Why Buy Allergy Medicine When You Don’t Have Allergies?

To make meth money of course! Therefore, I now own several boxes of Alavert. There weren’t a lot of great deals this week and I know some peeps who can use this stuff! I needed a lot of things this week that I was going to just “blow” ExtraCare Bucks (ECBs) on – milk, gift bags, tissue paper, greeting cards, etc. – so I wanted to do a money-making transaction as well. Here’s what I did:

Three boxes of Alavert @ $6.99 each
1 Pria bar on clearance for 55 cents as filler (tasted like mint-flavored cardboard. Blecch!)
total was $21.54
I used the $4/$20 welcome coupon CVS emailed me
Three $4 off Alavert coupons
This brought my total to $5.54 before tax. I used a $5 ECB and paid $1.40 on a CVS gift card we got for Bobby’s prescription when he was sick a few weeks ago, and I got back $12 ECBs for the Alavert! Yay! I loves making me some CVS money!

In addition to the stuff I mentioned that I needed above, I also stopped in at CVS this week to get my poor hubby some Athlete’s Foot cream. Fortunately, it was on ECBs and there was a CVS coupon and manufacturer’s coupons out for it! Shew! Here’s how that went:

Two Lamisil @ $16.49 each
3 Thank-you cards for the ladies who organized the Sony Mommy Blogger Event @ 99 cents each
1 Speedstick 24/7 $3.99 (FREE after ECBs!)
My pre-tax total was $39.94!!
I used the CVS $4/$20 welcome coupon
Lamisil B1G1 Free coupon
$2 Lamisil peelie on the box
$3 off Lamisil CVS coupon
$1 off mennen deodorant coupon
This brought my total down to $13.45. I used $13 ECBs and paid $1.85 cash and got back $9.99 ECBs! 6 for the Lamisil and 3.99 for the speedstick. I was very excited about this deal since that Lamisil is so expensive!

Now, on to Walgreens. Let me say that this Thursday is the first time I have been to Walgreens’ ALL MONTH! Why?? Because their system can be a real pain! I have had so mnay Register Rewards deals not work and so many clerks not know what to do with a coupon, that I really am just planning to go there to get my Free After Rebate (FAR) items from now on unless there is a really big money-maker Register Rewards deal that I cannot pass up. But anyhoo, enough griping. Here is what I got:

Aquafresh $3.49
Tums QuikPak $4.49
Colgate 360 toothbrush $3.99
(not pictured a Mocha Frappucino for $1.39. I slammed that bad boy in the car on the way home!)
My total before tax was $13.36. I had a $2 coupon for the toothpaste, a $1 coupon for the toothbrush, and $1.50 in Register Rewards from a previous transaction. So, I paid $9.70 including tax (on my rebate gift card from last month) and I will get back over $13 in rebates! Holla!

Finally, we go to Kroger. We didn’t need too much this week thanks to the wonders of couponing that leads to stockpiling, and the sales weren’t too awesome, but I did well enough.

I got all of this for $22.74. This is pretty good since the Bertolli skillet meals are normally $7.49 each! They were on sale for $4.99 and I used two $1.50 off coupons. These are tasty and I love it when I can get good-quality convenience food for cheap. The cereal and Fiber One bars were part of a promotion that took an extra $4 off my order, and I had coupons for them, so they ended up costing only 50 cents each. They bread was marked down to 99 cents and is now residing happily in my freezer until we are ready to eat it! Since our grocery budget is $40/week, we were still way under budget this week! Yay!

Well that is it for me! For more great CVS stories, check out CVS Superstars at the “Cents” ible Sawyer, and for more thrifty tales of couponing, check out Super Savings Saturday, hosted by our guru, Money Saving Mom. And if you haven’t ordered her Supermarket Savings 101 ebook yet, do it!! You can check it out here!