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This week's grocery haul: I got paid $30 (profit) to take $78 worth of Chocolate bars, Chocolate Crisps, Mac n Cheese, Crackers, Hand Soap, and More!

May 29, 2024

Here are the goodies.

Finally finished off that $35 May IB bonus!

Total: $77.61

Coupons: None!

Total Cash Back: $107.28

Final Cost: -$29.67 - Money Maker

 

Here is the complete break down and sites used. The stores are listed in the breakdown image. I don't include sites that take any receipt on my breakdown.

Note: Individual deals vary by user for most apps. If you don't have the deals right now, you can try checking back later.

 

My Guides

  1. All rebate apps/sites I use and/or know about

  2. How I do my hauls

  3. Beginners guide to using rebate apps/sites - for those who don't know where to start

 

If you aren't interested in this kind of thing, please keep your comments to yourself. If you don't like what I buy, you can buy different products. If you don't like hunting for deals, you can do surveys, microtasks, games or whatever else you like instead. There is no need to discourage other users just because you aren't interested in the same things!

 

If you don't need feminine hygiene products, toothpaste, soaps, etc - consider donating them to your local women's shelter, church, or school!

 

Some Additional Deals

 

Afterthoughts

So, as expected, my Weekend Warrior bonus was terrible. $1 for 10 rebates. Regardless, I knew I would need to make two trips to the store to finish my big bonus, so I figured I might as well get that extra dollar. I didn't bother posting my weekend haul separately since it wasn't really a good haul on its own. My midweek bonus was as expected though, which let me easily finish off this month's big bonus! Today's trip (trip #2) probably could have been better, but I barely slept last night and didn't look for the absolute best deals. That's perfectly okay though!

I found it a bit amusing, but almost everything from my rebates will be given away or donated this week. I'm only keeping three things plus the two cat foods. Normally I keep around 30-50% of my hauls, but I didn't even notice what deals I picked until I was separating things into the keep vs donate piles.

 

Brandclub has some higher paid surveys now. I saw a lot of $0.65 and $0.60 get added. I wish we could sort by highest paid so I didn't have to hunt them down.

 

Care Club is ending. You can earn rewards through 5/31, and have until 6/30 to redeem. This really sucks for me because I have ~$15 worth of rewards in my account, but my only options are Ulta (which I don't use) or Venmo (which I can't use). I was saving up for Amazon. I never bought things specifically for the points, but still. I'll probably just get the Ulta gift cards and sell them on Raise or something.

I saw someone mention that the rebate section on Alexa is basically closing on July 10th. The app said you couldn't see or active new deals after that date. I don't see it mentioned on my app though, but I also rarely used it since it constantly had trouble crediting.

 

Also, apologies if there's any silly mistakes in this post. I can barely keep my eyes open right now. Time to go take a nap.

 

Time Spent

My haul earlier this week wasn't really planned. I just grabbed things I knew about from previous weeks, and the Colgate which someone told me about. It probably added 5-10 minutes to my trip mostly because it took me a bit to figure out where the Hershey bars got moved to. I spent about 15 minutes planning today's trip this morning. I was in the store for about an hour and 20 minutes as I finished planning what to get and, as always, getting my regular groceries. I did spend a good chunk of that time in the clearance aisle because I saw something cheap and was trying to figure out which size I needed.

 

Food From Deals

Here's an idea: Mix up a white cheddar Mac a Roni, with your choice of ham, sausage, chicken, pork, or one of the vegan meat alternatives. Add a little soy sauce, and some green peas if you wish. You could even add some extra butter and milk (or plant based milk) to make it a bit creamier. Serve with a slice of buttered toast or some Jasmine Rice. Perhaps make a little Banana bread for dessert. (Note: Everything mentioned has Ibotta deals available.)

 

Here's some things I've made in the past: High Protein Tomato Crackers, Hot Sausage Cups, Peanut Butter Fudge & Chocolate Hazelnut Fudge, Chocolate Cherry Pie

 

Do you guys want me to continue showing things I've made using ingredients I got from rebate apps on these posts? Let me know in the comments, or you can vote on this poll if you want to remain anonymous.

 

Mini FAQ

  • If you're new or confused - check out the guides near the top of the post. They go into detail about everything.

  • I'm from the USA and these posts are tailored as such, but this post of mine does list things from other countries that I know about.

  • My posts are tailored to being money makers to suit this subreddit. There are tons of great deals that aren't money makers but can still save you a lot of money.

  • A lot of what I get is given away to friends, family or is donated. I do this more as a hobby than anything.

  • I generally do not share my spreadsheet since the one shown in this post is not the one I actually use (it's put together with a script from my usual spreadsheet) and there are a ton of little things that will give you wrong values if you don't know about them and even then you have to be careful. It's super easy to make a spreadsheet with Google Sheets though.

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