Today's Freebies!

Well, I hope you are having a blessed day with your loved ones! I got my roses, but I got them last week at Aldi's. They were $2.50/6. I was able to pick out my own colors which was nice. Here are some specials for today:



At Ebates, You can enjoy $10 rebate For today only (it is usually $5)! Just click on the picture above or this Link to sign up! It is easy and FREE!

Also at Kroger, You can get FREE Totino's Pizza Rolls! They are 10/$10. If you sign up Here you will get a .50/coupon which will double to $1. Also in this last Sunday's paper, there was a coupon for .40 off. When you buy 10, you get $2 back, so don't worry about the .20. It will be free!

If you click on HERE, you will get a $2 coupon off of Honey Bunches of Oats Chocolate Clusters. They will be free or nearly free!

Clicking on this link will get you a couple of free Campbells Stock pot meals. (BTW when printing off these coupons, if you have more than ones computer, you can print atleast 4)

Here are some deals for CVS:
At CVS, buy 1 at $9.99, Get $6 ECBs (Limit 1). Use the $4/1 coupon from the 02/10 insert and get it free after coupon and ECBs.

If you buy 2 Garnier Haircolors at CVS which were on sale 2/$10 used 2/$2 coupons and got back $5 ECB making the hair colors $0.50 per box!

Enjoy!

Free family pack at Walgreens (1-8x10, 2-5x7, 4-4x6) 3 days only Thurs, Friday, and Saturday).

Go to Walgreens Photo
Login.
Upload your photo or choose it from your library.
Choose your set 1-8x10 2-5x7 4-4x6's (any extra prints will be at regular price)
Click check out.
Enter the code VALENTINE.
Complete checkout.

Since all of you that read this know that I am an avid CVS shopper, I need to let you in on what is going on. If you sign up with their CVS Advisor program and take a survey, they will send you a coupon, for triple extra bucks coupon through March 15th. Triple ECB coupon Here!. Now this doesn't cover prescription purchases, but all the other ones that I participate in. If you are passionate about ECB's like I am, Triple Extra bucks will ring your bell! you will receive an email with a coupon to take with you on your trips. Do NOT delete it. You can use it every trip! Enjoy and Take advantage of this deal to rack up some bucks!

OTHER CVS Coupons:
Here is another coupon from CVS for a Free 5x7 or Collage.
$2 off of Renu contact solution
B1G1 Free Dentyne
Loreal Telescopic Mascara There might also be manuf. coupons for this too!
$1.50 off of Dove Chocolates

FREE 8x10 and Wallets from Picture People. If you can put up with them wanting to, "upsell" you, they do a great job and you can get some free pictures out of it! Thanks Crystal for the Headsup!

CVS coupons!

Well, since my stackable store coupons expired yesterday, I decided to organize a trip to a CVS. Surprisingly, I was able to stack, but she told me that corporate was cracking down on them (but she said "she didn't care!") She also said as she was scanning, "Well, there are these mom's that think they can buy a bunch of stuff for nothing, LOLLLLLLL"

Well, I bought $85 worth of stuff and after store coupons and manf. coupons, I used $39.99 in ECB's and paid $1.85 OOP! I got $48 in ECB's back!

Okay, since my friend Fiddle D asked I will tell you what I got:

4 boxes of Colgate Total (used $2 off coupons)
1 kids card table 7.99
1 dbl box of Excedrin (picked it up by mistake but got $3 ecb's)
2 100 ct Excedrin (had $3 off cpns)
2 insect bite pens (sending to Hscl mom in Zimbabwe)
1 dbl cans of coffee (going to Zim), but got ECB's
Nova Max monitor (sale 29.99, had a $50 cpn exp 1/31 and they took it and adjusted it down to 0 and got $20 ECB's)
1 6 pk Mac and Cheese (going to Zim) got ECB's on it
2 pkts of chapstick with spf (going to Zim)
2 boxes of Triaminic (had manf cpns)


Here are some more "goodies" I found. These are only the $4/20 coupon, and YOU CAN ONLY USE ONE PER CUSTOMER!!!! My recommendation is to LIMIT your TOTAL with a limit of $20.

