Drug Store

There was absolutely NOTHING exciting on sale this week. No good RR deals, no great freebies, just a giant bag full of nothing. I’m not even kidding, as my 9 year-old would say. In fact, if I didn’t need hairspray and conditioner, I probably wouldn’t have bothered going in at all.

Here’s the world’s lamest haul:

I'm almost embarrassed to show you this...

1) Suave RR deal – buy $10 in participating items, get $3 in RR back. Like I said, we needed hairspray, so I got two bottles of the “professional, touchable” kind because I had a coupon for $0.50 off each. And I had another coupon for B1G1 on the body wash which I use as cheap bubble bath for my kids. So now my husband will have a “touchable” head, which I’m sure every man appreciates; and my kids will smell like mangoes.

2) They’re still doing the $5 RR for that Pro Fusion Razor, so I used my last $4 coupon for it… like getting it for $0.89 cents.

3) I needed conditioner, and that’s my brand. The L’Oreal EverPure. On sale for $6 this week, and I had a $1 coupon; and $5 is a good price. It is really good conditioner, I promise.

4) The rest were just filler items. I bought 3 Diet Pepsi 12-packs because they were 3/$10 (not pictured, because I was too lazy to bring them in from the garage) because they make my husband happy, Pop Tarts make my son happy and chocolate makes my daughter happy.

Here’s the final tally:

Total cost of items:        $59.86

Less coupons and discounts:         -$39.06

OOP:      $20.80

RR back:    -$8.00

So it was like getting ALL of that for… $12. –YAWN– Wait, are you still reading this? I know – I’m still typing it too. Zzzzz… Walgreens…. boring…. zzzz….

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It’s funny – when I get my stuff out to take pictures of it, it never seems like that much stuff. But I guess that’s the point, isn’t it? We don’t need to have 87 shopping carts full of stuff to be smart shoppers and big savers. A little bit at a time is all that it takes.

This week, once again, I got paid to take stuff out of Walgreens. This week’s trip:

This week, it's shave-tastic!

I took advantage of quite a few freebies with Register Rewards this week:

- Blistex RPM lip balm for MEN! Let’s all grab the remote and scratch ourselves! It’s on sale this week for $2, with $2 in RR back. Free! (PS – I tried this when I got home. It’s basically non-flavored lip balm. I like it.)

- Wal-Fex allergy 24-hour. On sale for $3.99 with $3.99 in RR back. Free!

- Gillette Pro Fusion Razor. On sale for $9.89 with $5.00 in RR back, and there’s a $4 off coupon in last week’s P&G brandSAVER insert. It’s like getting it for $0.89! (Plus this is the razor I got all excited about last week that I got for free with the CVS promo. I should have just waited.)

- Bayer Advanced Aspirin. On sale for $3, with $1 in RR back. There’s a coupon in this week’s paper for $2 – Free!

- Schick Hydro 5 razor system. On sale for $8.99 with $4 in RR back, and there was a $4 coupon in this week’s paper. It’s like getting it for $0.99!

- Vitamin Water 3/$3. This isn’t that great a deal. I was just thirsty (see, one is missing because I drank it). Plus I needed some filler items.

- Schick Hydro Shave Gel. On sale for $1.99 with in-ad coupon, and there’s a $0.75 coupon in this week’s paper. Got it for $1.25.

- Mitchum Deodorant. In-ad coupon for $1.99 each, and I had a $0.75 coupon from this week’s paper.

The popcorn was just another filler item. (At Walgreen’s you can’t use more than 1 coupon per item, and I was using some of my RR from last week. So I throw in some cheap items so I can use my high-value RR at the checkout.)

Drumroll, please…

Total value of items: $53.30

Less coupons and in-store discounts: -$43.72

Out-of-pocket: $9.58

RR back: -$16.00

I basically made $6 to go shop today. Taaa-daaa!

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