Tuesday, February 3, 2009

CVS and Wags for this week

Oh, how I love it when Walgreens and CVS have all that I want in stock for me. I slipped out for an hour on Sunday and got the deals:



At Walgreens:



Dry Idea deoderant $5.99

Revlon concealer $9.99

Zucol cold relief $7.99

Wags aspirin $0.99

Thermacare $2.49



After coupons, the total was $23.96. After a $5.00 wags coupon and $9.12 on a gift card, I owed $9.84. I'll get $22.51 in Wags rebates, and I received $5 Register Rewards for buying the deoderant. Not bad!




At CVS:



The long and short of this trip was that I spent 8 EBs, $0.57 on a gift card and $0.19 out of pocket, and I walked out with $14.48 in EBs. With coupons, the candy was free and the conditioners were only $0.05 each.



This summer, I'll be teaching a community education class on Savvy Shopping at Waubonsee Community College (provided enough people sign up, of course). I'm going to use the deals above to show folks that with a little planning and coupons, it is possible to get many health and beauty items for free, or next to free. Hooray for Wags and CVS!

4 comments:

Chicagolandia said...

Let me know when this class will be starting - you may have found your first student!

Anonymous said...

I'm so excited you got the teaching job- you'll be great. I think at some point, though, you're going to have to stop buying more toiletries and use up your stockpiles! L

Amanda Grant said...

heehee! I should post some pictures of my stockpiles. I have started giving some stuff away in the form of gift baskets, and at xmas I gave a big bag of stuff to the women's shelter my mom works with. Some of the stuff I get with the ECBs I now just plan to give away. The ECBs must be rolled--Martha demands it!

Sarah Eliza @ devastateboredom said...

Awesome! I haven't done my CVS run this week yet... gotta hurry up before I miss out... :)