No CVS Trip This Week

No CVS Trip This Week 

As I took inventory of the things I have, I told myself there would be No CVS trip this week since I didn’t need anything.   I love finding deals and using coupons but I am not a hoarder or go to the extreme when using coupons.    Well I innocently started flipping through the CVS flyer and kept telling myself, I don’t need anything.  As the special offers looked more inviting, I told myself again, “just keep flipping the pages”.   So I did that, I flipped through the entire CVS flyer and didn’t write anything down on my shopping list!!

UNTIL…………………………………..  I looked again at the big ad on the front page that said “$5 ExtraBucks Rewards when you spend $20.00 on any of the products listed“.  Hmmm, I need to rethink my “no CVS trip this week” again.    One of the items they had was Tide, on special for $5.94 per 37 – 50 oz. bottle.  I love Tide and can always use this so if I got two bottles of Tide, I only needed to spend about $8.00 more to get $5.00 back.  The other product that caught my eye was the Pantene shampoo and conditioner (I product I love and always use) was on sale for 3 for $12.00.  This put me over the $20.00 needed so I was set for stage two.

I went online to check on what coupons were available and I hit the jackpot.  I got two Tide coupons for $2.00 off each bottle, bringing them down to $3.94 each.  I also had a $5.00 off coupon from the paper for the Pantene, so that brought the price down to $7.00 for the three bottles, not bad at all.

For the two Tides and three Pantene products the price will be $23.88 but after I deduct the $9.00 worth of coupons, it’s only $14.88. Not bad for all that, but don’t forget, I then get $5.00 ExtraBucks back on this purchase.

I had all good intentions to end my list there until I saw the Irish Spring Body Wash on sale for $3.49 plus receive $1.50 ExtraBucks back. I found a $1.00 off coupon in the paper so out of pocket will be $2.94 but I still will have the $1.50 ExtraBucks so I did good there too.

Okay, now I was done with my list, nope not quite, I saw on the back page I can get a $2.50 off coupon at the Extracare Coupon Center for Colgate toothpaste.  That’s on sale for $3.00 but with my 50 cents off coupon, I get that free!

My list was complete until I remembered I had four free coupons for my Mars candy bars I won from a contest.  They are on sale this week for 99 cents plus I’ll get 75 cents ExtraBuck back.

Okay, promise, my list is complete!  If I calculated everything right, I will get 2 Tide, 3 Pantene, 1 Irish Spring Body Wash, 1 Colgate Toothpaste and 4 Mars candy bars for less than $20.00 PLUS I’ll recieve $7.25 ExtraBucks back.

But wait, I have $11.00 worth of ExtraBucks from my last shopping trip so I can use those to bring my total down to less than $9.00 for all these items!

Stay tuned for a follow-up of how my CVS shopping trip went!