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Post by marvholly on Mar 30, 2014 5:51:28 GMT -5
I made a wise decision NOT to buy my Sun paper even though it is still $2 this week. According to the list posted by a local blogger there is NOT one coupon I would clip. Same blogger confirmed that the price on Sun is going up to $3 next week. I am fine w/no paper. I can pick up the CVS ad on a quick walk. I must pass at least 6 WAGs evry time I leave my house. I have NOT shopped at Target in forever.
I am seriously considering emailing MAJOR retailers whose insert ads only come in the Sun paper (Target, Best Buy, Menards, Lowes, Toys R Us, JCP) & explaining that I will be no longer shop their store since I can no longer justify the cost of the Sun paper and running from store to store every week to check them out is NOT feasible time wise or gas usage wise. Might eve include CVS & WAG for emails.
I am currently debating hitting WAG today or waiting until Tue for the senior discount. Savings would be 0.68 BUT they are VERY likely to be out of what I want/need.
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Post by Blonde Granny on Mar 30, 2014 7:32:12 GMT -5
Holly, our local paper went to $28/mo. I cancelled the subscription, then the phone calls started from them, wanting us to come back. They even started dropping the price when they called and I kept say no.
Who knew ? I came across a coupon for the paper that would cost $12/mo for 1 year and also give me a card gift card of $20. We're now taking the paper again, and when the year is up, I'll cancel and start all over again.
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Post by FreeSalsa on Mar 30, 2014 10:43:21 GMT -5
I had also cancelled our paper but I found a Groupon offer for $20 for the year, so I have it again. Of course, I'm barely using them. I have 4 unopened papers sitting on my desk. Maybe I should put them on hold for a while until I can get them under control or feel like shopping again.
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Post by dancinmama on Mar 30, 2014 12:34:28 GMT -5
I had also cancelled our paper but I found a Groupon offer for $20 for the year, so I have it again. Of course, I'm barely using them. I have 4 unopened papers sitting on my desk. Maybe I should put them on hold for a while until I can get them under control or feel like shopping again. That's what I'd do. Maybe take the paper for a week when there are going to be a lot of inserts and then stop it again. I got a call a few weeks ago from some marketing agency asking if I'd like an ad section delivered to my home on Sundays - ads and coupons only. Of course I said, "yes". The promised ad section has never shown up.
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Post by hopetoberich on Mar 30, 2014 13:35:06 GMT -5
I used free product mq's for Ocean Spray Cranberry sauce last night.How did I get those? Well a few weeks ago I had some in the cupboard and we buy the whole berry style. I opened it and it was all jelly. A quick call to CS and they sent me coupons to have 2 cans. 2 free anything right now really helps, it felt good to add those to the shopping cart. DH asked for a break from fruit this week. I have a PT job right by WM and go Sat usually to price match but we just cut up last weeks 2 pinapple and one melon so we should be good. Monday i want to get to the GO. Its been a few weeks and I'm out of easy snack ables.
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Post by dancinmama on Mar 30, 2014 21:33:27 GMT -5
I used free product mq's for Ocean Spray Cranberry sauce last night.How did I get those? Well a few weeks ago I had some in the cupboard and we buy the whole berry style. I opened it and it was all jelly. A quick call to CS and they sent me coupons to have 2 cans. 2 free anything right now really helps, it felt good to add those to the shopping cart. DH asked for a break from fruit this week. I have a PT job right by WM and go Sat usually to price match but we just cut up last weeks 2 pinapple and one melon so we should be good. Monday i want to get to the GO. Its been a few weeks and I'm out of easy snack ables. In the last three weeks, all I've found at the GO was (3) 8 oz. blocks of mild cheddar for $.97/ea. which falls below my price point of $2/lb. They only had (3) on the shelf.
