Well, due to the fact that Extreme Couponing (the show) ruined EVERYTHING for people who actually use coupons ethically, I haven’t been to CVS to actually get a good deal in like, 2 months. Sooooo, I was very excited to see a few things in the CVS ad today that were good deals, that we needed, and that I had coupons for. I felt that old couponin’ excitement start to build as I headed out to the store. You see, when I was at Mom 2.0 Summit in May, there were some reps from Charmin there handing out free Charmin coupons. I stopped and told them that I sometimes blog about Charmin, when I find a good deal on it, because I buy it for my picky brother. The Charmin PR guy apparently thought that was an entertaining story, so he gave me several coupons. I have been waiting to use those for 5 weeks! Today was finally the day!
I started out in my first transaction buy buying Bobby some Nivea for Men products. He loves these, and I haven’t been able to get a good deal on them in a long time. Here’s what I did:
Two Nivea shaving products, $6.88 each = $13.76
– $4.50 two $2.25 off Nivea for Men printable coupons from CouponNetwork.com
total= $9.26 + tax = $10.23 cash, got back 5 ECBs to use on my next purchase.
So, I ripped those 5 ECBs off of my receipt and used them on my 2nd transaction:
12-pack of Bounty $9.99
Two 16-packs of Charmin $9.99 each = $19.98
Box of Puffs $.99
=$30.96
-$19.98 two FREE Charmin coupons
-$.25 off Bounty P&G coupon
-$5 ECB from first transaction
=$5.73 + $2.17 tax = $7.90 cash, and I got back 10 ECB 🙂
Every time I go to CVS, I head down the baby aisle to see if there are any diapers or wipes on clearance. I hit the jackpot this time! CVS had their giant refill packs of wipes on clearance 25% off. They were asking $7.49 for a pack of 360 wipes. Yes, please! So, I did one final transaction.
Two 360-count packs of CVS baby wipes, $7.49 each = $14.98
total =$14.98
-$10 ECB from P&G deal
= $4.98 + 1.05 tax = $6.03
So, I spent $24.16 for all that stuff! Without coupons I would’ve paid $59.70! I was pretty happy! Maybe I’m back! If they have any good deals at CVS next week, I’m there!
Did you make any drugstore scores this week??
