Gas Station Purchases - What small items do you buy?

@bmttinman wrote:

Please read your Sheet, no lottery tickets, LOL. If you are desperate for something I do the can tea for they are around a dollar in most shops or take a refillable cup and do fountain drink.

There are many types of these. Some allow lottery tickets, some don't, some require them.

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Bag of chips, can of Arizona iced tea; a piece of cheese. Depending on your client it's $1-2 reimbursement. So you can but that $1.59 roll of TP that you need. You claim the allowable reimbursement $1 and you paid 59 cents for something you needed anyway. Loaf of bread. Cat/dog food if you have a pet. Some of the stations carry hand sanitizer for like $1.70. Something we all can use after going to some of the places we go.

If your not going to use or consume your purchase; give it away. Take the charity tax break too. I have never had a "Please Help Me I'm Homeless" person turn down a Pepsi and a bag of chips. This is a LUXURY to most that have fallen on to hard times. Look for the good in people and Pay it Forward.

I'm getting off my soap box.

I know and do the ones you are talking about. 2 gallons & a separate in store purchase. This small area I live in! For fear of being stared at or hit by a car, I have to drive around the corner, park and walk across the street, hide as best I can and take the photos! I know everyone so they're all trying to figure out what I'm doing! Oh, I just like Johnny's 100 yr old gas station & want a picture for the living room! Lol

I buy Gum, chips or water

Water when I am parched, string cheese when I am hungry, Mentos mints when I am stale are all good close to a dollar purchases. I also keep a box at home where I collect stocking stuffers throughout the year. One staple for our stockings are small packets of tissues. I find these in colorful patterns in the gas station for about $.59. Two packs are just a bit over a dollar and not only do I get quite a few, most sales people are not a bit suspicious when soneone buys a couple of packs of tissues. On the rare occasion I shop a gas station with no convenience store, I buy a container of windshield wiper fluid. While that purchase is more than one dollar, it never goes to waste.

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I signed up for a route of gas stations a year ago. My problem was having enough room in my tank for the gas. I ended up getting gas for the lawn mowers.

Not always. I've always said "the boss wants a receipt,' or the bride will tell them "my husband wants receipts for taxes.

During the quarters where there is bonus cash back for gas station purchases, I find something that I will use and is decently priced and go ahead and spend the $5. Gatorade (on special) for the kids in sports, water, milk, juice, eggs. I take insulated cooler bag with me. Windshield wiper fluid, cheap rolls of tp or paper towels for emergency back up. One station has soft serve with toppings. The ice cream is gone in a few minutes

. I also take gas can's now in case I get too full.

I have a bunch for tomorrow. They better not be audits! uhhh

Cant buy lottery ticket, it's in shop rules

It depends upon the shop. Some require it. Some allow it. Some forbid it.

@charity53121 wrote:

Cant buy lottery ticket, it's in shop rules

Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008

@Mousegal wrote:

For the gas station shops that require a small purchase inside the store, what sort of things do you buy? I have several coming up, and with gas prices being what they are, buying 2 gallons of gas and buying something inside the store for a total of $5 will be a challenge...pack of gum maybe? Lottery ticket?

I'm strange. I buy a gallon of milk or orange juice. Every time, the reporting system flags it and says something to the effect of "That's WAY more than your reimbursement! Please confirm the amount!"

Usually do these first thing in the morning, so it's usually a bottle of orange juice. at $1.69.

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