Glade Money Maker 91% savings PLUS

Sweet Glade Money Maker this week. The 91% savings is for the CVS total… however, because I purchased 3 SCJohnson items on the same receipt, I can send in for the $5 Rebate making it an awesom 107% savings!

Transaction

Glade scented reed difusser ($6.99)
2 x Glade sense and spray ($10.00)
2 x Cherrios ($6.00)
Herbal essence conditioner ($3.00)
Herbal Essence gel ($3.00)
Reeses cup ($.89) [to check to see if the halloween bucks rolled... they didn't ]
Deans milk ($1.99)

subtotal before tax = $31.87

-$5/$25 CVS coupon
-$1.00 cheerios
-$1.00 cheerios
-$4.00 sense & spray
-$4.00 sense & spray
-$3.00 glade fragrance
-$3.00 herbal essence (buy shampoo get styling product free)
-$5.00 ECB

total with tax = $7.08
(boo! I would have made the $5 challenge if Mr hadn’t asked me to get milk while I was walking out the door)

Extra Care Bucks =$8.99 (woo!) Plus here I come for my $5 SCJ rebate!

All set for Halloween OOP=$2.84

After that last post about eating right, I went out and brought a bunch of candy. But it’s for Halloween! Well, most of it!

What was really awesome about this trip was, I let 2 people go in front of me, because I knew my transaction would take a while, and by the time the lady had got done scanning me through, I had a a guy about my age standing behind me in line who commented “I’m coming to your house for trick or treat! You have the good candy”. Well we chatted a little as the cashier scanned my coupons, and he about died when he saw my total go from over $30 down to under $3.

He was so shocked that coupons could do that. Then the cashier said “Wait for it… she also gets $5 back!” And I said “Yup, they just paid me to buy candy”. As I walked out he was standing there dumbfounded, jaw dropped, and says to the cashier “this is my surprised face”. I just cracked up.

Oh, and get this, one of my coupons would even go through! Anyways, on to the transaction.

Transaction 1

Baby Ruth funsize 12.5oz($3.00)
2 x Quakers Chewy fun size 7.3 oz ( $5.00)
Gold Emblem Chocchip cookies ($1.00)
Gold Emblem gummy candy ($1.00)
2 x Gold Emblem Laffy Taffy ($1.76)
2 x Twix fun size 11.4 oz($3.50)
2 x m&m fun size 9.34 oz ($3.50)
2 x Gold emblem Party snack mix ($2.00)
2 x cheerio cups ($2.00)
1 x snickers bar ($.89)

subtotal before tax and BOGO’s $30.65

-$5/$25 CVS coupon
-$7 in BOGO for mars candy
-$1 cheerios
-$1 cheerios
-$.89 snickers
-$1.00 nestle (baby ruth)
-$1.00 Gold Emblem Candy
-$1.00 Gold Emblem snack

-$9.48 ECB

total with tax = $2.84

Extra Care Bucks Earned = $5

halloween Candy FTW!

Happy I can tell you I got:

6 boxes of Kashi Go Lean for $6 (HECK YEH I DID)
14 boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios for $22
A ridiculous amount of yoghurt for $5 (something like 12 tubs of yoplait, 4 x 4 packs of immune boost dannon, 6 tubs of dannon, and 6 of those yoghurt drinks)

One of the misconceptions about coupons is that it is mostly highly processed, not so good for you foods. While there are a lot of coupons for these, there are also a lot of cereal and yoghurt (both staples in our house). And I am all about getting things we need in our fridge or pantry to keep us healthy and happy at a discount. When I discovered couponing, I swore I wasn’t paying full price for yoghurt and cereal again… and we have had a steady supply of each since.

(I grocery shop at Kroger, Meijer and Wal-mart if you were wondering)

Transaction 1

Kashi Go Lean Crunch ($3.00)
2x Mom’s Best Natural Oatmeal ($2.00)
2 x Pumpkin carving tools ($3.98)
Gilette shampoo ($4.99)
Gillete Fusion razor ($11.49)

subtotal before tax = $25.46

-$5/$25 CVS coupon

-$.75 Mom’s Best
-$.75 Mom’s Best
-$4.00 Gillette Fusion
-$1.00 Gillette Shampoo
-$3.00 Kashi
-$6.00 ECB

=$5.95 total with tax

Extra Care Bucks Earned = $8.98

Coupons FTW!

Transaction 1

2 pack Tone Mango Splash soap ($1.88)
Revlon nail polish ($3.99)
Colgate total advatage toothpaste (2.99)

subtotal before tax = $9.26

-$1.00 Tone coupon
-$1.00 Colgate coupon
-$6.86 Extra Care Bucks

=$.53 with tax

Extra Care Bucks Earned $6.00

Coupons FTW!!!

However, due to this handy dandy spreadsheet from i heart CVS, I do know that:

$139.89 dollars of merchandise was purchased

-$47.49 in manufactures coupons

+$6.71 in taxes

-$46.98 paid for in ECB

for a total oops of $52.13 and $52.99 ECB earned

Transaction 1
Accu-check diabetes monitoring kit (on sale for $10)
composition book (99c)
carefree pantie liners (3.79)
schlick quatro trim style razor(8.99)

total $23.77
-$4/20 readyfill coupon
- $10 off accu-check coupon
-$1 off carefree
-$4 off razor

new total
$4.77
-$3.96 ECB

paid $1.50 with tax
Got $6.78 in ECB

Transaction 2
compositionbook (99c)
fish oil tablets (6.99)
fish oil tablets (BOGO – free) (dr’s orders)
total 7.98

-6.78 ECB

paid $1.68 w/ tax
got $.99 in ECB

So i spent most of my ECB this week but got the supplements Mr really needed.

It didn’t go as well as i would have liked because my CVS was out of many things that i had planned in my 3 transactions so i had to improvise a little.  (i later found out that CVS rainchecks… with ECB!)

I got phillips headphones (i go through headphones like most people go through socks)
7.41 w/ tax
earned 6.99 ECB
free moisturiser with next purchase
$5 off email coupon.

Then i got 2x 150 filler paper
2x 10 pack papermate pens
2x sobe life water BOGOFree
moisturiser
(here is where i screwed up, being unprepared for them to be out of the items i wanted to roll the ECB)
2 kingsize bags m&m peanuts
2 creme egg things

subtotal (before tax) = 9.84
-1.39 sobe coupon
-1.49 moisturiser coupon
-6.99 ECB

total w/ tax = .47 (would have been free if i didn’t need to buy the candy to make up the ecb total).

earned: $3.96 in ECB to use next week

I also spent $1.28 on 12 poly plastic folders for school at officemax.

I’m starting to get this thing!
I spent under $10 for $19 worth of stuff

And I have $9 to use in ECB & coupons. Yay.