It's all about the bottom line! What is your best price?

[nena2007]

Ok, I am completly brand new to all of this. I have spent the entire morning and early afternoon looking through ads to price match and clipping coupons and such. I just don't understand how you can get the prices THAT low or getting all these things for free!

What stores are you shopping at? Am I missing something?!?!

[Tenie]

Originally Posted by Valerie$$ Thanks so much for this great thread! I found it the other night and have been searching for it for over an hour tonight.. HUGELY helpful for newbies who can't calculate the price of toilet paper!!

How do I find the thred ? What does that mean ? Thanks

Tennie

[Tenie]

How do I find that price ? Thanks

[debranator]

This is an answer of sorts for the above newbie posters.
First of all, all of the prices and such in this thread are from long time experienced couponers.
After you get better at it, you will figure out your own best price that you will pay for things.
Most of us [cvsers] rarely will pay more than a buck for almost anything household.
But, you usually have to build those things into your deals.
As for the girls asking about how you get toilet paper and paper towels for those prices:
you can this week at cvs.
Using the standard 4/20 and a man Q for each do it this way:
buy 1 charmin 9 pk for 4.99
buy 1 bounty 8 pk for 5.99
buy 3 packs of duracell batteries @ 2.99 each
total is 19.95[normally ecbs will not print until you hit 20.00, but they are set at 19.85 now]
you may have to add a 50 cent filler, so say the total is 20.50.
use
4/20
1/1 charmin Q
1/1 bounty Q
3 1/1 duracell Qs
pay 11.50 plus tax
get back 10 ecbs.
You have now bought 9 rolls of tp,8 paper towels and 3 packs of batteries for under 2 bucks plus tax.
When experienced cvser calculate prices, we do it after the ecbs and then we use the ecbs for our next deal.
you can of course, do it all charmin or bounty or whatever,
I did all batteries for the lowest oop, but,I think this will show you how it can be easily done.
Ps. I know this isn't a cvs deals thread, but I felt there were too many girls asking about this and not getting answers recently.]

[mom2fiveaz]

Originally Posted by debranator This is an answer of sorts for the above newbie posters. First of all, all of the prices and such in this thread are from long time experienced couponers. After you get better at it, you will figure out your own best price that you will pay for things. Most of us [cvsers] rarely will pay more than a buck for almost anything household. But, you usually have to build those things into your deals. As for the girls asking about how you get toilet paper and paper towels for those prices: you can this week at cvs. Using the standard 4/20 and a man Q for each do it this way: buy 1 charmin 9 pk for 4.99 buy 1 bounty 8 pk for 5.99 buy 3 packs of duracell batteries @ 2.99 each total is 19.95[normally ecbs will not print until you hit 20.00, but they are set at 19.85 now] you may have to add a 50 cent filler, so say the total is 20.50. use 4/20 1/1 charmin Q 1/1 bounty Q 3 1/1 duracell Qs pay 11.50 plus tax get back 10 ecbs. You have now bought 9 rolls of tp,8 paper towels and 3 packs of batteries for under 2 bucks plus tax. When experienced cvser calculate prices, we do it after the ecbs and then we use the ecbs for our next deal. you can of course, do it all charmin or bounty or whatever, I did all batteries for the lowest oop, but,I think this will show you how it can be easily done. Ps. I know this isn't a cvs deals thread, but I felt there were too many girls asking about this and not getting answers recently.]

Wow wish I had the stores in my area that many of you do (CVS, Kroger, other grocery stores)! I'm still paying a fortune for TP....50 cents for Scott ES mega roll. Yep I'm still green at this!

[Whispered]

What and where do you the get 4/20??
Is that 4 dollars off 20?
Is that a Q.. or comes from Where ....

Thats the part that confuses me!!
Thanks~ :)

[debranator]

There really is a guide to cvsing that explains all this.
So for any $$off Q questions, please refer to one of those threads.
The basic 4/20 is either the welcome or the update Q.
you can update your info at the extracare site to get one.

[Tenie]

Thank you - how do you get the 19.95 to 11.50 - I understand the 4 dollars off but is the rest coupons ?
How do you get more then one 4/20 coupon ? I thought only one per email adress updated.

Thank you for answering us newbies and helping us out.

[debranator]

That is explained in my post.
the saving are what I listed as "man Qs.
A man q means manufacturers coupon.
and just print out as many of the 4/20 as you want.
You can use one per transaction.

[amy s]

I have been randomly reading through a bunch of these posts as well. Without a cvs, it is hard to get great desl. If you live somehwat rural and w/out a big choice of national stores, Your Mileage may vary. (YMMV) I think this thread was set up to give a variety of prices...many times I go to Walmart and find our prices are much higher than the deal posted here, kmart too.

PLEASE NOTE: many of these people posting already have a stockpile and can hold off for the good sale. I figure if you have to have it ( LOL...TP...) you gotta get it!!! :)

I agree with many on this board...I dont pay anything but tax for:

TP, paper towels, toothbrushes and paste.