Shh! I’m Having a Fling With Walgreens!

CVS, I love you. I really, really, do. Which is why it hurts me to admit that this week, I totally cheated on you multiple times with Walgreens. And it was awesome!!

But I know Walgreens is very fickle and really can’t be trusted…so I promise to stay faithful to you (except for the two times a year when they have a really awesome sale like this one.)

Now that we have that cleared up, here’s what I did at Walgreens this week!

They were having this fabulous deal where if you bought 9 P&G items, you got $20 in Register Rewards. Crest Pro-Health toothpaste counted as part of this deal and cost $2.50 a pop. There was a coupon for $3 off of two Crest Pro-Health in the Walgreens Easy Saver catalog, and I had several Crest coupons – some for 50 cents, some for $1 off, and one for a whopping $3 off one tube of toothpase, which Walgreens took for the full amount even though they were on sale for $2.50!! The end result was all this toothpaste:

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for $2.25!!!! (Which I paid for with my Walgreens gift card from previous rebates of COURSE.) And I got back $20 in Register Rewards (two $10 ones printed out)!!! I then took one of my $10 RR’s and bought these rebate items:

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All of these were free after rebate, and I used a $1 off coupon for the toothbrush. I used my $10 RR and paid $1.49 on my gift card, and I’ll be getting back over $12 in rebates. Oot Oot! I’ll be using my other $10 RR to get some more REBATE ITEMS! Yay!

True confession time: I did a different version of the P&G deal three times!! I donated a LOT of toothpaste to a local shelter this week! And I now have a boatload of Cascade and boatload of Register Rewards. šŸ™‚

But of course I did hit CVS a couple of times this week for necessities such as milk and chocolate syrup. And my BFF Luanne needed some nails, and I needed to get some more free after ECB monthly deals…soooo…

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Colgate Deep Clean toothbrush $3.99
Kiss nails $5.99
Nail glue $1.99
Two Orapik travel piks $2.79 each
Total: $17.55
I used my $3/$15 CVS coupon and $13.96 in ECBs, paid 64 cents cash and got back $14.57 in ECBs! $5 for the Kiss nails & glue, $5.58 for the Orapik, and $3.99 for the toothbrush. Ohh, CVS! I do love you so! You’re always so good to me!!

Well that’s it for me my friends! For more fun tales from the CVS faithful, visit CVS Superstars at the “Cents”ible Sawyer. And for couponing feats of all kinds, check out Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom!

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9 Replies to “Shh! I’m Having a Fling With Walgreens!”

  1. I am usually a CVS girl myself too, but I couldn’t resist Walgreens this week. My mommy brain messed up on the math a little, so instead of getting $40 in RR I only got $20. That’s still not bad considering I only spent about $3 oop plus got some stuff I needed. It was so fun to watch the cashier’s jaw drop when the total went down to $.48 on one of my transactions and hear her say “And it’s printing you out a $10 coupon too!” You know you’re a coupon geek when instead of getting excited you’re irritated at yourself because if would have done it right you would have gotten $20 instead of $10!

  2. Great Job!! You know its true that walgreen’s is fickle,lol!! I always seem to pay more OOP at walgreen’s even with the great sales. I guess that’s because over here, we pay tax on the pre coupon prices? I’ve yet to spend only $.53 in a transaction like at CVS!!

  3. You are right! The Walgreen’s deals this week were awesome! I have enough toothpaste for a year!

    Good Job!

  4. made out like a bandit at walgreens this week too….did the deal 2X then tried for a third but made the mistake of paying for stuff with my RR from the other trips so it did not print out anything the 3rd time. but I can’t complain….with the 40 RR I did get I took care of 4 BDAY presents that are not in the bugdet šŸ™‚

  5. I started to do the KISS deal too! I backed out though!
    Didn’t make it to Walgreens because I was out of town so much!

    Denise
    the “Cent”sible Sawyer

    Thanks for participating in CVS Superstars!!

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