First, although there seem to be some pretty good Proctor & Gamble deals at Walgreen’s this week, I’m going to sit it out. I don’t have any Register Rewards or Gift Cards to get started on this deal, so anything I do would require cash oop. And I just can’t justify spending even $10 or $15 on cleaning supplies or Febreze when I have a huge stockpile. That plus I need to get my mojo back.
I had a horrible trip at CVS yesterday. I had three Dawn coupons that expired yesterday so I wanted to take advantage of that. Shelf was bare–hmm, maybe starting this blog wasn’t such a good idea, other shoppers are clearing the shelf. Just kidding. No Dawn, move on.
Grab a Fusion razor for each card (I have 2 CVS cards). Grab a Cover Girl foundation for each card. Grab a free Cover Girl item to go with each foundation for each card. Ok, according to my math, this is only going to cost me about $8.50 and I have a $10 ECB to use on each card. So I go find the $1.97 M&Ms. Grab a bag for each card. Done.
It went all downhill from there. First the cashier said that she couldn’t take both the bogo coupon for Cover Girl and the $1 off foundation coupon for Cover Girl. Said she had tried it yesterday and the register wouldn’t let her push it through, I have to pick one coupon that I’m going to use. On one card I still do the bogo, on the other I pick the $1 and put the other CG item back. Then, since I grabbed the pink breast cancer M&Ms, they were $3.49 instead of $1.97, even though they were in the bin marked $1.97. I get so much free stuff at CVS that I don’t like to cause a hassle, and a line was starting to form. And on the card where I did the free bogo CG item, I was charged for the $8.99 item, got the $5.79 foundation free, got a $5.79 ECB back, but had to pay the difference of about $3.
In any event, I ended up paying a few bucks on each card oop, instead of my transaction ending up to be almost free like I planned, which is a bummer. Luckily I did just acquire a $30 gift card, having just transferred a prescription yesterday and using a Rite Aid coupon. So I put my balances on that, but didn’t plan on using up almost a third of that card that very day, I like to make them last longer.
It just bums me out because I’m usually much better at this, and I really didn’t need any of the above items, and my ECBs were still good for another 2 weeks or so, so it’s not like I had to roll them yesterday. I was just in the mood to get some good deals. And that’s what I get for going after a stressful day at work with a cranky, teething toddler.
At least I still have about $12 ECB on both cards and about $22 left on the gift card. In October I’ll focus on building that back up.
