Got Hairspray?

This week at FREEVS, I mean CVS, I bought about 4 milllllllion cans of Tresemme hairspray. This is exciting because a) I really needed hairspray and b) it was free and c) they paid me to buy it!! There was a deal going on, that is still good this week, that if you buy $10 worth of Tresemme products, you get $5 ECB. You can do this deal up to 5 times. Weeelll, last week CVS put out a email coupon for $2 off any Tresemme product. It technically expired the 24th of February, but my CVS takes expired CVS coupons as long as the register accepts them and doesn’t “beep” when they are scanned. What makes this deal even sweeter is that CVS has a small size Tresemme hairspray for $1.99 and the coupon makes is FREE-99 plus they pay you a penny to get it! On my first couple of trips to CVS this week, I bought one of the $1.99 hairsprays and used the $2 off coupon. Then, because I also had a CRT (coupon that prints on your cash register receipt) for $5 off any $15 Tresemme purchase, I did this transaction:

Three large Trsemme hairsprays at $4.69 each
One small Tresemme hairspray at $1.99
Two Preparation H portable wipes at $3.99 each (these I am giving to my cousin and co-blogger Emily for after she pops out that baby in April. Yes, I am a good cousin!)

My total before tax was $24.04.
I used my CVS $4/$20 email “welcome” coupon, two $3 off Preparation H printable coupons, my $5 off Tresemme CRT, and my $2 off Tresemme CVS coupon. I used $7 in ECBs and got back $14 in ECBs!! $10 for the Tresemme (since buying that much meant I had cumulatively spent over $20 on Tresemme products, I got $5 ECBs for each $10 I spent) and $4 ECBs for the Preparation H wipes. Woohoo! Since my ECBs had been dwindling, I was happy to have a nice money-making transaction! After all, I have got to bank some ECBs to buy the plates, napkins, flateware, etc. for Emily’s baby shower next week. I mean, no way am I spending REAL dollars on her when she wouldn’t even find out her baby’s gender like I nicely asked her to!

Anyhoo, my grocery trip this week was on a smaller scale but I still got some decent deals. Here’s what I got at Kroger for $37.44:

The Propel, tuna, and Peter Pan peanut butter were all FREE with coupons. YAY! Me likey FREE! I had $14 in coupons including the ones Kroger doubled, and I got a lot of $1 items, like the 5 bags of frozen vegetables, the loaf of bread, and the frozen chicken nuggets.

Hope you all got some great deals this week! For more Super Savings Saturday show-offs, check out Money Saving Mom! She’s the awesome couponer who taught me how to do this stuff! If you want to learn how to do it too, go buy her Supermarket Savings 101 ebook here!