My Shopping Trip: CVS

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My Shopping Trip: CVS

Last night I headed to CVS.  Besides meeting a great reader who was taking advantage of the Diaper Clearance Deals, I scored a great coupon by accident.  Here is what happened:

I had a cart load as you can tell from the picture.  The cashier scanned my CVS card and as I was starting to unload my cart, an older lady stepped up with just a single card to purchase.  I said to the cashier, please take her first so I don’t hold her up.  So, the cashier exited out of the start of my transaction and, out pops a $10 off $50 coupon. Had I not let that women go ahead of me, that coupon would not have popped out until after I did my transaction.  Woot!  It pays to be nice…literally 😉

Because I wasn’t planning on using that coupon, I wasn’t completely sure I would make the $50 but I knew I would be close.  So, I had her finish scanning everything and in the end, it turned out that I was less then $2 short to use that $10/$50 coupon.  So, I quickly grabbed some Dove Bars (just what I need…more chocolate) to make it $50.

Here is what I scored:

::CVS

Transaction:

  • 6 Honey Bunches of Oats $2.50 each**
  • 4 M&M Chocolate Pretzel Candies $2.50 each**
  • 4 Nabisco Crackers $1.25 each**
  • 2 Right Guard Total Defense 5 Power Play Deodorant $1.24 each (clearance)
  • 2 Clairol Natural Instincts $2.69 each (clearance)
  • 2 CVS Men’s After Shave $5.49 each
  • 3 Dove Chocolate Bars $1.27 each (1 was free)

Coupons Used:

  • $10/$50 CVS Coupon
  • -(6)$1/1 Honey Bunches of Oats Coupon (this was the one from Coupons.com – NLA)
  • -(4)$1/1 M&M Chocolate Pretzel Coupon
  • -(2)$1/2 Nabisco Crackers Coupon (this was the one with no size restriction – NLA)
  • -(1)$1/2 Right Guard Total Defense 5 Coupon
  • -(1)$5/2 Clairol Natural Instincts Hair Color, exp. 2/29/12 (P&G 01/29/12)
  • -$1/2 CVS Skincare Coupon
  • -$4 ECB
  • -$7 ECB
  • -$8 ECB
  • Tax: $1.18

Total Paid out of pocket: $4.56
Received:
$10 CVS Cash Card** (from buying $30 in qualifying items)
Received:
$2 ECB (Right Guard)
Received:
Another $10 off $50

Total Savings including sale prices and coupons: $97.35 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:

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?

LRWC Reader Grocery Savings Counter: Be sure to add your weekly grocery savings to the the LRWC Reader Grocery Savings Counter below. You can check out the counter in the sidebar to see how much we have all saved so far in 2012!


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