We used to have cable TV and realized it just wasn’t a “need” as much as it was a “want.” We only watched a few channels consistently and most of our shows we watch are available online. Cancel unnecessary services (and avoided signing up for new ones) Here are few other ways we’ve been able to save money and make (mostly) regular payments on our medical bills. I use coupons for each of these items (total coupon savings of $5 and total ad/coupon savings of $22 for my entire purchase). Most people think of Walgreens as a pharmacy/healthcare type place only but they have personal care, household goods, food and even pet items. That list in the middle is the drop-down menu of all the categories available. The Walgreens app lets you add both digital coupons and deals from the weekly online ad to your shopping list and it shows you your total expected savings. You can add items to the shopping list manually in case you need something that doesn’t have a current coupon or is on sale that given week. This makes the shopping process even more rapid and easy. I also like how the Walgreens app lets you search their weekly advertisement for their store and place items from that ad and from your clipped coupon list to a shopping list. Online subscriptions only are more expensive than the paper subscriptions. That costs money and if you let it slack, your driveway can start to look like this: We get the paper delivered three days a week (we pay for one and they give us two.) Sound dumb considering we get around to getting the coupons out about once a month? It’s one of those weird situations where for my job I need to have access to what the paper says and it’s cheaper to get the paper version delivered and then use the “free” Internet version. The digital coupons are entirely paperless (as in they don’t say download these and print them) and more importantly, free! Keep in mind, that to get most paper coupons you have to subscribe to a newspaper to get those. Walgreens’ paperless coupons feature all kinds of products that help you live well. They are entirely digital and I can just scroll through on my phone while watching TV or right before I go into the Walgreens store and “clip” the coupons on my Balance Rewards card. That’s what makes the new paperless coupons on the Walgreens app so awesome. I just don’t have the time for all that nor do I want to deal with the waste from all the coupons I didn’t cut out. Time is money and I can make more money if I use my time on client work rather than becoming a candidate for those obsessive couponing shows nor do I want to drive all over town to visit six stores to make sure I get the cheapest deal on each item. I recently discovered through #CollectiveBias that Walgreens has an app (both in iPhone and Android) and man, does it make coupons easier! Truth be told, while I know coupons can be good I am not one of those people who will sit for hours and scour for every deal possible. Being a member of store clubs like Walgreens’ Balance Rewards helps save money on specials and in this case, Walgreens’ paperless coupons are automatically deducted from your total at the register when you “clip” the coupons to your card. For example, I figured out that if I wait for a Balance Rewards member discount on contact lenses to come around (usually about once every six weeks, I think), I can save lots of money on my contact lenses if I buy from Walgreens as opposed to the well-known discount contact lenses sites. When we find a store we frequent or a product we need to buy often, we often look for coupons or other deals to help reduce that cost. I share this because I know that with rising medical costs, more and more people are going to find themselves in this situation. Here’s the top ways we’ve been able to save money to get out of debt from medical bills. With new technology like the ability to “clip” paperless coupons from Walgreens, saving money is even more achievable. We’ve been blessed, however, to be able to continue making payments on those bills because we found ways to save money where we could. But we both came into the marriage with high medical bills that we were paying off and we both have incurred more in the nearly six years we’ve been married. It’s no secret that about four years ago, I was laid off from my job and that makes finances tight under any circumstances.
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