I’ve been being a poor person lately, so I’ve been finding little ways to make cash here and there, or save a buck, so here’s a topic to share a frugal tip.
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Thanks for the tip on the real estate class action suit. Passed that onto a friend I know sold a house a few years ago!
How odd. That was meant for @ChickieD but the reply didn’t work like usual. Maybe because I replied to the first post in a thread?
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If you rearrange the furniture in your apartment you can easily pretend you’re on vacation and staying in some Airbnb or other. Pro tip: tune the radio to a station using a language you don’t speak.
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Dunno why that didn’t work. I found the whole suit confusing because it’s very hard to know if you were listing on one of those specific MLSs. Those seem to be industry specific businesses, and I don’t know how we as consumers would know which one we listed on. I wish they’d given some regions that they served. But, I figured it was worth signing up for just in case, because a house sale is a big ticket item, so if I were to get a percentage of that fee back, it could be some real $.
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I’ve been broke this past year, so here’s a bunch of my tips and tricks.
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Ibotta App.
Here’s my referral code and link. Use this and you get $5 in your account.
LCRNSWK
How to use:
- Before you shop, look at the items for that store. Select them. When you shop, buy those things.
- If you have stuff loaded for a store, when you go into the store, open iBotta, then select the store you are in. Click Start Shopping Trip at the start. You will get a little list of items you selected before you started shopping.
- Upload a photo of your receipt to your account, then you will get money put into your account if your purchases match the deal.
- When you accumulate $20 you can cash out.
- You can link some accounts, like Walmart and Dollar General, so you don’t have to upload your receipts.
Tips for using
- Cash out at $20. Don’t accumulate money in the app. They can revoke your access at any time.
- Share your link out on Reddit discussion boards, like r/Ibotta; that’s the quickest way to make $.
- Walmart owns this app. They also have Walmart Cash in their own app. If you use iBotta, you may wish to not link your accounts because you have to choose either iBotta money or Walmart Cash.
- Yeah, it’s a lot of weird packaged items you don’t normally buy, but sometimes it’s stuff you buy anyway. For a while there, there was $2.50 back on the sponges I buy, for example. The cat food I buy was on sale for a good while there.
Dollar General App
- Has a deals section - go through there and click what you want to buy, then buy it. Enter your phone number at checkout and you get the discount.
- You also accumulate Dollar General Cash which you can use at checkout. Go to the Wallet part of the app and ask the cashier to scan the barcode if you have any money in the Wallet.
- They always do $5 off on $25 on Saturdays. I like to buy paper goods there. They have the best prices on them. They often have coupons for stuff already, so then you add the $5 off and it works out well.
Walmart Plus
- You can join Walmart Plus for about $10 a month.
- You get Paramount Plus streaming with this. They are pretty good. They have ALL the Star Trek stuff now - all the OG series, all the movies, all the series. Also have some other good TV shows and movies.
- You also get Pluto, but I already have that I think? Isn’t it free already??
- Includes a gas discount.
- Includes free delivery from the store, but of course you have to tip the driver. Still, it’s usually about the same as the gas to go there.
- I’m not a Burger King Person, but you get 25% off online orders.
- Right now, if you are member, you get $15 in Walmart Cash added if you go to the app, then chooose Walmart Plus.
Publix App
- If you have Publix in your area, they have an app and you can select deals in it before you shop.
- They also sometimes send you a coupon for, like $5 off $20.
- You get free ice cream on your birthday. You can actually get a really big bucket of it with the coupon.
- Publix BOGO deals are sometimes really great. Usually they have a peanut butter and they usually also have coffee in there.
Winn Dixie App
- Similar to Publix; it doesn’t have as many deals, but it has some.
- You accumulate points somehow, but I haven’t figured out how to cash them out.
- BOGO deals there, too, are worth shopping.
Target Circle App
- It’s free to join
- They have deals in there, like the other apps.
- Sometimes you can get a gift card by buying stuff, which you can use toward groceries.
- Their store brand cat litter is by far the cheapest I’ve found and nice.
Aldi
- They rock.
- Best prices on meat, seafood, cheese, eggs, dairy/non-dairy
- They are the cheapest place to buy groceries, hands down, but you can’t get everything there.
