I decided to use some of my savings in order to prepay for Dh's 12 chiropractor visits copays and get a 20% discount. His copay is $25 per visit and the chiropractor office offered a $60 discount if we paid in full in advance, so I decided that would be a smart move with the savings. I sure couldn't earn $60 in interest over the next month! Now, I just have to really try to put $20 back in savings each time he has an appointment, to refund the savings account the $240 taken out.
I splurged $8 on myself the other day and bought a book for my Nook reader. I've really been wanting to read The Hunger Games and it's not available to borrow from my library as an e-book. I finished it in like 3 days and now of course I want to read the second book! I am so tempted to just touch that little "buy" button - LOL. But, spending another $20 right now to get the 2 sequels, isn't in my budget, so I reserved the next one at the library as a book on CD and looks like I will be waiting awhile. I did find The Help was a borrowable e-book and am reading that one now. I'm also working on getting enough points through Swagbucks and MyPoints to earn some Barnes and Noble gift cards, which I will use to purchase the next Hunger Games books, if I haven't already gotten the CD book from the library. Reading on the Nook is so much easier on my eyes, since I can adjust the font a bit bigger.
Oh my goodness - I was just looking at how many Swagbucks points I need for a $5 Barnes and Noble gift card and noticed I have a referral that joined from my Swagbucks link and I am earning some points from now!! A big thank you to whoever "Becbrennan" is! That is awesome :)
That's a nice savings for paying up front! I'd treat that $20 as a bill, when he goes to an appointment, $20 goes into savings! Good luck earning enough for more ebooks!! :)
ReplyDeleteAfter I read the first Hunger Games from the library, I downloaded the sequel on the internet by searching "catching fire pdf". A few months later I bought the set in hardcover so I didn't feel bad, haha. Just throwing the option out there.
ReplyDeleteNice! We got a discount for 25% off too for paying in full. It saved us $150!! And I just finished Hunger Games last week (I was lucky to get it from the library), and should get Catching Fire by the end of the week. Our library had a long waiting list but they had more than 200 books in stock, so I only waited for like two weeks.
ReplyDeleteI love getting discounts for paying in full in cash!
ReplyDeleteOne of the great frugal perks when you have the money to spare for it. ;-)
Yes, it's nice to finally have an EF fund where I can take advantage of a discount like this.
DeleteI got a discount on my root canal because I paid upfront. I borrowed the money from my EF, and when FSA hits...it will go right back in.
ReplyDeleteThe Help was a great book. Haven't read Hunger Games yet.
I have almost 9,800 Swagbucks, and over 16,000 MyPoints. I never know what to use them for.
Wow - that's a lot of points! I usually get Starbucks giftcards with MyPoints and Amazon gift cards (good for textbooks) with Swagbucks.
DeleteHunger games books are pretty good. They are really slated for younger readers, but I likes them all the same. Although now that I think of it they were pretty violent. I just received the paper work from my doctor that will pay for any part of my meds up to $8000.00 a year after my insurance. Score* I was slated to pay about $400.00 a month!
ReplyDeleteThat is so fantastic on your meds savings! I'm sure that is such a relief. I have tended to enjoy quite a few books slated for younger readers - especially Eragon and it's sequels and the Twilight books, and of course Harry Potter ;) My son and I had a bet who could finish them all first and I won.
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