OK, I was really kicking myself from Sunday after I learned the coupons I had for Garnier for $2 EACH would have worked and I would have had only pennies oop instead of $5. With those coupons (found at coupons.com) and the $2/10 CVS coupon, you end up making over $4. Seems like a no-brainer. So I was insistent to go back and do it again when I realized the limit was 2 and not 1. But the smallest ECB I had was $10 so I had to work up a bigger deal to use all of it. Well, people, that’s not as easy as it sounds when you are using so many coupons and trying to earn as many ECBs as possible but after sitting down and running some numbers, this is what I came up with…
2 Garnier $5.99 products (I ended up getting the cleansers this time instead of the towelettes)
5 2pack CVS soap @ 1.99 a piece
2 B1G1 L’oreal lip color products that cost $5
The plan was to use
$5/$25 beauty purchase
$3/15 CVS coupon
$2/10 CVS coupon
2 $2 Garnier coupon
$2.50/$10 CVS brand coupon
$10 ECB
That should have brought my total to .43 or so while earning $15 in ECBs.
My mistakes were the soap was not on sale as moneysavingmom.com reported. Not sure if it was on old sale she had on her monthly deals or her store sells it for less. Mine were $2.29. That was $1.50 more than planned.
Then, I bought L’oreal nail polish which was Buy 1 Get 50% off instead of B1G1. They had tags posted all over the place and I just didn’t pay attention to the difference. That was another $2.50 wasted.
So I ended up with $5.01 oop.
Well, I stewed over that over dinner and I couldn’t handle I paid so much for nail polish. So when I went with Heather, I returned the nail polish and they gave me $8.02 on a gift card. Made me happy as a lark although I feel bad because the $5/$25 beauty coupon wouldn’t have worked if I hadn’t originally bought it but I will respend that money at CVS, so no worries. So all in all, I got $31 worth of product with no oop and got back $23 to spend next week when originally all I had in my pocked was $10 ECB. Sweet.
As for Walgreens:
I had a $6 Register Reward that was expiring in the next couple of days and we needed milk so I decided to buy milk and fill it in with something else. I used their weekly in-store ads to buy green beans and sweet potatoes and shredded cheese with the milk and paid $3.24 oop. Not too bad even just for a gallon of milk. I still have my October rebates I’m waiting for before I can make any more deals there with no money oop.