Birthday Extravaganza!

Yesterday I talked about how you can get lots of freebies when it's your birthday. Today I decided to cash in on some of that good stuff!  I started at Starbucks, where I had a free reward for my birthday, and a stars reward. I tried out that new Cascara Latte and a chicken and artichoke sandwich. And the barista told me that "the cookie jumped on my plate because it was my birthday". What an extra special treat! She also told me that I saved $12 on my breakfast!

After a leisurely breakfast I headed to the mall. First stop was Victoria's Secret, who gives out a $10 gift card for your birthday. When the salesperson greeted me I asked what were the specials of the day. Among other things was that the full-sized $25 bottles of fragrance mist were on sale for...guess what? $10! So my gift card made that free!

Next stop was Sephora where you get a free gift during the month of your birthday. I had my choice of either a blush/lipstick or serum/moisturizer. I went with the later. And using Caudali's full-sized bottles as a guide, I estimate the value of my gift to be $30!

After that I went to Bath and Body Works.  I recently received a coupon for 1 free "fun sized" product. I chose a yummy smelling lavender and honey scented lotion. Just look at all this stuff!

And I would have left the mall.....

but then I remembered that I previously cashed in some of my credit card points and now possessed a $25 gift card for JCPenney. Would you believe I found a cute crochet cotton $40 sweater marked down to only $5! That's a steal, even without the gift card! And I still have $20 left on the card!



Oh, but we are not done yet!  Next I went to the grocery store. Jewel loads a freebie or two almost every week, This week it was for a full-sized box of cereal and a container of yogurt.  I also had 2 coupons for free protein shakes. (You can get some for yourself at the link here) When I arrived at the store I found out that they were all out of the cereal they intended to give away, so they were substituting Lucky Charms. Eh, why not? So I walked out with $9.25 of free groceries.

Final stop: Panera.  You get a free bakery treat during the monthy of your birthday.  And for some reason I also have a have-a-free-bagel-everyday-during-March thing on my card.  So I now have a blueberry bagel for tomorrow morning, and a slice of my favorite - cinnamon crunch cake - YUM!!!

In review of my day:
$12 - Starbucks
$10 - Victoria's Secret
  $5 - Bath and Body Works
$30 - Sephora
$40 - JCPenney
  $9 - Jewel
  $4 - Panera
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$110 - total value! All free!!!!

I'm there's still More To Come!