doing that for awhile so the end result was a good one.

So from the weekend, I was able to transfer over another $82.73

GRAND TOTAL: $165.97

I do have to say that it's pretty shocking how quickly it's adding up. Just two weeks in. Wow.

Extra savings on Old Navy Groupon using cash back shopping

Old Navy is offering a nationwide Groupon today where you can get $20 of merchandise for $10. Ah yes, my go to place for pants that my kids will inevitably blow through the knees of...

But here is what I did to save even more. I started off by going to MrRebates which is one of my favorite cash back shopping sites. Today they have a special deal where they are offering 8 percent cash back on Groupons purchased through their link.

End result? In addition to getting $20 for only $10 at Groupon you will also earn 8 percent cash back on the $10 you spend (another 80 cents). 

GRAND TOTAL: $10.80

OVERALL SAVINGS SINCE STARTING: $83.24

In case you want to take advantage of this, too, here's the step by step process.

1. If you haven't signed up for Groupon yet, you will want to do that first.

2. Head over to MrRebates. Sign up is free and takes about 15 seconds.

3. Then once you are signed up, click on the left hand search box and type in "Groupon."

4. A link to Groupon will show up. Click through that link and you will earn 8 percent cash back on your purchases.

End result? In addition to getting $20 for only $10 at Groupon you will also earn 8 percent cash back on the $10 you spend (another 80 cents).

BOGO, Crowd Cut and Cash Back Savings Results

So I’m coming up on a week of this new savings experiment. Over the past few days, there have been some good savings wins.

Buy Two Get One Free

This week Ulta is offering a deal on certain products where you can buy two and get one free. My hair product is one of the things included. I did a quick cross checking on price and found it was a good deal. In addition, they had a coupon in their circular for 20 percent off any one product, and, I bought in Iowa while we were visiting family, saving a bit on sales tax, too.

Results:

-$14.00 (free product)

-$2.80 (20 percent off one)

- $.43 in tax I would have spent if I’d bought them at home

Total saved: $17.23         

Crowd Cut

Our local swimming pool was offering a deal where you could get five passes to the water park along with treats for $11. Now normally we skip the treats when we’re there, but passes for our family are usually $17. I bought two of the packages (and will consider the treats an added bonus).

Total saved: $12.00

Additional Tax Savings

Seems a silly thing, but as I mentioned earlier, we happened to be traveling over the weekend, by car, to a state with lower sales taxes than ours. So I stocked up on some things that were on sale at Target while I was there.

Tax savings: $1.68

Cash Back Savings

I had been needing some new go-to weekend casual summer dresses and the ones I had my eye on at Target were on sale last week.So I ordered four of them in four colors. I took advantage of the sale price and also ordered them online through cash back shopping site MrRebates which was offering 4 percent cash back.

Sale savings:       -$8.70

MrRebates Cash Back:   -$2.05

Total Savings:    $10.75


GRAND TOTAL: $41.66

OVERALL SAVINGS SINCE STARTING: $72.44

*Disclosure.