More Drugstore Fun!

[same_sky]

After Evelyn woke up from her nap, we headed out for the shopping trip we had been planning on taking prior to her falling asleep on me. It worked out really well this way, though, because we could go to the other Walgreens as well as CVS. "My" Walgreens thwarted me big-time on Sunday so I had to try my luck with the one on the other side of town. It worked there fabulously and so I am happy to present to you today's fun and games with drugstore shopping, with captions:

See there on the Walgreens side, there are two bottles of Robitussin and one of Dimetapp? They were on sale, with 2 $3 and 1 $2 coupons, and when you buy three, you get $10 back in Register Rewards (good on future purchases.) Sooo... $4 * 3 = $12. $12 - $8 in internet-printable coupons = $4. $10 register reward - $4 out of pocket = $6 profit. Yay! The mouthwash hiding beside the shower cleaner was $4.50 and free after $4.50 register rewards. The shower cleaner was $20 with $10 register rewards, plus I had a $5 coupon. {Incidentally, that's how the other Walgreens thwarted me--they claimed that if I used coupons, I couldn't get the RRs. Oh, that reminds me. The free mouthwash, I used a $0.75 coupon so I made a profit on it, too. Forgot about that one. Two deodorants and a bottle of body wash free after coupons. See how the cough syrup overage paid for most of the other stuff? PLUS, I get the items! .....

On the CVS side, there's a bunch of stuff from their 75% and 90% clearance aisle and a profitable blood glucose meter. I made $5 on that and I think the box says there's a $10 mail-in-rebate, but I'm not sure I'll be able to use it since I paid nothing for it. ;) See the Hawaiian Punch juice boxes there for a quarter? Bet you think I bought those for Evelyn. Well, HA. Are you kidding? I don't let her drink HFCS crap like that! Those are for ME. ;) The green box is an immunity-enhancing thing. M likes those sorts of things when he's getting sick. The floam will go to a young cousin for part of her birthday present. I won't tell her that I spent less than a dollar on them but then, she's four so she won't care anyway. We were actually at CVS yesterday (my mom and I) and we bought a bunch of stuff on clearance then, too. I was heading back there today for a computer chair. I don't know why I didn't buy it yesterday but it was $10. I don't need one so it didn't occur to me at the time, but we're playing the yankee swap type game for Christmas this year, and wouldn't that be a fun gift to throw into the mix? Furniture? I would fight over it if I saw it, even if I didn't need it. But alas, it was gone (of course). I really can't imagine who would normally be buying chairs at CVS anyway for them to have for the clearance aisle.

Oh, and right there in the middle, of course, is my little shopping buddy. I like her so much I think I'd even pay retail prices for her. Now that's love!

In Kentucky, you have to pay tax on pre-coupon prices, by the way. Just in case my numbers look off. ;) I also had a $2/10 coupon at CVS, which brought it down a little more. And I just noticed that they overcharged me $2 at Walgreens, so really, it should have just cost me $1.94 for that stuff. I was really happy with my total price until I noticed that and now I am fretting over the difference. I should probably learn to let it go but then again, if I did that, this hobby would probably disintegrate right away.

So! That was great fun but I think I'm taking the rest of the week off. Sheesh.

Comments

[dbrus.livejournal.com]

Cute pic. And if I had a car I'd be doing this too, but somehow lugging all of the loot and Max home by foot is not too appealing!

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can barely lug it all to the car with her too! ;)

[e11en.livejournal.com]

Who's the blood glucose meter for?

I too contemplated that computer chair at CVS but decided against it because neither of us spend that much time actually sitting at a desk in front of the computer so then it would just be cluttering up some room. I do think it very odd that they have furniture at CVS but we have four bookcases (each one costing $9.99) and a file cabinet (I forget how much that one was) from there.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I am thinking of keeping it for myself. I have sometimes been really curious about my blood sugar since I'm insulin resistant and all. If not, I can give it to my mom. Do you need one? I have heard that there will be a monitor for $14.99 with $14.99 ECB the week of Oct 5. (This one was $10 after ECB but I had a coupon that made it free.)

Our CVS is tiny, too, so I really REALLY can't imagine why they carry furniture. But still, $10!

[drottningen.livejournal.com]

so the register rewards are future savings or instant? When you are calculating all this stuff you take that into consideration at the time you purchase or do you count it when you use them?

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

It's for a future purchase, so I will have to go in again within a couple of weeks and spend that amount there. Since I'm planning on spending most of it on the free-after-rebate stuff, it's not a waste in any event. I tend to count it as part of the price at the time of purchase and not when I use it. It just feels more fun that way, because then I can also add at the time of usage that it cost XX but I only spent xx out of pocket (while still not 'counting' it as taking away from the total.

There's a $10 off $40 coupon tomorrow so I'm going to have to go back, darn it. ;)

[drottningen.livejournal.com]

cool :) I agree it does seem more fun that way :)