My Shopping Trip: CVS & Pathmark for a $13 Profit!
Have I ever mentioned how much I LOVE coupons? In case I haven’t, I truly do 
Seriously, how can you not. My trips to CVS and Pathmark netted me a profit of $13. Every time I gave the stores money, they gave me more money back. How awesome is that. Plus, I didn’t even take advantage of all the money makers including some of the new rebates and the Speed Stick BOGO Sale at CVS this week. Here is what I did today:
::CVS
I made various trips to different stores and started with a $4 ECB and continued to roll the ECBs I was getting into other transactions. This list is all the trips combined but I actually did 5 different transactions.
Total Purchased from 5 transactions:
- 2 Tom’s of Maine Mouthwash, 16 oz $2.99 each
- 3 Schick Hydro Shave Gel $4.49 each
- 8 Skintimate Shave Cream $4.19 each
- 1 Schick Hydro Razor $9.99
Coupons Used in 5 transactions:
- (7)$2/1 Skintimate/Schick Peelies
- (4)$0.55/1 Skintimate Coupons
- (1)Free Schick Hydro Razor (from a previous promotion that was going to expire)
- +Tax: $4.41
Total Paid Out of Pocket: $19.18 (kept it down by rolling $18 in ECBs)
Have Left a total of: $36 in ECBs
::Pathmark
Transaction #1:
- 4 Wish Bone Salad Dressing ($3.79) $2 each
- 3 Caress Bodywash ($4.99)$1.99each
Coupons Used:
- $0.75/1 Caress Zavers eCoupon
- $1/2 WishBone Zavers eCoupon
- (2)$0.75/2 Wish Bone Printable Coupon (NLA)
- (3)$0.75/1 Caress Bodywash Coupon from the 1/29 RP
- Tax: $0.47
Total Paid out of pocket: $8.19
Received: $10 Catalina
Transaction #2:
- 4 Wish Bone Salad Dressing ($3.79) $2 each
- 1 Caress Bodywash ($4.99) $1.99
- 3 Lipton Pyramid Tea ($4.79) $1.99 each
- 2 Yoplait Lactose Free Yogurt $0.60 each
- 1 Loaf Whole Wheat Bread $1.99
Coupons Used:
- $0.40/1 Lipton Zavers eCoupon
- -(1)$0.75/1 Caress Bodywash Coupon from the 1/29 RP
- (2)$0.75/2 Wish Bone Printable Coupon (NLA)
- -(3)$1/1 Lipton Pyramid Tea Printable Coupon
- -(2)$0.30/1 Yoplait Lactose Free Yogurt Coupon (NLA)
- -$10 Catalina from transaction #1
- Tax: $0.16
Total Paid out of pocket: $1.21
Received: $10 Catalina
Total for the day:
Total Paid Cash Out of Pocket: $28.58
Started with: $4 ECB
Ended with: $46 in ECBs and Catalinas
Profit: $13.42
Total Savings including sale prices and coupons: $116.64 which I will be adding to the LRWC Reader’s Grocery Savings Counter. Be sure to add your savings so we can see how much we have all saved in 2012
Here is an update to my Grocery Budget:
- Amount in the envelope as of 1/10: $541
- -$55.27 for shopping trip on 1/10
- Total in envelope as of 1/11: $485.73
- -$71.29 for shopping trip on 1/12
- Total in envelope as of 1/12: $414.44
- -$2.12 for shopping trip on 1/18
- Total in envelope as of 1/18: $412.32
- Added $150 to grocery envelope on 1/20
- -$23.24 spent at the Farmers Market
- -$12 on various quick trips to the stores during the week
- -$9 spent on Newspapers
- -$28.58 for shopping trip 1/29
- Total in envelope as of 1/29: $489.50
If you’re interested in seeing how we set up our budget envelopes, make sure to check out, How To Set Up a Budge and Stick to It.
How are you doing on your grocery budget?
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Cindy Livesey is the force behind Living Rich With Coupons which provides its readers with all the resources they need to shop smart so they can get life’s luxuries for a lot less. Her family of 5 has saved over $11,000 a year in groceries. And you can too.
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does the catalina work at Stop and Shop?
wow!That’s awesome. I did great at Pathmark and A &P too and made a few bucks even though my zavers coupons didn’t come off. It’s a happy day!
How did the ECBs work on Skintimate if you buy more than one on a single transaction?
From your description, it sounds like you did at least two skintimate products on some transactions.
I just went tonight and bought 4 in 1 tran and received a $16 ECB. It’s a limt of 100!
