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!

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:

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:

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:

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!