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The winner of the $30 gift certificate to Carabella’s is Jen Berning! The Random Number Generator chose her comment number, the number 5! Jen was a year ahead of myself and Carabella’s owner Jeni Deason at our high school so it is fiitting that she won! She is expecting her second baby in a few weeks so the timing is great. Congratulations, Jen! And a big thank you to Jeni at Carabella’s!
I had a grrreeeat time CVSing this week! There were many deals to be had, and I had a lot of fun getting them!! I was also able to get some things we -gasp!- needed as well!
This picture actually covers two transactions.
1st transaction:
1 Garnier conditioner: $4.29
1 Garnier cleanser: $5.99
1 Garnier towlettes: $5.99
2 CVS hand sanitizers clearanced at 25 cents each
total = $16.77
Coupons I used:
$5/$15 CVS coupon
$3/$15 CVS beauty coupon
Two $2 off Garnier nutritioniste coupons
One $1 off Garnier conditioner coupon
I used 3 ECBs and spent less than a dollar in cash and got back 5 ECBs for the Garnier products! And you know what is great about that? All this stuff wasn’t even for me! It was for friends and family members who use these products! I love being able to provide this for them and getting paid to do so!
2nd transaction:
1 Iams cat food $8.99
1 Glucerna shakes $10.49
total = $19.48
Coupons I used:
$5/$15 CVS coupon
$10 off Glucerna coupon
$2/$10 Glucerna purchase CVS CRT
$3 off Iams coupon
total = negative 52 cents! oops! I threw in a Payday candy bar, paid 41 cents cash and got 2 ECBs for the Glucerna! I didn’t even have to use any ECBs!
I had another $10 off Glucerna coupon, so I had to do that deal again, because we needed some milk. But I can’t go buy JUST milk. So, I got:
Milk $2.99
Glucerna shakes $10.49
Cadbury Mini Eggs 17 cents (filler)
Reese’s 50 cents (filler)
CVS Rapid Release Gels $3.99
total = 18.14
Coupons I used:
CVS $5/$15
Glucerna $10 off
total = $3.14
I used $2.99 ECB, paid 15 cents cash and got back $5.99 ECB! 2 for the Glucerna and 3.99 for the CVS brand Tylenol!
And finally, my favorite transaction of the week:
CVS had a deal where if you bought 3 Essence of Beauty (a CVS brand) products, you got 5 ECBs. Well for some crazy reason these 99 cent toe separators count as part of the deal! So you get 3 for $2.97 and get 5 ECB! Crazy! Anyhoo, Here’s how this transaction went:
1 Nivea for Men $5.99
2 CVS Rapid Release gels $7.98
4 toe separators $3.96
1 Reese’s (filler!) 50 cents
total = $18.43
Coupons used:
$5/$15 CVS coupon
$3/$10 CVS brand coupon
$2 Nivea coupon
7 in ECBs and paid $1.64 cash and got back….wait for it…$22.98 in ECBs!! 10 for the toe separators (I had purchased the other two on a previous transaction – meant to get three oops! So I made up for it on this transaction.), 5 for the Nivea (had also purchased the rest of this on a previous transaction), and 7.98 for the CVS brand Tylenol. My cashier was muy impressed!
Well that’s the end of my CVS fun for the week…I also hit the mega-sale at Kroger, which you can see here. For more impressive deals, check out Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom, and for more Crazy CVSers, check out CVS Superstars at the Censtible Sawyer!
Dear Readers, Emily really did y’all a favor when she had another baby, because in honor of the birth of her son Samuel, we are hosting a great giveaway you all are going to love! To help us celebrate, my friend Jeni Deason, the very talented SAHM of three and owner and designer at Carabella’s, an online baby gift boutique, is giving Emily this amazingly adorable Babylicious gift set in Groovy Blue…
(yes! Those are adorable itty-bitty baby BOXER SHORTS!)
…and she’s offering you the chance to win a $30 gift certificate to Carabella’s! The great thing about Carabella’s is that every gift is personalized. You’ll notice that each piece has Samuel’s name on it. Let me just say Jeni works fast! She amazes me, since we didn’t even know what gender Emily’s baby was let alone it’s name, and yet she delivered this gift to my house before the child was 10 hours old!! I can’t promise you she’ll be that fast on every order, but the girl can really whip up some cute stuff on the quick! Check out this adorable Babylicious Posie bib she embroidered for Sophie:
And this gorgeous corduroy embroidered dress:
(modeled by her own little Abby!)
And these sock monkey burp cloths!
Well, I’m not going to show you any more because you need to go see for yourself! From monogrammed overalls to birthday bloomers to Big Brother & Sister shirts, Carabella’s has it ALL! She even has super-cutie monogrammed sippy cups!! So, to enter the contest, go over to the Carabella’s site and browse around. Then, come back here and leave a comment on this post saying what your favorite Carabella’s item is! (If you just leave a comment and don’t say what your favorite item is, your comment will be deee-leeted!!) That’s all you have to do! You can also gain a second entry to the contest by linking to this post on your blog and letting others know about the contest! Just leave a second comment when you’ve posted! We’ll close comments on Sunday night, April 6th, and Baby Samuel, I mean the Random Number Generator, will pick a winner and announce the winner on Monday the 7th! Good luck! Now get on over to Carabella’s and get entering!!
***This just in! Jeni is offering a 15% discount code at Carabella’s for Mommin’ It Up readers!! Enter discount code MOMUP on the payments page in the voucher box through midnight Sunday to get your discount!!***
If you missed the big excitement yesterday, details on Samuel’s birth are here and pics of him are here!