Kroger, Rite Aid, Walgreens

I went to Wags again hoping to find more Ecotrin since LAGirl sent me a bunch of coupons I hadn't been able to use yet, and almost everyone in my family is on aspirin therapy and takes baby aspirin one-a-day, but alas, no Ecotrin. (Also still looking for more meters- but no more of those either). I did get a few more insect repellants that had to be price-adjusted b/c the signage hadn't been updated from a sale price, so I got them at the sale price even though they were no longer on sale. Whee!
Then a few things from Kroger that were cheap/free and I can't find one receipt, but when I do, I'll add those to my totals. And Rite Aid for the cheap sunscreen b/c we go through a ton of that in the summer with our northern-European white skin. :)

Walgreens
4 Cutter Insect Repellant
Total oop: $.76 (tax only, items were free after coupons)
Total saved $8.00 (91% savings)

Rite Aid
8 Aveeno Sunscreen
Total oop: $46.54
*savings: $45.46
Rebates to receive: $30 cash plus two totes with coupons/samples
Total oop after rebates: $16.54 (after rebate makes these a little over $2/ea including tax- AWESOME!!)
Total savings after rebates: $75.46 (78%)

Kroger
Went to Kroger the first time and saw Organic Valley chocolate milk on clearance, and I knew I had a bunch of coupons at home, so I went home for the coupons and came back to get those and some a few other clearance items and some mac and cheese for my Mom. Wouldn't you know it, on the second trip I discovered the Eggland's eggs were marked down to $1.59/dozen. And I have coupons for those...at home! ugh. So I am hoping those will still be on sale tomorrow even though it's a new ad-week because we eat a TON of eggs and that's an awesome deal!
8 Organic Valley 1 liter chocolate milks
4 Santa Cruz lemonade/strawberry lemonade
4 Velveeta Shells and cheese
Total oop: $9.07
Total savings: $27.44 (67%)

Walgreens, Walgreens, Walgreens and Kroger

Had to go check in with my favorite Wags manager to see if my monitors were in, and then Doug called me and said that the Wags he was just at had two of them- so we headed up that direction.

I bought two Monitors at the Wags he saw, then my Wags had ten monitors for me. I asked them to try to get 15 more in. I have 17 coupons left. Surely I can find 17 more in the next week, even if I have to go to every Wags in Nashville. Ok. Maybe not. That's a lot of Wags. There's practically one on every corner. I also had to buy a birthday gift for a girl in N's soccer team, whose party she is going to on Saturday, so we used one of our $10rrs for that.

12 Bayer Contour Monitors
1 Sidewalk chalk kit
1 Disney Princess card game set
Total oop: $13.42 (mostly tax)
earned: $110 rr's

Kroger:
6 Velveeta shells and cheese
2 Lysol toilet cling
2 dz medium eggs (mgr special)
Total oop: $3.96

A great week at Walgreens

Great moneymakers at Walgreens this week! Ecotrin (aspirin) is on sale for $2, printing a $2rr. There's a $2 coupon out there making these $.19 each (tax) and get a $2rr back. Bayer meters (Breeze 2 and Contour) are $10 and printing a $10rr. With the coupon out- this makes them free plus rr. Here in lovely Tennessee, the tax is $.95 on $10, so I paid $.95/each and got $10 back. Thanks to a good friend who had a ton of these coupons, I was able to get ten meters so far (they didn't get my special order in, so I will go back tomorrow to ask the manager about them, maybe he can get more in on Wednesday- I have 29 coupons left!)

So here's what I got
10 Bayer Contour meters
4 Starbucks Doubleshots
4 Tennesseean newspapers (the Chronicle didn't have any inserts! no coupons!)
13 Ecotrin
1 pack ballpoint pens (clearance, filler)
1 bottle Vitamin C (clearance, filler)
1 Scotch mailer (clearance filler)
4 Cutter to go insect repellent (free after coupon)
Total oop: $17.98
Total rr's earned: $116 ($16 Ecotrin and $100 Bayer)

I will be giving half the $10rr's to Kelly for giving me the coupons

Food Lion, Target and Walgreens

oh my!

:) I've watched the Wizard of Oz too much lately. We ran some errands today and hit up some of our fave spots and one occassional (Food Lion)

Food Lion
5 12-pack Mt Dew (used 5 $2/1 mq's)
5 Chinet lunch plates (used 5 $2/1 mq's)
Total oop: $2.83
Total saved: $29.13 (90%)
(I should insert here that there was a Scott's natural tp flip stuck to one of my other q's that I didn't see. The cashier scanned it and it went through. When I looked up and saw it, I said- oh, I didn't get that, it snuck in my stack. He said, oh, well the register accepted it so don't worry. I said, ok, I won't complain then. :) So I got an additional $1 off that i didn't plan)
Oh, and I also scored a whole slew of $.50/1 VitaminWater tearpad q's. I got a few when I was there a month+ ago, and when I looked today they were still there! I figured, no one is using/taking these, they've been here over a MONTH! so I took a whole bunch. (but not all!)


