Week 8 - Walgreens

Ok, so today I guess I just felt in the mood to do some aerobic shopping, so that's what I did. I went to 2 CVS stores, 3 Walgreens, ToysRUs, Target, Kroger, Randalls and Walmart all in less than 3 hours. I'm telling you - SERIOUS aerobic shopping! And lugging my coupon binder around definitely counts for lifting weights!

Anyways, one of the places I went today was Walgreens to take advantage of the money maker Excedrin deal (read about that here). I went to 3 different Walgreens to take advantage of this deal (asking the cashier to do 3 separate transactions would contradict my whole aerobic shopping bit - and I just never know what they are going to say to that and don't want to risk messing up the deals), but unfortunately the last store was sold out, so I'll try to hit up one more store sometime before this deal ends on Sunday. Anyways, IF you signed up for the free bottle of Excedrin like I talked about previously on my blog, you probably got your coupon in the mail sometime this week. This makes the deal even better because you don't have to pay the $0.50 out of pocket and it will still give you the $2 Register Rewards! But, if you don't, print your $2 off coupons and just remember - if you buy 2 things of Excedrin in 1 transaction - it will still only print ONE of the $2 Register Rewards. So to really make the most out of this deal, you need to ring them all up separately. The main reason I took advantage of this deal was for the Register Rewards because I need them to help sweeten up a deal next week for Huggies diapers! (Will post about that soon!)

Overall, I spent $0.50 for 2 bottles of Excedrin and got $4 in Register Rewards!!!

Week 5 - Feb.2 Walgreens

Well, had $11 in RR that were going to expire so off to Walgreens I went. Now, the "coupon pros" would probably have spent the time to find deals that would cause the RRs to roll (meaning they would use the $11 in RR I have to buy items that would generate new RRs), but I just couldn't find any deals worth seeking out. So, I have been needing some more infant tylenol & vitamin D drops (Poly-vi-sol) for my baby, so I decided to use the RR for that.

Here's the breakdown:

Poly-vi-sol: $10.49 - $3 catalina coupon (printed last time I bought poly-vi-sol) = $7.49

Infant Tylenol: $6.29 - $1 insert coupon = $5.29

Baby Sweet Potatoes: $1.69 (should have been $1 - just realized this)

Baby Prunes & Apples: $1.69

-$11 RR

=$5.16 oop

savings: $15.00 or 74%

Week 4 - Jan.28 Walgreens

So, I had $5.50 worth of RR (register rewards) to use at Walgreens that were going to expire. So I came up with a list of deals that I was going to snag - filled with items that were going to generate NEW RRs (they call this "rolling" the RRs). I get to Walgreens and I kid you not, EVERY LAST THING I was looking for my deals was sold out. So, it happens, and I don't bring my coupon binders with me because I try to REALLY stick to my list, but the bad thing about not having my binders was that I couldn't try to match up my coupons for other deals. Anyways, since I was there and didn't want $5.50 in RRs to go to waste, I decided to get some baby food. I've been needing to get some anyways to have on hand, so this worked out okay. Unfortunately, my brain was not doing so well with math that day, so I ended up paying more oop (out of pocket) than I had hoped, but oh well. Still got lots of baby food out of the whole deal.

bill - $8.00

spent - $2.50

saved - $5.50 or 69%

Week 3 - Jan.19 Walgreens

bill - 77.87

spent - 17.43

saved - 60.44 or 78%



*I am submitting the receipt for a $10 rebate for the peanuts.

Week 2 - Jan.16 Walgreens

(not pictured)
had to make a quick trip to pick up some medicine

bill - 7.99

spent - 7.99

saved - 0%

Week 2 - Jan.14 Walgreens

bill - $24.23

spent - $1.25*

saved - 95% or 22.98

*and I earned $5.50 in Register Rewards for my next visit!

Week 1 - Jan.6 Walgreens

bill - $31.84

spent - $9.56

saved - 70% or $22.28

Week 1 - Jan.5 Walgreens

bill - $47.55

spent - $7.71

saved - 84% or $39.84

My husband stopped by Walgreens on the way home from work to get more Electrasol since there was a limit of 1 per purchase, so there were 2 more Walgreens transactions that day that each looked like this:

(not pictured, but got 2 more boxes of Electrasol tabs)

bill - $3.57

spent - $1.07

saved - 70% or $2.50