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Saving Moola at Meijer and CVS deals!!

It’s time for another edition of Super Savings Saturday! This week I was REALLY excited to get some great deals at Meijer! I usually do my grocery shopping at Kroger, but if Meijer has some great deals, I’m there! I posted here about the deal Meijer was running with Colgate/Palmolive. If you bought 5 Colgate/Palmolive products, you got a $5 off coupon to use on your next order. I bought 2 Colgate toothpastes (2/$4) and 3 Palmolive Scrub Busters (3/$5). I used 50 cent off and one 40 cent off coupons for the Palmolive (all doubled by Meijer). I also used a $1.50 and a $1 off coupon on the toothpaste. With tax, I paid $4.80 and got the $5 coupon. Then I turned my cart around and finished my shopping! I got all this in the picture for $22.87!!

(That’s Sophie’s hand on the chicken nuggets. She wouldn’t leave them alone!)

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I got two 4 lb. bags of chicken tenderloins ($14.98, but they were B1G1 free), 11 boxes of Totino’s pizza rolls, two packs of chicken nuggets, a dozen eggs, and two small tubs of “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” for $17.07. I used one 55 cent off coupon, (doubled to $1 by Meijer), two $1.10/2 and three $1/2 coupons for the pizza rolls. I had a 50 cent off coupon for the (not) butter – it was on sale for $1, and since Meijer doubles coupons it was FREE. I can’t remember how much the eggs were, but anyhoo, after using all those coupons and the $5 off, the total was $17.07. I was elated!

Now, on to CVS. There were SOOO many CVS deals this week and SOOO many CVS coupons, I went to CVS many, many, mnay times this week. TOO MANY. I am gonna have to cut back this week cause thanks to CVS I am behind on my laundry! But here are a couple of the great deals I got. These were actually both engineered by me but executed by my hubby! Go Bobby!

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Not pictured is a $4.99 gift bag that we got for our buddy Owen’s first birthday party. So mentally add that to the picture! Bobby spent 45 cents on this transaction after coupons and ECBs!! He spent $13 ECBs but got back $13.99 ECBs! Woohoo!

This transaction I think of as the “mmm…chocolate” deal:

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On this one Bobby spent 74 cents, used $14 ECBs and got $15 ECBS. ( $2 for the big Hershey bars, $1 for the Reese’s Whipps, $2 for the Colgate and $10 for the Sambucol)…PLUS there is a full rebate on the Sambucol so we are getting $12.99 ACTUAL DOLLARS back in the mail! If there’s anything I like better than getting ECBs, it’s getting CASH back for something I GOT ECBs on!!

Ok, I am exhausted from GETTING these deals and BLOGGING about them…for more great deals, check out Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom! And if you haven’t purchased her Supermarket Savings 101 class yet, do it! It is very affordable and will pay for itself in a heartbeat. You can check it out or purchase it here!

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Workin’ It at Walgreens!

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Now that I’ve become hopelessly addicted to got the hang of couponing at CVS, I’ve decided to try my hand at making Walgreens pay me to shop there. It’s not as easy as the CVS ExtraCare programs but it can be done! So, last month, I read Money Saving Mom’s Walgreens 101 primer and did one of their rebates in their EasySaver Rebate Catalog. I paid about $4 out-of-pocket for a couple of items (I used coupons to buy them) and was eligible for $6 in rebates. Not too bad but nothing spectacular. However, if you get your rebate on a Walgreens gift card instead of having them mail you a check, they give you an additional 10% of your rebate total. So actually I got $6.60 on my gift card, which I was excited to receive on New Year’s Eve!

This was not a bad start, but this week I really amped up my savings. Walgreens also has a program called Register Rewards which is similar to CVS’ ExtraCare Bucks. They usually only offer Register Rewards on a couple of items per week, and the Register Reward is a COUPON for a certain amount off of your next order. It isn’t exactly like “Walgreens Money” but it’s close enough. Anyhoo, this week Walgreens was selling a children’s Dimetapp for $4 and offering a $4 Register Reward. Woohoo! This was made sweeter by the fact that they had $2 off Dimetapp printable coupons at dimetapp.com. WHICH I printed 4 of. So 4 different times, I bought the Dimetapp, paid $2.77 including tax, and got $4 Register Rewards back. I then used those Register Rewards to buy things that I am going to get rebates on. For example: Glade Scented Oil Candle refill packs are on sale 2/$5. If you buy four, you also get a $4 rebate ($4.40 if you choose to put your rebate on a gift card.) Well little old me just happened to have four $1.50 off a refill coupons, so my four refills cost me $4 – just the amount of my register reward! So I paid only tax (on my new Walgreens gift card!) for them, and I am getting back $4.40!

Here’s me dreaming of my rebates…
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To make the deal even SWEETER, Walgreens also had Glade Scented Oil Candle Holders on sale buy one, get one free this week. Well, I also happened to have five or six “buy one get one free” coupons for those as well, so this week I hit a few Walgreens and got 10 Glade Scented Oil Candle Holders for FREE! Woohoo! (Which is why I am giving them away!)

I did most of my shopping on Sunday the 30th, before I had received my rebate gift card in the mail, so I did spend about $8 out-of-pocket (because you can’t use the Register Rewards you earn on a product to do the same deal again, so I paid out-of-pocket for the Dimetapp), but I am getting back almost $20 in rebates on the items I purchased, PLUS I have all that great stuff and all those FREE candles! So I think I did pretty well! Although CVS is still my first love, if Walgreens is going to pay me to take stuff out the door, I will gladly do so!

For more great Super Savings Saturday stories, head over to Money Saving Mom. And let me say again that if you haven’t purchased her Supermarket Savings 101 class yet, do it! It is very affordable and will pay for itself in a heartbeat. You can check it out or purchase it here!

Oh, and don’t forget to enter my contest! Comments close tomorrow night!

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My Christmas Wish Came TRUE!

Well, thanks to my BFF Luanne, I DID get a CVS gift card for Christmas! WOOHOO!! Even though there weren’t many great deals this week at CVS, I DID manage to “add” to my gift card’s value by spending just 81 cents on it and getting back 4 ECBs! I got two Palmolive dish soaps, a 60-count Tums Smoothies, a bottle of Children’s Motrin, and a bottle of Tylenol PM. I used a CVS $5/$15 coupon, a CVS $2/$10 coupon, two $5 off Tylenol coupons (Motrin is a Tylenol product), two 40 cent off Palmolive coupons, a $1 Tums CVS coupon (found in the CVS diabetes book), and a 75-cent -off Tums coupon I got with my last purchase of Tums. (My hubby uses Tums A LOT). As I mentioned, I paid 81 cents on my gift card and got back 4 ECBs. So now, instead of a $25 gift card, I have a total of $28.18 in gift card plus ECBs! Luanne challenged me to turn my $25 into $100 and I am going to try and meet that challenge!

I also got a couple of good deals at Target yesterday, thanks to the great coupons on the Target Coupon Generator. Using three of the $3 off Huggies coupons and one of the $1 Pepsi coupons, I got 6 travel-size Huggies wipes, one 12-pack of Mountain Dew (YUMMY!), one bottle of Hershey’s syrup (can you tell I love sugar?) and a box of fruit snacks for a GRAND total of $1.84! The cashier was kind of like. “Huh?” So I grabbed my stash and booked it out of there!

I hope you all got some great deals this week! For more Super Savings, check out Money Saving Mom!

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