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Extra Care Beauty Club from CVS

January 18, 2011 by · Leave a Comment

If you haven’t already joined, here is a link to do so. Have your CVS card handy. They are also on Facebook, if you prefer to receive it in your feed that way.

I joined a week or so ago, and good news so far. First, I received a 10% off coupon instantly when I joined in the store. I was able to use the 10% off on clearance, and the % came off before my coupons.

Second, you receive $5 in ECBs for every $50 you spend on beauty products. My current running total is $43.xx, which means that it is calculating the total before any coupons or ECBs are deducted! I just need to find an $8 ECB  beauty deal, and I’ll get whatever ECBs are being offered for that deal, plus my $5!

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Bogo Stayfree coupon

January 18, 2011 by · Leave a Comment

Here is a printable for bogo Stayfree. It only let me print one, which is unusual for printables. It also says “Available at Dollar General” but does not say “redeemable only at DG” and it’s a mfr coupon so you should be able to use it anywhere.

Stores that let you use a bogo coupon with a bogo sale:
Acme
Superfresh
Walgreen’s
CVS
Rite Aid

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Q&A: product sizes & coupons

January 18, 2011 by · 1 Comment

I had a reader contact me about a post I made about my trip to Acme. She was asking why I purchased the small container of Teddy Grahams, isn’t that more expensive?

Yes, and no.

If you’re going to actively coupon, you sort of have to throw out all the old thinking about bigger quantities of items being cheaper. And I’ll try to give some examples.

Most of the time, if a coupon says “Take $$ off ANY…….” you want to look for the smallest size product for the best savings. My coupon was for “take $1 off ANY Nabisco cookie” so I chose the smallest one at $1.29.

The regular price for the 10 oz box is $2.79 or $.28 per ounce. The regular price for the little 3 oz container I got is $1.29 or $0.43 an ounce. At full price, no coupons, the little container is much more expensive.

If we add in the $1 coupon-
10 oz box goes to 1.79, or $0.18 per ounce
3 oz cup goes to $0.29 or $0.10 per ounce
It’s almost 50% cheaper, on a per ounce basis, to purchase the small plastic cup this way.

The same goes for dishwashing liquid and the recent Gain deals show this. The bigger bottle was much cheaper on a per ounce basis. But the smaller bottle was free after coupon, and what’s cheaper than free?

If you need a huge quantity of an item, say diapers or baby formula, and you don’t have any coupons to use…..then the warehouse club stores and packaging will probably (but not always, so do the math!) be your best option. But when adding in coupons, it’s usually the reverse that works.

Most cell phones have a calculator option, so don’t hesitate to use it while shopping. After all, if we’re talking 50% or greater savings on some items, that’s significant.

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Dollar General-5/25 printable and matchups, cheaps & possible free Palmolive

January 18, 2011 by · Leave a Comment

Dollar General has some printables on it’s website, including a $5 off $25 coupon, good only for this coming Saturday, 1/22.

Unfortunately, they deduct all of your other mfr coupons first, then do the 5/25. I wish it was the other way around, but no luck. So you have to plan on spending $20 at DG, plus tax. That doesn’t mean that they’re aren’t good deals to be had; we can figure it to get a lot of stuff for our $20. Some matchups:

Post cereals-$2 box, there’s a $1 off 2 out there right now, use $3 as your calculating price because you’ll have to purchase them in pairs. From the 1/9 papers.

Mott’s-mentioned this yesterday-either 1.75 or 1.50 as your calculating price; I’ve done lots of searches and am unable to come up with any coupons.

Ziploc-$2 each; lots of coupons for this ranging in value from $0.50 off per box to $1.25 per box; from last week’s inserts

SCJohnson products: Not just ziploc, but all the products in the SCJ family are on sale and there was a ton of coupons in last week’s paper: Windex, Scrubbing Bubbles, Glade, Pledge

M&Ms/Mars: DG has a $1/2 printable on it’s site. Look for $1 items in the Valentine’s section, there usually are some, so yours will be $0.50 each. If you don’t find them, I know Walmart has them, and the coupon on the DG site is a mfr coupon, can be used anywhere.

Softsoap handsoap: on sale for $1, use the $0.30 off coupon (which doesn’t double anyway, starts with a 9) from recent inserts, pay $0.70.

Colgate: $3, use $1 coupon from this week; $1 a tube is a good deal if you don’t want to be bothered with the CVS/Walgreen’s/RA games of rolling store tender.

Palmolive: $1, sign up here to get a $1 printable, not sure if this variety is included, but worth a shot! Can also try this $0.55 printable.

Cottonelle: big pack on sale for $5, use this $0.50 printable.

Viva: sale price of $1.75 (not a great price, imo, but Viva is my favorite) and use this printable to make it $3 for two rolls.

My $20 is going to look something like this, keep in mind these prices are AFTER my mfr coupons:

4.50 Cottonelle
2.80 four Softsoap handsoap
7.00 four apple juice
9.00 six applesauce
3.00 two ziplocs (need two boxes of the small bags for BTFE thing at K’s school)

Total $26.30, minus the 5/25-$21.30

I think that’s a good deal for 21 bucks and change.

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