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Bargains for under a buck
By TheAngelForever | December 20, 2008
On Sunday I asked hubby if we could stop by CVS. I had some really good coupons and wanted to check out the deals for the week and month. I had not been to CVS since Thanksgiving Day, so I had a lot of ECBs to use. I mentioned to JL that they had a General Mills cereal special. The boxes were on sale 3/$10 and if you spent $20 on cereal you would receive $10 in ECBs back. That would make them $1.67 a box, but I had coupons for General Mills that made them even less.
The six boxes of cereal:
Deodorant (99 cents each after sale $2.99 and ECBs $2.00) and toothpaste (free + overage thanks to sale, CVS/MFR coupons and ECBs):
Now for the math part of the trip:
Price w/out sales –> $43.99
Total of all 11 items w/sale –> $34.95
Mfr Coupons used –> $4.35
CVS Coupons used –> $6.00
ECBs used in transaction –>$23.76
Money spent out of pocket –> $0.84
ECBs earned during the trip –> $20.00
Sure, I lost $3.76 in ECBs, but I still did quite well. I went to another store Thursday and completed the limit of 5 on the deodorant. I also picked up 5 of them for my mother with her CVS card. I was lucky that that store had plenty left.
Topics: deals, photos, shopping | 1 Comment »
December 20th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
LOLOL…i am so with you. I went yesterday to big lots cause K has been asking for a microscope/telescope to play CSI with….LOLOL
So they had marked it to half price so it was 15 instead of 30 and i had a 10$ coupon saved from thanksgiving and i hadnt realized it expired the 13th…told them i thought it was 24th and they honored it…so got his kit for 6.38!!!
yeah me
steff