Awesome Walgreens day

My plan was to get all this and walk out without paying a dime and having 8 extra register rewards. Well, there was a bit of RR mishap at the cash register and I ended up paying $3 and walking away with $4 in register rewards. I'm not complaining.
Check out what I scored for just $3, using 2 transactions, register rewards and rebate-gift cards. Only $3 came out of my bank account!


Here's the list:

• 2 gallons milk
• 3 -12 packs soda
• 6 boxes cereal
• 2 16-ct benefiber packs
• 3 Robitussin
• 4 Pert Plus
• 1 Maalox
• 1 Theraflu warming liquid
• 3 packs of cups
• 2 packs of paper plates
• 1 styrofoam bowls
• 1 Airwick freshmatic air freshner
• 1 pumpkin carving kit
• 2 candy corn

2 Days Only!

There is a new $5 off a $25 purchase coupon at Walgreens. You can use it today and tomorrow the 17-18 only. I've found you can print these off multiple times and use them in multiple trasactions.

If you want some good Walgreens deals and scenarios, check out Money Saving Mom or Centsible Savings. This week is a good week to stock up on all that cough syrup and cold medecines you'll be using this winter!

What I bought at Wags

I went to Walgreens without a shopping list, because my son tore it to pieces. Usually shopping without a list is a very bad idea for me, but there were such great deals ending this week, I couldn't pass it up. I think I did pretty good!

This originally costs $24.99

I got all this for $19.29. (a $62 value!)

You don't even have to do math to see that I scored some awesome deals today!

I would have had to pay absolutely NOTHING out of pocket, but my rebates from last months purchase somehow got a little mishandled, so I didn't have any money on my rebate gift card. I called them today, and I'm still getting all my rebates, it's just going to be a SLOW wait for them. I'll probably get all last month's money next week. So I did have to pay some cash today, BUT... I will receive $18.00 in rebates through Walgreen's Easy Saver Rebate program.

So I basically got all of this for $1.29! I'm so super excited to install this automatic shower cleaner! woohoo!

FREE Scrubbing Bubbles Cleaners

Walgreens has some great deals on scrubbing bubbles bathroom products. I plan on stocking up tomorrow while they're FREE!

-Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner is on sale for $19.99, through this Sat. 10/11. In the October Easy Saver Rebate program, there is a $10 rebate for this product. Use this $10 Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner Starter Kit and you'll get it for FREE! This is a $20-$25 value!

There are quite a few other Scrubbing Bubbles product coupons at the Right at Home site. Print these off and combine them with Walgreens sales for this week (ending 10/11), along with Walgreens' rebate program and you can get most of these for free, or even make a few extra pennies with your purchase.

Food Storage

Do you have a food storage? How much? A week? A month? A whole year?? We have a bit... probably a couple month supply... but what we're really lacking on in our storage is CHOCOLATE.

Yes, chocolate is a necessity in our house. I know a lot of people think you can live without it... while this may be true for you, I'm pretty sure this is not true for us. You see, I've tried, time and again to survive a day or two without chocolate. When the hubby goes without chocolate for too long, I start thinking of ways I could kill him off... I've come to the conclusion that it is a staple, right up there with food and water.


So today I worked on our one month supply of chocolate. I hope it lasts us that long. I'm not quite sure that it will, but we'll try.

I got all this at Walgreens for $16.45. I saved over $60.

Yay for coupons. Are you convinced yet? I know I am!

I got paid to shop!

Have you tried your luck at couponing yet? If not, you should! I just got paid $7 to purchase these items at Walgreens!

The request for more details on how to get started using coupons is quite popular, so I thought I'd break down for you what I did today.

• 13.5 oz Pert Plus
• Three - 4 oz. Children's Tylenol
• Glade Fabric/Air Freshener
• Colgate max fresh toothbrush (it has a scratch and sniff handle... kind of weird...)

I really should have made over $10, but I forgot to use a couple coupons on the Pert Plus. I think I'll go back tomorrow and re-do that, while I'm picking up a few other things.

Alright- this is how I did it:

Tylenol: $5.69 each. I used a $3 off when you buy 3 manu coupon, and $1.50 store coupon scanned 3 times. Total price for each = $3.19

Glade Fabric/Air: $3.99. I used a $1 manu coupon and a $1.50 store coupon. Total price = 1.49

Colgate Max Fresh Toothbrush: $3.49. I used a $1 manu coupon and a $2 store coupon.

Total price = $0.49 Then I used a $5 off a $20 purchase (after coupons I was below $20, but the clerk pushed it through for me anyway, since it was originally over $20)

Add in $0.69 sales tax and my total came out to $13.72.

I paid using a gift card from previous rebates**. The gift card covered the entire amount. $7 of Register Rewards printed out for me to use next time, along with a $4 coupon for a renuzit air freshener.. which I'll probably use.

**Walgreens has a great rebate system, where each month you can get many items for free after rebate, or at a great discount. You don't have to mail anything- just go to their website and type in your receipt number, and they send you a gift card. After the first time you receive the gift card, they just keep adding the rebate to that same card if you want. Easy Peasy!

There you have it. You can get paid to shop, you just have to do a little homework first! Studies show that people who spend 20 minutes a week clipping/organizing coupons, can save at least $1,000 per year!

If you haven't started yet, buy the Sunday paper this week. Pick up the sales fliers from your local Walgreens or CVS (or save them when they come in the mail, instead of trashing them), and start reading some frugal blogs to help you figure it all out!