Post Your Wins

[Fishindude77]

Sold the last of our kitchen appliances this morning getting ready for the remodel.
Dude just picked up the old gas range, $200.

[scfr]

4 months since we moved in to our new house, DH just acquired the last piece for our home gym. We have an elliptical, a rowing machine, a Bowflex, dumbells, and flooring. He bought the flooring new but the equipment all came from FB marketplace or yard sales. He spent right around $300 on the equipment. He rented a van to pick up the elliptical, and had to do some driving to pick up each piece. But in total, including gas, he created a decent home gym for $400 (or a bit less) plus his time. It's been a fun project for him to work on.

[james.hendrickson]

All,

Wanted to share a win today.

Normally, I'm super lazy on Saturdays, but today I motivated to make it to the grocery store.

The wins are:

1. I walked. It was a solid three miles there and back. Thats extra exercise.
2. I took back a bunch of empty cans - that's a couple more bucks in my savings
3. I cashed in a coupon for a free bottle of lemonade. Everyone loves free stuff.
4. I got a paper receipt for the lemonade and can scan that bad boy. Its the last receipt I needed to get my Amazon Opinion Rewards payment for the month - so that's a nice bonus.

[james.hendrickson]

So here are my wins.

I called my phone company, my cable internet provider and my auto insurance company.

I asked for discounts on all three, and got discounts on all three.

My phone company, T mobile, gave me basically the same plan, just for $20 less per month, and they gave me a one time $10 credit.

My insurance company, GEICO, increased my deductible, which resulted in a modest reduction in the monthly costs by about 3 bucks. I took it

My cable internet provider is xfinity - they'd increased the bill by 10 bucks a month, which appeared to be a billing glitch, so I called and had them take off the increase.

The bottom line here is: if you call and ask for a price reduction, you'll often get a price reduction.

[Like2Plan]

I'm so thrilled that I have a "win" to report.
We received an unsolicited survey from NOAA regarding weather alerts and fishing. I was going to toss it in the trash when I noticed 2-one dollar bills floating down on to the floor! Glad I didn't toss it in the shredder unopened. (I am in the process of making dollar bill graduation leis for a niece and nephew, so I really felt like I hit the jackpot ).

[LivingAlmostLarge]

I took my car that the light went on into the shop. It is 8 miles from my house. Rather than call an uber/lyft for $15 or more I paid $1.50 for a bus fare. Can't beat a 10x return

[james.hendrickson]

I found a nickel on my way to work. Its a very small win, but a win.

[jenn_jenn]

We splurged on some concert tickets for this summer. The band is well known and most of the good tickets available are marked up resale tickets at this point. I was going to bite the bullet until I decided to take a gamble on purchasing one “original” ticket and one resale ticket in the same row and within a few seats over but not guaranteed to be right next to my “original” ticket. I got lucky and our seats are right next to each other and I saved us almost $300 in doing so! I was very happy with my scheming.

[Like2Plan]

DH and I received checks from a class action suit --$78.10 total. We received checks prior to this (about $200 total IIRC). We hadn't been aware of the lawsuit when we received the first check --so we delayed cashing them 'til we could find more information about it (the web site it was about our auto insurance company using non OEM replacement parts--here is a link to the national law review with details https://www.natlawreview.com/article...ederal-lawsuit and https://casetext.com/case/hale-v-sta...auto-ins-co-24). The second check was issued because they still had $$ left over after the first round.

They web site said second round checks were not issued to those folks who didn't cash the first check.

[james.hendrickson]

DH and I received checks from a class action suit --$78.10 total. We received checks prior to this (about $200 total IIRC). We hadn't been aware of the lawsuit when we received the first check --so we delayed cashing them 'til we could find more information about it (the web site it was about our auto insurance company using non OEM replacement parts--here is a link to the national law review with details https://www.natlawreview.com/article...ederal-lawsuit and https://casetext.com/case/hale-v-sta...auto-ins-co-24). The second check was issued because they still had $$ left over after the first round.

They web site said second round checks were not issued to those folks who didn't cash the first check.

Congrats Like2Plan - that must be a nice unexpected win!

[scfr]

Got DH set up to enjoy audiobooks from the library on his phone by installing the Hoopla app. (I've been listening for years. I use Overdrive and Hoopla.) He's making a long business-related drive today so I got The Millionaire Mind and Die With Zero downloaded for him.

Also a little update on our home gym. DH realized he didn't need the rowing machine (because of the Bowflex), and he sold it for exactly what he bought it for.

[disneysteve]

We've never had a Blu-ray player. Didn't need one. A few weeks ago, my daughter found an old TV show that she wanted to see. Only available on DVD for $80 but on Blu-ray for $9. She bought the Blu-ray disc and figured she'd buy a player somewhere. I actually found a player at a yard sale a couple of weeks ago for $5 except they didn't have the remote. Went on ebay and found the compatible remote brand new for $7.77. Just hooked it up and everything works perfectly. So for $12.77 we have a "new" Blu-ray player and she can watch her disc. She's thrilled as buying a new Blu-ray player would have cost considerably more.

[james.hendrickson]

A couple of wins...

First, found a penny on street.

Second, my APO stock paid its quarterly dividend today - was nice to wake up and see that hit my account.

[james.hendrickson]

All, two small wins. I found another penny on the street - AND, I made a small transfer to my retirement account. Its not a lot, but small steps in the right direction are better than no steps at all.

[QuarterMillionMan]

Took $705 profit today selling the VXX, bought last week at $21.75 , sold today at $25.50.