This Week’s CVS-capades!

***Edited to add: for a video of me shopping at CVS this week, see this post here. I added it later today! You won’t regret it!***
Well, I started off this week thinking the deals at CVS were not too great this week, but once again CVS totally came through for me! First, I went in to get some milk and make some photo prints and got all this:

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Milk: $3.19
Two Oral B toothbrushes $3.98
Two Sobe Life waters $2
Two Rolaids 3-pks. $4.98
Ten 4 x 6 photo prints $2.90
Total = $17.05
Coupons used:
CVS $5/$15
Two 75 cents off Oral B coupons
Sobe B1G1 Free coupon
Ten 4 x 6 prints free coupon
Total = $6.65
Paid with 6 ECBs and 65 cents cash, and got back 7 ECBs! Two for the toothbrushes, one for the Sobe, and four for the Rolaids.

While I was printing my photos, I saw a tearpad on the photo counter of all places, for up to $55 off the Freestyle glucose meter. Now these just happen to be one of the May monthly ECB deals, and they are $10 with $10 back in ECBs! Woohoo!! So I grabbed two of these coupons since there is a limit of 2 on this deal. Unfortunately, the store I was at was out of the meters, even though they had the coupons! So a couple of days later I went to another CVS and got this:

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One Freestyle Lite meter at $10
One Neutrogena spray-on Sunscreen at $8.49
Total pre-tax ws $18.49
Coupons used:
CVS $5/$15
Freestyle coupon adjusted down to $10
$2 off Neutrogena sun care item CVS coupon (emailed to me last week. It expired 5/18 but most CVSes in my area will take them until they “beep” at the register)
Total including tax: $1.60, which I paid in cash and got back 10 ECBs for the meter!!
BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE!
I went back and did this exact same transaction again and got the $10 for the meter and an additional $5 ECB for the Neutrogena sunscreen! If you bought $10 worth, you got 5 ECBs, so the two Neutrogena purchases combined to give me the $5 ECB on the second transaction. OOT OOT! For reasons that shall be revealed later, (probably next week!) I was completely out of ECBs before I did these two transactions. So, by spending only $3.20 cash, I made $25 in ECBs, and my suppy is now replenished! Oh, CVS, how I LOVE you!!

Because we are pretty well stocked up on groceries, I went down to our local market and only bread, bananas, and cheese this week. So I spent less that $7 of my $40/week grocery budget there, and just about $11 total with the money I spent at CVS. YAY!!

Well that’s it for me this week! For more awesome deals, check out CVS Superstars at the “Cents”ible Sawyer, and Super Savings Saturday over at Money Saving Mom!

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Fun With Competitor’s Coupons!

Since I found out that my local CVSes take competitor’s coupons, I had a bit of a field day, or field week this week! I went to CVS WAY too many times, but here are just a couple of my transactions. Twice the cashiers who rang me up didn’t even KNOW that they took competitor’s coupons, depsite a sign at the register that said so. Uhh…so I guess I gave them an education!

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Here we have:
1 Schick Intuition at $8.88 (purchased for my homegirl Luanne)
1 pair of clogs for my baby boy Joshua $5.99
1 Colgate toothbrush $3.99
1 Bday card for my old lady friend Breck 99 cents
total =$19.85
Coupons:
$3/$15 CVS coupon
$4 off Schick Intuition coupon
$3 off Schick Intuition WALGREENS ES CATALOG coupon (woot woot!)
$1 off Colgate coupon
= $8.85, paid with $7.99 in ECBs and 64 cents cash, and got back 9.99 in ECBs. (6 for the Intuition razor, and $3.99 for the toothbrush!) Hootie Hoo!!

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Next we have:
1 Gallon milk $3.19
1 Pledge $2.99
1 Advil $3.99
2 Colgate Max Fresh $5.98
1 Viactiv $5.49
total = $21.64
Coupons:
$4/$20 CVS coupon
$2 CVS Pledge coupon (emailed to me. It expired 5/4 but my CVS takes them for 30 days!)
$1 Pledge manufacturer coupon
$2 Advil coupon
Two $1 Colgate Maxfresh printable coupons
$2/$2 Colgate Maxfresh WALGREENS ES coupon!!
$3 off WALGREENS in-ad Viactiv coupon!!
$2 off Viactiv manufacturer coupon
total= $3.64
paid with a $3 ECB and some change and got back $7 ECB!! 3 for the Viaciv and 4 for the toothpaste! I got paid almost $4 to buy this stuff!!!

