Now that I’ve become hopelessly addicted to got the hang of couponing at CVS, I’ve decided to try my hand at making Walgreens pay me to shop there. It’s not as easy as the CVS ExtraCare programs but it can be done! So, last month, I read Money Saving Mom’s Walgreens 101 primer and did one of their rebates in their EasySaver Rebate Catalog. I paid about $4 out-of-pocket for a couple of items (I used coupons to buy them) and was eligible for $6 in rebates. Not too bad but nothing spectacular. However, if you get your rebate on a Walgreens gift card instead of having them mail you a check, they give you an additional 10% of your rebate total. So actually I got $6.60 on my gift card, which I was excited to receive on New Year’s Eve!
This was not a bad start, but this week I really amped up my savings. Walgreens also has a program called Register Rewards which is similar to CVS’ ExtraCare Bucks. They usually only offer Register Rewards on a couple of items per week, and the Register Reward is a COUPON for a certain amount off of your next order. It isn’t exactly like “Walgreens Money” but it’s close enough. Anyhoo, this week Walgreens was selling a children’s Dimetapp for $4 and offering a $4 Register Reward. Woohoo! This was made sweeter by the fact that they had $2 off Dimetapp printable coupons at dimetapp.com. WHICH I printed 4 of. So 4 different times, I bought the Dimetapp, paid $2.77 including tax, and got $4 Register Rewards back. I then used those Register Rewards to buy things that I am going to get rebates on. For example: Glade Scented Oil Candle refill packs are on sale 2/$5. If you buy four, you also get a $4 rebate ($4.40 if you choose to put your rebate on a gift card.) Well little old me just happened to have four $1.50 off a refill coupons, so my four refills cost me $4 – just the amount of my register reward! So I paid only tax (on my new Walgreens gift card!) for them, and I am getting back $4.40!
Here’s me dreaming of my rebates…
To make the deal even SWEETER, Walgreens also had Glade Scented Oil Candle Holders on sale buy one, get one free this week. Well, I also happened to have five or six “buy one get one free” coupons for those as well, so this week I hit a few Walgreens and got 10 Glade Scented Oil Candle Holders for FREE! Woohoo! (Which is why I am giving them away!)
I did most of my shopping on Sunday the 30th, before I had received my rebate gift card in the mail, so I did spend about $8 out-of-pocket (because you can’t use the Register Rewards you earn on a product to do the same deal again, so I paid out-of-pocket for the Dimetapp), but I am getting back almost $20 in rebates on the items I purchased, PLUS I have all that great stuff and all those FREE candles! So I think I did pretty well! Although CVS is still my first love, if Walgreens is going to pay me to take stuff out the door, I will gladly do so!
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I so can’t wait for Walgreen’s to hit my area! You’ve just made my day, saving some money!
Wow! That is incredible!!
What an awesome shopping week! I love your pic dreaming of rebates! Cool! Thanks for sharing!
Ok, how weird did your dh think it was to take that picture of you?
he enjoys my silliness, lucky for me. he was cracking up!
Exactly HOW MANY candles do you need? If it were chocolate bars, or Dr. Pepper, or something useful, I could understand. But glade candles? at least they do not have an expiration date.
Great job! I haven’t gotten into the Walgreens rebates yet. It just seems like 1 more thing for me to try to keep track of. CVS is my first love as well. Right now I have about $130 in ECB and I sent the rebates in for the Breeze monitors and should be getting about $80 back in rebates. It’s been a good week.
I put my web site address wrong above. This is the correct one.
That’s awesome – great inspiration for me!
That picture of you makes me laugh so hard!!
Good golly, how many Glade candles do you have now??!!
You have the funniest photos, what a hoot!
I am still waiting for my Nov. card to come but, it is so hard to wait!!!
Oh and I wanted to add for people wondering those candle refills only last about 3 hours or so. If you burn one everyday you could go through a ton of them.
Thanks for letting me know that, Crystal, about how quickly the candles burn. I didn’t want to go to bed tonight thinking that Jenny is becoming a hoarder and starting to collect out of date newspapers and peanut butter and sour cream containers… because you never know when you are going to need them again… I couldn’t stand having her turn into MY PARENTS! Whew! That was a close one.
Those photos remind me of my friend Jo’s house on Monday mornings. She does ‘The Grocery Game’ and always has loads of everything and spends nothing. *lol*
jenny,
got any suggestions on how to get the Dayton Daily so cheap for Thursdays and Sundays? I found a website – Discounted Newspapers – that’s offering it for 5.59/month, but i didn’t know if this was a trial offer for one month. DDN seems like it’s only offering 5.79 for a limited time. thanks for your thoughts! i might be getting brave enough to start CVSing =)
Jen, I don’t live in Dayton, but here’s what I have done to get the INTRODUCTORY RATE for FOUR YEARS now. I call to “cancel” every three months when the special expires. They are more than happy to retain me as a customer at the discounted rate rather than lose me as a customer. I would assume that this would work in Dayton as well.
that is awesome. I really need to get into using coupons and rebates more. I am missing out on saving some mula here!
I hear they have alot of cats too…..hmmm
You are the prettiest girl in the world!! With ga-ga rebate eyes! ~xo
Dsto, leave the cats alone….Jenny, you better have the best smellin’ house around with all them there candles. Dang your lipstick is awesome! Love you!
You amaze me with the good deals you find!! Great job!
If this world runs out of cough medicine or scented candles, I am gonna hunt you down!