Wednesday, August 13, 2008

I dont like to pay for stuf



Tuesday, started off the "mystery" week nicely, with a delicious Bruegger's Bagel shop, which was an instant reward one. Unfortunately, had to present the bad news afterwards to the manager (employees failed to upsell properly), but he was okay with it. My poor sandwich maker said "Sorry, maybe next time" on my way out when she found out from her manager. Poor lady, she looked embarassed. But it was a damn good pesto chicken sandwich on a sundried tomato bagel!

Later that day, I did a Yankee Candle shop, where I bought two little candles, that smell quite nice, mango peach salsa and vanilla caramel. Wife will like that. And I also used the rest of two old gift cards from previous Auntie Annes mystery shops which was in the same mall, AND I also had a buy one get one pretzel free there, so I ended up paying about $1 out of pocket for two delicious hot pretzels, not bad!

Wednesday, I had a free Del Taco bean and cheese burritos for lunch (back of an old receipt), and picked up a free bag of hot, tasty breadsticks at Pat and Oscar's for signing up online for their breadstick club. I signed up originally as these clubs usually send you coupons every so often and I am doing a mystery shop later this week at Pat and Oscar's. Lucky enough, I also got a couple two for ones which I can use for my mystery shop later. Nice to get great value, and get paid to eat! Stopped at Target on the way home to get a free six-pack of Sunchips for the toddler's lunches. They just included this free coupon on some other product we bough. All in all, a great free week so far!


Tomorrow: 5 mystery shops total to do!!

Tip: Sign up for online "e-clubs" with different restaurants, and you will often get a free initial item and ongoing deals and coupons.

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