CVS Week of Nov. 16th - 22nd

I made a couple of stops early in the week at CVS to take advantage of the Loreal deal and start rolling some ECBs I had left over. This is quite a long post so bear with me!

CVS was crazy this week and I have quite a few ECB's to roll over for next week. The week of Thanksgiving there are supposed to be some incredible deals. I'm going to be making some recommendations later today on how to make the most out of the ECBs you can gain.

11/17/08
I went in with $19.59 in ECBs (extra care bucks) and $2.51 on a gift card.

1 Loreal Age Perfect Moisturizer - $15.99
1 Glade oil burning refil - $3.99
1 Glade Plug In with fan - $7.99
Coupons and ECB's I used:
1 $1/1 Loreal
1 Glade buy one refill get one Plug in Free
$19.58 in ECB's
Total Shelf: $32.53 (remember this always includes tax)
Total Savings: $31.57
Total used on gift card: .96
No out of pocket expense and I got back $20.99 in ECBs.

11/18/08
Time for the Duracell deal and MORE Glade. This one was buy $20.00 in Duracell batteries and get $15.00 in ECBs. I lucked out with the tear pads at my CVS location and had 2 of those (save $5.00/2) to use as well as the one's from the paper which were .75/1. Now by the time I got to CVS the 8 count AA packs that were on sale for $5.99 had already been picked over and but I still did ok.

1 9V 2 count pack $5.99/1
2 4 pk Digital AA packs $5.99/1
1 Duracell Ultra AA $5.99/1 (These rang up $8.99 but the clerk discounted it to the $5.99
without me even asking)
2 Glade Oil candle burners at $5.49/1
Coupons I used were:
2 .75/1 Duracell
2 $5.00/2 Duracell Tear Pad coupon
1 Glade Buy One Get One Free coupon = $5.49
$16.99 in ECB's
Total Shelf Price: $45.89
Total Savings: $44.48 (remember she took $3.00 off one battery automatically)
Total Out of Pocket: $1.41 and I walked out again with $20.00 dollars in ECB's

11/21/08
Transaction 1
8 Glade Glass scents $5.00/2 (they had been out of these until today)
2 13oz Maxwell House Coffee BOGO free $4.99/2
1 Essence of Beauty Scrunchy Bathy Sponge thingy $2.99/1
Coupons I used:
4 BOGO Glade Glass scents
1 .75/2 Maxwell House Coffee
1 $2.00/1 Essence of Beauty item (you find these in the Rejuvenating Beauty magazine they sell for .99 which makes it a big saver) (This is also a filler that kept me from losing .99 in ECBs)
ECBs $15.00
Total Shelf: $39.65
Total Savings: $39.06
Total Out of Pocket: .59

Transaction 2
2 Glade Oil Refills
2 Glade Oil Candle Burners
2 Glade Oil Plug Ins
1 Blade solid deodorant
Coupons I used:
2 Buy one Glade Oil refill get one Glade Plug in Free
1 BOGO Glade Oil Candle Burner
1 $2/1 Blade (from Rejuvenating Beauty mag) (Filler)
ECBs $14.96
Total Shelf Price: $38.60
Total Savings: $37.43
Total Out of Pocket: $1.17
Gained $16.00 in ECBs

Transaction 3 (Another Duracell deal on another CVS card)
4 4 pack AA batteries
Coupons I used:
2 $5/2 CVS tear pad coupons
3 .75/1 Duracell coupons from Sunday inserts
$15.00 in ECBs
Total Shelf Price: $21.32
Total Out of Pocket: .58
Total Savings: $20.74
Gained another $15.00 in ECBs

Kroger 11/15/08 An unexpected super saver!

I'm fortunate because Kroger's is within a couple of min. from where we live so to "drop in" and grab something really is simple. I knew we would be needing milk and of course can't stand the thought of going without my coupon binder! I knew I has 3 of the $2/1 Tylenol coupons and 3 $1/1 of the Scotch Mini Lint roller so thought I would dig around and see if I could work something up. Unfortunately the Scotch nail saver scrubbers weren't $10/10 here in Lexington. Didn't even think about taking a picture but should have because really its a great little run! And thank goodness I hadn't left my coupon binder at home!

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Kroger Mega Deal items - Automatic $5.00 off when you purchase 10 specified items.
4 Danactive Yogurt 4 packs
3 Scotch Mini Lint rollers - FREE after deal
1 Tylenol Extra Strength Rapid Release caps - FREE after deal
2 Tylenol PM Rapid Release caps - FREE after deal

Non Mega Deal items
2 1/2 gallons Kroger milk
3 quarts Dannon plain yogurt marked down to $1 each (Yogurt freezes well!)
2 8 count Yoplait Gogurt boxes marked down to .75 each (These freeze for great frozen yogurt treats)
2 Prices Hearty Bacon Pimento Cheese spreads marked to $1.25

Coupons I used:
4 $1/1 Dannon Activia Yogurts (these blinkies made them .50 each after deal)
3 $1/1 Scotch Mini Lint rollers (FREE)
3 $2/1 Tylenol (FREE)
1 .75/1 Kroger Dannon coupon (someone had left this sitting on the yogurt!)
1 $1/2 Dannon yogurt
2 .35/1 Price's Pimento Cheese spread
1 .75/2 Yoplait Gogurt

Total Price: $41.05
Total Savings: $34.11
Total Out of Pocket: $6.94
84% savings!!!!

