CVS Score!

So many of you know, my husband is my Coupon King. He does all the clipping and organizing and planning. Some weeks we don't get that many great deals and some weeks we have really awesome ones.

This week I just had to post about our trip to CVS.

We got all of this which is worth $59.74 for $17.48.

It's a 61% savings. It's not bad considering the zyrtec and the vitamins alone would have been more than $17.48 if we paid full price.

First Transaction:
4 bottles of soda, 2 12 packs of lipton, 4 bottles of right guard body wash

sale: soda was on sale for $0.88/each, body wash on sale for $1.99/each

Coupons used: 2 B1G1 free coupons for right guard body wash

Extra Care Bucks earned: $5.00 for buying $15 worth of pepsico products, $2 for buying the right guard body wash

Second Transaction:
1 5ct pack of Zyrtec, 2 bottles of CVS women's multivitamins, 2 bottles of dawn

sale: multivitamins were on sale for B1G1 (note: could have gotten One-A-Day brand for $0.50 more using coupons which were also B1G1, but why pay the extra $0.50), dawn was on sale for $0.99

Coupons used:$4 off $20 CVS coupon from our email, 2 $0.25 off Dawn coupons, free zyrtec trial pack coupon. $5 ECB from 1st transcation, $2 ECB from 1st transaction

The Lucky Mom has Lucked Out!

My wonderful hubs and I have been using coupons for years for discounts on items we usually buy. When we moved to SC I met some really frugal ladies at our church who explained how to use coupons to get things FREE and to even make money with them.

I had my first experience with that this week. I have over 100 boxes of pasta in my truck (most of which is being donated to the food pantry) that I didn't pay a single cent for. In fact, at one store we not only got the pasta for free, but the difference in the coupon versus the price actually earned us some of our other groceries for free as well.

I went to http://www.muellerspasta.com and registered my email. Then I went to their coupons and promotions page. From there I printed several $0.55 and $1.00 of one item coupons.

Bi-lo has several types of pasta on sale for $1.00/box so I went there first and got a ton of boxes there. But then I noticed that Ingles had lasagna 5/$5.00 which wasn't one of the ones on sale at Bi-Lo and they had boxes of spaghetti for $0.85.

I bought 10 boxes of the items that were 5/$5 at Ingles and 18 boxes of spaghetti for $0.85 and uses my $1.00 coupons. My 10 items were free and I actually EARNED $0.15 x 18 for my boxes of spaghetti. I had no idea that Ingles allowed you to keep the difference when the coupon is worth more than the item (Bi-lo doesn't). So we ended up getting a few dollars off our other items.

Needless to say I'm goning to be printing more coupons tomorrow and head back to Ingles for more spaghetti. Then maybe I can get some fresh produce for free with the difference!