Target
8 Banana Boat trial size sunscreens (used 8 $1/1 mq's)
2 Swiffer cloth refills (used 1 $1/1 Target q)
1 Target brand diapers (used 1 $1/1 Target q)
[earned $5gc for the swiffer purchase and used it in trans.2 to buy other items]
Total oop: $5.93
Total saved: $15.90 (63%)
with this purchase I copmpleted the Swiffer refill items needed for my gift card, so I will also earn a $10 Visa Debit card from Swiffer


Walgreens
4 Joint Juice 6-packs (used 2 bogo mq's and 2 $2/1 mq's)
2 Iceland Fish Oil capsules (no q's)
2 Puffs Plus (no q's)
3 Starbucks Vanilla Frappuchino (used 3 $1/1 mq's)
3 Contour meters (used 3 $30/1 mq's, adjusted to price- raincheck price of $14.99)
1 Jiffy Pancake mix (should've been two, but they ran out, so I was charged $.22 for one, but didn't get it - I was able to use a $5rr with that charge, so I let the $.22 go)
Total oop: $0
Total put on gift card from esr program: $12.89
RR's earned: $16
Total saved: $80.81 (84%)


Grand Total:
Total cash spent: $8.76
Total rr's earned: $16
Total gift cards to get back: $10

Walgreens

Last 2 trips

4 Sunday papers
2 Iceland Fish Oil capsules
Total oop: $2.52
earned $16 rr's

Some more Walgreens love

I had to go to Walgreens today to see if they had my Mr. Clean Magic Erasers. Nope. I got a raincheck, but I hate doing that for the rr deals b/c it's a real pain in the butt. They did have three more Bayer meters in, so I got three of the six for the raincheck I had. :)

3 Bayer Contour meters
1 Right Guard Fast Break deo
1 Bayer Aspirin Quick Release
2 Listerine Total
2 walgreens Ibuprofen

Total oop: $6.73 ($2.74 wags gc+ $3.99 cash)
Total savings: $67.32, savings of 90%
RR's earned: $24.00 (plus remaining rr's, $15 = $39rr's left, I am going to try to use these at Publix)

Walgreens loves me and I love them

1 2 pack Thermacare back heat wraps
15 24-ct Walgreens Ibuprofen (marked $.80 clearance, most rang up $.25/ea)
1 Listerine total care
1 Listerine cool blue
4 Pert Plus Men's
3 One-A-Day powder
3 Right Guard
1 Little Mermaid ball
1 Men's Zone Shave gel
1 Swiffer Wet Jet Starter kit
2 Swiffer clean refills
3 Arizona Tea bottles
2 Colgate Sensitive
5 Poppycock cashew lover's
Total oop: $25.54 (could've been a lot less but a lot of what I wanted was gone and I had to re-evaluate on the fly, which always throws me off.)
Total saved: $111.29
rr's left for next purchase(s): $21.50

Walgreens

I looooove my Walgreens. I drive 8 miles further than any other Wags to shop here. :) I had placed a special order for 15 Contour meters, and when I got there today the mgr went to get them for me (Wednesday truck). She said you know you have to ring these up in separate transactions. I said yep. :) So turns out the warehouse only sent 12 of the 15. And my regular cashier asked me if I would give up two of them for her. :) It was worth it to me to keep my Wags cashier happy!! (She gives me overage) So I got 10, but have 6 more q's. We are going to try a raincheck, and see if they can do it for me when they get in. fingers crossed.

oh, I'll be donating the meters. :) Since even were I diabetic, which I am not, I wouldn't need ten of them.


10 Contour monitors
2 bags Planters Trail mix
1 Wind chime
2 Ecotrin
2 Bayer Quick release crystals
3 Nivea body wash
1 Burt's chapstick (my favorite!)
1 Coffeemaker (ask Doug)
5 Hallmark Gift Wrap

Total oop: $27.42
Total savings: $848.12
and... rr's left: $45

Awesome Walgreens trip!

Also hit up Target for some cheap All.

Walgreens:
4 Colgate Total
3 Skintimate Shave Gel
4 Easter Cups
2 bags potting Soil
1 Oust

Total oop: $4.77
RR's left: $3.50
rebates earned: $1
Total oop after rebates and rr's: $.27

Yeseterday and today's deals

Target, Publix, CVS and Walgreens...

Target
5 12-packs Mountain Dew
3 Almay make-up remover pad packs
2 Band-Aid travel packs
1 Johnson & Johnson First Aid kit
2 Quaker Oatmeal (each box has $4 of coupons inside)
Total oop: $5.48

Publix
Publix was not as good as last week- this cashier/manager refused to take two of my competitor coupons, and denied overage. I could have had an additional $20 off my total oop and another 18 Gerber two-packs, but still got some decent deals.
8 Morningstar Farms products
6 Uncle Ben's Rice
2 Gerber Organic 2-packs
3 jars Pace
2 Coffeemate
1 bag fun-size Twix
1 bag fun-size Nestle Crunch
1 dozen eggs
3 boxes Gorton's tilapia
2 bags romaine lettuce
2 containers egg salad
Total oop: $29.63
plus coupon cost (purchased Morningstar coupons from ebay): $6.50 = total oop $36.13
Total saved: $84.23

CVS
2 boxes Scrubbing Bubbles Action Scrubbers
2 PAAS Egg coloring kits
total oop: $.54
ecb's earned: $3.98

Walgreens
2 Glade soy Candles
2 Natural Shimmers Chapsticks
2 Softsoap Coconut Body Scrub
2 easter duck bubbles
2 One-A-Day vitamin packs
1 Skintimate Raspberry Rain
Total oop: $5.60
esr's to receive: $3.28