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CVS Deals for 4/27-5/3

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First deal

2 All Detergents
1 Bic Soleil Razor
1 Just for Men color

2 $1.50 All coupons
1 $2 Razor coupon
1 $2 Just for Men coupon
1 $3/15 coupon
Used $10 ECBS
Earned $10.99 ECBs
Paid .99 oop

Second Deal – Basically this is the monthly Essence of Beauty Deal but it’s better this week because they are B1G50% off

8 1.99 EOB products
1 4.99 EOB products
2 Palmolive Dish Liquids
Used $1/2 Palmolive coupon
Used $4/20 Beauty coupon
Used $3/15 coupon
I think I used around $10 ECBs
Earned $15 ECBs
Paid <$1 oop

Also had the Loreal deal planned but it’s not EXCELLENT but may be a good filler for someone:

Buy 2 Loreal on B1G1 @$4.99
Use 2 $1 Loreal coupons.
Should come out to $2.99 for two

Buy 3 Softsoap  @ .97 each
Use $1/3
Should come out to ~.63 each

CVS Deals 4/6

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OK, this week has been a pretty good week for CVS. These past few have been sketchy. I don’t have my receipt but I’ll do the rundown of which deals I did.

These first two deals are GREAT ones for a starter since you make $$ off of them and all the coupons are available this week.

Transaction 1

Buy 2 CoverGirl TruBlend Whipped Foundation (approx. $9.49 each)
Use B1G1 coupon from 4/06 insert
Use 1 $1/1 coupon from 4/06 insert (or the $2/1 coupon from the Reinventing Beauty booklet)
Spend $8.49 (or $7.49 with the $2/1 coupon) out of pocket
Get $12 ECBs!

Barbie Toothpaste on clearance for .87 which I needed for a filler to use an ECB I had.

Transaction 2

Buy 1 Excedrin 24ct at $1.99, Get $1 ECBs (Limit 5)
Use $2/1 from 3/2 SmartSource insert or printables here, here, and here
Free plus $1 overage after coupon and ECB

Buy $10 worth of Febreze, Get $5 ECBs (Limit 1)
*Deal Idea*
Buy 2 Febreze Noticeables at $6.99 each
Use 2 $5/1 coupon from Homemade Solutions booklet or P&G mailers (there is also a printable but I’m not finding it–anyone know the direct link?)
Spend $4
Get $5 ECBs back

Buy 6 Sunsilk Shampoo/Conditioner at $3.49 each
Use 3 B1G1 coupons from 4/6 insert (if you got these)
Use 3 $1.50/1 coupons here or here (or $2/1 or $2.50/1 or $1.50/1 coupons from 2/24 inserts)
Spend $5.97
Get $5 ECBs!

Buy 2 V05 Styling Aids at $3.99
Use 3 $3 off CVS coupons
Spend $1.98
Not an ECB deal but it’s pretty cheap stuff!

Buy 3 Pantene Shampoo/Conditioner/Styling Aid for 3/$12
Use 3 $2 coupons from Beauty book
Spend $6
Get $4 ECBs (I think that’s right. Not a money-maker but it’s pretty cheap)

Buy 2 Jergens Natural Glow Moisturizer at $7.98
Use $3/2 CVS Coupon
Use 2 $1 Jergens coupons
Spend $10.96
Get $5 ECBs back (again not a great deal but I need me some tan legs and $2.50 a bottle is cheap)

Transaction 3

Buy 4 CVS Diaper Wipes for 2/$5
Use $2/$10 CVS coupon
Spend $8 on 4
No ECBs unless you spend $25 but we needed wipes

Buy Charmin 12-pack for $4.88
Use .25 Charmin coupon
Also not the best deal but we needed toilet paper

I did these in 3 different transactions in 2 different visits yesterday and today. I think I spent no more than $3 oop on all this, used about $45 in ECBs and made about $35. If it wasn’t for that third transaction for things I really need, I would have gained an ECB or two instead of losing about $10.

Go to moneysavingmom.com for more deals. Some of these are from there and the not so great ones are ones I worked in since we needed/wanted the stuff.

You know you’re addicted when…

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you go to 3 CVS stores IN ONE DAY in two different cities.

Yeah, so that basically sums up my evening.  CVS, dinner, CVS, CVS.  Scott had $20 worth of ECBs that were going to expire today and somebody waited to the last minute to spend them.   You know it’s hard to spend $20 worth of ECBs at CVS?  So what’d I get?

1 6-pack Glucerna Drinks
5 bottles of CVS Tylenol
2 Lady Stick deodorants
Colgate Toothbrush
2 Colgate Toothpastes
Monster Drink

I actually only paid $3 oop for all that but it was worth about $50.