Here are the links:
$4/$20 will Exp 2/10
$4/$20 will exp 2/17

Have a good day!

PLEASE DON'T SPOIL THE FUN FOR THE REST OF US!

It is my understanding that there are SOME people who are threatning the fun of CVS, for not properly using their coupons. I first heard this from Money Saving Mom. Then from a friend of mine. PLEASE read Crystal's blog on this matter. Here is the deal:

You CANNOT:
Use more than one store coupon with the SAME number on it (another words 2 $4/20) in the same transaction!! NO MORE than one!

CVS DOES make money off of manufacturer coupons!

You CAN:
Use a $4/20, $3/$15, etc if your total is over $20
Use this on top of a sale
Use manufacurer's coupons on your products (only ONE per item!!!)
Use ECB's for your remaining balance, AS LONG as the total of your final bill owed is atleast .01 MORE than your ECB's!
Receive ECB's on that transaction!

I am doing this to cut down on my grocery bill by getting some of my health and beauty aids for next to nothing. There IS a way to do it, that IS legal. Photocopying and using multiple coupons for the SAME thing, is NOT legal. The store that I frequent is now "threatning" to cut off ALL stacking! It is a shame, that people like ME and others, who do their research and do it properly have to PAY for those that do not! Read, read read and don't spoil my fun and helping my family out in return, PLEASE!

Thanks!!

CVS.....Kroger........Publix

Since the store coupons expired yesterday, I made it a focus to get to CVS yesterday. I am glad I did. Here is what I got:
1 pkg 20 rolls Cottonelle (9.99)
2 boxes of Colgate total (2.49 each, which equals 4.98)
1 pkg of 2 Oral B Toothbrushes (5.99)
2 boxes of Crest Toothpaste (5.18)
1 box of 100 ct Excederin with bonus of 24 ct Back and Body (8.99)
My total before tax was 35.13. I used a $5/$30, a $4/$20, a $3/$15 and a $2/10. After my manufacterers coupons, my total was $12.20. I used $12 in ECB's and Paid .....

.46 Out of Pocket! I also got $10 BACK in Ecb's to spend!

I hope they bring back these coupons again! It is so much fun!

My grocery store experience was great! AT Kroger, my total was $132 and I paid $40 OOP. Then I had to spend a few minutes with my cashier, because she "had to know how I did that". She was a junior in high school, lol!

My total at Publix was $74.98 and I paid $17.03 OOP. BTW on Publix there is a Johnson & Johnson coupon out for $1 off. In SMALL print it says it will be good for buddies. Publix has a buddies bar for .99 which makes it free! I bought two of those, although I had 6 coupons. I will look out for more!

Take care! May this inspire and motivate you!

Super Savings Saturday:

First of all we went to Old Navy yesterday. There is an additional 50% off of the orange sticker, so I didn't pay more than $5 for an item and as little as $1.49.

I made two trips to CVS. The first one's total was $30.15 and my OOP was $4.55 with $17 ECB's. The second one my total was $26.97 and my OOP was .97 with $6 ECB.

I went to Publix on Weds and my total was $64 and I paid OOP $18.03. Here is what I got there:
12 boxes of Barilla Pasta
10 cans of Progresso soup
6 containers of squeezable Jam
6 boxes of Hamburger Helper/Helpers

I went to Super Target yesterday and my total was %54.46 and my OOP was $18.31. I got:

24 cans of Campbells Chicken Noodle
5 boxes of Electrosol
2 boxes of popcorn
6 small coffee's
4 pkgs of salad
10 pkgs of butter

Good luck this week!

CVS info and deals!

**CVS Hidden (non-advertised) Deal**
Spend $20 on ANY Pepsi Co products (including Fritolay chips) and receive $10 in ECB's. Btw Sierra Mist and Pepsi Max might have $1 peelies on them!

