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This coming week marks my one year anniversary of CVSing! Last year it was the week between Sophie’s birthday and Thanksgiving when I first darkened the door of a CVS and signed up for an ExtraCare card and began gettin’ my coupon on. It wasn’t long before I was hooked…now me and CVS are soulmates! Oh…the memories!! Sniff, sniff! Seriously, couponing has changed my life and I consider it and CVS a real gift from God. More on that in a later post, but for now I’ll just show you what I got this week.
I had to hoof it in on Sunday to get the two-day sale items before they ran out! Here’s what I got!
SmartWater $1.59
Listerine Kids rinse $3.99
Loreal Revitalift $11.99
St. Ives Body Wash $3.99
Total = 21.56
Coupons I used: CVS $4/$20
CVS $1 off Listerine 500ml or larger q (from Diabetes book)
$1 Listerine manu q
$2 off St. Ives manu q
$2 off Walgreens Loreal q
$1 off Loreal manu q (from Kmart beauty book)
Total = 10.56
I paid with 10 ECB and some change (I can’t find my receipt once again! Slacker!) and got back 19.58 ECB! Oot! That’s making money!
Later I went back to get some of my favorite beverage, Mountain Dew. I am soo classy, I know. I also got some of that Sierra Mist Free Cranberry cause that stuff is GOOD and it won’t make ya fat like Mountain Dew will! We needed a few other things, too.
Three Pepsi products $10
Listerine Kids Rinse $3.99
Bleach $2.29
Garnier Fructis hair spray $2.99
Milk $2.99
Total = $22.26
Coupons: CVS $4/$20
$1 CVS Listerine q
$1 Listerine manu q
$1 Garnier manu q
$3 catalina from Meijer (my CVS will accept as a competitor coupon)
Total = 12.26
I paid with my 11.99 ECB from the Loreal Revitalift and paid 43 cents in cash and got back 7 ECB. Not too shabby!!!
Next, I hit the Kroger Mega-Sale once again. Lucky for me, my beloved Glade Scented Oil Candle refills were part of the Mega-Sale AND on a catalina deal this week. YESS! So first I bought 10 Glade products, and with coupons and the $5 off for the Mega-event, paid $9.75 for 4 Glade jar candles and 6 GSOC refill packs. I got back a $4 Catalina to use on my next order! Here is a total of ALL the groceries I bought that night:
Both transactions combined came up to over $125 before coupons and promotions. After coupons & the promo, I paid $59.18 and got back another $4 coupon to use on my next order. 🙂 This is over budget for me but not really because we budgeted extra to get goodies for Sophie’s birthday party – so I came out under when all was said & done. YAY! Please don’t be too concerned about the amount of Glade refills – I SWEAR I am giving some away as gifts with the candle holders. 🙂
Well that is IT for me this week! I gotta go decorate a birthday cake now! Yikes, for more great couponing adventures, check out Money Saving Mom and The Centsible Sawyer.
Awhile back, Emily wrote this post about how Kate’s “comfort item” isn’t really an item per se – it’s her belly button. We have a similar issue with Joshua and his ears. He plays with them when he is tired or nervous, and has done so since he was about two. Now that he’s a big boy, however, he has discovered that he can really play with his ears. He can, in fact, make them do things that they are not supposed to do. Like this, for instance:
He folds his ear inside of itself and then pops it out by smiling really big.
It is too hard for me not to crack up at, and he LOVES making me laugh!
So he runs up to me with his ear like that about 1,000 times a day.
It is HYSTERICAL! But probably not good for his ear…
This is bad, right? What should I do?