Adding up the savings

A few days ago randomly searching online I found Cardpool, a website to buy and sell discounted gift cards for several merchants.

Ever since then I have been adding up the savings on expenses that I needed to incur:

Wedding gifts

I had to buy two wedding gifts to buy. I checked the couples' registries. One was at Macy's, the other at Target. First, I checked what they had on their registry that was on sale. I proceeded to check out to see how much I needed to pay and went to Cardpool to buy the gift cards for the total of the gift.

The gift from Target scored the best deal. It was for $99.99. The store had a 15% discount for items over $75.00 and free shipping for deliveries over $50.00. The total after taxes was $90.94. I bought four electronic cards at Cardpool with a 4.5% discount. The total paid for the cards was $85.94. I paid the balance of $0.94 with a credit card. A $99.99 gift for $85.88! Good, right?

Birthday gift

I went to Toy R Us to get something for my eight-year old niece. While searching I found an item originally priced at $49.99 on sale for $29.99. Perfect! After taxes the total was $32.16. I bought a $30.00 electronic card at Cardpool that arrived in a few hours and I used to pay for a portion of the gift and the balance on credit card. The discount for the Toy R Us gift card was 9.0%. I paid $27.30 for it. A $49.99 gift for $29.46!

In addition to the discounted cards I have bought to add savings in my household. I also bought a card for my mother-in-law. She shops at Walmart every weekend and spends about $50-$60 a week. The discount for Walmart is 3%, which means she could save about $1.50- $1.80 per week. If we get one of those discounted cards for her to use every week, she could save between $78.00 and $93.60 annually. Every saving counts!!

Do you want to give Cardpool a try? If you use this link:  http://refer.cardpool.com/v2/share/6280122156769094791 you will get a code that will deduct $5.00 off your first order.

Happy savings!