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Post by marvholly on Mar 31, 2014 5:52:10 GMT -5
FreeSalsa, blonde granny
My last subscription was via Groupon at something like 0.50/week for 26 weeks, 4 days. IF that happens again I will do it again but I MUCH doubt it will happen since it has already been a couple years.
The paper has had ‘deals’ on subscriptions but NOT good enough: Sun 0.99/week or 4 day 1.99/week. Both for 26 weeks, paid in advance. When I let it expire they NEVER called me. Possibly because I had to call every couple of weeks about MIA papers and made them credit me the RETAIL cost of buying a replacement at the corner store which extended the subscriptions by ½ - 1 week depending on day missed.
Anyone wanna take bets? There is a really GREAT fruit/veg market a bit beyond DD1. I ALWAYS check their ad when I am going there. 99% of the time that week has NOTHING for me. I am going there this weekend. However, it 'might' be good this week since I have a BIG list for Meijer. Have not been to Meijer in months.
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Post by emhalf on Mar 31, 2014 15:46:34 GMT -5
I had also cancelled our paper but I found a Groupon offer for $20 for the year, so I have it again. Of course, I'm barely using them. I have 4 unopened papers sitting on my desk. Maybe I should put them on hold for a while until I can get them under control or feel like shopping again. That's what I'd do. Maybe take the paper for a week when there are going to be a lot of inserts and then stop it again. I got a call a few weeks ago from some marketing agency asking if I'd like an ad section delivered to my home on Sundays - ads and coupons only. Of course I said, "yes". The promised ad section has never shown up. They do this in my area, except they don't include the RP because it doesn't come out in the paper anymore. You don't even have to sign up for it, it just shows up. I usually pick up a couple of others from unoccupied houses in the neighborhood if they are still there a few days later. The RP comes out in the mail, so I can pick up several copies from the post office. I had a paper subscription for .50/wk that I think just ran out, but with these free coupon sources I certainly won't worry about getting another one.
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Post by marvholly on Apr 1, 2014 6:15:11 GMT -5
Dhunny: An old but no longer with us (didn’t make the change over) so former member posted on her blog that she is pregnant w/#3 yesterday. I check it once in a while. She is 16 weeks into this pregnancy but is NOT telling if it’s a boy or girl yet.
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Post by dancinmama on Apr 1, 2014 11:02:13 GMT -5
That's what I'd do. Maybe take the paper for a week when there are going to be a lot of inserts and then stop it again. I got a call a few weeks ago from some marketing agency asking if I'd like an ad section delivered to my home on Sundays - ads and coupons only. Of course I said, "yes". The promised ad section has never shown up. They do this in my area, except they don't include the RP because it doesn't come out in the paper anymore. You don't even have to sign up for it, it just shows up. I usually pick up a couple of others from unoccupied houses in the neighborhood if they are still there a few days later. The RP comes out in the mail, so I can pick up several copies from the post office. I had a paper subscription for .50/wk that I think just ran out, but with these free coupon sources I certainly won't worry about getting another one. No RP in the mail here. I probably would only use one in a blue moon at Safeway because The Grocery Outlet doesn't take coupons, but hey, every little bit counts. Oh well. I still have my mom's coupons as a backup, but so far I've only gotten them from her for one product (in 3 months time). Speaking of Safeway, DS got a $5/$20 on his card again. This is the second one in a row. His schedule for getting them is a one week difference from me so if the pattern continues, I'll have access to at least one for every sales ad.
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Post by Blonde Granny on Apr 1, 2014 14:38:25 GMT -5
My DH is old fashioned and still enjoys reading the paper every morning. He doesn't ask for a lot, so I figure it's well worth it. He trots out to the new sunroom with his paper and coffee, sits in robe and enjoys the new day.
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Post by murphath on Apr 2, 2014 11:21:28 GMT -5
Blonde Granny wrote: My DH is old fashioned and still enjoys reading the paper every morning. He doesn't ask for a lot, so I figure it's well worth it. He trots out to the new sunroom with his paper and coffee, sits in robe and enjoys the new day.
