I am joining Sharon at My Year of Spending Less and Living More as well as Penny at "The Saved Quarter" in the $500 Christmas Challenge. Now, if you checked out the links you will see that Penny did a remarkable job at only spending $100 dollars for Christmas. I am more comfortable with using Sharon's benchmark of $500 for my challenge limit.
I will be incorporating money saving techniques that Penny has used such as Swagbucks, Groupon, Living Social and My Coupon. For the month of January, using my earned Swagbucks, I have already earned $25 in Amazon Gift Cards. I hope to do that every month,so by the end of the year I will have $325 dollars in Amazon Gift Cards.
Penny at The Saved Quarter has managed to put together an impressive gift giving list that is definitely worth more than $100 dollars. She has managed to strategically use her gift cards, mystery shopping and thrifty ways to acquire great gifts for her friends and family.
To date, I have not yet bought anything for Christmas. But check back on the Tabs up above. I will keep that page updated with my upcoming purchases. I so excited to get started with this challenge!!
You all can join along too! What do ya say??
