I Coupon, Therefore I Am

This week was CRAZY. I only went to CVS TWICE!! Sunday and Friday. Now that’s just very unlike me, but I was BUSY! They were already out of some stuff I wanted on Sunday, so this is all I got:

CVS made lotsa moolah on this one

Freestyle $39.99
Milk $2.99
Soy Joys $4
Total= $46.98
Coupons:
$5/$25 Rite Aid coupon (My CVS takes competitor q’s)
up to $55 off Freestyle coupon (found on tearpad at CVS) – $39.99
Two B1G1 free Soy Joy coupons
Total = $-.01 The cashier added a penny “taxable item” onto the order, so it came to $0, and I got back 14 ECB!! 10 for the monitor and 4 for the Soy Joy! Yahooo!! I love making $$ shopping!

Then Friday I went back cause we were dangerously low on sippy cups!

CVS paid 35 cents

Three Playskool Wash & Toss cups on sale for $3.59 each (I didn’t realize they were on sale so this threw my calculations off a bit! Whoops!)
Three 160 count Playskool wipes on sale for$3.99 each
Total = $22.74
Coupons: $5/$25 Rite Aid coupon (I had though it would be over $25 with the cups at regular price – cashier let it slide! Love my CVS!!)
$4/$20 CVS CRT for Playskool
$2 CVS CRT for Playskool wipes
$2 CVS CRT (expired but my CVS takes them for 30 days) for Playskool wipes
Two $1 CVS coupons for Playskool wipes
Total – $7.54
I paid with a 7.99 ECB adjusted down to 7.54, paid 35 cents cash and got back 5 ECB for the Playskool deal! Playskool wipes are my fave so I was very happy with that one!

Now, happily, KMart in our area FINALLY did the “super double coupons” thing this week! They doubled $2 coupons up to $4!! Crazy!! Here is what I got!

Kmart paid $2.24

I paid $2.24 for all of this!! My total before coupons was $39.10. Everything in the picture I got for free, except the peanut butter, which was $1. So I paid $1 for it and $1.24 tax for all these goodies!! Thanks KMART!

I also got paid three dollars by Meijer to buy 12 boxes of cereal and 9 boxes of jello, but I was too tired to take a picture when I got home. 🙂

Hope you all did great this week! To see how the rest of the crazy couponers did, check out Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom and CVS Superstars at The Centsible Sawyer!

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I Love Coupons: the Musical

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve conducted two different coupon classes (one with a part 2 scheduled soon!) and I’ve been invited to do a third. Plus I’ve given one private lesson to my friend Elizabeth. What I’ve discovered through this is I LOVE TEACHING PEOPLE ABOUT COUPONING!! It’s really fun. I look forward to doing it again soon, but I think I may need to work on my presentation a little bit. I’m thinking maybe sequins and a few musical numbers should be involved? Anyone wanna jump in and help me write some coupon love songs? No? Oh well…

Anyhoo, here’s what I scored at CVS this week! I also went to Walgreens but my #@!& Register Rewards didn’t print, reminding me again why I hate Walgreens. So once again, I have resolved to just using Walgreens coupons at CVS, since my CVS takes competitor q’s!!

paid $1.11 got back 14.24 extra care bucks

Just for Men $7.99
2 Brach’s Candy Corn $1.29 each
Excedrin $1.99
Powerade $1.69
2 Funlights $.99 each
Total = $16.23

Coupons:
CVS $3/$15
$2 off Just for Men manu q
$2 off Excedrin manu q
$3 off Excedrin CRT
Total = $6.23
I paid with 5.29 in ECB and paid $1.11 cash and got back 14.24 ECB! 7.99 for Just for Men, 1.69 for Powerade, 1.98 for the funlights, and 2.58 for the candy corn! Plus I sent in for the full rebate for the Just for Men so I’ll get back a $7.99 check! YES!!

paid $1.63 got back 7 extra care bucks

This one I just did to make the $$. 🙂
3 Pert Plus $3.99 each
1 Colgate scented toothbrush $2.99
Frappucino $1.99
Total = 16.95
Coupons:
CVS $3/$15
3 $1 off Pert Plus manu q’s
3 $2.50 off Pert Plus Walgreens Easy Saver q’s (my store takes these)
$2 off Colgate toothbrush CRT
Total = $1.45
I paid $1.63 cash including tax, used zero ECB and got back 7 ECB!! 5 for the Pert and 2 for the toothbrush. HOLLA!!

Finally, my favorite steal of the week!

CVS $2.14, got back 10 extra care bucks

2 Huggies Jumbo packs $9.99 each
2 Huggies wipes $2.79 each
Total = $25.56

Coupons
$5/$20 Walgreens q (thanks for putting this out Friday, Wags!)
$2 off Huggies manu q (home mailer)
$1.50 off Huggies q (home mailer)
$3/2 Huggies wipes q (home mailer)
$3 off Huggies diapers and wipes Walgreens q (sent to me by a friend)
Total – $11.06
Paid with 10 ECB and paid $2.14 cash and got back 10 ECB! Now that, my friends is the way to buy diapers and wipes!!

Hope you all had fun with coupons this week! For more great savings, check out CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer and Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!

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Walgreens is Acting like CVS!

I could not believe the amount of good Register Rewards deals at Walgreens this week. Since we got a CRAPPY CVS ad with only 3 ECB deals in it in my part of Ohio, I had to go get me some deals at Wags! I know, I know! It’s terrible. I was very nervous because half the time their Register Rewards deals seem to not work, but miracle of miracles, this time they all did! I won’t break it down by transaction for you, but I did three transactions and got all this for a PROFIT of $4.50 after Register Rewards! And I put all the out-of-pocket expenses on my Walgreens gift card from last month’s rebates. YAY!

walgreens profited $4.50 in register rewards

Of course I DID get a couple of things at CVS. You know me, I can’t let a Free After ECB item go unbought!
CVS stuff

Cover Girl foundation $5.49
Cover Girl powder $5.49
Milk $2.99
Crayola markers clearance $.49
Dawn Hand Renewal $.99
Total = $15.45
Coupons:
CVS $3/$15
Covergirl BOGO (took ff $5.49) manu q
$1 off Covergirl product manu q
$1 off Dawn manu q (adjusted to 99 cents)
Total = $4.97

I paid with 5 ECB adjusted down to 4.97 and got back 5.79 ECB for the Cover Girl (even though it only cost $5.49! weird huh? But I will take it!)

Later in the week, I found some SWEET clearance deals at CVS!

79 cents each!?!?! yessss!!!
These fabulous fake Crocs were marked down to 79 CENTS EACH!! Joshua has worn these all summer and they are totally fine. Haven’t fallen apart, have been great shoes. So, I got 3 pairs for each of my kids in varying sizes for the next couple of summers! I paid with a $5 ECB adjusted down to $4.74 and paid zero out-of-pocket. YAY!

Then, Thursday I needed milk so I headed to CVS to see if they had any of the freebie October monthly deals in yet (they didn’t! BOO!) I found some Huggies Little Swimmers clearanced to 89 cents and I had $1.50 off coupons! They gave me the overage on them so I only paid $1.77 in ECB (a $2 ECB adjusted down) for this, and paid zero out-of-pocket!

got paid 61 cents each to buy the litte swimmers

So, all in all, it was a pretty good week! Hope you all got some great bargains too! To see how the rest of us crazy coupon ladies did, check out CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer and Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!

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