Good Things Friday (156) and Link Love
February 18, 2022
1. We get one week of summer a year and this was our week! Actual sun and heat and a light breeze: pure heaven. We got to spend a lot of time in the yard with Smol without having to bundle up in four layers, wash Sera, sit in the sun and read a book.
2. For the first time in the ten(?) years I’ve had my ibotta account, we bought a thing that had an actual bonus attached! It was for a $1 back for buying any brand seafood!
I’ve only been redeeming receipts for ten cent rewards in all this time so I haven’t even cashed out once. It’s a real bummer compared to other people’s earnings and I’ve been tempted to abandon it but I’m at the $16.50 now. I figure I’ll stick out until I get one $20 redemption and then I’ll close my account.
IBotta did an unintentional bait & switch on me; they had a ‘redeem multiple times’ offer on a brand that we use AND our local grocery store was having a killer sale on that brand, so I stocked up! I thought Ibotta was wonderful! But then – it dried up. An occasional offer here & there, but never as many or as much. And after an embarrassingly long time I realized that I was spending more money on extra things to qualify for offers than I was actually netting from those offers. So I ditched it.
Whoops! I’ve never even had one of those experiences with Ibotta, it’s been 10 cents at a time for years.