Saving Money at Target & A $1,000 Target GiftCard Giveaway!

***This Sweepstakes Is Now CLOSED***

I love Target! I have been shopping at Target since the mid 90's. They have wonderful home decor, clothing and now that I am married, have kiddos, and have a household to run, I do my grocery shopping there. Because of that a few months back we signed up for The Red Card. We figured, heck why not save 5% every time we shop there? We were basically throwing money away by not signing up. 

As if 5% off was not good enough I was recently told about the new Target Cartwheel App!

You can use the new Cartwheel App from your phone, laptop or desktop computer. 

It is fairly easy to use once you figure it out. Here is how I use it. First I sign into the Cartwheel App from my desktop to browse all the offers.

They have so many categories with over 700 offers (coupons) to choose from.

After you choose the category you want to browse you just click on the offer you want to add to your Cartwheel.

There are even offers for Target Cafe! This is a plus for Oldest & Littliest because every Friday after school you can find us browsing the Target aisles with snack in tow.

The most exciting thing about Cartwheel are all the offers for groceries. With all men in the house I am sure you can  imagine how expensive grocery shopping can be!;) 

A drawback to the Cartwheel app is that you can only add 17 offers/coupons to your Cartwheel. This means you should choose wisely. I am hoping that in the future they will change that.

The app keeps up with your offers/coupons and also how much you have saved...or at least it is supposed to keep up with how much you save. I will get back to that in a moment.

After I loaded all the offers/coupons I wanted onto my Cartwheel I headed off to Target with phone in hand. My first offer/coupon I took advantage of was, of course, at the Target Cafe. What trip to Target is not complete without a popcorn Combo!? All I did was show the girl at the checkout my bar code. She scanned it and I saved. Easey Peasey.

These are the items I saved on with the Cartwheel App during my last visit to Target.

Here is where the savings come into play and my adrenaline starts rushing!;) T-shirt for Oldest normally $12.99  with Cartwheel App just $10.39. Boys socks normally 6.99 with Cartwheel App just $5.24. The biggie and most impressive savings was on the king size sheets I purchased. They were normally $59.99 and I paid only $44.99 with the Cartwheel App!

I wanted to see just how much I actually saved using The Cartwheel App so I came home and added it all up. Without The Cartwheel App my total was $109.19 BEFORE tax. By using The Cartwheel App my total BEFORE tax was just $85.35. That is a savings of $23.84 BEFORE tax and BEFORE my additional 5% I saved using my Target Red Card. Yes you heard that right you still get the additional 5% off when you use your Target Red Card on top of your Cartwheel savings. A win win in my book!

There are a few drawbacks to the App in my opinion. One drawback which I mentioned earlier is that you are only allowed to add 17 offers/coupons to your Cartwheel. The second and I am sure it is just a kink and honestly has no effect on my true savings is the fact that it did not calculate my savings accordingly. The App says I only saved $.41 when I clearly saved $23.84 before tax. The app is for in store only purchases which is not a big deal.
Pluses  are that you can use Cartwheel offers over and over until they expire. They do have a daily limit though of 6 Cartwheel barcode scans, meaning you can receive the discount on everything on your Cartwheel list up to 6 times every day. Cartwheel offers are typically weekly, monthly and quarterly. In my book Target's Cartwheel App gets two thumbs up!

Now on to the Sweepstakes!

You can win a $1,000 Target GiftCard® by leaving a comment telling me what your favorite Cartwheel offer is.  
Sweepstakes Rules:

No duplicate comments.

You may receive (2) total entries by selecting from the following entry methods:

1. Leave a comment on my blog letting me know you would like to win the $1,000 Target GiftCard and if you already use the Target Cartwheel App to save money.
2. Tweet (public message) about this promotion; including exactly the following unique term in your tweet message: “#SweepstakesEntry”; and leave the URL to that tweet in a comment on this post
3. Blog about this promotion, including a disclosure that you are receiving a sweepstakes entry in exchange for writing the blog post, and leave the URL to that post in a comment on this post
4. For those with no Twitter or blog, read the official rules to learn about an alternate form of entry.

This giveaway is open to US Residents age 18 or older. Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail. The notification email will come directly from BlogHer via the sweeps@blogher email address. You will have 72 hours to respond; otherwise a new winner will be selected.


The Official Rules are available here.

This sweepstakes runs from 1/30 - 2/28.

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Write by: AN - Wednesday, February 5, 2014