Sunday, November 1, 2009

Saving at CVS on a Sunday afternoon


I had an eventful evening at CVS tonight, which I don't normally have. There was a teenaged girl who knew next to nothing about coupons. My husband and I each make a transaction. She did my husbands (on the left) and all was fine. Then she did mine. When she did mine she realized she put in the wrong amount for the Bayer Glucose Monitor on my husband's bill. She put in $30 as the value of the coupon instead of $15 like she was supposed to. (I wondered why it was so low, but I thought I had just miscalculated on my end). Well, when mine was done, the new 'manager' (? I think manager) told her we'd have to totally redo my husband's transaction to put in the right coupon amounts. I had no problem with that, although my hubby wasn't about it. After a few minutes of trying she realized she couldn't do it and told me it was fine and told the girl to be more careful of coupons. I offered to pay the difference but they told me it was fine. I just hope it doesn't come out of the girl's check.
Then....I get to the car and look at my bill to see that I did not get the $10 ECB's for the $20 Nyquil/Dayquil I purchased so I went back in. The other cashier, also a (late) teenager, tried to argue with me, telling me I shouldn't get it because of the mishap with the coupon. I told her #1, that was with my husband's transaction, not mine. #2 No matter what happened with the coupons I should still get my ECB's for purchasing certain items. She rolled her eyes at me and printed me $10 ECB's.
On a side note: I never usually have problems with cashiers at CVS, only these 2 in particular. I will go on Sunday mornings from now on the avoid this mess!
Anyway....here is my purchase and my hubby's purchase tonight.


 On the left, hubby bought, 2 Soft Soap, 3 Listerine, 1 Bayer Blood Glucose Meter, 2 Pert Plus and 2 Olay Quench.
Used the coupons:
$1/1 Pert Plus x2
$2/1 Listerine x3
$30 Bayer Contour Blood Glucose Meter (even though it should have been $14.99)
$2 CVS Soft Soap + Buy pump get base free
$3 off Olay Quench + Buy 1 Olay Quench, get 1 free
$6.99 ECB's used

OOP: $1.14
Saved $133.37
$12 ECB's acquired

On the right, my purchase:
Bayer Contour Blood Glucose Meter, 3 Glade Oil Candle Holders, 3 Glade Candle Refills, 2 Nyquil, 2 Dayquil
Used Coupons:
$14.99 Bayer Contour Blood Glucose Meter
$2 Glade Fragrance Collection
Buy 1 Candle Holder, get refill free x3
$1.50/1 Nyquil or Dayquil x3
$1/1 Nyquil or Dayquil
$10, $6.99 ECB's used

OOP: $4.16
Saved $122.99
$13 ECB's acquired

I didn't get the right amount of Glade that I meant to so hopefully I can get back this week to buy 6 more Glade @ $2.50 each (minus coupons of course) for the other $6 I want.

Saved at Brookshires too


Now, to be honest I don't frequent Brookshire's that much anymore because I'm able to go to Kroger, Walmart and Target, who are more coupon friendly. Pilgrim's Pride chicken was on sale this week and I wasn't able to to get any Tombstone pizza at Kroger, which was also on sale at Brookshire's for bogo so I thought I'd stop in and get some. My savings weren't nearly as impressive but I thought I'd post anyway.


Total before savings or coupons: $148.98
Total out of pocket after coupons and savings: $80.66
Total savings: $78.40 or 54%

Kroger MegaSavings Saved $206.92!


 This was a good weekend for me on the shopping front. (Not so good for my son on the Trick or Treating front but that a different story). The Mega Sale was on at Kroger this weekend and thankfully I was able to take advantage of it. Disclaimer...hubby was with me so I spent at least $25 more than I normally would have, or that was on my list. Dang hubby's...lol


Total cost of all items before coupons and savings:  $299.03
Total cost out of pocket after coupons and savings: $92.11
Total savings: $206.92 or 70%

My Target Trip Saved $275.60!



Ok, have I told you before that I LOVE Target? Maybe once or twice right? Well, this week was no exception. A new Super Target opened up a bit closer to us so we went there instead of the place we normally go to and I had the problems with last week. This week, no such problems. Here's a pic of my purchase.

Before coupons:  $293.53
After coupons and $11.89 in Gift cards: $17.93
Total savings: $275.60 or 94%
Not too shabby if I do say so myself!

12 New Kellogg's cereal Coupons!!



BE AWARE!! These each take up a full page of paper...so don't be like me...maybe print them one at a time so you can save paper and ink!! And I could only print them 1 time each.


Here is a list of the coupons:

Free light bulbs at Target



Buyer alert!

GE Smart Energy 13 W CFL bulb $2.39
Use $2.00/1 Target coupon from HERE
Use $1.00/1 coupon from 10/4 SS
Final Price - FREE! Plus possible overage

Have I told you lately how much I love Target??

Thanks to Deal Finding Chik

Disney Sweatshirts $2.99




 First Click here....then...

Select Disney Sweatshirts are $2.99 each
plus $2.95 shipping for up to 3 sweatshirts

in search type "disney outlet"
click on "item of the week" (on left)