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Are You Double Counting Your Rewards? (You might not be saving as much as you think!)

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 3&period;0&period;3 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;2px 0 2px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine; &NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-1985 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;aleasdeals&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;02&sol;Are-You-Double-Counting-Your-Rewards-ELC-683x1024&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"683" height&equals;"1024" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I’m seeing ALOT of people double counting their rewards lately at CVS&comma; Walgreens and Target&excl;&excl; You want to NOT do this&period; This will trick you into thinking you are saving way more than you really are&period; Rewards can be tricky&period; You either have to think of them like Coupons&period; or think of them like Cash&period; But you have to think of them as whatever you pick ALL the time&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4>An Example of double counting I see ALOT&period;&period;<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong>Transaction 1&colon;<&sol;strong> Buy item 1 for &dollar;10 – Get back &dollar;10 ECB &equals; FREE<br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Transaction 2&colon;<&sol;strong> Buy item 1 for &dollar;10 – Used &dollar;10 ECB – Pay NOTHING Final price &equals; FREE<br &sol;>&NewLine;Total Spent&colon; NOTHING cause they were both FREE<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&Hat;&Hat; In this scenario you are telling yourself that you got both items free&period;&period; So now you have &dollar;10 worth of FREE items&period;&period; but you are still short the &dollar;10 from the original transaction&period;&period; Doing that too much over time can have you thinking you’re saving a TON when you’re not&period; Now this is how it would look depending on whether or not you consider your rewards like coupons or cash&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4>Rewards &equals; Cash<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h1>Transaction 1&colon;<&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><strong>Buy 1 Heart Meter for &dollar;10<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;Get back &dollar;10 ECB<br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Final Price&colon;FREE<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><strong>Transaction 2&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><strong>Buy 1 Bottle of lotion for &dollar;10<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;Used &dollar;10 ECB<br &sol;>&NewLine;Pay NOTHING<br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Final price&colon; &dollar;10<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Total Spent For Both Transactions&colon; &dollar;10<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4>Rewards &equals; Coupons<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h1><strong>Transaction 1&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><strong>Buy 1 Heart Meter for &dollar;10<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;Get back &dollar;10 ECB<br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Final Price&colon; &dollar;10<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><strong>Transaction 2&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><strong>Buy 1 Bottle of lotion for &dollar;10<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;Used &dollar;10 ECB<br &sol;>&NewLine;Pay NOTHING<br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Final price&colon; FREE<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Total Spent For Both Transactions&colon; &dollar;10<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Both ways are correct&comma; you just have to make sure you view them that way ALL the time&period; You can subtract them off your total spent like you’re getting cash back&comma; and then the next week not factor them in AS cash when you spend them&period; It sounds fantastic on paper but it’s not realistic and will cost you ALOT in the long run&period; I here alot of people say &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The rewards aren’t coming out of my wallet&period;&period; they’re not coming out of my bank account&period;&period; so I don’t consider them as something I spent&period;&period;” And that’s fine&excl; But then when you get BACK rewards from a transaction&period;&period; you ALSO can’t put them BACK into your bank account&period;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 3&period;0&period;3 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;2px 0 2px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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