My savings goal for 2006-2007 was to try to keep the same ECBs rolling. Done. I’m actually still rolling those 2006 ECBs. Then last August my goal was to not pay for diapers for a year. Done. My new goal–not to pay for diapers at all for baby #2. So far I have about a 6 month supply for him, if I’ve guessed at his growth rate correctly. But I’m going to continue to take advantage of diaper deals and stock up in hopes of never paying for diapers for him.
In an earlier post, I told you about how CVS was going crazy last year with giving away ECBs with glucometers. It was during that time that I got another extra care card in my husband’s name, so that I could get more monitors and therefore, more ECBs. It was confusing at times, maintaining two cards and two sets of ECBs, but it was really worth it for the diaper deals. Most of the diaper deals are limit one, so I would do one on each card.
Somehow through carelessness and just being too busy, I’ve let that card get down to $4 ecb. So I think I’m going to retire it for now. The deals just haven’t been that great lately to warrant trying to juggle two cards. If some “can’t miss this” deals come along, I can always use it. My other card has about $40 to go with it, which is appx the amount I like to maintain.
Instead, I think for the first time, I’m going to submit some Walgreen’s rebates and get a Walgreen’s gift card. GCs do not expire, so it will be easier to maintain than ECBs. Also, Wags has been offering some decent deals, freebies and moneymakers lately, so I’d like to start taking advantage of them. I did the Dimetapp deal over the weekend and used that $10 RR to buy Halloween candy, so that’s one rebate I can submit. I still have $10 RR left–I think I’m going to go get more Ragu, then use those rolled RR to get a L’oreal something for a rebate.
So I’ll still post CVS deals, but you’ll probably be seeing more Walgreen’s deals here too.
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