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.