**CVS WARNING** I need to warn you about CVS and how they have revamped their coupons from CORPORATE DOWN!! I went in to take advantage of the battery deal at my CVS. I found out that corporate was getting upset at "those that were bringing their totals down to $0!!" and that the stores will NOT get credit for doing for a $20 transaction a $4/$20, $5/$15, $2/$10 etc. Your coupons have to be ACCUMILATIVE and they are retraining all of their people! There was one girl at my store that got yelled at and almost fired because she was "stacking" like before!!! IF your total is $35, you can use a $4/$20 and a $5/$15 but you cannot stack like before! They have TOTALLY found out about us clever ones and my dh was wondering on a few of my shopping trips when THAT was going to happen (when they figured out that they were loosing money to us!) Other than that, I had no problems using internet coupons!

I just found out that CVS is having 20 Free prints online right now. You can click HERE and enter code newmom20. It expires December 31.

FREEBIES!

IF you have a Zaxby's in your area, they are doing a Zaxby's Meal Deal Club
. This entitles you to a free meal. I have more than one email addy, so I did it for each one. They might ask for id, so you and your spouse might want to do separate orders and you might can use it multiple trips. Just click on the Zaxby's meal Deal
and they will send you an email.

Ryan's,
You can register for a free meal at Ryan's or any of their other restaurants. HERE is the link

SNAPFISH:
If you enter UPROMISE07, you will receive 20 free prints and free shipping. You MIGHT have to create a new account though. Also if you create a "group room" where you invite your friends and family here is what you might get:
Following the Link. (Do not type snapfish group room page by your self it won't work.)

Then it would take you to the group room page

Click On "SIGN UP" at right top corner

You need to sign up with a new email it won't work on old account.

After sign up it will take you to the page ask you to upload phots but you don't have to do that

Click on Not ready to upload?Visit your Snapfish home page

Then for the next page click on Your Account.

You will see all your creidts.


That's all.

Following credits will show on your account page:
1 Free Hi-Res photo(s)
1 4x6 FlipBook credit(s)
1 Credit(s) for 8" x 11" Classic Photo Book
1 Premium Subscription Type 1 trial


Following credit will show on your special offer page:
Get 30 FREE 4x6 prints after your first upload
1 Free Developing credit (35mm)
1 Free Developing credit (APS)

Also don't forget in my previous post, about free wipes from Target!! Make sure you get the travel size in the travel area.

SEARS:
Has $5 off of $5 tools and lawn and garden. We have started our boys on Hope chests. Every year we give them tools and ornaments. This will be GREAT! Here is the link to the coupon. BTW it does NOT work on clearance items!!! CLICK HERE!

ENJOY!

Southern Belle

CVS Deals 12/23-12/29

EXTRABUCK OFFERS

$5 wyb $15 of Energizer batteries (Limit 2)
Energizer Alkaline Batteries - AA, AAA 8 pk, C, D 4 pk, or 9 volt 2 pk, $5.29
- use $5 off CVS printable on Sunday 12/23

$10 wyb $20 of Gillette Fusion or Venus products (Limit 1)
Fusion Manual, Power, Phantom razor, cartridges 4-8 ct, gel 7 oz, Venus Divine, Vibrance, Breeze razor or cartridges 4-8 ct

$2 wyb any L'Oreal HIP cosmetics (Limit 5)
L'Oreal HIP Cosmetics - high intensity pigment foundation, eye or lip color, psa $6.89

$3 wyb Digital photo keychain $17.99 (Limit 5)

$2 wyb Vivitar Mini digital camera with accessory kit $9.99 (Limit 5)

