This Week’s CVS-capades!

***Edited to add: for a video of me shopping at CVS this week, see this post here. I added it later today! You won’t regret it!***
Well, I started off this week thinking the deals at CVS were not too great this week, but once again CVS totally came through for me! First, I went in to get some milk and make some photo prints and got all this:

Milk: $3.19
Two Oral B toothbrushes $3.98
Two Sobe Life waters $2
Two Rolaids 3-pks. $4.98
Ten 4 x 6 photo prints $2.90
Total = $17.05
Coupons used:
CVS $5/$15
Two 75 cents off Oral B coupons
Sobe B1G1 Free coupon
Ten 4 x 6 prints free coupon
Total = $6.65
Paid with 6 ECBs and 65 cents cash, and got back 7 ECBs! Two for the toothbrushes, one for the Sobe, and four for the Rolaids.

While I was printing my photos, I saw a tearpad on the photo counter of all places, for up to $55 off the Freestyle glucose meter. Now these just happen to be one of the May monthly ECB deals, and they are $10 with $10 back in ECBs! Woohoo!! So I grabbed two of these coupons since there is a limit of 2 on this deal. Unfortunately, the store I was at was out of the meters, even though they had the coupons! So a couple of days later I went to another CVS and got this:

One Freestyle Lite meter at $10
One Neutrogena spray-on Sunscreen at $8.49
Total pre-tax ws $18.49
Coupons used:
CVS $5/$15
Freestyle coupon adjusted down to $10
$2 off Neutrogena sun care item CVS coupon (emailed to me last week. It expired 5/18 but most CVSes in my area will take them until they “beep” at the register)
Total including tax: $1.60, which I paid in cash and got back 10 ECBs for the meter!!
BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE!
I went back and did this exact same transaction again and got the $10 for the meter and an additional $5 ECB for the Neutrogena sunscreen! If you bought $10 worth, you got 5 ECBs, so the two Neutrogena purchases combined to give me the $5 ECB on the second transaction. OOT OOT! For reasons that shall be revealed later, (probably next week!) I was completely out of ECBs before I did these two transactions. So, by spending only $3.20 cash, I made $25 in ECBs, and my suppy is now replenished! Oh, CVS, how I LOVE you!!

Because we are pretty well stocked up on groceries, I went down to our local market and only bread, bananas, and cheese this week. So I spent less that $7 of my $40/week grocery budget there, and just about $11 total with the money I spent at CVS. YAY!!

Well that’s it for me this week! For more awesome deals, check out CVS Superstars at the “Cents”ible Sawyer, and Super Savings Saturday over at Money Saving Mom!