Jewel-Osco Saturday Morning Sampler Savings Report – March 2018 #3

Dave Gates

6 years ago

Hello Everyone,

Dave Gates reporting in for my third Jewel-Osco Saturday Morning Sampler Savings Report of 2018.

I though it would be interesting to report how much I’ve saved by redeeming the coupons for free items at our local grocery store.

Secondly, I like building blogs and this experiment offers me the opportunity to create content and learn new skills.

We live in the Chicago-Land area and one of the major groceries stores is Jewel-Osco. Last year I signed up for MyMixx rewards and downloaded their smart phone app.

A lot of blogs publish income reports on how much their blogs are earning. I’ve decided to take this concept and turn it around a bit.

Instead of reporting on how much my blog is making, I plan to report on how much I’m saving by redeeming coupons for free items. It’s kinda fun to track how much this adds up.

disclaimer: Some of the links below are affiliate links. If you have any questions about any of the information from this report, please leave a comment and I’ll reply very early in the morning before the wife and kid wake up.

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This report includes the following.

SAVINGS THIS MONTH March 2018 ($17.02)
YEAR TO DATE SAVINGS ($47.58)
LIST OF ITEMS
WEBSITE TRAFFIC
EMAIL LIST
BLOG UPDATES
LESSONS LEARNED
MOVING FORWARD

Click here to see How much I saved last year.

NUMBER OF COUPONS REDEEMED THIS MONTH = 8

LIST OF ITEMS

Coco Community Coconut Water (8.45 oz)
$2.99
Toffifay & Reg Stick Pack (1.16 oz)
$1.39
Vita Coco Pressed Coconut Water (17 oz)
$2.99
Bubly Sparkling Water (20 oz)
$1.89
Sunnyd (16 oz)
$1.49
Hershey’s Gold Bar (1.4 oz)
$1.09
Bodyarmor SportsWater (700 ML)
$1.69
Left Field Farms Non-GMO Milk
$4.49

WEBSITE TRAFFIC

Overview

Any blogger will tell you there is a lot of work behind creating the articles and maintaining a blog. But it is actually fun and interesting. There are many ups and downs along the way.

March I had a lingering ear infection, that put me on antibiotics and steroids to help clear the fluid in my ear. Nevertheless, I pretty much feel back to normal.

Our traffic is slowing increasing and our newsletter is growing. I’m super excited about it, for more details see below.

If you are enjoying these reports please share and comment. I’d really appreciate it.

February 1, 2018 – February 28, 2018

March 1, 2018 – March 30, 2018

Here are the top traffic sources for February 1, 2018 – February 28, 2018

Here are the top traffic sources for March 1, 2018 – March 30, 2018

EMAIL LIST

February 2018

March 2018

I find developing and growing a mailing list is harder than I anticipated. I’ve signed up and registered for an email newsletter service with Mailchimp.

My plan is to track the growth of this list. I joined in last year, we have a great base to start with. Everything I read suggest offering something of value for free. So I’m working on developing this. Do you have any suggestions?

What sort of opt-in reward would you be interested in?

For all you long time bloggers, I know you’ve always said to start growing your email list. Well, now is your opportunity to join my list and help me grow this thing.

BLOG UPDATES

Our email list is growing, we added one more to our list. How exciting.

I’m still loving the themes from Studiopress. I highly recommend them. I’m currently using the Lifestyle Pro Theme.

I’ve been working on the monthly report you are reading here.

I’ve also been working on Coin Roll Hunting and What I’m Reading Series of articles. Are you liking these? It’s been fun.

Yes, I’m still happy with Bluehost and their services. If you are in the market for starting your own blog, I highly recommend you click on his link and check it out. Thank you.

LESSONS LEARNED

The purpose of this report and doing all this work is to report how much money the free items add up to. So it really doesn’t matter if it’s a Saturday Morning Sampler Item or just a MyMixx item. If I can clip the coupon in the MyMixx app and get the item for free, I will include it here.

Do you have any other recommendations for this report? Please comment and share below.

I’d also like to start working with video and sharing more through YouTube. That was a good idea, up until YouTube changed their monetization options, making it more difficult for the little guy to make a few extra bucks, but I still think it would be worth doing more video. I find video to be much more time intensive. If you have any suggestions on how to create videos quickly, I’d love to hear from you.

MOVING FORWARD

The plan is to continue visiting my local Jewel-Osco on Saturday morning’s for their Free items in 2018. I’m a sucker for anything free.

I’m also gearing up for tree house project so stay tuned for that article series.

I’ll also be working on tweaking the layout of the site and writing more articles. Stayed tuned, and please leave me a comment, don’t be shy!!

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Sincerely yours