$1 wyb Palmolive dish liquid $1.49 (Limit 2)
13 oz


B1G1

Coke or Evian Natural Spring Water - Coke 2 liter plastic bottle or Evian 1 liter, limit 4
Russell Stover Chocolates - 8.25-12 oz, assorted types, $7.99
Hershey's Pot of Gold - 7.7-12 oz, assorted types, $8.95
L'Oreal Infallible lipcolor - $11.99
All Sprint Prepaid Phone Cards - terms, fees and conditions may apply, psa $5
CVS/pharmacy Alkaline Batteries - AA, AAA 10 pk, C, D 4 pk, or 9 volt 2 pk
Puffs Tissues - regular, extra strength or with lotion, 60-108 ct
CVS/pharmacy Power Flash Camera - 27 exp, $7.99
Lay's Chips - 12.5-13 oz, selected varieties (excludes baked)
Maxwell House Coffee - 11.5-13oz, PSA 3.99-5.89
-$1.00 off on (1)11oz or larger can of Maxwell House Printable
-$1 off Maxwell 11oz or larger (exp 2/29/08) 12/16/07 SS
CVS/pharmacy Bathroom tissue - single roll
Kodak Picture Maker Print - 8x10 sheet, $6.99
Maybelline Great Lash or Define-A-Lash Mascara - $4.79-7.99


B1G1 50% off

All Men's or Women's Fragrances, including gift sets ** 3 days only Sun-Tues **
Holiday Gift Sets under $20
Photo Frame or Album (excludes digital photo frame) - $0.99-16.49
Skin Care gifts under $10
Essence of Beauty Super-plush Micro Fiber Robe
Select holiday toys - psa $1.29
Assorted Holiday Plush - psa $2.99
Essence of Beauty Glamorous Getaway Travel Bag - assorted styles and colors
Holiday Cosmetic Gift Set - assorted types


Buy X Get Y

Buy any L'Oreal Foundation, get a free L'Oreal Powder, Blush or Concealer (excludes HIP)


FOOD

M&M's or Hershey's Holiday Chocolate - Kisses, Hugs 8.5-12 oz assorted types, Kissables 14 oz, M&M's 11-14 oz assorted types (excludes Mega M&M's), $2/5 ** 3 days only Sun-Tues **
-$1.00/2 bags M&M Brand, etc. 7.9oz. or larger (exp 12/25) Valassis 12/02/07
Gold Emblem Nuts - 9-16 oz, assorted types, $3.99
Ferrero Rocher, Lindt Truffles, or Ghirardellis Squares - 4.2-5.32 oz, assorted types, 2/$5
Nabisco Cookies - Nutter Butter, Oreo, Lorna Doone or Honey Maid Grahams, 10-18 oz, assorted types, 2/$5
Planters Peanuts - 16 oz, assorted types, $1.99
-$1.00/2 Particpating Planters nuts 6oz. or larger (CVS cpn from Diabetes booklet)
Miller Lite or Coors Light - 18 pk, 12 oz cans, $11.99
Kendall-Jackson - 750 ml, selected varieties
Yellow Tail - 750 ml, selected varieties, $5.99


BEAUTY/PERSONAL CARE

All Essence of Beauty Bath (excluding lotion candle) - 3/$9.99
Essence of Beauty Mesh Sponge - $2.99
$5 off Conair Hair Dryer - assorted styles
CVS/pharmacy Vibrating Massager, Cordless Wet/Dry Shaver, or Tooth Tunes Toothbrush, $9.99
ChapStick Lip Balm - assorted types, 0.15 oz, $0.99


BABY

Huggies or Pampers Mega Pack - assorted styles and sizes, $13.99


CLEANING

All Laundry Detergent - original 26-32 loads or small&mighty 32 loads, assorted types, $3.99


MISCELLANEOUS

Craig MP3 Plus Video - 1 GB, $39.99
iCraig Retro Radio - AM/FM alarm clock radio with iPod dock, $29.99
Vivitar Binoculars - $9.99
33% off Holiday Decor - holiday light sets, lighted animation, home decor, candles or Trim A Tree candles
Virgin Mobile Oystr Prepaid Cell Phone - terms, fees and conditions may apply, $19.99
Dunk the Duck Game or Wallet Pix Digital Photo Holder - $29.99
25% off Sonicare or Waterpik - Sonicare Elite, Essence replacement brush or Waterpik appliances
Digital Photo Frame - 7" with full function remote control included, $69.99
Duracell Alkaline Batteries - AA, AAA 8 pk, C, D 4 pk, or 9 volt 2 pk, $5.29
Kodak 512MB SD Memory Card - $14.99
Kodak 256MB SD Memory Card - $9.99
Kodak 2GB SD Memory Card - $29.99
Photo Books - 6x8, $12.99

My Walgreens/CVS trips yesterday!

