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Sorry I missed last week, but we were enjoying our much needed family vacation. Hopefully you worked some magic on your own. Either way, I’m starting out assuming you have $4.50 ECBs, based on the week before.
You can read my original post with how to CVS with me HERE.
You can enter my $5.00 gift card to CVS Giveaway HERE!
This week you should have $4.50 in ECBs to spend if you followed along last week.
This is NOT the best week to roll your ECBs and I probably will not shop this week unless I receive an email coupon for money off (i.e. $4.00 off $20.00 purchase).
The below transaction will cost you a little OOP and may not be worth it. You might want to hang on to your $4.50 ECBs for next week.
Remember the ECBs work “just like cash”.
This week take your $4.50 in ECBs and do the following deal:
Total would be $5.94, Use $4.50 ECBS for OOP of $1.44. $3.50 in ECBs back for next week, plus by now if you are using your Green Bag Tag, you should have an extra $1.00 in ECBs, putting the total back up to $4.50 for next week!
This week you can add the following for cheap:
2 Cans of Campbell’s Soup, Use this $0.50 internet coupon making them $0.25 a can!
I’m hosting my very first giveaway!
The prize: $5.00 Gift Card to CVS
How Do You Enter: It’s simple – leave me a comment by Thursday, September 9, 2010 by 11:00 p.m. EST, which is when the contest closes.
This contest is open to U.S. residents, age 18 or over. If you don’t have a Google account, leave me an anonymous comment, BUT you must sign your at least your first name and a last name initial to avoid confusion.
The winner will be chosen on September 10, 2010.
How will you know if you’ve won: I’ll announce it on my blog! You’ll have 3 days (72 hours) from the time of the announcement to contact me. If the initial winner doesn’t contact me, a new winner will be chosen.
Winner will be chosen using random.org and will coincide with the comment entry.
Chances of winning depend on the number of entries.
The gift card will be mailed to the winner (I can’t be responsible for items lost in the mail.)
We’ve just gotten back from a wonderful week long family vacation! I’ll be updating freebies, CVS, and other good deals over the next couple of days. I have over 600 emails in my inbox to weed through, so it may take a bit! I enjoyed a computer-free vacation, except for about an hour’s worth.
Plus, I’ll post how we paid CASH on our vacation only (except for one lunch which I’ve already repaid!)
I love me some Free Shipping!For two days only Snapfish is offering Free Shipping and Free 8x10 collage in honor of their Grand Opening.
I save up free prints and then when Snapfish offers Free Shipping I order! I rarely ever pay for photo prints anymore.
My favorite way to get free prints is through My Coke Rewards.
I had a credit for 80 free prints, so I ordered those, added the 8x10 collage and entered the code GRANDSHIP at checkout for an entirely FREE purchase!
Woo Hoo!
Wow – look at all that for a whopping $0.45 OOP!!!
I had $7.00 in ECBs going in and came out with $8.00. ($7.00 for the Zegerid and $1.00 for using my Green Bag Tag).
Here’s the breakdown:
6 Sobe’s on sale B1G1 Free, PLUS I used 3 B1G1 Free coupons for playing the game here, making them all FREE!
1 20 oz. Coke, used Free coupon from My Coke Rewards, making it FREE!
2 RIght Guard Deodorants on sale B1G1 Free, PLUS I used a B1G1 Free MQ, making them both FREE!
3 J&J First Aid Kits (found in the trial size section) for $0.99 each, Plus I used $3.00 off 3 J&J product MQ, making them all FREE!
1 bottle of Zegerid Heartburn Medication on sale for $9.99, Plus I used $3.00 off MQ, making it $6.99.
I used $7.00 in ECBs, and gained back $8.00, paying only $0.45 OOP!
If you have signed up for a Pet Perks card from PetSmart and registered it online, you should be able to log in and print a coupon for a Free 6 oz. bag of Purina Pro Plan cat or dog food (or you can get $3.00 off a larger bag).
Also in today’s paper (SS insert) I received a Free 6 oz. bag of Purina One dog or cat food.
I went ahead and made a trip to PetSmart and used all 3 coupons, making the below completely free!!
I use these small bags in a treat capacity and my animals love it!
You can read my original post with how to CVS with me HERE.
This week you should have $4.00 in ECBs to spend if you followed along last week.
Remember the ECBs work “just like cash”.
This week take your $4.00 in ECBs and do the following deal:
and
Total after coupons is $5.48, pay with your $4.00 in ECBs, get back $4.50 in ECBs for next time. OOP = $1.48 this week BUT sweeten the deal with the following add-ons making your OOP stretch even farther for free -
and/or
and/or
If you have any good deal ideas, or find a great deal – I would love it if you would share with me!!!
I have yet another friend adopting again! They have two biological children and one son from Russia adopted in 2008 (the same year we brought home our precious son)! I'm so glad so many precious children are finding homes.
You can make a tax free donation to them - Check out there page here and I've added their "Button" on my sidebar, but you can see it below also!
You can read my original post with how to CVS with me HERE.
This week you should have $4.00 in ECBs to spend if you followed along last week.
Remember the ECBs work “just like cash”.
This week take your $4.00 in ECBs and do the following deal:
Total is $3.97, pay with your $4.00 in ECBs, get back $4.00 in ECBs for next time. No cash OOP required, except for tax!
This time you came out with a free product, earned ECBs for next week and can submit for a full price rebate receiving back $8.97 – you just got paid to shop!
If you have any good deal ideas, or find a great deal – I would love it if you would share with me!!!
I made a quick run to Target today before treating myself and my son to Chick Filet! We just got a Chick FIlet (finally!) and he’d been dying to go to the “food place with the slide in the window”.
