I Grabbed a Coup’la Deals Before I Left Town!

Well, it’s a good thing there weren’t too many hot deals at CVS this week, or I might’ve gone through withdrawal while in California! Fortunately, I got the best deal before I left town! Here is a funny transaction: A blood glucose meter and enough Mountain Dew to give me diabetes so I might actually have to use it!

The Contour meter was on sale for $14.99 and gave back $14.99 ECBs. The Dew was on sale 4/$12 and gave back 3 ECBs. Now as some of you may know, I have a great addiction to love of Mountain Dew. So this was a very fun deal for me! My total was $26.99. I used the CVS $5/$15 coupon and the up to $30 off Contour meter coupon. The manager told me the Mountain Dew deal was snot working so he gave me an additional $3 off my order since I would not be getting back any ECBs for it! This threw me off, because my total was $4.22 and I was going to use a $5 ECB to pay – it was the smallest I had. So I threw on a couple of candy bars (which will also give me diabetes) which brought me to $4.96 before tax. The cashier adjusted my ECB to $4.96, so I paid ZERO out of pocket and got back $14.99 ECB for the monitor! Oot Oot! (By the way, since I do not yet have diabetes, I donate these monitors to our local non-profit hospice. Just so ya know. I do not hoard blood glucose monitors.)

I also “blew” a bunch of ECBs this week on a new planner, some dry erase markers, and some milk. I love getting all this stuff for just a few cents out-of-pocket!

Since I exhausted CVS early in the week, I moved on to Rite Aid. I hadn’t done any Rite Aid Single Check Rebates in a while but this was a good week for them! I got all this for $6.33 out-of-pocket and will get back $10.47 in rebates! Yeeee-ha! That’s real cash money baby!

The Glade PlugIns were BOGO Free at $4.79 and I had two $3 off coupons, so they paid me $1.21 to buy those. I used the overage to make the other items cheaper – they were all free after rebate and I had $1 off coupons for both the toothpastes and a $2 off coupon for the hairspray. I can’t wait to get that check back!

Well, that’s all for me this week since I was out of town for half of it! For more great Super Savings Saturday tales, visit Money Saving Mom!