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Combine Your Store Cards

18 years ago

I was reading blogs tonight and, as a true geek, i was reading the comments. Someone mentioned about this site where you can combine your customer loyalty cards in one card. Well hallelujah my wallet is about to go on a diet.

-Robin

Here is a link that might be useful: Just One Club Card

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mitchdesj
18 years ago
The concept is fantastic; so you have a printed copy of your barcodes with this site so I guess the clerk has to enter the barcode by hand instead
of scanning it ? I'd want to test this out in real life before emptying my wallet, lol...
compumom
18 years ago
Thanks Robin, but I have to agree with Mitch on a trial run first. I don't carry that many rewards cards, instead I just input my telephone number or ask the clerk to do it for me.
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This post is bringing up many wonderful memories. When I was a kid, our family played Yahtzee just about every night when we were on summer vacation (it was one of the few things that brought us together.) My sister and I would quietly stay up well after bedtime to have "Spit"(the card game) tournaments (it was also a great procrastination tool to keep us from homework--which also worked in college.) Our family also played Hearts, Spades, Sorry, Big Boggle (I can no longer find this version of Boggle) and Risk (there were always a lot of hurt feelings with this game.) When I was 16 I went on a bike trip across Maine with two older sisters--we brought a word dice game called Perquacky and played it in the camping area rest rooms (where there was light) at night (I think we only played if there was some sort of vanity shelf or large sink area. I hope we didn't sit on the floor.) Many of us got together this summer for vacation and we had fun with Texas Hold 'Em. My parents and a couple of my sisters really enjoy(ed) bridge. The games I've enjoyed playing with my kids are Scrabble, Cribbage (a favorite for my daughter and I when we are on vacation--we keep score with pencil and paper rather than a board), Sequence, Canasta, Chutes and Ladders, Life, Careers, Battle Ship, Rack-O and some lesser known games. Several of these come in small boxes and use special cards: Quiddler, Rat-a-tat-cat, Frog Juice, and for small kids Panda-momium and Hiss. We were/are particularly fond of Rat-a-tat cat and Frog Juice. Blink is also supposed to be very good. A game my teenage daughter and I got hooked on for a while is Fluxx--which is a card game with a special pack of cards. The rules of the game continually change depending on the card you play. It is great fun. We wore through a couple of decks. Mary 228: Harry's Hat game sounds like it would be lots of fun. Thanks for the chance to reminisce.
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Concerning gift cards, be sure to check to see if they have an expiration date (many of them actually do!). If you have a daily-reminder wall calendar, mark the expiration dates down. I'd put a note on, say, 6 months in advance and other sporadic dates saying "You have a $50 Borders card to use up!" so that they remind you that you've got them tucked away and need to redeem them. There's nothing worse than realizing too late that you've lost out on $50 of shopping power. For all those store "preferred customer cards," here's what I do. Most of them I put on a keyring. For cards I use frequently that didn't offer a keyring version, I punch a hole in the corner (away from the bar code or swipey strip). In my purse, I also carry a small rectangular zip pouch that I carry coupons, receipts, paint chips, etc. in, and I tuck in most of the other cards I have and the Bed Bath & Beyond 20%-off coupons (I never shop there without one!). Sometimes I'm tempted to just leave that pouch in the glove compartment (as long as none of those receipts have my full credit card number on them!), so it's there if I need it. Always happens that if I leave the pouch at home, that'll be the time that I need something in it.
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"Enclosed is a HANDMADE CARD. As such it deserves a place of honor and respect in your home and should not be casually discarded like an ordinary store-bought card." I have that stamp. Some people appreciate them and others don't. It is the same with any craft. My sister made beautiful 1" = 1' miniature rooms and someone asked once "What do you do with them?" Can you believe it. What do you do with a famous painting? I don't do much in card making anymore since no one around here is "into" it. I do have a friend who tells me that she has all of my cards on her mantle. The Kitchen Table is doing a Christmas card exchange and I've signed up for that, maybe that will get me going again.
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Ah yes, the age old addage look at all the money I saved!!! (sigh) I've been in retail long enough to know how these work and I also survived the consumer lobotomy that convinces people they're saving millions of dollars. Yes, you can save a few dollars over a period. I have them for the pet food stores because they have the pet food I use on them quite often for $5 off per bag. I too would prefer a straight sale, but this is the new thing. And when I sign up I give a phone number that I had shut off from a prepaid cell phone, fake address and on the pet food I do give them a disposeable email address since they do send coupons to the email addy and haven't been spamming. When I forget the card they want my phone # to look it up. Well I don't always remember the bogus # I gave them so a couple times I just signed up for a new card. The one that irritates me most is the SuperAmerica "bonus points" card. Don't use it and don't go there anymore. There's lots of gas stations and I save more across the street. FWIW, I like bagging my own groceries! First, I can pack all refrigerated & frozen together, I can keep the weight to a manageable level and I double bag these things. I'll also put stuff that needs to be separated into a plastic bag into the paper bag. And I always use handle bags if they offer them. I do know what the bags cost them but I'm sick of the bottom falling out of them and I can't do the bending over to pick the stuff up anymore. Shouldn't have to anyway. Actually, several stores around here will bag for you, usually at the busy times of the day, but I tell them I need to separate the stuff (if they ask why I say it's for different people) and bag it myself. Then pack the cart myself and I can handle it easily. I never saw a big thing about someone bagging my groceries for me. Now if they'd put them away for me, that's different! :)
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donnar57
18 years ago
Only spaces for 4 cards??? Geesh, I think I must have about a dozen in my purse! I can't even keep them in my wallet any more. It seems like EVERY store I shop at, has a preferred card. Most of them think you should keep them on your key ring, too - which would make my already heavy key ring into one that needs its own suitcase.

I keep hoping that the stores will come up with another way to do that bit, instead of loading more cards on you. Thank goodness, my two favorite grocery stores haven't come up with one yet (Stater Brothers, and the military commissary - which hasn't because you have to be military to shop there).

Let's see...Vons, Safeway, Albertson's, PetCo, Staples (I have two cards for that one), Office Depot, CV Pharmacy, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Kinkos (2), Ralph's, and Blockbuster. I just got rid of a card that I got somewhere in Colorado about 10 years ago and haven't used since. Also, I have an Albertson's Community Partners card in there as well.

Too many cards, IMHO.

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claire_de_luna
18 years ago
Yes, this is great. I did this several years ago and it eliminates having to carry all those cards around. You can print on both sides of the card, so you have the equivalent of 8 card barcodes in one. You just have to make sure the envelope you put the card in (with the window showing the bar code for the business you're shopping in) is placed appropriately when you hand them your card, so they scan the right one and it works. I made one for dh's and my wallet. Try it, you'll love it.
mustangs81
18 years ago
What great timing! In an effort to downsize, I got a new "skinny" wallet today and was struggling with the loyalty cards--strange name when you have one for every store in a three state area.
sally2_gw
18 years ago
Or, you can just use your phone number instead. No cards needed.

Sally
mustangs81
18 years ago
When cleaning out my wallet, I totally forgot I had some of the cards. So this master list will work for me. Ticked me off that I just made a large put purchase at Borders and forgot until today that I had the card. And I have been saying "no thanks" every time they ask if I want to sign up.

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