Coupons…yay! January 8, 2010

I’ve started couponing again this past week, because well…it saves a ton of money. I don’t have pics of what I got at Meijer because we’ve used a lot of it already, but I saved about $25 there. I got 2 gallons of milk, 4 boxes of different types of Cheerios, 2 kid’s Campbell’s soup, 2 Select Harvest soups, 2 Lysol kitchen cleaners, 8 Yoplait yogurts, and 2 V8 Splashes…for $14. Not too bad, huh? Then I also got 4 more boxes of Special K cereal at Target for $1.14/each.

Then today, I went to CVS and Walgreens. CVS was a little higher than I anticipated because I had to substitute a few more expensive things, but that’s ok. All together, I spent 16.88, but I still have $8 Extra Care Bucks that I earned at CVS, which spend like cash there, so my actual out of pocket was about $9. This is the highest out of pocket cost I should have for a while since I now have the ECB’s to roll over from week to week.

What $16 will get ya…

1 Nivea skin firming lotion

6 Oust air sanitizers

2 Irish Spring body washes

2 Palmolive dish soaps

6 Soy Joy bars

1 Sally Hanson cuticle lotions

1 Cottonelle 84 ct wipes

3 Revlon eye shadows

2 Colgate Max White toothpastes

And one fantastic little helper.

Not pictured – 1 bag of peanut M&Ms to keep children happy.

I saved $77.00, which is over 82%. Woo hoo!

CVS – woo hoo! July 6, 2009

CVS in and of itself can be expensive, just like Walgreens or RiteAid, but if you couple their sales and Extra Care Bucks with some coupons you can get an awesome deal like this for $9.05. I also have $4.00 to spend for next week (Extra Care Bucks), so in essence, I got it all for $5.05. It was a little more out of pocket than what I wanted to spend, but that was because I messed up one of the transactions, and I would end up losing more money if I tried to redo it. I ended up saving $96.04…not bad, huh?