Me too! And count my DH in that group, although he doesn't drink coffee. I like the tactile feel of the paper. Am the same way with books. I really do not enjoy reading on a computer screen of any kind. Just an old foggie, I guess.
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Post by marvholly on Apr 5, 2014 6:00:38 GMT -5
I am probably NOT buying the Sun paper this weekend. Two of my local bloggers posted insert coupon lists. There are, maybe, two I might use. Even at the old price it is really NOT worth it. At the 50% increase it is definatly NOT worth it.
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Post by marvholly on Apr 6, 2014 5:49:52 GMT -5
Apparently I am NOT the only one unwilling to pay the 50% increase for the Sun newspaper. Stopped Sat afternoon at the local dollar store and NO ONE was buying a paper. Previously the checkout line nearly always had 50-75% of people buying the paper and whatever else. No one was buying the paper at one national chain grocery store and big chain drug store either.
Wonder if the paper will even see the issue let alone bother doing anything about it? Circulation drives advertising rates so I suppose it will take time until people who have current home delivery subscriptions run out of weeks due and refuse to pay renewal prices.
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Post by dancinmama on Apr 6, 2014 12:44:58 GMT -5
Apparently I am NOT the only one unwilling to pay the 50% increase for the Sun newspaper. Stopped Sat afternoon at the local dollar store and NO ONE was buying a paper. Previously the checkout line nearly always had 50-75% of people buying the paper and whatever else. No one was buying the paper at one national chain grocery store and big chain drug store either.Wonder if the paper will even see the issue let alone bother doing anything about it? Circulation drives advertising rates so I suppose it will take time until people who have current home delivery subscriptions run out of weeks due and refuse to pay renewal prices. Buying multiple papers for the coupons used to be a "slam dunk", but as the deals have decreased, obviously a lot of people have come to the same conclusion - that they might not get their money back out of them. After I had been able to get doubled coupons for years and was "cut off" by Vons in 2003, I wondered if I'd ever be an "extreme couponer" again. I still used multiple coupons to stockpile when it made sense, but my redemption rate fell drastically.....until WAGs started offering RRs in 2006 and I got a CVS in 2009. Unfortunately, Extreme Couponing let the cat out of the bag and there is no way to stuff it back in. The manufacturers and retailers are "on to us" and it is reflected in the deals (or lack thereof). It doesn't surprise me that people are no longer buying extra newspapers for the coupons. Even at $1/paper, the ROI is no longer the "slam dunk" is used to be. My plan is to stretch my stockpiles of non-perishables as far as I can and to stockpile perishables at The Grocery Outlet when I can find them drastically reduced in price.
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Post by rubyslippers on Apr 6, 2014 13:51:09 GMT -5
I haven't bought multiple papers in a long time but we still get ours delivered every day since both DH and I like reading it. Today I had to laugh as I got a $.20/2 Hunts tomato coupon with a restricted size on it, so I will not even be able to use it on the little cans of tomato sauce. The lack of good coupons means that unless there is a killer sale, I will be buying generic. Today at Walmart I price matched everything in my cart except for one item. Most of what I got was produce at the lowest prices I could find. I also price matched generic tomato juice.
At Rite Aid, I used my UPs to buy toothpaste as I was down to 1 tube of Crest. I will save my $3.00 UPs to buy a couple dozen eggs next week if no one else has them on sale and will pay $.18 for 2 dozen.
Kroger will stop doubling coupons next month but until then I will be getting everything on my list this week for $1.72 and will save $13.77 using all doubled coupons. I will probably limit my shopping there to gasoline cards and Friday freebies.
