A couponers happy news

I live three walking blocks from a grocery store and I'm fairly happy with it. It's a simple store with plain-old aisles (instead of these islands of produce all over the place that seem so trendy at Whole Foods and our new Safeway). I can walk up and down and see what I need to bring home. Did I mention it's three blocks away? With a parking lot for the days I need to bring home heavy stuff?

And they know us there, the women stocking the shelves and working the pharmacy call out to Jack when we stroll by. Everyone stops to say hello to him and coo over him and I ask about their grand-babies and it's pretty nice.

So imagine my delight when I picked up their circular for this week and learned that they're now doubling coupons up to $.99 every day! I will stop by this week to test it out and make sure it's really working. Thanks, Giant!

My first giveaway!

And it's a really, really small one.

I've got four extra $3/Kodak photo books that can be used on this week's 6 x 8 freebies at CVS.

Leave me a comment telling me how amazing I am, how prolific my garden is, and/or how gorgeous my sons are and I'll send you two. Two winners will be announced on Monday, around 6 pm.

CVS weekly deals - June 29th

Here's what's to come this week (monthly deals not included):

• Weekly items:



• CVS aftershaves (limit 5). Pay $2.59, get $1 ECB back. Use the $2/CVS skincare coupon to make this a money-maker. You can print the coupon as many times as you like. I believe this deal is only good through Monday 6/30.
  
  
• Crest toothpaste (limit 1). Pay $1.99, get $1 ECB. Use the $1/Crest coupon from the 6/2 P&G insert to make this a freebie. This deal is only good through Monday 6/30.



• Clairol Natural Instincts (limit 1). Pay $5.99, get $1 ECB back. Use the $4/coupon from the 6/1 P&G insert to make the net cost $.99! This deal is only good through Monday 6/30.
  



• Bic Soleil deal (limit 4 items (two razors and two cartridge packs)) - Buy the razor and a 4-pack of cartridges at $6.99 each, earn 5 ECBs. Use TWO $4/coupons from the 6/22 Smart Source. Net cost of $1 for both items together. This sale is also a July ECB sale, so you can do it all through July.



• Huggies Lotion or Wash 15 oz (limit 5) - buy each for $3.49, get $2 ECBs. Use the $1/coupon from the 6/22 Smart Source insert. Net cost of $.49 each!



• Accu-Check Compact Plus Diabetes Kit (limit 1) - buy for $9.99, get $9.99 ECBs. Freebie!



• Physicians Formula mascara (limit 1) - buy each for $7.99, get $7.99 ECBs. Freebie!
  

CVS weekly deals - June 15th

This was a fun deal.



Oral-B CrossAction Power Toothbrushes were on sale from $8.99 to $5.99 (replacement heads, too). Each toothbrush generates 3 ECBs. One of the recent newspaper inserts had coupons for buy one, get one free.

Thus:

Four toothbrushes @ $5.99 each ($23.96)
Four replacement packs @ $5.99 each ($23.96)
Subtotal cost: $47.92

Used four BOGO (buy one, get one) coupons
Subtotal cost: $23.96
ECBs generated: $24

I did have to pay sales tax on these, so my net cost on all 8 was $1.52.

Icing on the cake: at the bottom of my receipt from buying the toothbrushes was a coupon for $2/Almay products. The Almay one-coat mascara this week was on-sale for $6.99 and is generating $5 ECBs, so with the coupon it was free. My favorite word!

My first hunting trip at Target

Figured as long as I was going to Target today, I'd cash in one some of the great deals Money Saving Mom posted about for this week. We are seriously never going to need toothpaste again.



Net cost before coupons: $27.26
Net cost after coupons: $.26

Had to pay sales tax on it all, so my grand total was the $.26 plus $1.16 for a total of $1.42.

Totally worth it.

CVS weekly deals - June 9th

I know I haven't posted last week's deals yet. I'll get around to it, I promise.

Fresh from the kill at CVS this morning:

Transaction 1:



Two boxes of Cheerios - $3.34 each
Two boxes of Fiber One - $3.34 each
Two boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios - $3.34 each

Used $3/15 CVS coupon
Used (2) $1.50 off Cheerios coupons (from last week's Pamper's deal)
Used (2) $1.00 off Fiber One coupons
Used (2) $1.00 off Honey Nut Cheerios coupons

Earned 10 ECBs for buying $20 in General Mills cereal

Net cost on this transaction: Totally free.

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Transaction 2:



Two Garnier Nutrisse Micro-Bead Cream Scrubs - $6.59 each
One package CVS bandaids - $1.99

Used $3/15 CVS coupon

Earned 10 ECBs on Garnier items
Earned 1.99 ECBs on bandaids

Net cost on this transaction: $.30

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Transaction 3:



Three Powerades - $1.00 each
One Dove shampoo - $4.99
One Dove conditioner - Free (buy 1, get one free)
Package of two Crossaction toothbrushes - $6.99

Used $3/15 CVS coupon
Used (2) $2/Dove coupons - from the Sunday inserts
Used (3) $.75/Powerade coupons - from the Sunday inserts

Earned 6.99 ECBS on

Net cost for this transaction: Earned $1.01!

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Transaction 4:



Two Nivea for Men shaving gels - $3.99 each
One Gillette Fusion razor - $9.99

Used $3/15 CVS coupon
Used $4/Gilette coupon - from the Sunday inserts
Used $4/Nivea coupon - from the Sunday inserts

Earned 5 ECBs for half of Nivea deal
Earned 4 ECBs for Gilette purchase

Net cost for this transaction: earned $1.46!

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Transaction 5:



One Schick Quattro razor - $9.49
One Dove shampoo - $4.99
One Dove conditioner - Free (Buy one, get one free)

Used $3/15 CVS coupon
Used (2) $2/Dove coupons - from the Sunday inserts
Used $3/Schick coupon - from the Sunday inserts

Net cost for this transaction: $1.91

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Transaction 6:



Four Nivea shave gels - $3.99 each

Used $3/15 CVS coupon
Used (2) $4/Nivea coupons - from the Sunday inserts

Earned 5 ECBs on Nivea products

Net cost for this transaction: $.59

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So I got all of this:



Sales price on the merchandise: $100.54 (with sales tax included)

Net cost on the merchandise: $.33. THIRTY-THREE CENTS. AFTER SALES TAX.

CVS rocks.

A great resource

Here's a list of all of the online printable coupons out right now. Very helpful!

Linky

New CVS $3 / $15 purchase

Just sign up for a membership here:

Beacon Journal

You'll have to use a real e-mail address, but you can put in fake information for everything else.

Then click here to go directly to the add. Play around with your print options - I used the "Print Current View" option once the coupon was in the main part of my screen.

New June deals will be up soon!

A great site

Grocery Guide

You tell them your local store and it lists every item on sale there right now. The good part: when you click on each item you like, it will tell you where you can find a matching coupon!

Since I don't go through the coupon inserts unless I know what I'm looking for, this could be really helpful to add extra savings on top of the sale prices at the grocery store.

Cheap cereal!

Two days before the coupons expired, I was finally in a Giant that carried the LiveActive cereal. Cost: $3.69 / box. Coupon: $3 / off per box. Net cost of each box: $.69 (81% off).

Yay for cheap cereal!