Well after finding out that Walgreens had a one day coupon for $5 off of $20, I decided to make a list and go. Another thing I realized is that Walgreens is caving to the pressure of CVS's tacktics and are mimicking their incentives to get shoppers in the store. They are now offering Register rewards, which are the same as the CVS bucks but you don't have to register for their shoppers card. Unlike CVS, your totals are NOT accumulative. You need to purchase the minimum in ONE shopping order!

I plotted and planned my trip and here is what I did:

Post cereals are 5/$10. Since I had a $1/2 coupon I bought 6. I got a register reward for $3. So I bought 6 boxes for $6.

I found out about many of my deals and sales through Slick Deals. If you go into the search box and type in CVS or Walgreens, you can pull up the deals listed in Hot Deals section.

There is a Procter and Gamble sale right now if you buy $20 worth you get $10 back in RR. Well there is a selection of LARGE shampoos that are normally $6.99. Some reports are that there are coupons on these products but I didn't see any! If you carefully check with these labels:

Herbal Essence (LARGE size) shampoo and conditioners
Nice Easy Root Touch ups
Nice Easy Color glaze
Pantene (LARGE size) shampoo and conditioners
Nice Easy gray solution
Infusium shampoo and conditioners
Head & Shoulders (LARGE size)

There are MANY of them on clearance. I saw where there were some for $1.79 but they were gone. I picked up 3 large bottles of Infusium shampoo that was marked down from $3.59 from $6.99. IF I would have paid full price it would have been over the $20 and that is what the register read. YOU GET CREDIT FOR THE REGULAR PRICE AND NOT THE SALE PRICE. So I paid about $11 for 3 bottles of shampoo and got $10 back in RR. BTW this deal lasts until 12/29.

Coke products are $4/11. Not a great deal but they are offering $3 off in RR, which is $4/9.

I got $17 back in RR. I also had a coupon with me for $10 off on the Entertainment book. I was questioning whether or not to get it. My dh said it was a good deal and I made it a better deal. It was $25. I used the $10 off to knock it down to $15. I used $14 in RR and paid OOP $1.66!!!! THAT is a good deal and worth it's weight in gold just in the Kroger coupons!!!!!

**WARNING** I had seen on slickdeals that people were taking their RR and putting them on American Express gift cards to use elsewhere. Tried it!! Register BOOTED me out and didn't work! Thought I would save the hassle factor for ya!

BTW, dh was with me during this time. He was laughing as we were leaving Walgreens. I asked him why. He said, I wonder first of all how many shampoo bottles you have, lol. Then he said, I wonder how long it will take these stores to realize that people like you are playing this game and learning how to buy things for nothing! I told him there were MANY others like me, RIGHT Friends, lol!?

Now onto CVS:

They had a Buy $20 worth of Gilette products and get $10 in EB's. WARNING: I tried to use a $1 coupon on a $1.79 container of Gillete shaving foam. It was considered a TRIAL size and didn't give me credit!

Here is how that transaction went down:
Bought 2 Gillette Fusion Razors at 9.99 each
bought 1 can Gillete foam $3.79 (due to the refund she gave me credit for an extra $1 coupon so I got $2 off of the foam)

used $5 off of $15 coupon
used $2 off of $10 coupon
used $9 (actually got credit for $10) manf coupons

Total oop $3 and got $10 eb's back

Bought Shick Quattro mens razor at 7.99 minus $4 manf coupon got $4 back in EB's FREE
Bought Shick disposable razors at 5.99 used $1 off of 1 coupon and got $3 back in EB's paid 1.99

They also had a soda deal (kids and dh loves it and we will go on detox after Christmas, lol) that if you bought 4 cases of Pepsi you got a free 12 pk of Pepsi max (dh's favorite!). We bought 5 cases of pepsi (got one free) and 2 bags of candy (for a reason) and total was $13.24. Used $13 in EB's and paid OOP .24!!!!!!

