Total: $96.90 – Bought 2 DVD Box Sets for $1 each

A friend of mine sold me two DVD Box Sets for $1 each.  Not sure how well they will do on Ebay but they are worth a shot.  The titles are Dharma & Greg, Season 1 and Flavor of Love, First Season.  I’m not even sure what Flavor of Love is, but I’m selling it! 
Who owns [...]

Total: $100 – 2 software purchases – free after rebate.

Purchased two security software programs that were free after rebate.  They are selling surprisingly well on ebay, especially the Internet Security.  Believe I should be able to make $40 off between the two software programs. Also, looks like allrebates.com has an extra $25 for each of these (for switching from another security brand to theirs).  [...]

Total $100. Not a good start..

I ordered this yesterday but noticed this morning I did not get an email response. I go into the store and see these items in my cart still.  I go to purchase them and instead of $99.98 now, its $170!!  Argh.  Not a good start.  I’m putting my total back to $100 and will be [...]

Total: $53. My new first purchase

 Ok, I did it.  This first purchase for some reason seems scary to me.  I don’t want to lose money right out of the gate.  I think I can make around $50 on this buy/sell transaction so it would be a 50% return if I do.  Circuit City has Lexmark Z1480 Wireless Color Inkjet Printer [...]

Cancelled order…

Well, so much for that 2 GB SD Card deal. Looks like Google checkout denied my order because I already used my $10 last year for new users. I tried to use it for my wifes gmail id but I guess it’s only one per househould.  Oh well, just have to find another deal.  This [...]

Yeah, First Purchase…2GB SD Card for $3.95 total

Ok, this was too good to pass up.  Bought a Kingston 2 GB SD cards for $3.95  each with free shipping.  Should be able to sell on ebay for between $20 – $30.  Not taking much money out with an pretty good increase.  I think this is a good start.  Couldn’t buy more than one because I used [...]

Getting ready

Since most of my shopping will be online, I wanted to get ready.  I signed up for FatWallet.com and their cash back rewards.  Will be looking for other bonuses like this to help in this journey.
Fat Wallet Cash Back Rewards
Also, planning on using my paypal credit card as I get 1% instant savings.

The Rules

Ok, here are the Official rules:

No Gambling.

Rebates.  I will count the rebates immediately towards the total amount.  I will keep track of when I get the rebates back.

It has to be real money.  Not money “saved”.  For instance, I got a $30 gas card from another purchase and filled my gas tank – I cannot add [...]

My Christmas gift story…..

Ok, so here it is.  It’s was early December and I was asked by my parents the standard  pre-Christmas question – “What do you want for Christmas”. We do the “pick a name, give a gift” standard gift exchange.  Well, I was supposed to come up with my “list” asap so that they could pick [...]