Category: Bargains

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!

Well, it’s a good thing there weren’t too many hot deals at CVS this week, or I might’ve gone through withdrawal while in California! Fortunately, I got the best deal before I left town! Here is a funny transaction: A blood glucose meter and enough Mountain Dew to give me diabetes so I might actually have to use it!

The Contour meter was on sale for $14.99 and gave back $14.99 ECBs. The Dew was on sale 4/$12 and gave back 3 ECBs. Now as some of you may know, I have a great addiction to love of Mountain Dew. So this was a very fun deal for me! My total was $26.99. I used the CVS $5/$15 coupon and the up to $30 off Contour meter coupon. The manager told me the Mountain Dew deal was snot working so he gave me an additional $3 off my order since I would not be getting back any ECBs for it! This threw me off, because my total was $4.22 and I was going to use a $5 ECB to pay – it was the smallest I had. So I threw on a couple of candy bars (which will also give me diabetes) which brought me to $4.96 before tax. The cashier adjusted my ECB to $4.96, so I paid ZERO out of pocket and got back $14.99 ECB for the monitor! Oot Oot! (By the way, since I do not yet have diabetes, I donate these monitors to our local non-profit hospice. Just so ya know. I do not hoard blood glucose monitors.)

I also “blew” a bunch of ECBs this week on a new planner, some dry erase markers, and some milk. I love getting all this stuff for just a few cents out-of-pocket!

Since I exhausted CVS early in the week, I moved on to Rite Aid. I hadn’t done any Rite Aid Single Check Rebates in a while but this was a good week for them! I got all this for $6.33 out-of-pocket and will get back $10.47 in rebates! Yeeee-ha! That’s real cash money baby!

The Glade PlugIns were BOGO Free at $4.79 and I had two $3 off coupons, so they paid me $1.21 to buy those. I used the overage to make the other items cheaper – they were all free after rebate and I had $1 off coupons for both the toothpastes and a $2 off coupon for the hairspray. I can’t wait to get that check back!

Well, that’s all for me this week since I was out of town for half of it! For more great Super Savings Saturday tales, visit Money Saving Mom!