Category Archives: CVS

I had so much fun today doing A LOT of couponing at 4 different stores. I wanted to take advantage of some of the really great deals going on right now. If you follow my blog you will see that there are often gaps between my couponing trips. It’s because I don’t spend my time couponing if I don’t think the deals are good enough or I don’t really need something. I don’t live in the land of double coupons so deals are a little harder to come by. So right now, since there are so many good deals out I want to stock up for later. The first Publix shopping trip was actually yesterday but I wanted to post them together because these deals can all be done this week. The rest of the couponing trips were today.

Publix Trip #1  – 6/17/12

Bought 6 Nature Made Vitamins- Vit D, Melatonin, Magnesium, Folic Acid, and others- Prices from $3.99 to $4.99
used 3 $2/1 Nature Made Vitamins printable coupons (This is an awesome PDF coupon that you can print as many times as you want)
and used 6 $6/2 Naturemade Vitamins Publix coupon, Green Advantage Flyer
Cost after coupons- Free + Profit

3 Sundown Vitamin Folic Acid, $2.89
-$1 off Sundown Naturals vitamin or supplement, RP 6/10
-$3 off Sundown Naturals product, 120 ct. + Publix coupon Green Advantage flyer
Cost after coupons- Free + Profit

Bought 2 Right Guard Deodorants $3.89 and 2 Right Guard Men’s Body Washes $3.91 all B1G1
– (2) $2/2 Right Guard Total Defense 5 Anti-Perspirant, Deodorant, Gel or Body Wash manufacturer coupon (zip 30187)
– (1) $2/2 Right Guard Total Defense 5 Anti-Perspirant/Deodorant Target store coupon (zip 33712)
– (2) $1/1 Right Guard Total Defense 5 Body Wash Target store coupon (zip 33712)
Cost after coupons- Free + Profit
Thanks to Couponaholic.net for the deal idea

Maggi Ckn Soup .50 each
– Used 2 .50¢ off printable coupons I printed so long ago I can’t remember where I got them
Cost after coupons- Free

Items Bought Without Coupons-
– 3 Packs of Perdue Ckn Breast ~$3.50 each
– Bananas $1.86

-I also used one $5 off of a $55 purchase competitor coupon from Winn-Dixie.

Totals-
Total Before Coupons- $86.17
Total w/ Tax After Coupons- $5.23
Savings- $80.94

Publix Trip #2  – 6/18/12

Bought 8 Nature Made Vitamins- Vit D, Melatonin, Magnesium, Folic Acid, and others- Prices from $3.99 to $4.99
used 4 $2/1 Nature Made Vitamins printable coupons (This is an awesome PDF coupon that you can print as many times as you want)
and used 8 $6/2 Naturemade Vitamins Publix coupon, Green Advantage Flyer
Cost after coupons- Free + Profit

4 Dole Fruit Smoothie Shakers, 4 oz, $1.99
-Used 2 $1 off of 2 Dole Fruit Smoothie Shakers (although there are a lot of other manufacture coupons for this product out there)
– and used 2 $1.99/2 Dole Fruit Smoothie Shakers, 4 oz, Publix Coupon Yellow Advantage Flyer
Cost after coupons- .49¢ each

4 Smart Balance Milk, 64 oz, $2.50
-$1 off Smart Balance enhanced milk, SS 6/03
Cost after coupons- $1.50 each
Note- These are good for several months so I like to stock up

BUY TWO WHISKAS CHOICE CUTS FOOD FOR CATS 12 PK 30-36 OZ, 2/$7
Use two $2/1 Whiskas Multi Pack Cat Food Assorted Varieties 30-72 oz Multipack Publix Printable Store Coupon
and use two $0.75/1 Whiskas Pouch Multipack manufacturer coupon, 6/10 RP newspaper insert
NET PRICE: $1.50 (or 75 cents per multipack!)
Thanks to Couponaholic.net for the deal idea

Items Bought Without Coupons-
– Publix Cream Chz $1.89
– Publix Sliced Chz $2.79

Totals-
Total Before Coupons- $71.26
Total w/ Tax After Coupons- $6.84
Savings- $64.42

I’m really excited about this Walgreens trip. The store was dead and the cashier in the cosmetics department was really patient so I was able to do more transactions than I usually would. I keep taking advantage of cheap shampoo deals (see HERE and HERE to list a few!) because there were so few last year but now I think I might be set for a long time.

