CVS Shopping Trip 2/1/11

Lessons were learned today. I did get a few great deals. The first deal I took advantage of was the Kellogg's select cereals 3/$10 and get $4 ECB back. I scored big on this deal by using a BOGO coupon for Special K cereal with a $1/2 coupon for Special K. With my coupons the 3 boxes of Special K brought the cost down to 3 boxes for $5 plus $4 ECB back=3 boxes for $1!

The big lesson learned today....check the limit on these deals. I thought I'd be smart and hit another CVS to see what select cereals they had on this deal. They had Frosted Flakes and Raisin Bran in the deal (both cereals we eat regularly). So, I bought 2 Raisin Bran cereals and used 2 coupons for $0.70/1 and a box of Frosted Flakes without a coupon (I figured it was still worth it to get the $4 ECB). Well, that was not the case. This deal has a limit of one time use. I still got a good deal on the 3 boxes of cereal just not as good of a deal as I expected. Always watch those limits!

Other deals: Unilever Deal is spend $15 on select Unilever products and get $5 ECB back. I bought 3 Bertollini Pasta Sauces prices at 3/$2, 3 Skippy Peanut Butter priced 3/$5 and used a $0.75/2 coupon, and 2 Lipton products price 2/$5 with 2 $0.60/1 coupons and got $5 ECB back. I paid about a dollar per item in the end.

I thought about taking advantage of the Coke deal which is spend $15 and get $5 ECB back but they did not have the products I wanted to purchase in stock. This is a great deal if you need to stock up on Coke products. Check out the Hip2Save website for how to take full advantage of this deal.

I did pick up a bottle of Dawn Hand Renewal for $0.97 and used a coupon for $0.50/1 for a final cost of $0.47. and I bought Puffs for $1 just because I needed these. I received a $0.50 coupon for chapstick at the magic coupon machine. Pair that with the BOGO offer for chapstick=2 cheap sticks of chapstick.

My total cost out of pocket today was $23.36 and I received $9 ECB to use next week. That brings my total down to $14.36 for all of the items pictured above! My total savings was $24.11 for today.