Thursday 12/3/09: Double up on rebates

Yesterday I wrote about the gift of savings from Riteaid, and I also want you to know that you can double up on these rebates. The gift of savings rebate is actually from Riteaid, but Riteaid is constantly offering rebates from manufacturers as well. For example, if you're a parent you go through lots of batteries like we do. Our seven-month-old has to sleep with a noise machine for which we don't have a power cord, so I'm always in the market for cheap AA batteries. This week Riteaid has an offer to purchase $15 in Duracell batteries and get a $5 rebate. They also have a coupon to get a 12-pk for $7.99 (btw, not an impressive deal unless you combine it). Lately the papers have been running 75-cent coupons for Duracell which you can combine with the Riteaid coupon. If there are other similar deals that get you to $25, you'll get the $5 from Duracell and the $5 from RiteAid so you really only spent $15, and better yet if you found another rebate you could use! I'm not a fan of Riteaid's normal prices but this is a way you can get super deals there.

Wednesday 12/2/09: Riteaid gift of savings

Riteaid is running a Christmas gift of savings now that their fall gift of savings program ended. Basically, if you spend $25, you get $5 back, $10 back on $50, and $20 back on $100. The fall program is one of the reasons I got the three packages of Huggies for $7 total. If they have things you need, and you're going to spend the money anyway, this could be a good way to get it back!

Thursday 11/26/09: Black Friday-file your rebates immediately

Rebates are great, and the reason that companies think they're great is that many people don't bother to file them. With more and more online filing of rebates (I've done Staples and RiteAid recently) it's so easy--DO IT. I mean as soon as you get home tomorrow, go online and file all your rebates. The way I do it, I put the item on my credit card and file the rebate immediately, so I get the money back before I pay my credit card bill. So I actually don't spend any of my own money and it functions exactly like a coupon.