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Post by dancinmama on Apr 6, 2014 21:33:25 GMT -5
I haven't bought multiple papers in a long time but we still get ours delivered every day since both DH and I like reading it. Today I had to laugh as I got a $.20/2 Hunts tomato coupon with a restricted size on it, so I will not even be able to use it on the little cans of tomato sauce. The lack of good coupons means that unless there is a killer sale, I will be buying generic. Today at Walmart I price matched everything in my cart except for one item. Most of what I got was produce at the lowest prices I could find. I also price matched generic tomato juice.
At Rite Aid, I used my UPs to buy toothpaste as I was down to 1 tube of Crest. I will save my $3.00 UPs to buy a couple dozen eggs next week if no one else has them on sale and will pay $.18 for 2 dozen.
Kroger will stop doubling coupons next month but until then I will be getting everything on my list this week for $1.72 and will save $13.77 using all doubled coupons. I will probably limit my shopping there to gasoline cards and Friday freebies.
Another one bites the dust. I'm so sorry to hear that. I remember how bummed I was when I lost my doubled coupons. It's hard to believe that that was over 10 years ago. Is anyone here still getting doubled coupons? I started seeing the value of coupons deteriorate over a year ago. Hunts and other manufacturers will soon learn that in the process of learning to use coupons, couponers have learned to ALWAYS look for value. Getting freebies on a variety of products has educated the couponer that as a general rule, one brand is just as good as another - toothpaste is toothpaste, soap is soap, and tomato sauce is tomato sauce. Like you, they will opt for whatever is less expensive - coupon or not.
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Post by hopetoberich on Apr 7, 2014 2:14:21 GMT -5
Yes I can double coupons well, the first one anyway. Wegmans may still double 4? But I really am not sure. we NEED brown rice. I bought a bunch from wuc for 50/1 but no doubles in the store that carries it. I'll pay $1.50 2LB probably. I priced matched 4 huge beautiful mangos for 49c each at wm last night 99c pinapple 1.29 melon but they would, t do chicken breast saying it wasn't a named brand like perdue ok I can live with that I handed it right back. Now she can put it away for her trouble. hope to find some deals this week. I got the usual sandwich stuff from the deli n it was $30 for bread and all the trimmings. Its getting expensive to eat I can make more $ BUTsome folks cannot and this must hurt some budgets.
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Post by marvholly on Apr 7, 2014 5:42:27 GMT -5
I have ALWAYS been a couponer from the time I married in 1969. I NEVER bought multiple papers even when we were 4 at home. Closest I ever came was grabbing the inserts from my Dad (when he remembered to save them for me) for a few years and by then the ‘gravy train’ was already over.
Dancin I NEVER remember metro Chicago having regularly doubled coupons. Once in a blue moon had a day or an ad week or a coupon to use to double a single coupon. NOT seen any of that in YEARS.
There are MANY items out in the food and/or HBA world that have federally minimum mandated quality/content standards. All dairy products, OJ, ice cream/ice milk/sherbet, and a BUNCH of others I have forgotten. Worked in the quality control industry for eons.
Hope I expect to have MANY issues w/Walmart re: price matching and coupon overage when my big store finally opens. Seeing summer these days vs the spring I had thought. I KNOW I will have to carry the coupon policy w/me and send for the store mgr LOTS while I ‘train’ their cashiers.
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Post by skubikky on Apr 7, 2014 8:45:20 GMT -5
Wegmans and Tops are still doubling coupons up to $0.99. Tops has $1 coupon doubler days which allow you to double up to (4) $1 coupons in a visit. They do this a few weeks a year.
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Post by dancinmama on Apr 7, 2014 10:40:48 GMT -5
It's good to know that at least SOME stores are still doubling. I hope they continue to do so.
And speaking of WUC (hopetoberich's post)....I go on that site from time to time to see how much action there is. I usually check out the CVS threads first because during the two years that I was fairly active on the site, CVS got the most traffic.
