CVS Trip this Week

I love shopping at CVS! It is so much fun! Sunday I realized that in my area, I'm not the only one. We were late getting up that morning and I didn't make it to CVS until 8:30 (the horror! :) ) and they were already out of the contact solution! Darn! And I actually needed contact solution...it wasn't something that I was just buying because it was free. Well I was talking to the cashier and she said that when there is good free stuff, people are lined up at the door! Mental note taken! So since I had $15.99 in ECBs from last week I had to do some quick thinking. I didn't earn as many ECBs as I wanted but I got them down to a more manageable size. 15.99 is hard to spend some weeks to roll them over.

Okay for my shopping trip:

Maybelline Mineral Powder Foundation $8.99 ECB
Dial Soap Gold $1 ECB
Toilet Paper (we needed some)
Newspaper
Coke and Milkyway (to bring my total up)
Tape (donated to the troops and to get my total up)

Coupons

$3 off maybelline foundation

15.99 ECB

Total oop: $0.20!!!!! Such a wonderful feeling!

Now I realize that I spent my money a little foolishly but in my defense I was so hungry that morning and we didn't have time to make breakfast so it helped my stomach stay quiet during church!

I earned $9.99 in ECBs for next week, which I think is much more manageable. I also got a coupon for $2 off any L'oreal skincare and I got an email for $4 off cosmetics which I didn't have a chance to print off yet.

On a different note I was looking at my receipt and total savings so far $107.46 since I started CVS shopping! Wow! That is pretty exciting since I have only been doing this since the end of September! I love CVS!

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My CVS trip this week!

I had a fantastic trip to CVS today! I saw some really decent deals and decided to go today before church. That way I can get the free items before the rush. I did notice one other lady that was using her ECB's. So not too much competition! So the fantastic part......I went to coupon machine....and it printed out.....$10 ECB! So excited! That has never happened before and helped me soooooo much! So here's what I got:

Bought

Palmolive Dish Soap
Garnier Fructice Shampoo
Loreal Advance Revitalift
newspaper
pens

Coupons

.25 off Palmolive dish soap
1.00 off Garnier shampoo

Used $17.99 ECB
Earned $14.99 ECB

and the best part....... .75 oop! Can't believe it! And I put it on my giftcard for transferring a prescription. I was so excited! My husband thinks I'm a dork but oh well!

The only problem was that I couldn't get the diabetes book....the pharmacy wasn't open and I was having problems with the water but I think I figured it out. The toothpaste monthly deal was also out of stock. I'll try later this week!

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Second CVS trip this week!

So I went back to CVS! I had a CVS coupon for $2 off 2 Gold Emblem candies and heard they were on sale for $1. So I had to go get that! I also found another coupon for the Colgate MaxFresh toothpaste. Only bad thing is that the cashier rang up my coupon wrong and I didn't realize it until I left the store. So I paid $1.00 for 2 things of candy....not bad! I didn't use any ECB's for this and got 2 ECB's for the toothpaste so that puts me up to 10 ECB's for my next deals. I'm trying to decide whether or not I should go another time this week. I have coupons for $1 off CVS vitamins and the CVS Vitamin D is for free after ECB so that could be a money maker. I don't need Vitamin D pills....my prenatal vitamin gives me 100% but I could donate them. I guess I'll see how the week goes! I can't wait to figure out my deals for next week! People are right....CVSing is very addicting! My husband thinks it's funny!

My CVS trip this week!

So I found out that going to CVS early is a good thing. I went before church at 8am. The Aurora location was not open until 10am, even though cvs.com said they were open at 8am (grr!) but the Lawrenceburg location was open at 8am. I like them better because they're newer and they print out coupons but it is a little bit further! Last week, lots of the free deals were already gone because I waited till, oh my gosh...Monday! Here's a look at my trip:

Bought

4 soyjoy bars $4
1 Bic Comfort 3 Advance Razor (4 ct.) $5.89
Newspaper $0.75

Coupons

Soyjoy Buy 2 get 1 free ($1.00 savings)
$2 oof Bic razors

Used $5.27 ECB's
$2.41 oop (out of pocket)
Earned $8 ECB!

I'm so excited and did much better than last week! I also got a $25 gift card for transferring a prescription so I'll be using that hopefully for a while with my out of pocket costs! Yay me! If you want to learn more visit Money Saving Mom for some advice and see all of the scenarios!

My CVS trip this week!

Well, I have decided that I need to make my CVS trips on Sunday right after church. I went yesterday and most of the free stuff was already gone! And at 2 stores!

Here's was I got:

2 Brach Candy Corn 1.29 ECB each (free after ECB)
1 Powerade 1.69 ECB (free after ECB)
CVS beauty bars (2 count) 1 ECB (1.99 after ECB)

I had to get a bunch of other things too so to much out of pocket (oop). I redeemed 9.27 ECB and earned 5.27 ECB. Not too good this week but I guess I am still learning! I am trying to get all of my coupons organized and I want to separate my trips so I am not buying things that are not ECB earners for right now. Once I start to grow my ECB's then I will start using them to buy other things I need. Otherwise I just lose my ECB's instead of rolling them over.

If you are wondering what the heck I'm talking about and want to know more, go visit Money Saving Mom and check out her guides to CVSing!

My CVS deals!

So I tried my CVS deals last week! I got the Always Infinity and got 4.98 ECB, Colgate MaxFresh and got 2.00 ECB and the Vitamin Water and got 2.29 ECB. I had a coupon for the Colgate MaxFresh so I got it for free! So that's a total of 9.27 ECB's and I spent 9.65 oop. I had 1 coupon for $1, 4 ECB and I also bought toilet paper because we were out. I really didn't see anything good for this week, especially because I'm just starting out with coupons so I'll just wait till next week. Thanks to Money Saving Mom for all of her great tips and showing us the good deals. Go visit her if your interested in CVSing or just saving money in general!

Did My First CVS Deal!

I did my first CVS deal today! I earned 4 ECB! I started off small and purchased 2 Crest Pro-Health toothpastes. I was going to purchase the mouthwash as well but they were out! I know that Money Saving Mom said that there was a coupon available but I haven't started getting the paper yet and I don't have a printer to print coupons off. I am very excited to be starting out but also very intimidated. We don't have very much money right now so I will have to be very cautious when building up my ECB's. Let me know if you have any tips.

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Got My CVS Card

I am so excited! I got my CVS card yesterday and can't wait to start using it! I'll let you know how I do on my first visit!

CVS Shopping

Well I have finally decided to get a CVS card and try to start saving money that way. I have read so much about how women stock up and only spend pennies on their toiletries so I thought it was worth a try. Crystal over at Money Saving Mom does a great job of explaining it. She has deals posted weekly and monthly and a guide here explaining how to go about your CVS shopping. I would highly recommend checking her out before attempting to go to CVS. It'll take me a few weeks to get going (I applied for a card online) so I will let you guys know. Let me know if you use CVS and what works best for you!