Over the last week or two, I've made some small purchases at CVS. I forgot to include them, partly because they were pretty small and not quite worth mentioning PLUS they managed to be OUT of something I wanted each and every time I went. Talk about frustrating ...

We went grocery shopping today, so we went to CVS-A that's in the town our Meijer is in (as opposed to CVS-T, which is in the little piddly town I live in). THEY HAD EVERYTHING I WANTED!!! For once, my scenario went...

Went into CVS to do a nice batch of deals and roll some ECBs -- Listerine x2, then bandaids and lots of tuna. I'd heard the limit was raised on the Listerine, so I was going to roll the Listerine once for good measure and end up with four bottles. THEY HAD ONE BOTTLE LEFT. Argh. I spent some time doing emergency math to figure out a new scenario (without a calculator, since I forgot my phone) and ended up just getting the one bottle and some soap. We were almost out anyway. I'm just frustrated...

Rolling those ECBs and making use of the new monthly freebies. My husband made a comment about buying a bunch of stuff we don't need; with that in mind I may skip the Brut deal (and I couldn't find the $2.69 stuff anyway -- maybe it's at a different store). In any case, I used up some ECBs and got a couple things that we could actually use.

CVS Bandaids: $3.98
Oral-B Crossaction two-pack: $6.99 x2
Carefree liners: $.88
Total: $18.84 pre-tax
Coupon: $.50...

Sweet zombie jeebus. This was my first real week of coupon-whoring, and ooooh did it pay off. Big time. So big I'm actually going to include the highlights.

Normal non-sale prices: $85.15
Meijer sale savings: $32.55
Coupon savings: $16.70
TOTAL OOP COST: $35.90

Here are some of the highlights.

$10/11 Hamburger Helper
.....x5 $1/2 IP
$10/11 Chex Mix
.....x4 $1/1 IP (lol, the last four bags in the store)
$1 Pasta...

This makes ... what, three? Four trips this week? I may have a problem...

Actually the problem was me buying the wrong darn toothpaste the last time. I fixed that pretty quick, borked the order of handing over CVS card - Qs - ECBs - Money card - cash, but luckily the manager was kind enough to forgive me and let it go through anyway (:

Refund on toothpaste: $11.73


Aquafresh Xtreme Clean x3: $8.97
Tums Quikpak 24ct: $3.69 w/ $1 Q
Total...