{"id":1285,"date":"2008-12-10T12:41:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T18:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2008-12-10T12:41:35","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T18:41:35","slug":"i-finally-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"I finally did it!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moneysavingmom.com\/money_saving_mom\/\">Money Saving Mom<\/a> and a few other frugal gurus lately, trying to get the best deals I can.  These people are amazing, matching sales with store coupons and manufacturer&#8217;s coupons, and rebates to get items for free, and actually make money.  In the Walgreens tutorial, I learned that after I use my coupons and get my gift card from my rebates, I should &#8220;never have to spend any money at Walgreens out of pocket&#8221; or some other ambitious claim.  Well, today I did it!  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have time to go into my whole receipt and the specials I got, but using their mid week sale coupons, coupons I clipped and coupons I printed, and $10 in Register Rewards I got last week from their specials, I got $26 worth of &#8220;stuff&#8221; for $1.45.  Then she handed me a $5 Register Reward that I turned around and used to get the rest of my items.  That one came to $18.95 after the $16.89 savings using coupons and specials.  I used my Walgreens giftcard, to pay that $18.95, and then they handed me another $5 to use next time I shop.  So, for $1.45 out of my pocket, I got $50 plus dollars worth of groceries, candy and household items, and $5 off my next purchase!  I feel like I won the lottery, or like I did something dishonest, but really, it was all on the up and up!  Take that, corporate America!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Money Saving Mom and a few other frugal gurus lately, trying to get the best deals I can. These people are amazing, matching sales with store coupons and manufacturer&#8217;s coupons, and rebates to get items for free, and actually make money. In the Walgreens tutorial, I learned that after I use my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}