I realized I had one of the “$5 Alice Gift Card for being a new user” that I received from my Swagbucks points a couple months ago and I thought what a perfect time to use it I need diapers badly and maybe I can find some good deals.

If you haven’t checked Alice.com please do so, it is a online store that  provides you a better way to manage all of your household essentials online they include regular daily deals and automatic coupons too.  You can create one time shopping trips or you can even create regular shopping schedules, as long as you have 6 items in your cart, you always pay FREE shipping!

This is what I got:

If I don’t use tax in my calculations then I paid $5.51 for diapers, $7.69 for 20 Forever stamps that equals $0.3845 each, and $0.35 on Alka-Seltzer, plus $.42 tax.  Everything else was FREE! That’s pretty good!  All of the items I will use! 

I paid $14.20 for $20.78 worth of products = 32% savings  (Which would be  more if I calculate using retail pricing.)

Here is my calculation:

Total before savings $20.78 – total I paid $14.20 = amount saved $6.58 / total before savings $20.78 = percentage saved 32% savings

Is this is the best way to calculate my savings?  You can read my previous post about calculating savings.  I’m always open to new ideas!