Harris Teeter – Triple Coupons

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This is from an email I sent out and thought a few people that have Harris Teeter around them might benefit:

I went at lunch today and these are the things I got a good deal on:

2 Dole Fruit Parfaits
Welch’s Grape Juice
2 Carnation Evaporated Milk
5 cans tomato/chicken noodle soup
2 Jif to Go 6 pack
2 Zatarain’s Rice
2 Bird’s Eye Frozen Vegetables
Alexia Fries
4 Borden Cheese Singles (go to Borden’s web site to print a coupon)
2 Daisy Sour Cream
2 International Coffee Creamer

Some of these I got two because I had multiple coupons and some the coupons required 2.  I paid $11.76 and saved $44.61

There is a limit of 20 coupons per day.  I’ll be going back tomorrow to use some other coupons I didn’t get to use today.

CVS Monthly and 3/2-3/8 Deals and Walgreens 3/2-3/8

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Alrighty folks, if you ever want to get into the CVS thing, this is the week to do it! Please check out all the details on the deals at moneysavingmom.com but this is what I got and paid $0 oop thanks to a gift card and the $5/15 coupon out.

I did mine in 4 transactions. I had to do mine a certain way because of the ECBs I had so you may not need to do yours quite this way.

5 Colgates
2 Oral B toothbrushes
2 $.50 2 $.75 1 $1 Colgate Coupons
2 $2 Oral B coupons
$5/15 coupon
$12.98 in ECBs
Total $1.94
Paid with gift card
Earned $25 in ECBs (should have, not sure if I did now that I look at my receipts)

2 Gillette Mach 3 Razors
1 Pain Patch
3 Lip Balms
2 $3 Gillette Coupons
$5/15 coupon
$14.95 in ECBs from previous transaction
Total $1.48
Paid with gift card
Earned $21 ECBs

2 Charmin (I worked this transaction b/c we need toilet paper and it was on sale for $5.99)
1 lip balm
2 .25 Charmin coupons
$13.97 ECBs
Total .57
Paid with gift card
Earned $2.99 ECBs

2 Excedrin
2 $3 coupons
$5/15 coupon
Used $10 ECB
Total .42
Paid with gift card
Earned $10 ECBs

Even without the gift card, I would have only paid $4.31 oop. In total, I saved $100.

As for Walgreens, I didn’t plan it too well so I paid more oop than I wanted. If you check moneysavingmom.com, I did both razor deals, 6 Herbal Essences and the Olay Bar Soap. I ended up paying about $15 oop but I have $13 left. I just didn’t plan that too well and since you can’t use the razor RR to pay for the other one, I was stuck. Anyway, think about that one before you do it.

CVS Deals 2/10-2/16

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This was a heavy coupon week.  I was able to use both manufacturer and CVS coupons.

3/$5 Suave body wash
Excedrin
4 Colgate toothpaste
Gillette Venus Embrace razor
Gillette Fusion Phenom razor
Gillette Fusion Shaving Gel

Used:

$3/15 register coupon
3 $1/1 Suave coupons (yes, I bought 3 newspapers this week)
$2 Excedrin coupon
$1 Excedrin CVS coupon
2 $.75/1 Colgate coupons
$1/2 Colgate coupon
$1 Venus coupon
$4 Gillette razor coupon
$1 Gillette shaving gel coupon
$2 Gillette shaving gel CVS coupon
$19 ECBs (something like that)

Total oop $1.67
Saved $47.33
Earned $18 ECBs (technically I didn’t earn ECBs on the Gillette razor on this trip..I got it on a previous trip.  It’s a long story but if you are buying the razor for the first time, you should earn $18)

CVS February Monthly Deals

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Tonight was a good night. I tried to buy every monthly deal Crystal mentioned but they were out of a few of them.  Here’s how it went down:

Precision Diabetes Monitor
5 Chewable Baby Aspirin (the add says Children’s but the box does not and it works)
3 Nutri Gum
2 CVS Fabric Softener
Revlon Nail Polish (50% off)
2 Garnier Face Cleansers (a deal from this week–we found the tearpad while we were there)

Used $2 CVS Revlon coupon
Used 2 $2 Garnier Tearpad Coupons
Used $2.50/10 CVS Pain Reliever Coupon
Used $41 ECBs

Total oop .48

Savings today were $128

Earned $49.81 ECBs

FYI, Scott says the Nutri Gum is very tasty.

CVS Deals January 13 2008

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I didn’t think I was going to make a run this week but it turns out I needed Tampons and I really couldn’t be a normal person and go to the store and buy Tampons and leave.  Oh no, I had to make a deal of it.  Guess how much I spent oop?  ZERO!

Here’s how I did it.

1 Box of Tampax Tampons (yes, I’m brand loyal on this one) $6.99
1 Control Glucose Monitor normally $79.99 on sale for $9.99
2 Colgate Children’s Toothbrushes @ $2.99

Used a $50 coupon on the Glucose Monitor which the cashier adjusted to $9.99
Used $2/10 coupon
Used $10 in ECBs.

My total was then $1.13 but she offered to adjust a $1 ECB to .97 and then I had a ZERO Balance.  I didn’t know you could do that but it was the store manager that was checking me out and I thought that was very helpful of her.

I earned $9.99 ECBs from the monitor and $2 from the toothbrushes.  Plus it spit out a $3/15 and some other coupons.

So basically I was given $1 to take home my Tampons I needed.

Works for me!