Happy Monday! I didn’t make it out to go drugstore whoring coupon shopping until Friday last week, so today you’re getting treated to last week’s shopping trip and this week’s shopping trip. You lucky dogs! Last week I just went to Rite Aid. Here’s what I got:
Two children’s Advil $4.99 each = $9.98
Two Chapstick, 2 for $3
1 Colgate MaxWhite, $3.50
total = $16.48
coupons I used:
-$5 off two Advil Rite Aid coupon that printed on the bottom of my receipt last time I was there
-$2 two $1 off Advil coupons from coupon inserts
-50 cents Colgate coupon from coupon inserts
-$1 Rite Aid Chapstick email coupon
-$1/2 Chapstick coupon from inserts
-$3 +UP Rewards from last Rite Aid shopping trip
= $3.98 plus tax (I can’t remember the tax total and I already tossed my receipt, oops!)
PLUS I got back 75 cents from my ibotta coupon app deposited in my PayPal account! AND I got back $1 +Up Reward for the Chapstick and $3 +UP for the toothpaste, making this transaction MORE THAN FREE. Weeeee!
(P.S. You should really sign up for ibotta if you haven’t already! The coupons are awesome and high-value! Sign up here.)
Armed with my 4 +UP Rewards, I returned to Rite Aid Sunday to get some more deals. Here’s how it shook out:
Tresemme shampoo and conditioner, two for $7
Two Ragu pasta sauce two for $3
Colgate Optic White toothpaste, $2.99
total = $12.99
coupons I used:
-$3.50 BOGO free Tresemme coupon from RedPlum 1/27 insert
– 40 cents/2 Ragu coupon from same insert
-$4 +UP Rewards from Friday’s transaction
=$5.09 + 70 cents tax = $5.79
I got back $2 +UP Rewards from the Tresemme, $1 from the Ragu and $1 from the Colgate, plus $1 from my ibotta coupon app deposited in my PayPal account for the Colgate as well. So basically that cost me 79 cents. WHAT UP!
Now, on to CVS. I had 4 CVS Extra Care Bucks that I needed to use, so I decided to buy some soda for Joshua’s upcoming birthday party next weeeknd.
Twelve-packs of 7UP products were 3/$10 with 4 ECBs back, so that’s what I did. Not too exciting! I used my 4 ECBs I already had, paid $6.70 with tax, and got back another 4 ECBs. Cheap soda FTW!
Well, that’s what I did at the drugstore this week! Have you been coupon shopping yet this week? What deals are you gonna get?
Good deals! But you really can’t count ECB’s or +UP at the front AND the end of the transaction. Like you are counting your 4 +UP to calculate your Friday total, and then counting the same 4 +UP for your next trip final total. I feel like I get a better sense of what a trip costs me by figuring my net ECB’s…like if I start with 5 ECB and end with 8 ECB, then I consider that to have saved me 3 dollars. But if I end with fewer ECBs than when I started, I consider it out-of-pocket cash spent.
I thought about that but it made my head hurt too much to figure that out so I gave up.