When I went to use my B1G1 coupons for Speed Stick deodorant at CVS this morning, 3.99 came off my order for each of the 2 coupons I used. I paid $.81 for 6 deodorants!
went to dollar general they had frank’s hot sauce for 1.00 i had three .75cent off coupons so i just paid .25 for each one,,,not bad i got three bottles for less then one bottle
wow great job cindy!
Bought 30 shave gels today…made a ton of money off of them since they were price at 3.59 at my stores and they had $2.00 coupons attached….$1.59 out of pocket and received $4 extra bucks for each! $2.41 money maker each!!
Did you have to make more than one transaction to get all ECB?
30? wow that is a lot, hope there were some left for other shoppers
agreed.
I wonder what triggers the $10 catalina from the Unilever deal. I got the $10 cat at A &P and did another deal at Pathmark but I only received $5 cat.
I was wondering the same thing. I wanted to do the 1st transaction at Pathmark, 2 wishbone dressings & 3 lotions, but I want to be prepared because my catalina’s never print there.
Majority of readers were reporting that the deal worked on shelf price and both my shopping trips to A &P and Pathmark were based on shelf price. So there’s a big possibility it will print for you this time.
I went to CVS tonight to try to get some of the shave gels, however, they were all out of stock
I hate that. I went there to get some of the deals on the specified items. I couldn’t find the Tom’s of Maine mouthwash, and they were all out of the shave gel. Guess I’ll have to try again tomorrow.
You probably went to Angela’s store.
LOL!
Cindy, you are truly my hero!
I know the feeling I had a great trip at CVS today too!
Must be regional just tried this in LJ, TX no EB for Schick
I went to 5 stores to get 30…there were tons stocked at the stores in my area. Between my family and my sister’s family, we have 8 teenagers that we foster…love being able to give them their own products since most of them have lived without most of their lives…we are donating the rest to the women’s shelter that we volunteer at.
I shared with my MIL, my teenage daughters(3) and plan on donating to the Homeless Veterans Housing in Long Island.
Thanks Cindy!
I am so grateful for this site. It has taught me so much!! I don’t know how I shopped w/out coupons before. I get so excited getting deals like these. With a family of 5 and only 1 income, it was incredibly hard to keep a house stocked. Now in just 2 months I have seen how much I have saved for my family and how full the cabinets and pantry have remained. THANK YOU LRWC !!! My new bestfriend!
I have a question about the ECB at CVS. Were the extra bucks all combined on one coupon for the shave gel? Or did you get 16 seperate $4 ECB coupons?
They are all combined.
Splended! Now since you submitted YOUR shopping trip, will you be enrolled into a chance for winning the LRWC give-away?! Lol :-}
Well, no shave gel on sale and does not give ecb. Lady speed sticks are $1.99 on sale had bogo coupon they scanned $4.00 but they wouldnt take those either. BUMMER! Tried it at both cvs here.
Cindy, it seems like your zavers and man. coupons worked together even though those zavers were under the Brand section. I always thought that you could only combine the Store section zavers with man. coupons (and even then they don’t always work). I am going to give Pathmark another chance since you and others seemed to have had success.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!! Did the Caress and Wishbone today… Got my $10 + someone left a $3 in machine:)
Of course now that I am home I figured out a CBNB one and a Q-Tip!! Going back tomorrow
I love seeing the shopping trips of others…it gives us so many ideas on what to do ourselves, since I dont really have much time during school semesters to figure it all out myself. Thank you!!
I did the deal at Pathmark ( 4 Lipton teas and 3 Caress) and I am planning my next trip there to roll the catalina. Hopefully pick up some Lipton soup mixes and q-tips. Since I dont get a Pathmark flyer in the paper,, I often forget about that store, but they do have some great deals sometimes!
I also tried the CVS deal today. I got 5 shaving creams (with peelies) and got the ECB…what a deal!!! I was tempted to buy the last four, but thought I should leave them for others cause I know I get upset when everything is wiped out at the beginning of the sale week…But what I was sad about was the BOGO coupons…all 3 different CVS stores I visited took the BOGO and manually entered the prices…While I know that is the right thing to do, I was looking forward to the MM…but I did get the deodorants for free once I got the ECB….overall a good day shopping!!
Where are you seeing the CVS skinmate deal is it in the flyer. I am in CT and am not seeing it in my flyer?
What paper Cindy did u get ? My red plum only has a 1$ off on 2 Lipton tea bags.
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