(aren't the yellow ones beautiful?)"How did she manage that?" you may be asking yourself, well I'm about to tell you. I purchased the shoes from victoriassecret.com for $138. Shipping ran me $17.99 so I'm up to virtually $156, tax was $12.16 and I had a coupon that saved me $15 off any purchase over $100 so that leaves my grand total at $153.13 but wait, here's where it gets good. I get 2% back of everything I spend at Victoria's Secret. 2% of $153.13 is $3.06 and because I had gift cards left over from last Christmas the purchase costed me nothing and I even made $3.06 off of it.
As a rule of thumb I virtually NEVER make an online purchase unless I'm getting a percentage of that purchase back. The secret to that is to shop through one of my favorite little websites, a certain online shoppers heaven known publicly as ebates. It's a beautiful place with more than 1000 online stores from which to get money back on every dollar spent. Some stores give as much as 25% back sometimes! As a matter of fact last Black Friday I did ALL of my Christmas Shopping through ebates and received a sizable check from them as a thank you. You see, on Black Friday virtually every store offers double cash back on every dollar spent plus they have special holiday prices and free shipping, not to mention the coupons you can get through ebates. I've purchased everything from airline tickets to socks through them and always get money back. What's even better is that you get $5 just for signing up and you also get $5-$10 for getting friends and family to sign up. If you get a chance I HIGHLY recommend that you check them out...go ahead, you can do it now, I'll wait.......
Nice, huh?
Even my technologically incompetent mother (who I love dearly) now does all her shopping through their website. It's very easy to navigate and takes no extra effort on your part.
So there you go, just one more way I'm working to get out of debt. Who thought buying shoes could go so far to help you financially?
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