I love surprises! For my Wednesday morning trip, I chose to stop in at CVS. Stuck my CVS card under the magic card scanner, and out came–the $3 off $10 cosmetic purchase (advertised in sales flyer), $1.50 off any Cover Girl, and $2 off ANY Excedrin.
Guess what–the Excedrin is on sale this week for $1.99. And, check your coupon binders, I had $1 and $2.50 coupons off any Excedrin 20ct or higher. And it’s the 20ct that is on sale for $1.99. The cashier adjusted my $2.50 coupon down to $1.99, so combined with the store coupon, I got $2 in overage for that purchase.
The Cover Girl is on sale this week, buy a mascara item, get eyeshadow free. I used the $1 off any CG coupons from the last P&G inserts. It’s a bogo sale, and I was able to use a $1 coupon on each item. So a mascara and an eyeshadow cost me $5 (paid for with ECBs) and it goes towards my next cosmetics $50 threshold. I chose the CG Lash Blast mascara in the purple tube. I did a bzzcampaign for them a while back and really liked it.
Speaking of…..when I scanned my card, I also got another $5 Extra Bucks for reaching another $50 in cosmetics purchases. Which means that according to CVS, I have spent over $100 so far in cosmetics, but my total year to date spending on my receipt says $28.11. The Beauty Club is calculating our totals on whatever price it scans at, and not taking into consideration any coupons or Extra Bucks, which is awesome!
I also chose to do the Garnier deal because I need an SPF moisturizer. The deal is spend $20, get $10 back, I spent $14.xx on the moisturizer and $6.xx on a cleanser, used a $2 coupon on each (not sure what inserts they were in) so after ECBs, I only had to burn about $6 in ECBs to get the stuff which was worth it.
I’d rather spend Extra Care Bucks on items instead of real bucks! Down side is now I am down to just $4 in ECBs, because I rolled mine into the Huggies deal, because you all know that for me, this is all about the free diapers. So I need to keep my eyes open for more opportunities to build my ECBs back up.
