Shopping Trip - 11/13/11

I'm still finding the time to coupon, but finding the time to blog each week is becoming difficult. Better late than never, right? This is a mini shopping trip compared to some of my others.  

I bought these 17 items for $2.70 + tax. Considering $2.00 of that was the price of my newspaper, I think I did pretty well! Regular retail for these items was $63.25 + tax. I had to pay $4.68 in tax today. Not too bad. Even with tax included, I saved $60.55. That’s 89%! I even have $23 in rewards remaining (plus $12.50 leftover from last week.) 

Purchased items include 1 Oral B Vitality electric toothbrush, 3 Suave body washes, 1 Dial Nutriskin lotion, 1 Suave deodorant, 2 Suave hair sprays, 1 Gillette Fusion shaving cream, 2 Bayer Advanced aspirins, 1 AZO cream, 1 Knoxville newspaper, 1 Crest toothpaste, and 3 packs of gum. Much less than recent trips, but not too bad for what I paid.  

Here’s what I bought at each store. 

CVS

I used mom’s card for one of the transactions. I love those $4 off $20 coupons!

Transaction # 1 (mom’s card)

Oral B Vitality Toothbrush $24.99 (regularly $32.99)
Used -$10.00 mfr coupon
Cost: $14.99, earned $10.00 EBs

Transaction # 1 total before coupons: $24.99 + tax = $26.74
-$10.00 mfr coupon
-$4.00/$20.00 CVS email coupon
-$3.00 birthday EBs
-$6.00 EBs from a previous purchase
My OOP: $1.99 + tax = $3.74, earned $10.00 EBs

Transaction # 2 (my card)

Suave promotion – get $3 EBs when you buy $10

2 Suave Professionals hair spray @ $1.67 = $3.34 (regularly $3.19 each)
Used (2) FREE product coupons -$3.34
Cost: FREE

3 Suave body wash @ $2.00 = $6.00 (regularly $2.77 each)
Used B2G1 free mfr coupon -$2.00
Cost: $4.00 (making these $1.33 each)

Suave deodorant $1.00 (regularly $1.37)
Used -$0.75 mfr coupon
Cost: $0.25

(Suave total before coupons was $10.34. I used $6.09 in coupons and earned $3 EBs.)

Dial Nutriskin lotion $3.99 (regularly $6.89)
Used FREE product coupon -$3.99
Cost: FREE

Gillette Fusion shave gel $2.37
Used -$1.00 mfr coupon
Cost: $1.37, earned $2.00 EBs (making this FREE + $0.61)

2 Bayer Advanced aspirin 20-ct @ $8.58
-$2.15 BOGO 50% off sale
Used (2) FREE product coupons -$8.58 (Cashier took off whole product amount instead of 50% off the second one—not sure why.)
Cost: -$2.15 (making these FREE + $2.15 profit)

Transaction # 2 Total before coupons: $25.28 + tax = $27.15
-$2.15 BOGO 50% sale
-$4.00/$20.00 CVS email coupon
-$19.66 coupons
My OOP:- $0.53 + tax = $1.34, earned $5 EBs

CVS Total before coupons: $50.27 + tax = $53.89
My OOP: $1.46 + tax = $5.08, with $15 EBs remaining
Savings: $48.81, 91%

Walgreens

Not much that I wanted this week.

AZO cream $4.99
Cost: $4.99, earned $5.00 RR (making this free + $0.01 profit)

Knoxville newspaper $2.00

Walgreens Total before coupons: $6.99 + tax = $7.48
-$4.00 RRs from a previous purchase
My OOP: $2.99 + tax = $3.48, with $5.00 RRs remaining
Savings: $4.00, 53%

 

Rite Aid

It was a slow week at Rite Aid, too.

Crest toothpaste $2.99 (regularly $3.99)
Used -$1.00 mfr coupon
Cost: $1.99, submit for $2.99 Single Check Rebate (making this FREE + $1.00 profit)

3 packs of gum @ $1.00 = $3.00 (regularly $1.29 each)
Used -$0.25 Video Values coupon
Cost: $2.75, earned $3.00 UP rewards (making these FREE + $0.25 profit)

Rite Aid Total before coupons: $5.99 + tax = $6.56
-$1.25 coupons
-$3.50 UPs from a previous purchase
Today’s OOP: $1.24 + tax = $1.81, with $3.00 UPs remaining
-$2.99 SCR
Total OOP: -$1.75 + tax = -$1.18, with $3.00 UPs remaining
Savings: $7.74, 118%

No pictures of rewards this time, but I have $15 ExtraBucks, $5 Register Rewards, and $3.00 UP rewards remaining. This is in addition to the $12.50 UPs I had leftover from last week. That means I have $35.50 to start with next week. Yay! I may even wait and save them for the Thanksgiving sales. They look fabulous!