I still have $10 left in RR from Walgreens and $10 in Eb's with a $5 off of $20 purchase at CVS. Debating on what to use them on......hmmmm!!!!!

My next adventure! BTW if you search on Slick deals under CVS you can get the scans for next weeks sale. Looks pretty good too, although some of it is a 3 day sale! Good luck and be inspired!

CVS Deals for 12/16-12/22

$10 EB'S WYB $20. of Excedrin ,Bufferin ,Doans ,No Doz ,Ascripton PSA $3.99 (1)
-$3 Excedrin 100ct 10/21 SS, 11/11 SS
-$2 any Excedrin 10/21 SS, 11/11 SS


$3 EB'S WYB Clean Care Twin Pack, Zaditor 5ml, GenTeal Drops $14.99 (5)
-$1.50 GenTeal Gel 7/15 SS
-$1 GenTeal any 7/15 SS

$2.49 WYB Tylenol Vial 10ct $2.49=FREE (1)
-$1 8/5 SS ,9/16 VAL, 11/4 SS
-$1. 12/16 Val
$3 EB'S WYB Schick Quattro Disposable Razor Men or Women's 3ct $5.99 (1)
Schick Quattro Razor, any $4 12/16 SS (exp1-27-08)

$10 EB'S WYB $20. of ANY Gillette Fusion or Venus Shaving Products PSA $3.99 (1)

$5. WYB Norelco Face or Bodygroom Shaver $34.99 (1)

$30. WYB Oral-B Triumph 9000 $134.99 or Professional Care 7400 $89.99 (1)
-$10 Rebate for Oral-B Professional Care 12/2/07 P&G Form for rebate
$4 WYB Men's Schick Quattro Razor Power, Midnight or Titanium $7.99 (1)

$1 WYB Crest Toothpaste or Oral-B Toothbrush PSA $2.19 (1)

$3 WYB $9 of Smooth 'N' Shine Hair Care (1)

$2 WYB Playtex Gentle Glide or Sport Tampons Bonus size 20-22 ct.$4.99 (1)

$1 WYB Irish Sping 18oz or Softsoap Pure Cashmere/Nutra Oil Body Wash $3.99 (2)

$5 WYB any 24.7 Skincare Product PSA $15.99 (1)

$2 WYB CoverGirl Lash Blast Mascara $8.49 (1)

$1 WYB 2 Hershey's Chocolate 8.5-14 oz. Bags Asst. Varieties 2/$5 (1)


BUY ONE GET ONE FREE
Progresso Soup 18.5-19 oz cans, or 15.25 oz microwaveable
-.50/2 11/11 SS
[color="Red"]-.55 on 2 http://print.coupons.com/couponwe...0&zid=iq37
Maybelline Lip Color (all)
Maybelline Mascara (excludes Great Lash)
L'Oreal Vive Pro shampoo or conditioner 13 oz
- Buy 1 Get 1 Free 9/23 Val Expires 12/16/07
-$1 off any shampoo or conditionerhttp://print.coupons.com/couponwe...0&zid=iq37
-$1 any 9/23 Val Expires 12/16/07
-$1 any 11/4 Val.
CVS Alkaline Batteries ,AA, AAA 4pack, C,D 2pack or 1-9 volt
Kodak Power Flash Camera 27 exp $9.99
-$1.50 12/16 SS
Nature Made and Olay Vitamines
Lay's Potato Chips 12.5-13 oz.

