Shopping Trip - 9/18/11

It's Sunday, so you know what that means--a new week of couponing! I shopped at CVS, Rite Aid, and Walgreens today. Here's a picture of my finds. 

Click on the picture if you want a larger view. This shows my purchases from all three stores. I purchased these items for $30.27 plus tax with $29.98 rewards remaining for my next purchases. That isn't even including the $3 in unused rewards from last week. This wasn't my greatest savings out-of-pocket, but hopefully I'll make up for that next week because I have so many rewards to start with. 

Today's 27-item haul includes 2 Kleenex 8-pack pocket packs, 3 small bags of cough drops, 5 bags of candy corn, 1 bag of starlight mints, 2 tubes of Crest toothpaste, 2 boxes 100-ct Excedrin PM, 3 packages Kotex, 1 Samy Fat Foam hair color, 1 bottle Hyland's Cold & Cough medicine for kids, 2 Blistex Cold & Allergy Soother lip balms, 2 bags of Reese's Fast Break candy bars, 1 box Lipton tea 100-pk, 1 Scott Choose-your-Size paper towels 8-pk, 1 Scott Ultra Soft bath tissue 12 mega rolls, and one caramel candy (not pictured). 

The total cost for these items before coupons was $90.44 plus tax. That reflects the sale prices. Regular retail would've been much, much higher. I saved $60.17 using coupons and rewards. That savings does not reflect the $29.98 I have leftover from today's purchases because I'll include those when I calculate my savings on a future purchase. 

Here's a breakdown of each store.  

Rite Aid

 

I started out with $12 UP rewards from previous purchases. My goal today was to take advantage of the Kimberly-Clark promotion--$10 UP rewards wyb $30 KC products. You could earn $20 wyb $50 or $40 wyb $70. I wasn’t feeling THAT extreme, though. 

 

2 Crest 4.0 oz toothpastes @ $2.99 = $5.98
Used (2) -$1.00 mfr coupons
Cost: $3.98, earn $4 UP rewards

 

Samy Fat Foam hair color $8.99
Used -$2.00 in-ad coupon
Used -$3.00 Video Values coupon
Used -$3.00 mfr coupon
Cost: $0.99

 

Scott Choose-a-Size paper towels 8-pk $7.99 (Kimberly-Clark promo)

Used -$1.00 Video Values coupon
Used -$1.00 mfr coupon
Cost: $5.99

 

Scott Ultra Soft bathroom tissue mega rolls 12-pk $7.99 (Kimberly-Clark promo)

Used -$1.00 mfr coupon
Cost: $6.99

2 Kleenex 8-pk pocket packs @ $2.00 = $4.00 (Kimberly-Clark promo)
Used -$1.00/2 Video Values coupon
Used -$1.00/2 mfr coupon IP
Cost: $2.00 or $1.00 each

 

2 Kotex @ $3.50 = $7.00 (Kimberly-Clark promo)
Used -$1.00/2 Video Values coupon
Used -$1.50/2 mfr coupon IP
Cost: $4.50 or $2.25 each

 

U by Kotex $3.50 (Kimberly-Clark promo)
Used -$1.00 mfr coupon IP
Cost: $2.50

 

(Total for Kimberly-Clark items before coupons was $30.48.)

 

Rite Aid total before coupons: $45.45 + tax = $48.06
-$18.50 coupons
-$12.00 UP rewards from previous trip
OOP: $14.95 + tax = $17.56, with $14.00 UP rewards remaining
Savings: $30.50, 63% 

Walgreens

I didn’t have any Register Rewards to start with this week.

 

Transaction # 1:

 

Blistex Cold & Allergy lip balm $2.00
Earn $2.00 Register Reward

 

Hyland’s Nighttime Cold & Cough 4 Kids medicine $4.99
Earn $5.00 Register Reward

 

Transaction # 1 Total: $6.99 + tax = $7.65
Earned $7 Register Rewards

Transaction # 2:

 

Lipton tea 100-pk $2.99

 

Blistex Cold & Allergy lip balm $2.00
Earn $2.00 Register Reward

 

3 Brach’s candy corn (2 caramel apple, 1 caramel) @ $0.79 = $2.37
Used -$0.50 mfr coupon and -$0.75/2 mfr coupon
Cost: $1.12 or $0.37 each

 

Transaction # 2 total before coupons: $7.36 + tax = $8.02
-$1.25 mfr coupons
-$5.00 Register Rewards from Transaction # 1
OOP: $1.11 + tax = $1.77, earn $2 Register Rewards

 

Walgreens total before coupons: $14.35 + tax = $15.67
-$1.25 mfr coupons
-$5.00 Register Rewards
OOP: $8.10 + tax = $9.42, with $4 Register Rewards remaining
Savings: $6.25, 40%

CVS

I was shopping for two families again this week. I used my mom’s card for some deals. I started with $10 ECBs on mom’s card and $6 ECBs on my card. We both had 25% off email coupons.

 

Transaction # 1 (mom’s card):

2 Excedrin PM 100-ct @ $11.49 = $22.98
Used (2) -$1.00 mfr coupons IP
Used 25% email coupon -$6.00
Cost: $14.98 or $7.49 each, earned $10 UP rewards

Gold Emblem Autumn Mix candy $0.99
Earned $0.99 ECBs

Reese’s Fast Break candy bars 11.39 oz bag $2.00 (They were marked 5/$10 but rang up $3.99. The cashier and I checked the sale sign and it said through 10/31, so she manually entered the price.)
Used -$1.00 off any Reeses CRT
Cost: $1.00

Transaction # 1 total before coupons: $25.97 + tax = $27.92
-$3.00 coupons
-$6.00 from 25% coupon
-$10.00 ECBs from last week
OOP: $6.97 + tax = $8.92, earned $10.99 ECBs

Transaction # 2 (my card):

 

Reese’s Fast Break candy bars 11.39 oz bag $2.00
Used -$1.00 off any Reeses CRT
Cost: $1.00

 

3 CVS brand cough drops 10-pks @ $0.12 = $0.36 (clearance)

Gold Emblem Autumn Mix candy $0.99
Earn $0.99 ECBs

 

Gold Emblem starlight mints $0.99

 

Caramel candy $0.33 (I bought this because everything else I had rang up as “sale”—I’ve heard that if you don’t use your email coupons, CVS will eventually stop sending them. I don’t want that to happen!)

Transaction # 2 total before coupons: $4.67 + tax = $5.08
-$1.00 coupon
-$0.42 from 25% coupon (no clue where that amount came from)
-$3.00 ECBs from last week
OOP: $0.25 + tax = $0.66, earned $0.99 ECBs (plus I have $3.00 leftover from last week’s purchases)

CVS Total before coupons: $30.64 + tax = $33.00
-$10.42 coupons
-$13.00 ECBs
OOP: $7.22 + tax = $9.58, with $11.98 ECBs remaining (plus $3 unused ECBs from last week) 
Savings: $23.42, 71%

Here's a picture of all the leftover rewards mom and I will have to start with next week! The $3 from last week is not pictured.