This morning I decided to check it out. The CVS Coupon Discussion thread and the CVS Chit Chat thread (both of which were hoppin' in the past) have not had a single post in 3 and 4 days respectively and today is Monday which means that there were no posts in either of them over the weekend. In addition, this morning there were only 852 people active on the site at the time I logged in. When I was on the site regularly, I rarely saw that number drop below 1000. Nathan, the originator of the site, first appeared on Extreme Couponing in January of 2011 (if I remember correctly). I don't know what the traffic on the site was like before his appearance, but active users peaked a short 4 months later at 5590 in May of 2011. That means that activity has dropped by 85% since the all-time high.
People still seem to be plugging along, sharing the deals that they find, but obviously there are not enough deals to attract a huge following to the site anymore. In the last half of 2012, I noticed that Nathan was no longer making FrugalTV videos as he had regularly in the past. These videos were posted to YouTube and links were provided to them on WUC. As it turns out, he stopped because he was forced to get a "real job" to support his family. Since then, 99% of "his posts" have been computer generated to alert users of printable coupons that are available. Quite frankly, I don't think he coupons at all anymore or is even a part of the site.
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Post by rubyslippers on Apr 7, 2014 15:10:22 GMT -5
I went to CVS today and would've done the Venus razor deal but they were out of stock so I got a raincheck. At Walgreens, I picked up my 10 free photos that was a deal from last week. At Meijer I had IPQ's, 2 store Q's and some digital rewards to use. I bought 2 Scott 12-pks. TP, 1 Viva 6-pk paper towels, and 2 Viva on the go napkins. I spent $3.72 OOP and received a $5.00 catalina. I should also see a $5.00 reward in my account tomorrow.
CVS ?: The red machine used to give out store coupons at least 3 times, but the last few times I've been there, I only get one printout. Is this the case now?
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Post by marvholly on Apr 8, 2014 6:00:20 GMT -5
Ruby With the terribe weather this winter & my Dad's passing winter 2013 I have only been hitting CVS 1x/week. The red machine has been spitting out a series of coupons 2x as long as my arm. Almost NONE of them have been of interest to me or have anything to do w/what I regularly buy at CVS.
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Post by FreeSalsa on Apr 8, 2014 21:06:04 GMT -5
It's good to know that at least SOME stores are still doubling. I hope they continue to do so. And speaking of WUC (hopetoberich's post)....I go on that site from time to time to see how much action there is. I usually check out the CVS threads first because during the two years that I was fairly active on the site, CVS got the most traffic. This morning I decided to check it out. The CVS Coupon Discussion thread and the CVS Chit Chat thread (both of which were hoppin' in the past) have not had a single post in 3 and 4 days respectively and today is Monday which means that there were no posts in either of them over the weekend. In addition, this morning there were only 852 people active on the site at the time I logged in. When I was on the site regularly, I rarely saw that number drop below 1000. Nathan, the originator of the site, first appeared on Extreme Couponing in January of 2011 (if I remember correctly). I don't know what the traffic on the site was like before his appearance, but active users peaked a short 4 months later at 5590 in May of 2011. That means that activity has dropped by 85% since the all-time high. People still seem to be plugging along, sharing the deals that they find, but obviously there are not enough deals to attract a huge following to the site anymore. In the last half of 2012, I noticed that Nathan was no longer making FrugalTV videos as he had regularly in the past. These videos were posted to YouTube and links were provided to them on WUC. As it turns out, he stopped because he was forced to get a "real job" to support his family. Since then, 99% of "his posts" have been computer generated to alert users of printable coupons that are available. Quite frankly, I don't think he coupons at all anymore or is even a part of the site. Looks like Nathan shot himself in the foot. I wonder if it was the pay he got for going on EC or the bragging rights that made him do it. I liked to share info but only with certain people. You gotta fly under the radar for this couponing thing to work! Oh well, maybe some day, something will come up that will be comparable to the deals we got then.
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Post by marvholly on Apr 9, 2014 6:33:00 GMT -5
I VERY much doubt the 'old' deals (FREE w/ecbs/rr after coupons) will come back. From what I am seeing sale prices are getting MUCH worse, coupon values are declining and purchase requirements (buy so many, so many withing a group, spend $xx, limit 1 purchase).