Finally, we have:

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Adidas deodorant $4.99
Viactiv $5.49
Advil $3.99
Burt’s Bees lip gloss clearanced for $1!! Yay!
Total = $15.47

Coupons:
$3/$15 CVS coupon
$3 off WALGREENS in-ad Viactiv coupon
$2 off Viactiv manufacturer’s coupon
$2 off Advil coupon
Total = $5.47
Used $5 ECB and 34 cents cash and got back $7.99 ECB! 4.99 for the deodorant and 3 for the Viactiv!

Thanks CVS for taking Walgreens coupons!! You are my BFF drugstore!

Now on to Kroger – the grocery deals haven’t been too hot around here lately, and I made a sort-of big trip to Meijer last week, that wasn’t really worth mentioning. But finally Kroger had some good deals this week! I got all this:
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For $11.59!! The total before coupons and promotions was $29.59! So I saved $18! The cereal was 4/$10 and if you bought 4 you got an additional $4 off your order. Of course I had four of the $2 coupons for the Chocolate Honey Bunches of Oats, so I ended up getting paid $2 to buy these! The Nestle Quik chocolate milk singles were free with doubled coupons, too. Yay!

Well that is all I got folks! To see more, head over to the “Cents”ible Sawyer for CVS Superstars and to our guru Money Saving Mom for Super Savings Saturday!

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Great News for Dayton Area CVSers!!

All of my wildest dreams have come true: all of my local CVS stores are now accepting competitor’s coupons!! That means we can have a coupon FIELD DAY with Walgreens EasySaver (ES) catalog coupons and in-ad coupons and also Rite Aid coupons!! I have tried this several times in the last few days and have had no problems. All of my local CVSes now have a sign at the register that says “We gladly accept competitor coupons” or something to that effect. Sooo, since I love you, dear readers, for all those CVSers in the Dayton area, I put together some scenarios that match up current CVS ECB deals with Walgreens ES coupons. Just go into Walgreens and pick a few up! They’re usually right up front with the weely ad. YOU’RE WELCOME! Here ya go:

Schick Intuition Razor
CVS Price: $8.88, get 6 ECBs back (limit 1)
-$3 Walgreens ES catalog coupon
-$4 Schick coupon from 5/4 RedPlum
=$1.88 and get 6 ECBs back!

Colgate Max Fresh Toothpaste
CVS Price: $2.99, get 2 ECBs back (limit 5)
Buy two @ 5.98
-Walgreen’s ES catalog coupon for $2/2
– two $1/1 Colgate Max Fresh printable (available in the special offers section at Colgate.com)
= $1.98 and get 4 ECBs back!

If you have a CVS $3/$15 coupon, you can combine these deals (with a small filler) and spend about $1 plus tax and get 10 ECBs back!!

Viactiv Chews 60-90 count
CVS Price: $5.49, get 3 ECBs back (limit 5 – this is a monthly deal but sale price is only good this week!)
Use $3 off in-ad coupon found in Walgreens ad THIS WEEK and make a 51-cent profit!! Use the $2/1 coupon from the 3/02 RedPlum insert and get major overage!!

Other deals:
Buy $10 of select Irish Spring and Softsoap, get 4 ECBs (Qualifying items: 18 oz Irish Spring body wash $4.99, 12 oz SoftSoap body wash $3.99, 8 pk. Irish Spring bar soap $5.99, and 40 oz. SoftSoap hand soap refill (not sure of price on refill.)
Use Walgreens Easy Saver catalog coupons: $2 off Irish Spring Body Wash, $1 off SoftSoap body wash, $1 off 8-pk. Irish Spring bar soap
Combine with manufacturer’s coupons from 4/27 Smart Source: $1 off SoftSoap body wash, (there is also a printable for this on the special offers section of colgate.com), 50 cents of Irish Spring body wash, and 30 cents off Irish Spring bar soap.

Buy $20 of select Crest/Oral B products, get 10 ECBs
Crest Pro-Health toothpaste and and rinse are included in this at $3.99 and you can use the Walgreens ES catalog coupon for $3/2 as well as the manufacturer’s coupons that were in the P&G insert on 5/4! (I used all mine at Walgreens last week though!!)

Have FUN!!

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