BUY ONE GET ONE 50% OFF
Boxed Holiday Cards (Excludes Hallmark & American Greetings PSA $3.99
Holiday Fragrance Gift Sets
Assorted Holiday Toys
American Outdoor, Marshall Collins or Sharp Watches PSA $9.99
Wet'N'Wild Cosmetics (all) PSA.99
Maybelline Foundation, Blush ,or Concealer PSA $3.99
Revlon Lip ,Eye or Nail color
-$2 any 9/9 SS
-$2 face cosmetic 10/21 SS
-$1 Lip product 10/21 SS
Almay Cosmetics or Skincare (all) PSA $1.99
Milani Cosmetics (all) PSA $1.99
L'eggs Sheer Hosiery (excludes mini eggs)
Got 2B Styling Products
-$2 any Full Size 11/11 A Season Full of Savings
Conair Hair Appliances
Photo Frames or Albums (excludes digital frames)

BUY 2 GET 1
Scotch Tape, magic, Double sided or Giftwrap

BUY X GET Y
Buy 4-12 Packs of PEPSI products for $11. GET a 12 Pack of Diet Pepsi Max for FREE
Buy any 3 American Greetings Cards and get a FREE Singing, Dancing ,Lighted Merry Reindeer
Buy any REVLON Foundation get a FREE Age Defying Face Primer or Precise Wrinkle Eraser $13.99 value


50% OFF PRE-WRAPPED GIFTS
33% OFF HOLIDAY LIGHT SETS, OUTDOOR DECOR OR LIGHTED ANIMATION
25% OFF HOLIDAY HOME DECOR, TRIM OR CANDLES
25% OFF SELECT PLUSH

I went back to CVS Saturday night. I couldn't resist, lol.

My total was $104.15
My total OOP was $4.82!!!!

Now questions that I have been fielding from readers and friends:

1. Do you do this on one day or more than one? Obviously I went back a second time, but I do multiple transactions in one trip. Make sure to use Pharmacy too! Just let the cashier know you are doing more than one transaction.

2. Do you use multiple coupons? ABSOLUTELY! That is what I LOVE about CVS. You need to learn how to STACK! For instance here is one transaction:

There is a promotion that you spend $20 on P& G products, you get $5 in ecb's. I only spent a little of $20, which is the minimum!!!

2 pkgs of Pampers (baby gifts) sale 8.99 each
1 pkg charmin bath tissue
1 box cvs tissue

Use 1 $4 off of $20
Use 1 $2 off of $10
use 2/$2 coupons off of pampers
use 1 .25 coupon on charmin
use 1 coupon for free tissue

My normal total: $21.46
MINUS $11.46 in manf and store coupons
Equals $8.76
Then you get $5 in ecb's

Then you use the $5 on the next transaction! That is why you do it in separate transactions!!!!!

I already have my sights on this week, so look out!

Let me know if you have any more questions,
Beth

I will be in Birmingham, AL today (visiting my best girlfriend for my birthday and to celebrate Christmas), but make SURE you go and visit Money Saving Mom for the updated sales and lists of items for the CVS sale this week. Also make sure you go to Coupon Mom for the grocery store ads in your area (ours is Kroger, CVS, Walgreens and Publix)

Have a good one!
Beth

My CVS (and Grocery Shopping) Trip yesterday

I pretty much consistently save ATLEAST (minimum) of 50% or more on my groceries. I use sites likes Coupon Mom and The Grocery Game to be able to "stack" coupons, be on sale and even double my savings on top of that. Well, while watching Money Saving Mom I was intrigued about the savings that can be had at CVS. I knew there wasn't one on our exit, so my FIRST chore was to even see where the nearest one was, to see if it was even feasible. I found out that amongst our 4 exits for our town, the CVS was located 2 exits down from us. It is a fairly new store. SO, my plan was to really start the savings. Before I get to the "nitty gritty" it didn't take me that long. The thing that took me a little time, was figuring out a "strategy" of what to buy when and buy things in 1-3 products at a time to be able to use my Extra Bucks. You can see my picture at the top.

