STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
I just need you to know about two ways Starbucks is being kind to us this holiday season.
FIRST // STARBUCKS FOR LIFE
Right now, if you are a member of My Starbucks Rewards, each purchase you make at Starbucks gets you a game piece. Game pieces are played to win a variety of prizes: Starbucks for life (1 drink a day for 30 years), Starbucks for a month (1 drink a day for 1 month) and Starbucks for a Week (1 drink a day for a week). They also have the prize of extra stars (12 stars = 1 free item). Extra stars = being closer to a free Starbucks drink.
Here’s what’s cool. You don’t actually have to purchase anything. I’ve been doing my research. Login at Starbucksforlife.com, scroll down to the bottom where it says “Need a play?” and then submit your info. Check your e-mail, and you’ll get a game piece. The game ends on January 11.
SECOND // BUY 5, GET ONE FREE
I’m really late on this – but Starbucks has these little cards where for every grande holiday beverage (think peppermint, eggnog & gingerbread) you get a sticker. Collect 5 stickers and you get a free holiday beverage. PLUS you get your regular reward stars (every 12 stars gets you a free drink) AND you get Starbucks game pieces. If you’re lucky, you might find a Starbucks where the barista fills up your card in two visits for no apparent reason. Not even complaining. This one ends on Christmas, so get going.
In case you aren’t a member of My Starbucks Rewards, you need to join. It doesn’t matter if you don’t go to Starbucks often, because the cool news is the points add up, regardless of how often you go. Just for joining, you’ll get a free drink or pastry for your birthday.
Once you’ve earned 5 stars within a year, you’ll advance to the Green Level, where you can have FREE REFILLS on brewed coffee and tea while you’re in the store. This is where Starbucks gets me. A pumpkin spice iced coffee with cream is a poor man’s PSL, and I can drink endless amounts of it while I work at Starbucks… for like $3. Win.
After you’ve earned 30 stars within 12 months, you’ll be advanced to Gold Level, where you get a free pastry or drink for every 12 stars you earn.
All you have to do is join My Starbucks Rewards here.
Okay. Go buy all the Peppermint Mochas!
Oh I’m trying so hard to save money and avoid places like Starbucks right now, but this is making it hard to resist
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AHHHH DON’T DO IT IF YOU HAVEN’T BUDGETED FOR IT!!! because you’ll still have to spend all of that money to get something free! NOT WORTH IT! RUN AWAY!!! ;D (although with the holiday drink one, you could always do a starbucks run for some people and get the free drinks that way haha)
Totally got a free Starbucks from the 5 sticker thing on Sunday and I have a free one to redeem for hitting 12 stars. Yaaaay free stuff!
YES!!!!! do you do the thing where you get like a venti with extra everything for the free drink?? haha
Normally I buy tall drinks, so when I get a free one from stars I just get a grande. But I’ve been buying grandes to fill my sticker card and then just getting a grande for free. I don’t even know if I could finish a venti…or at least finish one and still feel like a human. Hahaha.
I always forget about the 5-drink promo they have this time of year and without fail, am never given the sheet until like a week before Christmas! Womp.
SAME HERE! it started awhile ago and i only just got one for the first time, but luckily the guy at that starbucks gave me TWO stickers and then the next time i went he filled the whole thing up, so it kind of made up for it? we gotta be on top of remembering this next year! haha
BRB, just gonna go buy all the peppermint mochas, ever.
RIGHT? i want to be like “who wants a grande peppermint mocha? that’s all i’m buying from now until christmas thanks”
Soooo my grocery store might not have read the “buy 5” card fully, and I’ve been getting stickers for my tall lattes haha! Grandes are a bit too much caffeine for me, so this season has been perfect 😉
OH MY GOSH! YOU ARE SO LUCKY! i got a tall one and the lady was like… ooooh sorry. and i was like COME ON JUST PUT A FREAKING STICKER ON IT!!!! hahaha. i didn’t actually say that. but you’re so lucky!
Shut the front door! I haven’t heard of the game pieces. I need to look more into that. I knew about the starbucks rewards.
liz @ sundays with sophie
the starbucks for life thing is brilliant because you can just get free game pieces everyday so it is literally no purchase necessary! and you can earn free stars (i’ve only earned 1 so far, but i’m not complaining) which is awesome even if you don’t win the big prizes!
What how do you earn free stars?