Thrifty Thursday: Cheap Sunscreen at CVS

During the summer my husband and I go out on the lake with his family a lot.  We go through a lot of sunscreen.  This week at CVS, if you buy two Coppertone Sunscreens at $10.49 each, you get back $10 ECB.  That made each bottle $5.50 each.

I sweetened the deal by using two $1/1 coupon printables (I got it off of coupons.com, but I believe that it is no longer there).  Now the final price: $4.50 each.

I used the 2 ECB's that are printing at the in store scanners that only last 3 days.  New final price: $3.50 each.

I used a $5/$15 coupon that had printed on a receipt that expired that day.  New final price: $1 each!!!

I ended up picking up the bag of Skittles for my husband, so that I could use some of my other ECB's.  I'm so excited about this deal, because the spray kind of sunscreen is absolutely wonderful because my husband always wants me to put on his sunscreen so that he won't miss a spot (he had a bad experience with this in the past).  The spray kind really speeds up the process!  So if you are ever wondering whether it is worth reading through all of the CVS deals each week, I and many others would definitely say yes!

For more thrifty ideas visit Coupon Teacher.

Incredible CVS trip!

In the middle of this crazy end of the school year rush, I actually had a bit of time tonight.  I decided after seeing Money Saving Mom and Freebie Blogger's amazing CVS line up this week that it would be worth my time to go over to CVS and I am so glad that I did.  This was the first time that I actually made more than a few cents from my transactions.  The final tally for the trip:

Before Coupons: a little over $32 (with tax)
After Coupons and $11 Extra Care Bucks : $3.76
Total ECB's earned: $17!!!!!

Items purchased: Carefree liners, Bayer aspirin, 2 Right Guard deoderant, 2 Crest toothpaste, Kotex U tampons, Dove Dark Chocolate bar, 3 Hershey Candy Bars

Side-note: I know that many of you use the envelope system and only use cash.  I think that is great.  Someday we hope to switch to that.  However, now is not the time to push that on my husband.  We currently use our Discover card for almost everything (and pay it off every month of course!).  If you happen to use Discover, use your rewards to get CVS gift cards.  I buy my newspapers using that card (and get a ECB every four times for using my green bag tag), and I haven't paid a cent for any of my CVS purchases in ages (not that I spend more than a few dollars).

CVS Deals 1/3-1/9

There's quite a few deals at CVS this week.  Go here to see DealSeekingMom's great list of coupon match-ups.

Walgreen's Deals: 12/20-12/26

Go here, here, or here to see Walgreen's deals for this week!

CVS 12/19-12/26

Tomorrow is Sunday, the start of a new week of CVS deals.  Go here to see Money Saving Mom's CVS deals (the basics), here to see Bargain Briana's CVS deals (medium difficulty), or here to see I Heart CVS's deals (for the pro's).

Walgreen's Deals: Dec 6-12

Go here or here to see Walgreen's deals for this week!

CVS Deals: Dec 6-12

It's Sunday, the start of a new week of CVS deals.  Go here to see Money Saving Mom's CVS deals (the basics), here to see Bargain Briana's CVS deals (medium difficulty), or here to see I Heart CVS's deal (for the pro's).

CVS Deals

This week I tried a "high-roller" CVS combo deal.  Normally I never pay any attention to the Buy $20 worth of X then get Y amount of ECB" because they were too expensive.  This week I researched the Gillette deal at several CVS websites. 

Money Saving Mom is a good place to begin because she normally only posts the best deals from the week, however if you are interested in more creative deal match ups Bargain Briana is pretty good, and finally if you have learned the CVS and coupon world lingo, I Heart CVS has all of the matchups and has previews of the next few weeks worth of deals. 

One thing to note: prices are not universal.  For instance, today I was expecting the deoderant to be $4.99 according to some of the websites posting their deal ideas, however at my CVS they were $5.49.

**My Deal**
Buy $25 of Gillette Products Receive $10 ECB
Buy 1 Gillette Fusion Razor $9.99
Buy 2 Gillette Deoderant $5.49 each
Buy 1 Gillette Body Wash $4.99 
Use 1 $4/1 Gillette Fusion Razor coupon
Use 2 $1/1 Gillette Deoderant coupon
Use Free Body Wash with purchase of Gillette Deoderant coupon
Spent $5.97 
Earned $10 ECB

Buy Accu-View Aviva Kit $14.99
Use $10/1 coupon
Spent $4.99
Earned $5 ECB

Buy 1 Green Bag Tag $0.99 (this will earn me ECB-read about it here)

Used $5 off $30 purchase
Used Previously Earned $8.99 ECB

TOTAL:
Out of Pocket $6.96 + tax
Earned: $15 ECB

Successful Black Friday CVS Trip!

This was my first Black Friday Year.  I only ventured out to CVS, so that barely makes me a Black Friday shopper, but it was worth it.  First, in the CVS is about a five minute drive from my house and is in a fairly small town.  I arrived and there was only one other shopper.  Can you believe it?  Evidently all of the serious Black Friday shoppers go to bigger towns, so that left me to be able to catch pretty much all of the deals (they were out of the Soleil razors). 

I was able to buy $44.31 worth of products (and that is the price with a CVS card, it could be even higher otherwise) for only $4.37 + tax oop (I used three ECB's)!  I was able to do this by using six transactions, and was left with $8.99 in ECB's!!!  What a great trip!

The sales are still going at CVS and you can see the list of deals here.

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