The main way I save for my Disney fund is by using rebates. My favorite type of rebates are issued by alcohol companies and are commonly referred to as beer rebates.
Beer rebates are most often issued by Heineken, Budweiser and Coors and are found in grocery and convenience stores. You will not find them on the beer companies website. They require you to buy a certain amount of their product and in return they give you a rebate on commonly purchased items such as meat, produce, soda and even gift cards.
BUT if you live in one of these lucky states (The lucky states are AL, AR, CT, HI, KY, ME, MD, MO, NC, NJ, NY, OK, UT and WV.), you can just buy the item and not the alcohol and still get the rebate! (It will specify on the form if you are required to buy the alcohol or not. We never are required in AL.) that by law do not allow rebates by alcohol beverage companies, you can still get the rebate on the commonly purchased item!
What do I mean exactly? Say there is a rebate that reads “Buy 2 12 packs of Budweiser and $10 worth of meat. Submit your receipts and the rebate form and get $10 back.” if you live in one of the lucky states, you just have to buy the meat! You would get $10 back via rebate for buying $10 worth of meat!
The fine print on the rebate will indicate if it is valid in your state.
Here is an example of a beer rebate: here. Notice along the bottom how it lists the states that do not require any beer purchases? Also look at this one. It lists in the fine print which states can participate and which ones require no beer purchase.
Another awesome thing about beer rebates is 90% of the time they require receipts instead of just receipt. So you can use multiple receipts to purchase all the qualifying items.
Always make sure to notice the start and end date for the rebate. They usually have both.
So now that I told you about beer rebates, I bet you want to find some yourself. I rarely find them in my store so I have to either buy them online or trade for them on Hot Coupon World. You can buy them on Ebay by searching “Beer Rebates”. Make sure you read the fine print!
If you want to trade for them, you need to start here.
See all the rebate deals here.
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I live in one of the “lucky” states! I LOVE beer rebates. FREE, FREE, FREE!!!
Not PA, bummer!
i NEVER knew about this! But i dont drink either.
I live in a ‘beer purchase necessary’ state, but luckily I have a neighbor who loves Budweiser, LOL! I don’t do Coors and Heineken because they are well-known for not paying (tried them once myself and didn’t get paid, so why bother?) in the BPN (beer purchase necessary) states.
I SOOO did NOT know this!! We don’t drink….and we live in a lucky state! Now, I’m excited!!!
Bah, us Floridians never get the good stuff, no double coupons, no beer rebates without the purchase.
It says that they buy rebates, that doesn’t make sense to me. I would never buy coupons. Can anyone help me make sense of that?
Be sure to read the listing very carefully – I found one that is posted and has already expired!
I dont live in one of those states-guess I’ll actually have to take up drinking-darn..LOL
I had no idea about this!!! Probably because I live in CA and we never qualify for cool rebates like this, but I will now be on the look out for some in hopes that I will find them.
FYI- I was looking at the link on ebay and some of the rebates qualify in other states then you listed so it is worth your time to check it out!!
I sure with it was in Florida! Fl never gets those good deals!
I wish I was in a lucky state. Im in VA but I am no where near the WV or NC border so that won’t work either. :-(
Michelle,
If it’s a $20 rebate on $30 worth of food and I bought the rebate form for $3.00, then I’m actually getting a $17 rebate on $30 worth of food….which is more than I would have ever had considering I can’t get the rebate forms through any other means. Does this help?
Check Ebay. I just went on there and found no beer purchase required rebates for VA and there were some for FL too. You might just have luck after all. I ordered 4 or 5 just a few min. ago and a few of them had FL on them to where you didn’t have to buy the alcohol!
I will have to check this out.
Often if you ask at the grocery store they can give you the rebate forms for free. I had a helpful cashier let me know about them once.
Woohoo! I did NOT know this. Even though my husband will gladly drink the beer (LOL), it’s good to know we are in one of the FREE states and don’t have to. I’m off to go check out Ebay!
I did not know this. This is awesome!!
I need to look into these on Ebay, because I can never find them in my grocery stores!
Ugh!!! I live in a purchase states, but I saw booklets of these about 3 weeks ago in my stores. Next time I’ll know to grab some for you!!
Even if you don’t drink beer, and you live in a beer purchase required state, this should not discourage you from looking for the forms. Earlier this Spring I saw a $50 beer rebate wyb a case of beer and a patio set. If you were going to buy the patio set anyway, isn’t it worth buying the $25 case of beer to get a $50 rebate??? This example is not an anomoly. There are indeed times where the rebate exceeds the beer purchase.
I need to come back and re-read this article when I have more time. I saw this the other day in the store but didn’t know what it meant! I am all about the rebates!
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Now, I live in a beer purchase required state (NV, go figure-lol). However, we have a family vacation home in a NBPR state. Can I purchase my goods, minus the beer and have the rebate sent to the other home? Or would the receipts from NV stores, negate the address? We don’t drink, so it would be awesome if we could partake in these rebates without needing to actually purchase the alcohol.
Where do the people selling these on ebay get them? I would love to be able to cut out the middle man.
Where do you guys find your beer rebates? I have looked in the alcohol section of Walmart and food lion, but can’t find any. I have also looked in gas stations, no luck. Would the ABC store have them?
Are you in NC? I have never heard of ABC stores until I moved to NC. I haven’t looked yet in any, though I have found a few at Food Lion. I mostly trade iwth others. Though I would be curious if others have found them in ABC stores. I really would love to know how some people can find tons of good ones.