I love getting the mail!

Remember how when you were a little kid and your birthday was close and you loved getting the mail? I would get so excited and rip open the envelopes and open the card looking for the money. Now a days I don't get cards with money in them for my birthday or holidays. BUT I get just as excited when the mail comes. Today I saw the mail carrire going down the street in front of mine and I got all excited. I wondered what great things she will bring me.

Today this is what I got
10 Box Tops for Education (I sent her a rebate form I had)
1 Phamplet of rebate forms and coupons (I sent her some rebate forms)
1 Gift card to use anywhere for $20 (rebate from last month from purchasing gift cards)
20 $.50 off 2 Green Giant ANY veggies coupons (purchased these on Ebay)
10 $2 off Gillette shampoo, conditioner or styling product coupons (Purchased these on ebay)



It just like my birthday!


I have been wheeling and dealing lately. I have been trading for thse things or outright buying them. I am getting a little bit better at trading, though I still find it difficult. I would rather just buy my rebate forms. I have a very hard time finding them here lately but it is so worth my money (usually $1 a form) to buy them. Today the rebate form I used I (or my son) actually found the receipts on the ground or in the store. People just leave them (litterbugs!) and I pick them up! You never know when you might need a receipt with something someone else bought. Today I used 2 receipts that were found. One had Deli Meat and the other had a frozen pizza.

Also while looking for some rebate forms I haven't done yet, I stumbled across the co-owner of the site I play on and she was looking for some specific coupons. I knew I had BETTER than what she wanted. I made her an offer and we traded Coke codes for my coupons that I probably wasn't going to use anyway before they expired.

What one person considers trash is truly another's treasure.