The time has come to work the Jennie-O turkey rebate deal I mentioned in this post!

I knew if I held out long enough, a “buy one, get one free” deal would come along, and patience paid off, because Vons/Safeway has a BOGO running through Tuesday on the ground turkey. This is normally priced at $4.99, so buy one, and get one free, or $2.50 each.

Then submit for the Jennie-O rebate for up to a $5 refund on any Jennie-O purchase. Your receipt will read that you paid $4.99 for one, and the other was free = $4.99 purchase. Submit it and follow the simple directions, and you will net $10 in ground turkey for free!

Now this is smart shopping!

The rebate is for the first 25,000 submitted, but I just Googled and am not seeing any sites reporting that the rebate funds have run out. In fact, Jennie-O still has the submission form up on its web site. See it here to print yours.

Ground turkey is a great meat substitute, especially when used in conjunction with recipes that involve a lot of flavor, like this one for black bean chili, or even Hamburger Helper.

But let’s face it, free makes it even more tasty!

Just mailed off for this great rebate, in which if you buy one Armor All product $3.49 and above and one new Armor All Wheel Protectant, you get the total price of the wheel product rebated back up to $8.99.

I found the Wheel Protectant at Target this past week for $7.99 and assorted Armor All products on special for $4. Click here for a Target coupon for $3 off any two Armor All products, which brought down the total cost for both items to $1! You gotta love $12 in merchandise for a buck!

Great deal! Here is the link for the rebate form.

I tell you, I have been netting some great rebate deals lately. Search the link at right for Rebates to see what’s still ongoing.

I am so loving rebate offers right now. Tonight, I walked out of Rite Aid with $17 in merchandise and will get all free!

Sure deodorant is offering its “try me free” rebate on a variety of its newest products — just look for the tag. And I scored on this pricey Organix shampoo. It has a full price rebate, and Rite Aid has it as a BOGO this week (that’s coupon talk for “buy one, get one free”). So I bought the Sure for Women and two Organix shampoos, and will get refunded the entire purchase price! How cool is that?

Blogs, such as For the Mommas and Saving Cents with Sense, will tip you off when these deals are available. I still need to snag the free Olay lotion rebate that just came available, as I mentioned in this post.

But you can see, you can net a lot of high-priced merchandise with these total purchase price rebates. But why do companies do it? It’s called the “heroin method” in marketing. You give people the first product free, get ‘em hooked, and then they have to buy it in the future.

But there’s nothing saying you can’t just take advantage of the free item and go about your non-addicted way.

Another tip — add coupons on top of the rebate. For example, I will get the Sure deodorant for free, but I also had a dollar off coupon, so they will pay me $1 to buy it! The manufacturer only looks at purchase price — not any other incentives you added to it.

Finally, for those people who think it’s too much trouble for rebates, as I mentioned in this post, my strategy is to send off for the rebate within 24 hours of coming home with the product. That way you have the receipt and the item close at hand for any requirements (usually they want you to copy the UPC code off the back). Also, on the UPC, they normally want you to include the tiny numbers on front and back of the larger numbers, so be sure and include those.

Yes, rebates require a bit of work, but if you found $17 outside your local drugstore tonight, wouldn’t you pick it up? That’s what full price rebates are — found money … and products! By the way, I deposited $50 in rebates tonight at Wells Fargo from this month. Gotta love free stuff!