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Look at what $2.23 can get you……

October 19, 2008 by · Leave a Comment

Ok, so some people may think I’m nuts for doing the CVS thing with the ECBs all the time. But after 2 stores (CVS and Walgreen’s) and a few transactions at each store, I only paid $2.23 cash oop for all of this. You can too. All I did was roll over RRs and ECBs, and used coupons. Actually my total is much less than $2.23, since I think wags owes me about $15-$18 in rebates. So when all is said & done, I actually made money on the deal. Though I have much fewer RRs than when I started, but more ECBs than when I started.
A few details:
Pumpkins, candy corn and glow lights: all are either $0.99 or $1.29 and giving equal amount back in ECBs at CVS. Maxed out limit on both cards. Today and tomorrow only at CVS.
Powerade: $1.69 at CVS with $1.69 back in ECBs, $0.75 coupons out there.
Cleaning supplies: Shout, Windex, Scrubbing Bubbles-get your printable coupons here . All of these items are on sale at CVS this week and wags is giving rebates for them. I’m getting paid $0.50 for each one I took off their hands. And I didn’t even pay for them in the first place! Well, I did, but with RRs.
Baby: Huggies and Johnson’s stuff is buy $25 get $10 ECB this week at CVS. I had coupons for everything and I will submit the Huggies for another $1 rebate each. Again, getting a dollar back for each item I never even paid for. I only did this on one card, will do it on another later this week. Looking for more Johnson’s coupons.
Revitalift: paid $5.99, getting $6.99 back in rebates from wags.
Pert: use the coupon from today’s paper and the wags monthly booklet and you get $1 overage on your transaction.
Gum toothbrushes: $3.99 with $3.99 back in ECBs, $0.75 coupons out there.
Excedrin: $1.99 at CVS and there are coupons out there that give overage on this as well.
Colgate: $2.99 with $2.00 back in ECBs, I had $1.50 coupons, so a $0.50 ECB gain for each one I got. I do not need toothpaste and I don’t like Colgate. But for the month of October, I had a gain of $5 ECBs by getting it, $5 that I used for diapers. And a class at my school is collecting stuff for a domestic violence shelter, so I’ll just donate it.
Other items such as Bounty were just cheap after store and mfr coupons so I used them as fillers because I need them. Happy shopping.
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Husbands will only eat so much Chex Mix…..

October 18, 2008 by · 1 Comment

Sometimes when getting free stuff, or getting paid by the store to take the stuff, I get carried away. Like Chex Mix. We like Chex Mix and eat it, even more enjoyable when it’s free. But at a certain point, enough is enough.

DONATE!

Food banks are really hurting right now. With the economy the way it is, demand is high and donations are low. Maybe you got too much free something. Maybe you used a freebie offer to try something new and you don’t like it. Whatever the reason, please take a few minutes out of your day and drop it off at the food bank. I go to the one in Kennett, directions and hours are here. It’s down by the high school and sits back from the road in a very non-descript building.

Have extra toothpaste? If you’ve been doing this even for a few weeks, chances are you have too much toothpaste. A few places I donate my health/beauty items:
Churches and VFWs/American Legions often send packages to troops.
Planned Parenthood or local WIC office
Ask your hairdresser if their salon participates in helping domestic violence shelters–many do. Most domestic violence shelters do not publish their addresses for security reasons.
Ask your school nurse or school counselor if they have a family in need–you’d be surprised how many needy people are right in your neighborhood.

Whatever you do–don’t throw it away. Getting free stuff is fun, but giving to those who need it is even more satisfying.

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Spoke too soon…..and $5 Walgreen’s Q

October 17, 2008 by · Leave a Comment

Ok, there’s a Huggies deal at CVS starting Sunday. So I probably will wait to retire that second card. Other good deals too, I’ll post either tonight or tomorrow, stay tuned.

And here’s a $5 wags coupon good today and tomorrow only. And here is the hcw discussion on how to use it.

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New savings goal, retiring a CVS card, getting a Wags card

October 15, 2008 by · Leave a Comment

My savings goal for 2006-2007 was to try to keep the same ECBs rolling. Done. I’m actually still rolling those 2006 ECBs. Then last August my goal was to not pay for diapers for a year. Done. My new goal–not to pay for diapers at all for baby #2. So far I have about a 6 month supply for him, if I’ve guessed at his growth rate correctly. But I’m going to continue to take advantage of diaper deals and stock up in hopes of never paying for diapers for him.

In an earlier post, I told you about how CVS was going crazy last year with giving away ECBs with glucometers. It was during that time that I got another extra care card in my husband’s name, so that I could get more monitors and therefore, more ECBs. It was confusing at times, maintaining two cards and two sets of ECBs, but it was really worth it for the diaper deals. Most of the diaper deals are limit one, so I would do one on each card.

Somehow through carelessness and just being too busy, I’ve let that card get down to $4 ecb. So I think I’m going to retire it for now. The deals just haven’t been that great lately to warrant trying to juggle two cards. If some “can’t miss this” deals come along, I can always use it. My other card has about $40 to go with it, which is appx the amount I like to maintain.

Instead, I think for the first time, I’m going to submit some Walgreen’s rebates and get a Walgreen’s gift card. GCs do not expire, so it will be easier to maintain than ECBs. Also, Wags has been offering some decent deals, freebies and moneymakers lately, so I’d like to start taking advantage of them. I did the Dimetapp deal over the weekend and used that $10 RR to buy Halloween candy, so that’s one rebate I can submit. I still have $10 RR left–I think I’m going to go get more Ragu, then use those rolled RR to get a L’oreal something for a rebate.

So I’ll still post CVS deals, but you’ll probably be seeing more Walgreen’s deals here too.

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