Category: See Jenny Shop

It’s just not a successful Sunday for me without a good drugstore run! I hope that’s not blasphemous (yes I DID go to church BEFORE I went to the store…this time) but it’s so much easier for me to do my big plan transactions when Bobby is home with the kids!  So I went joyfully and kidlessly to Rite Aid and CVS today. Here’s what I got! It was a high out-of-pocket day for me but I got plenty back to make it worth it – plus, I just needed some stuff!

Rite Aid:

Charmin $6.49

Two Lays’ Chips $6

Two Oral B CrossAction Pro Health toothbrushes $2.99 each = $5.98

Complete Contact solution $7.99

Pentech Erasers $.29

Two pocket folders 50 cents each = $1

Crayola markers $5.29 (OUCH!!! I could not believe the price. But oh well, it all came out all right.)

Crayola crayons $.99

Total = $34.03

coupons:

-$5/$25 Rite Aid Video Values printable

-$.25 Charmin from recent P&G insert

-$2.99 BOGO free Oral B toothbrush from today’s Red Plum

-$.75 Oral B from recent P&G insert

-$1 Complete solution from today’s Red Plum

-$2 +UP Rewards from last week

new total =$22.04  I still had a few dollars left on my Rite Aid gift card from June’s rebates, so I used that and then piad $19.31 including tax. I got back 5 +UP rewards and will get back a $7.99 rebate for the contact solution and $1 for the Crayola.  So, about $14 back on a $19 purchase – not too bad, especially since we really needed the toilet paper and school supplies!

Then, it was on to CVS.  I had ZERO ECBs, having blown the few I got last week, so I had to start from scratch. Happily, I got a $5/$25 purchase in my email this week so that helped.

Purex laundry sheets $5.99 (for my BFF Luanne, she loves these!)

Gillette Fusion ProGlide $9.99

Crest ProHealth Clinical toothpaste $3.49

Blink eye drops $7.99 (I love these!)

Clorox toilet wand refills clearance $2.99

total= $26.96

coupons:

-$5/25 CVS email coupon

-$3 Purex from today’s inserts

-$4 Gillette razor from recent P&G

-$.75 Crest from recent P&G

-$1.50 Blink from today’s Red Plum

total =$16.70 + $2.14 tax = $18.84 and I got back 18.49 in ECBs – 3 for the Purex, 2.50 for the Cret, 7.99 for the eye drops, 4 for the razor and 1 for using my CVS green bag tag 4x.  So, I almost broke even on that transaction! I was pretty pleased and now I have lots of ECBs for next week!

I really enjoyed my Sunday shopping this week – what did YOU get??

Once was not enough for me to hit the Kroger Add up the Savings event this week!  I wanted to stock up on some more cereal, Fiber One bars, and Capri Sun Roarin’ Waters.  So I went back sans kids (woot!) and did two transactions!

On the first one I bought 4 boxes of Fiber One bars and 4 boxes of Golden Grahams treats bars and saved 95%!  Spent $1.42 after coupons and the buy 8, get $4 off promo.  I used my $5 catalina from buying Kraft cheese earlier in the week on this order and got back a $2.50 catalina for buying the Fiber One bars!  So I got back more than I spent. 🙂

I think I might save that receipt forever!

I did one more transaction buying 16 of the buy 8, get $4 off items and the rest of the things my family needed:

I spent $28.86 on this after coupons and the promotion and saved 57%. Now we are ALL stocked up and next week I should only need milk and fruit from the grocery! Yippeee! Thanks Kroger!

I did some online shopping today at Payless Shoes because I needed to get both kiddos some back-to-school shoes.  They are having BOGO get one 50% off now PLUS you can get an additional 20% off with coupon code 36093!  PLUS you get 3% back if you shop thru Ebates!! So I got a pair for each kiddo for $25.20 shipped, plus I am getting 3% back! You can get FREE shipping if you choose to have your order shipped to the store, but I paid for shipping because the whole reason I was shopping online was to avoid dragging my kids to the shoe store, as I already know their sizes. 🙂 Here’s what I got.

For Joshua: These shoes by Smartfit.  (He wears uniforms so he needs pretty plain shoes.) They are exactly the same as the pair I got him last year, and they were GREAT!  I got him two pair (they had blue last year, disappointed they don’t have that this time) and between the two pair they made it all year and he wore them 5 days a week!  They are only $14.99 – definitely got my money’s worth on these! (I was surprised to see someone had posted a bad review of them on Payless’ website – I had the exact OPPOSITE experience – loved these shoes!)

I got this pair for Sophie, also my SmartFit. I thought they were so cute! They were also $14.99, so just $7.50 with the BOGO sale:

The coupon code took $4.80 off my order, and with tax and shipping ($5.95, not too bad, and again, worth me not having to drag the kids to the store) my total was $25.20. I am pumped!

What back to school bargains have you gotten?  You can win some GREAT back to school prizes from us next week, so stay tuned!