Well, I sort of screwed this one up. Eh. I'm new at this, I expect to screw up a few times, and in the end it's all good. #2 should have had the toothbrushes, not the allergy pills. Blah.

I rode my bike out to CVS-T today and cleaned up on the monthly freebies. Whatever we don't end up keeping we'll donate to a shelter.

Something else went a little funky with the toothpaste stuff. Either I somehow bought the wrong stuff, the ECB didn't show up or print, or I didn't...

My first double-transaction experience. I did the two-item first, so my husband wouldn't get jittery and impatient (: Thank the gods for self-checkout lines.

Meijer is where we do quite a bit of our shopping, and since there's no ECBs to worry about I'll just post the totals and coupons and in-store deals and not bother listing EVERYTHING WE BOUGHT.

TRANSACTION #1:
Items: 2
Subtotal: $2.26
$1 Coupon
TOTAL OOP: $1.26

TRANSACTION #2:...

Well, things didn't go quite as planned. I had apparently written down a couple of the deals wrong, so I didn't do everything I was planning. Booo. Either I mixed up the dates (I've been planning for NEXT week's as well) or I just plain went on crack and didn't have the right ECB amounts written down. I didn't have to put anything back, although I did end up having to run back to get a couple other things since I was a doofus and miscalculated the $10 in foodz.

Later this week while...

1 Gallon Milk: $2.24 w/ $.55 coupon
2 Chapstick Naturals: $5.98
1 C Seasonings Green Tea: $3.49
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Cash: $12.07

ECBs gained: $3

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I looked through this week's CVS flier when we got there -- nothing I was particularly interested in, unfortunately, so all we went for were the things we were actually interested in.

We needed milk, I'm always losing my...