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It is overwhelming, but do hang in there. My sister Mary (also on this site), who tried to explain this over the internet and the phone, showed all of us how to do it during a little reunion here in honor of our mother's 80th! It was funny, because we are largely a family of women, and she kept going back to CVS with different women! My niece spent $1.50 for $140 worth of items.

The first time I went, last week I think, I saved $15, from $27, but only earned 1 ECB from CVS. I didn't grasp the entire ECB rewards concept. But today I went and did the $20 Kraft, for $20 ECBs.

I bought the 2 cereals for $4, but had a $1 off mfr coupon. That was actually the only coupon I had. I got 2 Planters nuts for $7, 2 Oreos for $5, 2 South Beach Breakfast bars for $5. All total - $21

They took $1 off for the ECB, and another $1 for the cereal coupon, then a $4/$20 that I had, and I spent $15, which disappointed me, but got $20 ECB. So I went back in, and took the $15/$5 offer, buying a Pepcid, for $7,and the vitamins, which I think were $8. But I bought 3 things that were mistakes, things I should have waited to get next week, a Venus Breeze, Advil & Colgate MaxFresh. I had a $5/$20, $4 off the razor, and had $1 off coupons for the Advil, Pepcid & Colgate. I paid 32 cents, but I guess I should have stopped with the Pepcid & Vitamins, that was $15 exactly. I think I'll get better the more I do this.