Gettin' Paid to Bring home Toiletries

So hubby drove me over the river to return something and I went into the CVS drugstore while I was around that area to try to get up enough stuff to use a $10/50 coupon that was expiring on Sunday. Plus I had toothpaste coupons expiring today to use. Here's what I bought....

2 Natural Dentist Mouth Rinse-$9.99 ea.=$19.98
4 Herbal Essence Shampoo-$2.99 ea.=$11.96
2 Stacy's Chips- $3.00 ea.=$6.00
2 Dole Fruit Cups- $1.67 ea.=$3.34
1 Colgate Total Toothpaste-$2.99
1 Earinse- $7.99
Total $52.26

Coupons used...
$10 off $50
2x Natural Dentist Rinse=$4.00
2x $3/2 Herbal Shampoo=$6.00
2x $1.50 off Stacy's Chips=$3.00
1x $.75 off Dole Fruit=$.75
1x $1.00 off Colgate Toothpaste=$1.00
Total -$24.75

I used CVS Extra Bucks of...
$1.99 (from Children's Aspirin bought earlier in the month)
$7.99(from Earinse bought earlier in the month)
$16 in other assorted Extra Bucks

Balance
$1.53

I also took in an older prescription to transfer it to this pharmacy. It's something I only use seasonally for allergies, so it's not something I need refilled often. I had a coupon for a $25 gift card to transfer an Rx. So I used that gift card so NO out of pocket!

They were out of the other items(except more toothpaste)I had planned to build a second $50 order on AND hubby was getting impatient in the car, so I just left the extra toothpaste coupons on the shelf for a special gift if someone else came along to buy that item. My random act of kindness for the day I guess...

I received Extra Bucks(EBs)....
$7.99 for the Earinse
$2.99 for the Toothpaste
$8.00 for the Mouth Rinse
$4.00 for the Shampoo
And a MIR for $10.00
And ANOTHER $10/50 coupon

$61.18 Value for F-R-E-E.
I used 25.98 EBs, got back $22.98 and $10
Plus I have a $23.47 Gift Card and I know how to use it!

Not a bad CVS day here.

Check out how other Thrifty Divas are saving this week at the "Cents"ible Sawyer CVS SUPERSTARS Page.

sluggy

Saturday among the bored

I've been in a grand funk since Wednesday. Between teenagers (times 3), the windy/cold weather, the 3 dogs, the lack of action on my things up on eBay, all this tax & pre-college paperwork & my computer biting the dust YET AGAIN!!!, I just haven't felt like my peppy self.....well, not that I am EVER peppy.lol

Hubby had to go pick up his glasses today, so I tagged along just to get out of the house. I almost fell asleep in the car waiting for him to get his glasses. It was so warm in the car from the sun and it took so darn looooong!

You can't just run in and grab your glasses and go, can you? They make you sit there while they clean the lenses a couple of times and fit them onto your head, then adjust something here or there on them.....then reclean them once again.....then tighten something else, or loosen something else, or bend something, then wipe the lenses again....argh! Good lord, put them on your face and if you can see through them without falling down, just LEAVE already! ;-)

Anyway, after my snooze, we snuck off without the 3 hormonal alien zitsters we call our children for some chinese food. They switched the pans on 2 kinds of shrimp entrees and I wound up with a mouth full of Pepper Shrimp instead of a non-spicy Shrimp with Veggies. Everything tasted sort of 'eh' to me today, except the pan sauteed Dumplings. I should have just stuck to a pile of those and some soup instead of the sampling of lots of the dishes.

If you're interested in the extreme couponing shopping I did, read the next post, if not just close this window now and move along, as there is nothing more to see here. 8-))

sluggy

Menu Plan Monday

Here's what is on the Menu at Chez Sluggy this week.

