CVS Products -- love em or hate em?

[Zulaya]

Bottled water
Mini Pretzel twists
CVS brand gummy vitamins (YUM)
CVS brand disposable cups/plates/bowls

Basically, as long as I have ECB's to spend on it, I don't mind spending a couple dollars more than I would at Walmart (etc). My theory is it's pretty easy to roll a $4/20 with other coupons to make a dollar or two profit each week at CVS, so I never end up spending "real" money. On the other hand, anything I do at walmart comes straight out of my checking account.

What I'd do, do one of the break even deals for the week, add the $10 of CVS products that you'll use at some point, even if not this moment, the total will put you in a position to use a $4/20 email. Between the $3 (from the $3/10) and the $4 (the $4/20), you'll spend $3 for $10 of CVS brand stuff, which if you're doing, say, this week's Excedrin will still put you ahead by $2 or so (and you'll have 6 bottles of Excedrin to do whatever you do with Excedrin lol).

Of course, what exactly you do depends on what you use, what coupons you have, etc, etc, but that's the basic game plan I'd use.

Hope that helps some?

--Sara

[server18]

I like the CVS brand of fabric softner. It goes on sale B1G1 quit often.

[DorothyB]

What I'd do, do one of the break even deals for the week, add the $10 of CVS products that you'll use at some point, even if not this moment, the total will put you in a position to use a $4/20 email. Between the $3 (from the $3/10) and the $4 (the $4/20), you'll spend $3 for $10 of CVS brand stuff, which if you're doing, say, this week's Excedrin will still put you ahead by $2 or so (and you'll have 6 bottles of Excedrin to do whatever you do with Excedrin lol).

--Sara

That is sort of what I was doing. However, in today's scenario, I was "using" the $5 / $30 to decrease the cost of my Purex to make the "cost per load" lower. So, I was only looking at the 30% discount generated by the $3 / $10 CVS. If I hadn't done the CVS, I would have bought MORE laundry detergent. As it is I got almost 200 loads worth - I NEVER do over 5 loads per week and probably average 4 or less, so this is a year's worth.

Anyway, it helps a little. There are times that your scenario is exactly what I would do - use the $10 of CVS to bring the purchase up enough to use the $x / $xx total purchase.

I did price check the CVS "sudafed" and it is less than Walgreen's already - don't know WM price, but this will be good to use for my next $3 / $10.

[junecleaver]

I love the cvs brand rasberry shortbread cookies (mmmm so good)

[thriftycj]

After spending 6 hours at the pool on Saturday and not reapplying my Waterbabies SPF 50 very well, I was much in need of sunburn relief products. My mom knows of my CVS addiction and scolded "surely that CVS of yours has something that will help!"

I woke up Sunday morning quite pleased to find the $3 ECB deal on sun car products! :) I got the alcohol-free lidocaine/aloe gel in a tube and the big bottle lidocaine/menthol/aloe gel. Both have worked quite well (along with all that excedrin I bought!), though there is a lotion product out there (don't remember the name... used to get in when I lived in Miami) that I do like a bit better... probably because it smells fruity.

I also got a pot of the zinc oxide spf 45 sunscreen. jury is still out on that... it started to sting after awhile, but that might just be my sensitive skin and the fact i was really sweating and it was getting in my eyes.

Ended up getting a great deal as the kansas city stores accept expired CVS q's:

All 3 products = approximately $11.50 + 4 newspapers = 16.50
-- $3/15
-- $3/10 CVS purchase
-- BOGO Free CVS Item q ($3.79)
-- $3 ECB

Total OOP = $3.71, including the cost of 4 inserts with the Pro Vive q's and the $2 Excedrin Back and Body q's which helped me to get ECB overages on other transactions later that day! :)

Also... there are lots of products that are CVS only labels... for example, all the Essence of Beauty products. There are also CVS lightbulbs, packing and clear tape, calculators, hair dryers, etc. Spend some time looking around the store... there's more CVS brand stuff than you realize!

[MeghanR]

I like the baby wipes. Sometimes I buy DH the body wash that is like Old Spice High Endurance. There was something else that I like that I was going to post about, but I can't remember what it was.

[MeghanR]

I remembered the other thing I was going to mention. I recently bought CVS napkins when they were BOGO. The napkins are fine, nothing special, but I really like the drawstring on the package that keeps it closed, so all your napkins don't fall out.

[extechy]

I personally like this feminine products, vitamins, and lotion.

[junecleaver]

I hate cvs paper towels, just bought them today:frown: They are very rough and crispy.:mad6:

[pilesoflaundry]

Has anyone tried the CVS toilet bowl cleaner (a "tablet" you throw into the tank)? I need it and the brand name equivalents are more expensive.

A plumber once told me never to use those, they are really bad for the plumbing and the toilet. Something about they eat the rubber in the parts inside the tank. :shrug7:

I hate the cvs toilet paper. I really like the wipes and the bottled water is fine.