I’m not sure how your family handles the season, but at mine it revolves around food. When you’re the one hosting a meal for a dozen or more people, the grocery bill can balloon quickly.
If you’ve been lax with your budget all year, this is the moment many of us start paying attention. Suddenly, thriftiness seems appealing, and extreme couponing doesn’t look quite so outlandish.
That is, until you try it and emerge six hours later, paper cuts on your fingers and newspaper ink under your nails.
Let’s dial down the intensity a bit. Sitting at the kitchen table clipping grocery coupons from the Sunday paper isn’t the only path to savings.
It’s 2017. You can handle a lot of that work online.
We’ve mentioned MyPoints previously. It’s a shopping portal that rewards you with points for purchases made through its links — but there’s another useful trick you might not know about.
MyPoints also aggregates a large selection of grocery coupons for food, personal care, pet products, household items and more. And it even rewards you for “clipping” those coupons on its site — much easier than wrestling with scissors and newsprint.
How to Earn Rewards by Clipping MyPoints Coupons
MyPoints awards points when you print and redeem grocery coupons from its platform. Plus, it offers a $5 starter bonus.
In short: you can get paid to reduce your grocery bills. That really exists.
To begin saving and grab your $5 welcome bonus:
- Create a MyPoints account here.
- Print coupons whenever you like (up to 500 per month). You’ll receive one point for each coupon you print. After you print your first 50 coupons, you’ll unlock a 790-point bonus — equal to $5 in gift-card value.
- Earn an additional 10 points each time you redeem a coupon.
- Redeem your points for gift cards from retailers like Walmart, Amazon and Starbucks, or convert them to cash via PayPal.
Beyond the points, remember the actual dollars you’ll keep by using those coupons. At the time I browsed the site, it listed $510.25 in printable savings available.
That kind of savings might be just the relief you need to survive hosting duties without hating your relatives this year.
(Feeling ambitious? Give it a whirl — it’s worth trying.)
If you want an extra tip on scoring free pizza and similar deals, check out mypoints free pizza for more ideas.
Maya Cardenas is a staff writer and newsletter editor at Savinly. Say hello and share a good joke on Twitter @mayacardenas.
