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March 7, 2009

Coupons Make Mommy Happy

Well it’s 6:39 PM and I’m just now getting this post up, because I didn’t even have the chance to do any of my coupon shopping until this afternoon! I hit CVS and Walgreens and did not come away disappointed. It’s amazing how much a good couponing run can lift my spirits. When I got home I felt like a a real winner. 🙂 Here’s what I got!

First up, CVS:

One Touch Mini $14.99
Three Puffs tissues $2.91
CVS Vitamin D $2.99
Fusion Razor $7.99
Total = $28.88

Coupons:
$5/$25 Rite Aid q (my CVS takes competitor q’s)
$14.99 One Touch Mini manu q
$4 Fusion manu q
total= $4.89
I paid with a $4.99 ECB adjusted down to $4.89 and paid 63 cents cash. I got back 2.90 ECB for the Vitamin D and 4 ECB for the razor. Woot!!

Next I went to Walgreens, where I hadn’t been since I would guess, August or September. But the deals were too good to pass up this week!

Sambucol $12.99
Colgate Max Fresh $3.29
Excedrin $5.99
Two Extra gum clearance 65 cents each (filler!)
Blink eye drops $7.99
Total = $31.56

coupons:
$10 off Sambucol Walgreens q
$4 off Sambucol manu q
75 cents of Colgate manu q
$4 off Excedrin Walgreens q
$1 off Excedrin manu q
$2 off Blink manu q

Total (including tax) = $12.93, and I got back $11.50 in register rewards! $8 for the eyedrops and $3.50 for the toothpaste. Woohoo! I am going to use those register rewards on the sweet Huggies deal at Wags next week!

Well that’s all for me this week! Hope you all did great too! To see how everyone else did, check out CVS Superstars at the Centsible Sawyer, Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom and Shopping Superstars at the Thirfty Mama.

February 21, 2009February 21, 2009

This Week at CVS…

So, there were no super-hot deals at CVS this week that had me excited…UNTIL I heard there was a “hidden deal” money-maker on Neutrogena bars, at which time I ran out the door to find some! One of my CVS stores had already been wiped clean, but I was able to find a couple at my other favorite store! So I got these:

Which are $2.99 each. So, my total was $5.98 before tax. I paid with a $5.98 ECB, paid ZERO out-of-pocket, and got back 10 ECB for buying two Neutrogena items! These bars weren’t supposed to be part of the deal, but they were. YAY! I like making $4 for buying stuff.

I also had some stuff I actually needed to get, that I got at the first store.

Milk $2.99
Huggies $8.99
Two Colgate $5.98
Venus Razor $7.99

Total = $25.96

Coupons: $5/$25 Rite Aid coupon (my CVS takes competitor q’s)
Two $1 off Colgate manu q’s
$1.50 off Huggies manu q
$2 off Venus manu q

Total = $15.46
I paid with ECBs, I can’t remember how many exactly, but around 15, and I paid 78 cents cash and got back 9.98 ECBs – 4 for the Venus and 5.98 for the Colgate. Not bad for getting milk, diapers, and a fancy razor!

February 14, 2009February 14, 2009

The Stockpile Has Landed

I didn’t do ANY CVSing this week. Never darkened the door! There just weren’t any sales exciting enough to get me in the door. Shocking, I know. Hopefully this coming week will be better! I did, however, hit a super-awesome sale at Meijer! Here’s what I got:

It took me five transactions, but I got all of this – over $110 worth of groceries (at sale prices) for just $48.01! I got 24 boxes of Chex Mix/Fiber One bars, and at $2 apiece, those alone would have cost $48 without coupons. Every time you bought five boxes of these, you got a coupon back for $3.50 off your next order. I had coupons for $1 off (some that went to $1 when doubled) for all of these, so I’d pay $5, get $3.50 back, and then use that coupon to buy my next batch! On my last transaction I got 4 boxes, so I have a $2.50 coupon to use next time I go to Meijer. 🙂

I also got six boxes of cereal, five 6-packs of Yoplait kids yogurt, a bag of frozen chicken tenderloins, milk, pasta, frozen chicken nuggets, bananas, bread, five Lean Cuisines, Chex Mix, a fmaily size Hershey’s syrup (woot!), and two jars of Skippy peanut butter!

I haven’t had a haul this good in a long time, so I was really excited. Hope you all did great too! To see how everyone else did, check out Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom and Shopping Superstars at the Thirfty Mama.