**Drum Roll Please**

My total at CVS was $219.90 (before ANY savings)
My total OOP (Out of Pocket) was $36.37

What did I get for all of that. Now, I will go into detail. The one thing I did before I left the house, was to write out which products I would divide up into separate transactions (1-3) to be able to turn around and use my Extra bucks. Basically they give you money in a paper receipt format and you can use it on a separate transaction, so that is why you divide it. First of all, I signed up my card and logged in online, and they sent me a certificate for $4 off of $20 purchase. BTW, my store said, as long as I use it in separate transactions and trips, I can use as many as I want, so I saved it in my email. Secondly, I used $2 off of $10 purchase on each of my transactions. Thirdly, there is also a sale on some of their cold and flu remedies with bucks, so I stacked another coupon like $2 off of $10 Flu/Cold Coupon HERE which gives you $2 off of $10 for colds and flu meds. Now my CVS told me as long as the certificates have different numbers on them, you can use more than one in a transaction. I also noticed that your total needs to be more than your ECB bucks. IF you need more clarification or details on things, you can head over to Money Saving Mom's post on CVS 101.

Also, on another site that I love, I found out that you can get a free glucose monitor (my dad is diabetic). On that site it said that you get $20 in ECB bucks, BUT THAT IS NOT TRUE. But what I DID find out, is that the Breeze 2 is regularly $59.99 and was on sale for 14.99. In the pharmacy is a diabetes magazine for $50 OFF of a the Breeze 2 or Contour. (They adjusted the coupon for the price of the monitor). Now to sweeten the deal, there was a sticker on there, that YOU GET A REBATE. It says up to $40, but I have been doing rebates for a while, and I know they are going to give me the price that I paid ($14.99 before coupon). So basically I will make $14.99 on this deal

If you click on THIS BLOG, you will figure out how to get your Christmas pictures (or any) for FREE. I was only able to figure out how to do 60 on each card(I have two cards), so I got 120 pictures, FOR FREE. I just uploaded my pictures online to their photo center, and sent it to them. I picked them up when I arrived. I was very pleased with the quality and I saved $22.80!!! .

Here is my list of what I got:
120 4x6 Christmas pictures (free)
Glucose monitor (reg 59.99 and I will MAKE $14.99)
2 pkgs of Jumbo size 1 Pampers (I have two friends having babies soon! These are for gifts)
1 pkg jumbo (dbl pkt) Huggies Wipes
2 bottles of Oasis Mouthwash (free after ECB bucks)
2 Gillette Fusion razors (FREE after ECB bucks)
6 cases Pepsi (I don't drink it but dh does. After coupons and ECB's I paid $1.08/case of 12)
2 boxes of Garnier hair color
2 tubes of Cover Girl Lipstick (It was already b1g1 and I had a b1g1 manf cpn so they were BOTH FREE)
2 double pkgs of Charmin bath tissue
2 boxes of Theraflu strips
5 pkgs of cough drops
1 box of children's cough expectorant

That is not all my friends, after looking at the weekly sales for this week, I decided to go to Publix. Now other than eggs, the rest I did with using The Grocery Game. My total at Publix (we have double coupons BTW) was $51.83. My total OOP (out of pocket) was $15.63. Now here is a list of my items:
2 1/2 doz. eggs (non coupon item)
2 LARGE Publix pizzas (got them for .02)
3 boxes of Totino's pizza rolls (on sale for 50% off, had a .40 cpn that doubled. Paid .20 each box)
1 bottle of high end shampoo and conditioner (paid $1 for shampoo and $0 for the conditioner, it was FREE)
2 revlon nail clippers (they were on sale b1g1. Reg price $1.49, which is about .75 each. Had 2 Manf cpns for $1 off each one, which I MADE .50. Make sure you know that you can use 2 $ off on b1g1)

6 boxes of Uncle Ben's Wild Rice (it was on b1g1 and I had a manf b2g1f)
4 bags of Marie C. Croutons (look out in those Publix coupon fliers! These were.60/bag)

I am not done. I hope to go to Kroger later this week. It depends. I know CVS is great for HBA, but I also like to save at the grocery store too!

Hope this helps some of you and encourages you. I would love to her comments or questions! Don't forget our 30 Days of Joy Box going on right now. I will post on that one again in a minute.

Southern Belle