- Best place for fruit, veggies, etc., the stuff that isn’t on sale elsewhere.
- They have an app, but it doesn’t have any deals in.
Fetch
- You upload receipts and if you have items that match their deals, you get Fetch cash. Then you can redeem those for gift cards. I got a $5 Kohl’s gift card recently.
- I don’t completely understand this app, but I upload receipts to it.
- I tried playing their games for cash, but the game was so lame, it wasn’t worth it. Maybe you can find one you like.
Google Opinions Rewards
Every so often you do a little survey or upload a receipt, and you make a few pennies. After you accumulate $2 it will deposit it to your bank account.
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If you have pets, try Chewy.
-By far the cheapest pharmacy for the steroids we needed to ease our Old Man’s last months of life (fuck cancer). They also shipped the steroids quickly
-you can upload the prescription or tell them the vet you use and the pet the prescription is for. The approvals are fast. This works for prescription food too
-free shipping over $50
-If your pet supply needs are predictable, the auto ship saves you money. It’s really easy to change delivery dates too.
-cat food prices are good
-right now, if you spend $100, you can get a $30 gift card
-chewy will deliver cat litter for free if the total purchase is over $50
-great customer service. My orders are usually packed well but twice in the last 3 years I ended up with some badly dented cans. Emailed customer service and they had replaced the entire package for each type of food that came dented and wanted any photos so they could show them to the warehouse team. It was super easy and fast and they were really generous with the replacements. Even on the expensive special diet food.
-if you fill out the info on your pets, they send a birthday card for their birthday or gotcha-day. The card is cute and has a code for a birthday treat for free (as long as you are ordering enough to meet the threshold for free shipping). I haven’t figured out how to add the free birthday treat to the auto ship though
Several years ago when the Old Man had been diagnosed with kidney disease, I accidentally ordered the wrong prescription food. Money was tight so I called just in case maybe they could refund part of it or let me return it. They refunded it all and told me to drop the food off with a local animal shelter rather than mail it back. The animal shelter was so grateful to get nearly an entire case of kidney prescription food.
I was so grateful. The prescription kidney food is so expensive
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I’ve had multiple cats that have needed kidney diets, and I can confirm: that shit’s expensive.
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I have signed up for a bunch of different survey sites and such, and most of them aren’t really worth the effort.
But, I finally got admitted to a study that really pays something, which is with this company, Rare Patient Voice.
https://panel.rarepatientvoice.com/
The used to mainly gather information on people with rare diseases, but have expanded to more common ones.
I’m enrolled now in a Smart Watch study for Apple that pays $550. I have to do some onboarding and then keep a log and mail the watch back. Seems very fairly compensated compared to some of this other stuff where you slog through hours of surveys for pennies.
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No proof required class action lawsuits:
$10 with no proof of purchase - Old Lyme Potato Chips
https://www.potatochipssettlement.com/Claim/ClaimCertification
ATM fee surcharge
Walgreens Prescription Drugs - claim up to $10,000 without proof (you’re not going to get $10k; just that’s how much you spent on drugs)
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Use my link to get into the Respondent surveys. This program pays well.
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I always end up in the control group.
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LOL, I haven’t gotten much through Respondent, but I am currently in a study through Rare Patient Voice testing a BP cuff that works with Apple Watches. As I type, I am wearing 2 Apple Watches, one on each wrist. It’s a pretty easy study - I wear the watches for 10 hours each day and then in the morning and the night I use the cuff and make sure the data transmits using the provided iPhones. I’m getting around $500 for this study.
My hope is that there is some mechanism for them to leave a review of me and that I might get into more studies now that I’ve done one.
I’m also psyched about having all this data. My mom had a heart attack and was literally in the ER having the attack, but they didn’t diagnose it. She ended up with her heart growing all these vessels around the blockage in her Aorta. Now she has 3 stents in, but she lived for a couple of years with decreased heart function.
So, I decided to go to a cardiologist and start getting data on my own heart so they know what it’s supposed to look like in my body. I did a Holter test recently and wore a device that took heart readings for 2 weeks. So, now, I’ll also have about a month’s data on my blood pressure in addition to all those heart monitor readings. It’s a really good baseline of info.
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