Wednesday, November 5, 2008

CVS - Week of November 2


I was in desperate need of diapers (that's one thing I haven't focused on building up in my stash yet) and Pampers are on sale this week at CVS (2/$20 with $5 ECB) so I bit it and ran over Monday night. I had a $5/$30 q to use, so I had to add on some extras. The Crest ProHealth whitening 4.2 oz is a free monthly deal - buy one for 3.49 get 3.49 ECBs back. The limit for this appears to be 4, so you can do it 4 times. Ice cubes gum is a weekly deal - buy 10 get $5 ECB - so I threw that in too. And the Huggies swimmers - I walked in and spotted them immediately, marked down to 0.89! I had coupons that I'd left at home, but knew that the diapers wouldn't last that long, so I just bought them - you really can't beat that price!
Here's my scenario:
Pampers 2x10.00 = 20.00
Crest 2x3.49 = 6.98
Ice cubes 10x1.00 = 10.00
Lil Swimmers 3x0.89 = 2.87
Total before q's = 39.85
Q's:
Pampers 2x1.50 = 3.00
Crest 2x1.00 = 2.00
Ice cubes 4x1.00 = 4.00
CVS 5/30 1x5.00 = 5.00
Total after q's = 25.85
Pay with ECBs - 15.00
Total OOP = 10.85 + tax
Receive $16.98 back in ECBs
So I got more ECBs back than I spent, which is my goal every time! My OOP total is more than I'd usually spend OOP but we needed diapers, and I can sell the swim diapers next spring so it was definitely worth it!

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