Caregivers Marketplace is a rebate program that gives cash back for anyone who gives, gets or needs care, whether it’s for yourself, for a child or for an elderly person.  You can receive cash back for eligible products that are not typically covered by insurance or Medicare – no matter where you buy them. The program is free and confidential. You don’t even have to sign up in advance, though it’s faster if you do (click Enroll at the top of the page.)

It works like this.  You print their form, fill it out according to which products you qualify for, add all relevant receipts, circling the product name and the date on the receipt, and send it in.  Wait a few weeks, and you’ll get a check in the mail.  There’s no catch.  I sent in one set last year and I’m getting ready to send in another batch soon (thanks mostly to the Huggies deal at Walgreens last month!)  You can send in any number of receipts and items per envelope as long as there are at least five.

I typically consider it selling my receipt for cash.   If I have a qualifying product, I place it in an envelope and just wait for a few more to accumulate.  (This is also another good reason to save all your receipts! You never know when you might need them for something like this. When I got ready to send in the last batch, I noticed a product I had purchased for free after rebate at Walgreens six months earlier and dug through my receipts until I found it–profit!)  Keep in mind that you should always make sure you don’t need the receipt for something else–if there are other types of rebate items on your transaction, then ring them up separately.

Free money, and all they want is your old receipts! You can’t really go wrong.

Read more about the program, and sign up, at Caregivers Marketplace.