Going Steady with CVS and Flirting with Walgreens

I was a little bummed out about the CVS deals this week. My area didn’t get quite as many of the fabulous ECB deals that the rest of the country did! But, since my CVS accepts expired CVS q’s for 30 days and competitor q’s, it turned out to be an ok week!

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This was my first transaction of the week:
Bic Soleil razor $5.99
Bic Soleil cartridges $5.99
M&M’s 50 cents
Benadryl $4.99
Total = $17.47
Coupons:
CVS $3/$15
$4 off Bic Soleil manu q
$2 off Bic Soleil manu q (printable)
Two $2 off Bic Soleil Walgreens EasySaver catalog q’s (woot!)
$1 off Benadryl CRT (on my CVS receipt)
$1 off Benadryl manu q
$1 off Benadryl Walgreens ES catalog q
Total = $1.47 before tax
I can’t find my receipt, so I don’t remember what it was with tax, but it was $2-something. Didn’t use any ECBs and got back 5 ECB for the Soleil purchase (July monthly deal!) Plus the Benadryl counted toward the Johnson & Johnson by 20, get 10 ECB deal, and the M&Ms counted toward the Buy 10, get 5 candy deal. Yay!

Next up:

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Two Colgate Total @ $1.50 each
Schick Intuition $3.99
Benadryl $4.99
Tums $3.69
2 Starburst $1
Glade candle refill $3.29
Total = $19.96
Coupons: CVS $3/$15
One $1 off Colgate manu q
One 50 cents off Colgate manu q
Two $1 off Colgate Target q’s
$2 off Tums CRT
$1.25 off Tums manu q
$1 off Glade CRT
$2 off Schick manu q
$2 off Schick Walgreens ES q
$1 off Benadryl manu q
$1 off Benadryl Walgreens ES q
Total =$3.21
I paid with 3 ECB and with tax paid 56 cents cash and got back 11 ECB. 10 was for completing the J&J deal with the Benadryl (I had bought the rest on an earlier transaction, where I also completed the candy deal!) and 1 for the Glade refill! Yippee!

Friday I had to go get the Infants Advil drops that are free after ECB this month(since it was August first!) and because Sophie had been running a fever and I used up the last of our infants Motrin. So that was well-timed. Here’s what we got:

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Two CVS Cottonballs $1.98
1 Schick Intuition $3.99
4 Starbursts $2 (I LOVE THEM!! And I was working toward that candy deal one more time!)
Infants Advil $5.79
Visine drops (for hubby) $4.89
2 Colgate Total $3
Total = $21.65
Coupons:
CVS $3/$15
$2 CVS skincare (works on cottonballs!)
$2 off Schick manu q
$2 off Schick Walgreens ES q
$1 off Advil printable
$3 off Visine manu q
Two $2 off Colgate Target q’s
One $1 off Colgate manu q
One 50 cents off Colgate manu q
$1 off Colgate Total CRT
Total =$5.15
I paid with 5 ECB and 83 cents cash and got back 5.79 ECB for the Advil!! And we needed that PRONTO as well as the Visine for my hubby’s allergies.

I did flirt with Walgreens’ just a *smidge* this week! On Saturday July 26th, I discovered a great new (to me) blog, Being Frugal is Fabulous, and there learned that on that very day, because of the Walgreens EasySaver July and August catalogs overlapping that day, I could get paid to buy some diapers! Yes, please! The July coupon and August coupon were both for $5 off 2 jumbo packs of Wags diapers. So I ran out to Walgreens. There was also a July deal where if you bought THREE jumbo packs of diapers, you got a $5 Register Reward. Two things made this an awesome deal: 1) The coupons each took $2.50 off EACH pack of diapers, not just $5 off of two, and 2) the Walgreens diapers were on sale for $5.99 that week. SO I got these babies:

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3 packs at $5.99 = $17.97
minust $7.50 July ES coupon
minus $7.50 August ES copon
= $2.97 (plus tax = $4.32)
got back a $5 Register Reward!! WOOHOO!!
I was able to do this twice. Then I took one of my register rewards and some coupons and bought milk, Pert Plus, and a dark chocolate mocha Frappucino (so, SO good!) for $1.34 and I will get back a $4 rebate for the Pert Plus. Yippeeeee!

Allright that is it for me! How did you do this week? For more crazy couponers, check out Money Saving Mom and The Centsible Sawyer!

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All Shop and No Pay Makes Jenny a Happy Girl!

Well, I had great fun CVSing this week! I even had a couple of transactions that ended in ZERO out-of-pocket. Yay! Here’s what I got!

My first stop at CVS this week was for MILK! But I can’t go in and get JUST MILK! So…

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Milk $3.69
Loreal Vive BOGO Free $4.99
3 Glade Scented Oil Candle refills @ $2.49 each = $7.47 (you know I loves me my GSOC!!)
Total = $16.16
I used CVS $3/$15 coupon
Loreal Vive BOGO coupon (making them both free!)
Two $1 off Loreal Vive Rite Aid coupons (givng me oooooooveraaaage!!!! yess!)
Buy two get one free GSOC refill coupn -$2.49
$2/$2 GSOC refill coupon (inside GSOC holder package I had previously purchased)
Total = $1.67. I didn’t have any ECB small enough, so I paid in cash $2.34 with tax and got back 3 ECB for the Glade! yay!