Monday-Roast Turkey,Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes, Cranberry Sauce, Sauteed Green
Beans, Gravy...Thanksgiving Dinner but without the Pumpkin Pie!
Tuesday-Homemade Pizza(Chicken Wing Pizza & Veggie Supreme Pizza), Salad
Wednesday-Turkey & Rice Casserole, Sweet Potatoes, Spinach Souffle
Thursday-Hamburgers, Baked Beans, Carrots
Friday-Baked Fish, Seasoned Baked French Fries, Harvard Beets, Peas
Saturday-Pork Chop with Apricot Glaze, Carrots & Broccoli in Cheese Sauce, Wild
Rice

Desserts for the Week-Apple Pie & Chocolate and Butterscotch Cookies

Organizing Junkie is the home to Menu Plan Monday. Go see what's on her and many other ladies Menus for the week at Organizing Junkie's website.

sluggy

Nothing Says Love like Bacon!

We love us some bacon in my house, nasty old nitrites and all. I used coupons today to save a substantial amount of cash on our food bill.

My local little grocery market ran a special on a certain brand of bacon this week, $1.99 a package. I traded for 20 bacon coupons. The manufacturer published this brand of bacon coupons 2 states over but not here, thus the trading. I crossed my fingers the coupons would arrive before the sale ended tonight.

The coupons arrived yesterday, so I spent Valentine's Day morning up to the market using my coupons to buy TWENTY packages of Bacon. Remember, I said we LOVE us some Bacon. I was Not kidding!

This store doubles coupons up to $1.00 total, so my 55 cent coupons were each worth $1.00 off a package, which was on sale for $1.99 each.

$3.99 bacon x 20=$79.80 reg. retail value.
$1.99 bacon sale price x 20=$39.80 cost.
$1.00 off coupons x 20=$20.00 off.
$39.80-$20.00=$19.80 for 20 packages of bacon....that's 99 cents each.

Savings of $60.00 off of reg. retail price.

Having the freezer stocked with Hog Love=Priceless.

Happy Valentine's Day All!

Sluggy

Sluggy...OOP $1.97

I am new to this stuff but I had a pretty good day at CVS this week. You can see that our dog Peanut heartily agrees that I 'done good' on the dog food score! (Peanut is a 'Bagel'-half Beagle, half Basset Hound & all eating machine!)

It went down in 2 transactions. I had a $10/50 crt coupon so I had to do a large one, even though I didn't have some coupons to do some of the deals I wanted to do. Here is what I could do....

Transaction #1
Purina Dog Chow x 2 @$4.99 ea.=$9.98
Gillette Gamer Razor @$7.99
Tums QuickPack x 3 @$2.85 ea.=$8.55
Natural Dentist Rinse x2 @$9.99 ea.=$19.98
Bodiheat Packs @$3.99
TOTAL=$50.49

Used Coupons
2x $4/1 Dog Chow IP=$8.00
Gamer Razor $4/1 MQ=$4.00
3x Tums $2.25/1 IP=$6.75
2x Natural Dentist $2/1 IP=$4.00
Bodiheat $1/1 Peelie Q=$1.00
TOTAL Coupons=$23.75

Used Extra Bucks
$10/50
$10 EB
$5 EB
TOTAL Extra Bucks=$25.00

$50.49-$23.75-$25.00=$1.74 Out of Pocket
Plus earned $15 EB ($8 Natural Dentist/$4 Gamer Razor/$3 BodiHeat)& another $10/50 EB
And I have a $10.00 MIR for the Natural Dentist

Transaction #2
Mylanta Cherry (the one marked down, I found 1 bottle)@$3.75
2x BodiHeat Wraps @$3.99 ea.=$7.98
Hershey Bar(filler)@50 cents

Used Coupons
2x $1/1 Peelie Q=$2.00
(Wish I had a Mylanta Q with me)

Used Extra Bucks
$10 EB
My total was $9.73, after the Peelies were deducted. I had a $10 EB to use, so I was forced to buy that chocolate bar. Oh, the horrors!lolol

$11.73-$2.00-$10.00=$0.23 Out of Pocket
Plus earned $9 EB ($3 Mylanta/$6 BodiHeat)

TOTAL OOP $1.97
Used 25 EB & $10/50, got 24 New EB, $10/50 & $10 MIR
Total Value of Products $79.98
Total Value w/Sale prices $62.72

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