Amazon’s “Subscribe And Save” Program Will Save You So Much Money

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I’m a huge lover of Amazon. It’s probably the place I shop most. My bank account statements are literally lined with Amazon, Amazon, Amazon.

The Amazon Prime subscription is pretty awesome and I find myself relying on it more with every year that passes. I secretly hate trips to Target and if I know what I want to buy, why not just buy it online?

A bit of a caveat, not everything on Amazon is a worth buying. One of my most recent Amazon mistakes was buying food type items. No I haven’t tried Amazon Fresh, I think that’s a completely separate category, but I have tried buying in bulk Miss Vicky’s jalapeño chips from a 3rd party vender. I love them so much! I ended up buying like 40 in a box and tell me how they ended up with expiration dates that ended the following month? How am I supposed to eat 40 bags of jalapeño chips in a month? ??

I also made the mistake of buying 16 kinder eggs because my daughter loves them and I want to give them as a reward for doing homework. Tell me how their expiration date was for the following week? Why would I buy these from that seller again? I’m not going to give my daughter 16 Kinder Eggs in a week!

So you have to be careful with certain things because Amazon is still a place where people sell wholesale and sell leftover inventory when they can’t sell in their brick and mortar store. It’s just one caveat.

But I still opt for the Amazon “Subscribe and Save” purchases. These items are not going to expire as easily as food stuff so it makes sense for me to buy them in bulk or buy them on a regular schedule so I can get the discounts. When you do Amazon “Subscribe and Save” you can get either a 5% discount for subscribing to buy an item or you can get 15% off if you have five or more items subscribed for delivery that month.

For example, May I ordered five different household items so I was able to get the 15% discount that whole order. But in June, I had only three household items subscribed for delivery to so I was only able to get the 5% discount.

Any discount is better than no discount, but I usually try to arrange my purchases so that I can get 15% off my order every month. That means every month I’m getting five different items that I can subscribe to through Amazon. The nice thing is that you can move orders around so that you can meet your 15% discount with the five item minimum easier.

I would recommend going for items that are not going to expire easily, that you need on a regular basis and are easy to ship. Things like soap, diapers, baby wipes, shaving cream, lotion and shampoo are great examples.

So what am I ordering every month? On my subscription list are the following items:

Those are just some of the things that I like to buy from Amazon. Just know that they’re mostly household items that can fit in your closet for a few months and non-perishables. The subscribe featured items are also constantly being shipped to other people, so they’re less likely to be stale.

And of course this is all predicated on the fact that I have Amazon Prime, which I think I pay $13 a month to get free shipping on all Amazon Prime items. Totally worth it especially with the new Subscribe and Save feature. With a 5%-15% discount, these items are highly competitive with any other store pricing.

If you don’t have it already, definitely sign up for Amazon Prime, right now they’re offering a 30 day free trial for those just starting out! I would recommend giving it a try and mixing it with buying items through the Subscribe and Save program, it basically pays for itself! I hate making Target runs mainly because of how busy the store near me usually gets and how disorganized they are. Amazon is a deliver to your door type of service.

I used to worry that someone would steal my package but I honestly never had a bad experience with ordering through them. Their customer service centric policies are what make them an amazing business model. And they have no issues with refunding if you have a bad experience.

So would definitely recommend using Amazon as part of your grocery/household shopping arsenal. You can definitely work it so you’re saving on things you need and in bulk. At which point, the cost of Amazon Prime pretty much pays for itself.

Happy Shopping!

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