Kroger Mega Deal

I did a Kroger run on Wed. 11/5/08 with my Mom to maximize on savings with the Seniors discount of 10% . I have listed the Mega Deal items first with the coupons I used for that then the non Mega Deal items and the coupons used for those. My Kroger's will double up to .50 unless coupon states otherwise.

Kroger Mega Deal items

2 packs O-Cello sponges
2 packs O-Cello scrub pads
8 Glade candle refills
1 Pillsbury Cake Mix
1 Pillsbury Frosting
2 Smuckers Preserves
1 Hefty Storage Bag
4 Claim Jumper meals
2 Tylenol PM Rapid Release Gels
4 Tylenol Rapid Release Tablets
2 Superpretzel
14 Carnation Evaporated milk
1 Early California Black olive
1 Armour Meat Balls
1 Nestle Morsel
2 5lb package Domino Sugar
2 Land O Lake 1lb butter packages3 3bar pack Dial soap

Kroger non Mega Deal items

1 9oz package Kroger frozen spinach .09
1 Herbal Essence shampoo - free
1 Herbal Essence conditioner – free
1 Kroger flour tortilla 1.24
2 Kroger pecan twirls 2.00
1 Kroger saltines .99
2 Gillette Sensor disposable razors free
1 Pork roast 4.44
1 Hershey extra dark bar .50
2 Big K cola .69 each
2 2lb packages Tennesse Pride sausage 1.99 each - these were on close out.
1 Kroger can coffee free
1 qt. Kroger milk – not pictured 1.25
1 Kroger Nice and Soft 6 pack double roll toilet paper 2.54
½ loaf Bunny Bread .79

Coupons used:

Mega Deal

2 $1/2 O-Cello
4 Buy One Get One Free + $3/3, $2/2 (be sure to give the 3/3 and 2/2 before you hand over the BOGO’s
1 .40/1 Pillsbury Cake Mix
2 .35/1 Smuckers
1 .35/1 Hefty (this was a peely on the box)
2 .50/2 Claim Jumper meals
2 $2/1 Tylenol PM
4 $2/1 Tylenol Extra Strength Rapid Release
1 $1/2 Superpretzel
7 .50/2 Carnation Evaporated milk
1 $1/1 Armour Meat Balls
1 .75/1 Nestle Morsel
1 .50/1 Domino Sugar
1 .35/1 Domino Sugar
2 .55/1 Land O Lake butter
3 .30/1 Dial soap

Non Mega Deal
1 .35/1 Kroger frozen vegetable
1 $3/2 Herbal Essence
1 BOGO Herbal Essence P&G eSaver on my Kroger card
2 $3/1 Gillette Sensor 3 Razor
2 $3/1 Gillette Sensor 3 Razor P&G eSaver on my Kroger card
1 $1/1 Hershey Dark bar
1 FREE Kroger coffee
1 .75/1 Kroger Nice and Soft
1 .25/1 Bunny Bread

Now the kicker to this is $44.03 WAS NOT part of the Kroger Mega Deal.

I did 2 transactions total. That means 3 Mega Deals in first transaction and 1 Mega Deal in 2nd transaction along with non-deal items.

70 Pieces total
Total: $197.60
Total Savings: $160.64
Total Out of Pocket: $36.96

Sat. Nov. 2nd Kroger/Meijer run

Today's run was Meijers (not impressive) then to Krogers. I did get Huggie's wipes for .39 for an 80 count box at Meijers. As I was headed to the baby dept I noticed a display that looked like it was left over but it still had some store coupons left on it for $1 off Huggies wipes. I grabbed one but noticed on the bottom it said not to be used with any other discount coupon. I figured what the hey I would try it anyways! At checkout I did the Meijer store coupon first on the wipes then an additional manufacturer for .50 which doubled! Whoo hoo it worked!

Meijers run:
Chuck roads 2.79lb/4.88 (red meat in this house is a treat and this wasn't too bad of a buy)
Western Style ribs 1.19lb/3.36
2 cans mushrooms .60/1.20
1 Huggies wipes 2.39
I used the 2 coupons for Huggies at 2.00 off
Total: 12.66
Savings: 2.78
Out of pocket: 9.88


Krogers. We do try to avoid boxed food as much as possible but there are times the convenience is just needed.
3 boxes Hamburger Helper
9 boxes Betty Crocker Instant potatoes
1 Quaker Quick Oats
10 Halloween decorations reduced (these were supposed to be marked down to .20 each)
1 dozen eggs
1 Jumbo pack Huggies Pull Ups
1 Kroger coffee creamer

Used the following coupons:
9/.35 Betty Crocker (These had the HH peelies for free boxes!)
3/FREE boxes Hamburger Helper w/purchase of the 9 boxes.
1/1.50 Pampers
1/.75 Quaker
1/.50 P&G eSaver coupon on Kroger card
$5.00 off automatically for Mega Event

And 7 of the 10 Halloween decorations rang up wrong so I got back $8.40 when I went to customer service to bring it to their attention. The clerk checked it out and just refunded the entire amount back for what rang up wrong!

Total Shelf: $69.15
Total Savings: $53.38
Total out of pocket: $15.77