I have seen most of my local grocery ads and I am NOT impressed. I cannot believe how poor they are just 10 days before Easter. Marketing depts must think everyone does everything at the LAST minute. I KNOW I don’t and NEVER did. Baking was always done over the month before. Meat was generally bought at least a week ahead. I still have ads to check for 2 of my fruit/veg markets. I am REAL disappointed in the price of eggs. Lowest I have seen is 0.99 at WAG starting 4/20 & MY holiday starts 4/15.
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Post by rubyslippers on Apr 9, 2014 7:13:24 GMT -5
Marvholly, there is a printable egg coupon out that is $.55/2 dozen. I plan on using coupon next week when I price match Walgreens eggs at $.99.
Last night at Rite Aid I got the game Chutes & Ladders @ 75% off which made it $2.99-$2.00 IPQ-$1.00 UP, so only paid tax. I price matched a couple of games from Toys R Us at Walmart last week for $1.00 each after coupons. I have 3 birthday gifts for great nieces and nephews for $2.00 plus tax.
Our beef we get from a local farmer will arrive this weekend. The price is up $.20 lb. more than last year but is still a good deal for us as there is no comparison in quality to what I used to buy in the stores.
An interesting article in the paper that states the sales tax revenue is down in our area. The weather the past several months has hurt sales but I don't think people are spending too much beyond necessities these days.
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Post by emhalf on Apr 9, 2014 10:22:40 GMT -5
I went to CVS today and would've done the Venus razor deal but they were out of stock so I got a raincheck. At Walgreens, I picked up my 10 free photos that was a deal from last week. At Meijer I had IPQ's, 2 store Q's and some digital rewards to use. I bought 2 Scott 12-pks. TP, 1 Viva 6-pk paper towels, and 2 Viva on the go napkins. I spent $3.72 OOP and received a $5.00 catalina. I should also see a $5.00 reward in my account tomorrow.
CVS ?: The red machine used to give out store coupons at least 3 times, but the last few times I've been there, I only get one printout. Is this the case now? I think so. I've seen that "sorry, super scanner..." message way too many times. But it's weird, sometimes it will tell me I don't have any more coupons, but I'll get more on my receipt when I check out. I was able to get the MM venus this week, and the skintimate shave gel with the $2 EB so that I could use a $3/$10 shaving items CRT. I have generally been getting good scanner coupons. Our main grocery store (Giant Eagle) still doubles up to .99, as well as a couple of local chains - Kuhn's and Community Market. GE did stop taking competitor coupons recently, but they had a ridiculously generous policy for that.
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Post by murphath on Apr 9, 2014 11:16:37 GMT -5
The CVS q's have not been forthcoming for me. I get the one they advertise but that's been about it. Every now and then, they'll send me a $4/$20 in an email but even that is rare. All good-I usually just use the one advertised CRT to get the free or close to free product. Probably why I'm not getting much else. I scored at the 99 cent store yesterday afternoon. Bought: 2 family size boxes Kashi heart to heart cereal (like cheerios) 1 box Ortega taco shells 1 pkg. strawberries (and they are beautiful!) 1 bag tangerines (5 in bag) 1 bunch of bananas 1 pkg. carrots 1 pkg.fresh zucchini (3 zukes in the package) 1 pkg. Comari tomatoes (they also look beautiful) Spent $9 and change. I ate one of the tangerines and the thing was practically falling apart, it was so juicy. Had to contend with seeds but that's the price to pay for a bargain.
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Post by saveinla on Apr 9, 2014 16:40:44 GMT -5
hopetoberich,
Are you using both the SBTV and the Entertainow mobile apps to get swagbucks? I just found out about Entertainow and it is slower, but hopefully since I dont have to watch it, I will earn more SB now.
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