Walgreens Trip – 6/18/12

1 Real Soft Toilet Paper 12 Pack $5
– $1 off Walgreens Coupon in June’s Coupon Booklet
Cost after coupons- $4

1 Scott 6 Pack of Paper Towels $5
– $1 off Walgreens Coupon in June’s Coupon Booklet
– $1 off Scott Paper Towel Manufacture Coupon SS 6/10
Cost after coupons- $3

3 $2.50 RR WYB Colgate Total Gum Defense or Advanced Toothpaste, 4 oz, $3
– I Used 3 .75/1 Colgate toothpaste, 4 oz, SS 6/03
Cost after coupons and RRs- Free+

10 $2 RR WYB (2) Suave Shampoo or Conditioner 5-28 oz, Stylers or Lotion or Caress Body Wash, 12 oz starting at $1
– No coupons used
Cost after RRs- Free

Filler Items-
– 2 Muffin Mix on clearance $.89
– 4 Candy Sticks $.25

Unfortunately this is a shopping trip that needs an explanation because as you know if you coupon at Walgreens they don’t make it easy on you. At Walgreens you can only use one manufacture coupon per item and their store Register Rewards (RRs) count as Manufacture coupons. Also they charge you tax on the pre-coupon amount so you pay more tax than at other stores. My initial intention with this shopping trip was to rotate the toothpaste deal with the shampoo deal so that I could use the RRs from the previous transaction for the next transaction (because you can’t use RRs for one deal to get more of the same deal). This did not work out as well as I had hoped because the $2 from the Shampoo did not fully cover the toothpaste + filler Item and the $2.50 from the toothpaste was higher than the $2 for the shampoo so I needed several filler items and that always raises your out of pocket costs. That being said, I still got 21 items including paper towels and toilet paper for around $11 and I’m happy with that.

Totals for 21 items in 9 transactions-
Spent- $11.02
Saved- $27.35

CVS Trip – 6/18/12

I bought 2 Tom’s of Maine Toothpaste and 2 Tom’s of Maine Deodorant for this deal-

$1 ECB WYB Tom’s of Maine Toothpaste or Deodorant, $3.19, limit 2
Used 2 -$1 off Tom’s of Maine toothpaste, excl trial sizes, SS 6/17
Used 2 -$2.50 off Tom’s of Maine Naturally Dry antiperspirant, SS 6/17
– I also used $1 ECBs that I already had
Spent- $5.11 total and Received $4 ECBs
Cost after coupons and ECBs- $1.11 or about ~.27¢ each
Saved- $16.50

Note- I used two different CVS cards to do this (mine and my bfs) because the limit is 2. Also, even though these items were cheap I can usually find better deals on toothpaste and deodorant but I am slowly switching my house over to Natural and Organic Products and I also love that they are fair trade. When I can’t find Natural or Organic I settle for cheap (lol).

Walmart Trip – 6/18/12

3 Black Flag Fly Paper or Flyswatter $.98
Use one $1/1 Black Flag Product 4/15 RP
Cost after coupons- Free + .02 Profit

4 Maruchan Yakisoba Noodles $.78
$0.50/1 Maruchan Yakisoba Product 5/20 SS
Cost after coupons– $0.28

Totals-
Spent-$1.06
Saved- $5.00

Today’s Couponing Totals-

(Note- this does not include the 1st Publix Shopping Trip because it is from yesterday)

Spent- $24.03 out of pocket at 4 Stores

Saved- $113.27 plus I still have $4 ECBs

(I didn’t count the ECBs this week because they will count towards next week)