AARP Rewards Holiday Savings & Budget Contest 2023

AARP Rewards offers wonderful savings on grocery gift cards. It used to be that my daughters and I would buy non-perishable items to help stock food pantries for the holidays. They loved to push those little shopping carts and fill them on their own. Now that they are young adults, we use the gift cards to help buy items to prepare a holiday meal and take it to the food shelters. The Rewards Program has enabled us to save, give, and learn a little cooking while we are at it (although cooking is still a work-in-progress that we're enjoying together).

I bought the carnival gift cards with a discount for Christmas gifts for family going on a cruise. I’m on a budget and this helped me save. 

Cruise line gift cards make it easy to give gifts to my family and the savings add up!

Holiday giving with the AARP rewards catalog helps me stay on budget.  I love to donate to a local non-profit organization I had previous worked closely with during my working years, to empower women.  A great gift is a gift basket filled with everyday personal care necessities along with some splurge beauty products.  I can really use the catalog to bring down my out of pocket expense by buying discounted gift cards.  For example, today is a gift card form Ulta for a 30% discount.  I can purchase this card and use sales and coupons to get more items for less money.  The gift baskets are a great way to bring a smile to women working on being their best version of themselves. 

With money being tight, I like to use the AARP rewards catalog to purchase gift cards at a discounted price.  I enjoy giving gift cards as gifts and this helps me save money.  AARP provides me the opportunity to use my rewards points to receive free gift cards that allows me to stretch my spending dollars.  Thank you, AARP!!

Throughout this year my husband and I redeemed our points, as much as possible, for gift certificates to department stores.  I shop on-line and in person on a monthly basis, looking to combine store sales, coupons and credits with the AARP gift certificates.  This has really maximized savings.  We have accumulated 25 gifts for the Spark of Love Toy and Food drive in Ventura County, California.  Thank you, AARP, for your contribution in making 25 happy kids and parents this Christmas in Ventura County.

I check AARP Rewards daily for gift cards that I or my daughter can use. I look for Target, Walmart and JCPenney for me. My daughter is more of a Nike, Jersey Mike’s, Nordstrom and Old Navy shopper. I enter the monthly sweepstakes, hoping to win. I have become frustrated with the “Instant Wins.” It is tiresome seeing “Sorry, you didn’t win” for the past several years. Maybe I’ll get lucky one day.

 Using my reward points for gift cards is a great help especially when my grandkids come over that's when I order a pizza using the Domino's card. If I redeem one or two a month I save them like saving your money it adds up and reduces your amount due. I also like Khol's you can get just about everything at that store. And my favorite CVS e-card helps me purchase the necessary items I need to get me through the end of the month. I saved (3) $10 Cold Stone e-cards and that helped me a lot for my granddaughter's birthday. Thank you AARP

  I use the Rewards Catalog to help in a few ways - I buy discounted cards to give as gifts, I use them to purchase gifts and I donate some to charities; I redeem points for gift cards to use as stocking stuffers and also to purchase gifts for others; and I buy/use food gift cards to treat myself and my family while out shopping or to relax at the end of the day.  There are so many wonderful ways that the Rewards Catalog has helped save me money, encouraged me to try new places and provided me with some free things. I love all of the ways that the Rewards Catalog has helped me stretch my budget.

I like to find Local Offers and get deals on pizzas or other take-out restaurant offerings during the busy holiday season--my limited cooking hours are usually spent baking holiday cookies to give as gifts to neighbors and friends. No time to make dinner! Thanks, AARP!