Monday, September 17, 2012

The REDCard Rocks!!!!

"Hello.  My name is Kim and I am addicted to Target."

Sigh - I wish it wasn't true but it is.  Target is by far my favorite shopping destination.  I buy all my groceries there and find myself making additional "quick trips" at least once each week.  It's an unhealthy addiction - but I figure in the scheme of things it could be way worse.  At least I'm not addicted to heroine or buying seriously overpriced shoes.

That said - in order to temper my addiction and make myself feel better about all the unnecessary purchases I make I got the REDCard.  Just in case you didn't know - the REDCard is a debit card (much like a bank card), valid only at Target, and works just like any other debit card - except you get 5% off every purchase!!!  Yes - every purchase.  Since I buy groceries there every week this is a nice little extra savings on top of my coupons - so far I've saved $250 this year alone!  Cha-ching!!!!

Another nice thing is the 5% discount works online AND provides free shipping on all orders.  So - in my quest to pay less than retail AND get a jump on my Christmas shopping I went online to Target.com to see if there were any deals to be found.

My son is a Lego-maniac - he seriously has at least 20 Lego sets already but he LOVES them, they are educational and have the added bonus of keeping him quiet in his room for hours.  Worth every penny.  However, they are pretty spendy and rarely go on sale.  Last week when I was grocery shopping at Target I swung through the toys section and notice someone had left a $5 off coupon next to a Star Wars lego.  This Lego set was new, regularly priced at $29.99 and marked down to $28.49.  With the coupon it was less than $24 which is pretty respectable.

LEGO Star Wars Saesee Tiin's Jedi Starfighter 9498


I decided to order it online and put it away for Christmas.  I was able to use the $5 off coupon and with my REDCard got free shipping ($7.49 value) plus an additional 5% off ($1.17) which brought the price down to  $22.32.   Not too shabby.

I thought I might be able to go one step further though and get an even better deal.  I linked through Ebates which is an online shopping site that offers cash back for purchases.  Right now the deal for shopping Target through Ebates is 4% back - and as a new customer I was offered at $10 gift card of my choice (of course I chose Target) if I spent $25.

I couldn't pass that up.  I went back to the Target site and found these really cute pajama pants to add to my order.  Hayden is obsessed with wearing them AND they are the same color/design as his swim team mascot (The Piranhas) so I know he'll like them.  They were only $4.48 and will go under the tree from Santa.

Grand total - after all was said and done - came to $28.27 - essentially the pants were free - and that doesn't include the 4% cash back from Ebates ($1.13) or the $10 gift card I got for joining.

Yippee!!!

The deal on the Lego is good through September 22 if anyone else is interested in purchasing.

Happy consuming!

Kim



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