Mommin' It Up!

January 2, 2009January 2, 2009

Just Tryin’ to Hustle Up Some ECBs

I made it to CVS twice this week, basically just to make some ECBs. Nothing too exciting, although it was fun as always!

Early in the week, I did this transaction:
Contour meter $14.99
2 Colgate $5.98
Propel $.40 (clearance for some reason – this surprised me!)
Schick Intuition razor $8.99
Total = $30.36
Coupons I used:
CVS $3/$15 (for some reason this only took off $1.50, but i didn’t complain!)
up to $30 off Contour meter (-$14.99)
two $1.50 off Colgate q’s
$2 off Schick Intuition q
Total = $8.87
I paid with 8 ECB and paid, with tax $2.34. I got back 5 ECB for the meter, 4 for the toothpaste, and 5 for the razor, for a total of 14 ECB. Yay!

Then on Thursday, I had to ring in the New Year by getting those January monthly deals!

Two throat cooler pops $9.98
Nasogel $7.99
Clorox toilet wand refills (we needed these! My CVS has been out of them forever.) $3.89
Total = $21.86
Coupons:
CVS $3/$15
BOGO free throat cooler coupon $4.99
$2 off Nasogel coupon
Total = $11.87
I paid with an 8.99 and 3 ECB (adjusted down to 2.88) and paid 49 cents cash and got back 9.98 ECB for the throat cooler pops and 7.99 for the nasogel for a total of 17.97. Woohoo!

That’s all the fun I had this week, hope you all did great! For more CVS-capades, check out CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer.

December 6, 2008

Super Savings Slacker!

Oh friends of the blogosphere, I did not do too much couponing this week! I did go to CVS this week, but alas, I have hidden my bag o’ goodies from myself so I can’t take a picture!! This Momnesia is really killing me!! But I will tell you that my transaction resulted in me paying 77 cents for 2 Dove lotions, a Fusion razor and a Venus Embrace razor. YAY! And I got to use the Walgreens $5/$25 coupon at CVS since mine takes competitor coupons. And I got overage on the Dove with coupons and a CRT. It was all very exciting. I just wish I had a pic to show you!

Speaking of Walgreens, I did go there to get some Christmas presents since they had a spend $25, get $5 register reward promo going on, and I still had some $$ left on my Walgreens rebate gift card. So here is what I got!

The Little Einsteins bingo, magnetic drawing board, and Littlest Pet Shop were 3/$13.98
The pig webkinz (Merry Christmas Kate!) was $6.99
Colgate $2.99
Kleenex 89 cents each with Wags coupon
I had $8.55 on my gift card and a $1 off q for the toothpaste. My total was $17.99 after those and I got a $5 Register Reward for spending $25 and a $2 RR for the Colgate so my net total was $10.99 for all that, including 4 Christmas presents for some of the kids in my life! YAY!

That’s all I did this week. Hopefully next week CVS will have some more EXCITING sales and I can get my groove on again! To see how everyone else did, check out CVS Superstars at The Centsible Sawyer and Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom.

November 29, 2008

Turkey, Dressing, and a side of CVS

This Thanksgiving I had the joy of being with my parents at their house in Virginia and also seeing my Uncle, Aunt & cousins that I hadn’t seen in years. We had a great time, and it was made even better by the fact that there was a CVS in the small town near my parents house. YAY! So my dad and I got to CVS right at 10 a.m. when it opened on Thanksgiving Day and I cleaned up! I won’t bore you with the dirty details, but I did three transactions and got all this, about $75 worth of stuff:

for about $6 out-of-pocket. I started with $14.99 in ExtraCare Bucks and I ended up with $39 ECBs. Yeeehaaa! (I am *trying* not to be sad about the fact that I could have made much more $$ if I had been at home with my regular CVS peeps, because they accept competitors coupons!) The CVS employees here in Virginia were really sweet and seemed to be impressed with my savings.

I went back the next day and used some of my earned ECB stash to get toys for the kiddos to play with here. Good times!

That’s it for me, I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!