Now, I am an old lady and have been having trouble with my back, so my next stop was to get some of those WellPatch(es) that are a July monthly ECB deal. And get some more free-plus-overage shampoo. And free baby wipes!!

Four Loreal Vive shampoo/conditioner BOGO Free $9.98
1 CVS baby wipes $2
2 WellPatch $11.98
Tic Tacs (not pictured!) 89 cents
Total = $24.85
I used:
CVS $3/$15
Two $1 off WellPatch
$2 off CVS Skincare q (for the wipes – wasn’t sure if this would work but it did! yay!)
Two BOGO Free Loreal Vive q’s
Four $1 off Rite-Aid Loreal Vive q’s
total = $3.87. I paid with 3 ECB and with tax $1.99 cash and got back 6 ECB for the WellPatches!!

Since that $2 off skincare q worked on the baby wipes, I decided to go crazy and compete the Great Free Baby Wipe Deal of 2008. This week at CVS, if you bought $15 of CVS baby products, you got back 5 ECB. Since the $2 off CVS skincare q worked on the wipes, this meant I could get 8 free tubs of wipes and then get 5 ECB after I got the last one. One problem: you can only use ONE of those coupons per transaction. So this meant I would have to do 8 different transactions! So I added one as a filler very time I went in, but eight times a week is excessive EVEN FOR ME. A couple of times I did two transactions when I was in the store, and then finally I went in one night on my way to Kroger to add some more wipes toward the deal with a couple of sweet zero-OOP transactions!

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This is two separate transactions, both of which I paid ZERO out-of-pocket for thanks to coupons! The first one was:
1 CVS baby wipes $2
1 Playskool baby wipes $3.79
3 Sally Hansen nail polish clearance at 43 cents each
Total = $7.08
Coupons:
$2 CVS skincare q
$2 off Playskool CRT
$1 of Playskool manu q
$3/2 Sally Hansen q

The cashier adjusted the Sally Hansen q down to cover my TOTAL before tax, instead of just the cost of the nail polish, so the total came out to ZERO!! Woohoo!
2nd transaction:
1 CVS baby wipes $2
1 CVS hand sanitizer $1.79
Used $2 off CVS skincare q and Free Hand Sanitizer CRT for another total of ZERO!!

I finally finished out the Great Free Baby Wipe Deal of 2008 with this transaction (I bought two tubs so I really did itin seven transactions instead of eight. Eight was TOO MANY!!):

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OFF repellent $3.49
two Sure deodorant $5.98
2 CVS baby wipes $4
Two Trident BOGO Free $1.49
Package of straws $1.99
Total= $16.95
Coupons:
$3/$15 CVS q
$1 CVS OFF q
75 cent OFF manu q
$1 OFF Walgreens ES q
$2 off CVS skincare q
Two $1.50 off Sure deodorant Walgreens ES q’s
Total= $6.20
I paid with 6 ECB and 45 cents cash and got back 9 ECB! 5 for completeing the wipes deal, 3 for the Sure deodorant and 1 for the Trident! Woohoo!

Ok, I am shopped out! Hope you all did great this week. For more crazy couponing, visit Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom and CVS Superstars at The Centsible Sawyer!

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How Do I love CVS? Let Me Count the Ways!

The deals this week at CVS weren’t TOO killer, but I was still able to get some great deals since my CVS accepts competitor coupons, and I was also able to pay for some things I needed with ECBs! Yay! So, it was a pleasure as usual. One day this week when I was there, a customer came in while I was checking out and was extremely rude to the two cashiers working. I mean, unacceptable, uncalled for, mean-for-no-reason RUDE. If I hadn’t had my two kids with me, I might have politely told her to chill. I was so sad that the cashiers had to deal with her, and I am sure she is not the only one! So be nice to your CVS folk!! ‘Cause not everybody is.

Anyhoo, here’s what I got:

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Two Benefiber $6.99 each
Gas-X $5.29
Excedrin Back & Body $4.79
total = $24.06
Coupons:
$3/$15 CVS q
Two $2 off Benefiber manu q’s
Two $2 off Benefiber Walgreens EasySaver catalog q’s
$2 off Gas-X Walgreens ES catalog q
$2 off Excedrin man q
$3 off Excedrin CRT from CVS
total = 6.06
Paid with 6 ECB and 17 cents cash and got back 10 ECB! Woohoo! Also I will be getting back a $4.99 rebate for the Excedrin! Yes! I loooves getting ECBs AND cash!

Next I got this:
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Milk 3.29
4 Skippy Peanut Butter (B1G1 Free) $5.78
2 Sally Hansen nail polish 99 cents each
Bayer Heart Advantage $4.99
total = $16.04
Coupons:
CVS $3/$15
For $1 off Skippy Target q’s
$3/2 Sally Hansen products manu q
$2.50 off Bayer manu q
total = $3.54
I paid with 2 ECB and $1.56 cash and got back 2 ECB for the Bayer! Woot!

Finally, I had to make a stop at Rite-Aid for some freeeeeeebates! Actually, moneymakers!
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Loreal Vive Shampoo and conditioner B1G1 Free @$4.99
Electrasol dish tabs $2.99
Crest $2.49
Coupons I used:
Loreal B1G1 Free manu q (so got both free!)
75 cents off Crest manu q
$2.25 off Electrasol manu q
Total with tax was $3.13 and I will be getting back $4.49 in rebates! $2 for the Electrasol and $2.49 for the Crest! Woot!

Allright that’s all I got this week. For more amazing couponing feats, check out Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom and CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer!

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