Anyway – since Target and Chick Filet are side by side, I thought I’d run in and got these two thing for $0.00!! I even took a picture of my receipt to show you!
Bic Pens – 2 packs at $0.99 each, used $1.00 off 2 Bic Products from the newspaper this weekend and stacked it with the $1.00 off 2 TARGET PRINTABLE. BOTH FREE!
Ravioli - $0.99, used $1.00 off TARGET PRINTABLE. BOTH FREE
I’m also hearing there is a hot $1.00 off 2 BIC coupon on Coupons.com. I can’t seem to locate it, but I had already printed it, so I may not be able to see it anymore – take a peek and if you get it (under office supplies) print two and you’ll be able to get even more free pens!
Don’t forget today is Mega Swagbucks Friday!! Search and earn your way to great prizes! I’ve earned 31 $5.00 prizes so far! On Mega Fridays you can win more often and in higher denominations so search away!!
You can read my post about making the most of Swagbucks. If you haven’t signed up, sign up today and get 30 Swagbucks to start!
Get a Free Sample of Nature’s Bounty Your Life Multi Adult Gummies . You should receive your sample in 8 weeks.
If you haven’t signed up for the CVS Advisor Panel, you should. Occasionally they send out surveys. Tonight the survey I got said if I qualified, I would earn $5.00 Extrabucks (just like cash), and even if I didn’t qualify I would $2.00 Extrabucks.
I qualified, (Yippe!) and for less than ten minutes of my time, I earned $5.00 in ECBs to add to my stash to shop with!
Don’t forget, if you want to start shopping with me, you can check out Week 1 and Week 2!
I saw the title of this post on another blog a couple of years ago. I wish I could remember which one, so I could give them credit, but I just can’t because my blog roll has since exploded!
A little over two years ago we had just brought our son home from Russia at the age of 21 months. I was home with him for six weeks before I was expected back to work. The six weeks was unpaid and after the expenses of the adoption, I was looking for ways to earn a little money on the side, or at least start saving some money. Shortly after starting back to work full-time, both my husband and I felt that I was needed at home more so I transitioned to part-time work, which meant a part-time check.
Before then I had never bothered to cut coupons, never got a newspaper, and just bought what we wanted and needed.
A friend and fellow adoptive mother (thanks Jackie!), started a blog and once I read it I realized there were so many ways to save money. I started reading other frugal blogs. I saw how some were playing the drugstores games (like working CVS ECBs) and how some were listing items they could get free at many local stores by using coupons. I was introduced to internet printable coupons, survey sites, points programs and I was thrilled. I could do this stuff, while being at home and with a 2-3 hour nap time (I know – I was lucky) I could read deals and learn to come up with my own!
I posted my first frugal adventure into CVS on my other blog here as part of another post, but because I was so proud of myself I had to get it posted somewhere. I came out of CVS with way more than the one bottle of conditioner I had to buy for less than the actual price of the bottle itself! I couldn’t believe it when the cashier gave me my total.
The rest is history. I started this blog, started shopping with coupons, requesting free samples of products, and saving money. Since then I don’t think I’ve once actually paid out of pocket for a tube of toothpaste, razors, shampoo, conditioner, etc.
While I tend to stick to only a few stores, CVS, Kroger, and Target mainly, I’ve found that just by matching coupons with sales, stacking coupons (where allowed) and making smaller shopping trips, has saved us a ton. I’m thinking now about venturing into a few new stores (like Rite Aid), but I try to be careful about how much time I spend shopping. I make most of my trips quick by laying out my deal and coupons ahead of time and only going in after those items. My husband supports me a great deal and can never believe the deals I come home with. In fact, every Sunday he lets me venture out on my own to shop CVS by myself. He knows even though I have the deal laid out, that sometimes it takes me a bit longer than necessary ;) especially since I love listening to books on CD!
Getting back to the initial title of the post, remember to treat your coupons like cash. Isn’t it fun to watch your total tick down?! I always ask the cashier, if the screen doesn’t show it, to subtotal the items so I can watch the coupons at work. When it’s done I think about how much extra cash I would have to pull out of my pocket to pay for the items had I not used the coupons. They really do work like cash! That one simple sentence changed my life!
Finally, (what you’ve been waiting for) in a few weeks (maybe sooner) I’ll be hosting my first blog giveaway! It has to do with CVS, so if you’re following along with my series on shopping CVS, or even if your not, you’ll want to enter. It’ll be easy (I promise) and hopefully you’ll win!
Wow! I got all this for $8.97 OOP – a little more than I would usually spend, BUT I got my husband’s heartburn pills (which he HAS to take and normally cost us more than $20.00) AND all the other things you see pictured!!
That’s 12 Sobes – Played the game here for B1G1 coupons and have won everytime (no code necessary, instructions found here, and saved up my B1G1 Free coupons found here – ALL FREE (On sale at CVS for B1G1 Free already). I’ll be playing daily to win more coupons before the end of the week!
2 Dawn Hand Renewals – $0.99, used 2 $1.00 off from the Home Made Simple Coupon Booklet – you can sign up for one here), FREE
Prilosec - $24.99, used $3.00 off coupon
2 Clean & Clear trial size items - $0.99, used 2 $1.00 off coupon found here (print it twice), FREE
1 Colgate Toothpaste - $2.49, used $0.75 coupon found here
2 Schick Twin Packs – trial size $2.58, Used $3.00 off 2 Twin packs MQ, FREE
1 can of Friskies - $0.89 (needed it)
2 Dove candy bars - $1.00, used $0.50 off 2 from CVS scanner - $0.50
Used $4.00 off $20.00 purchase from my email, and $11.99 ECBS
Grand total - $8.97
Got back $7.00 ECBs! (Making my husband’s heartburn medication nearly FREE!)
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