Start shopping at CVS!!
I have started using my shopping addiction to find bargains. Sure, once in a while I'll find excellent deals, but it truly doesn't get better than CVS. First things first, you need to go online to www.cvs.com and sign up for their extra care rewards program. You will receive a card in the mail in a few weeks. Then you need to start scouring the Sunday ads to look for CVS deals. The cool thing about CVS is that they basically pay you to shop at their store. They have what is called Extra Care Bucks. If you buy a particular item/items then you will receive back an ECB to be used during your next purchase, just like cash.
I finally discovered it this past week. They had a sale that was "Buy $20.00 worth of Kraft products and get $20.00 back in ecb's." See, I'm telling you, they PAY you to shop! So, I had gotten a card for both Jason and myself a few weeks back and I was able to do this deal 2 times (it will say on these deals "One per card"). This means that while you can buy anything you want, you will only get the ECBs once. They print out on the bottom of your receipt so don't throw away. That $20.00 ecb can be used the next time you shop there just like it were a $20.00 coupon for that store.
The best part of this deal. CVS will also email out extra coupons like "$4.00 off a $20.00 purchase". I got one by simply going online to 'update' my account. So, when I went in to do the Kraft deal (which included digiorno pizza, Kraft macaroni, Nabisco crackers and cookies, and Post cereal) I got 2 oreo cookies, 1 ritz cracker, 1 premium cracker, 2 Velveeta shells and cheese, and 4 boxes of cereal for $20.00. Take away the $4.00 from that email coupon, and minus another $2.65 that I had in coupons for the Post cereal and Nabisco cookies/crackers. I paid around $14.00 out of my pocket and walked out with a $20.00 ecb to be used next time.
Here is how you make this deal last for a long time. The next time you shop make sure to look through the ad again to find if there are other items (and there always are) that you can purchase and receive back ECBs. This way you don't spend much of anything out of pocket and you are always receiving ECBs to be used next time. I definitely make sure that the items are things I can use, or give away. I also try really hard to find coupons for those items to make it even less.
I seriously came home the other day with 2 packs of pull-ups, 2 Kandoo wipes, 2 toothpastes, 1 razor, 1 infant motrin, 1 children's motrin, 1 children's tylenol and 2 gallons of milk for ................................................................................ wait for it.........................................................................................................................92 cents!!!! Because of the $20.00 ecbs and coupons for every single item except for the milk. Plus, I have two $5.00 ecbs to use next time. Tell me that isn't a great deal and that I won't be using those items in the near future.
Take it or leave it, just thought I would put it out there for you!
OK, big notice to anyone who needs baby food or if your kiddos are eating any of the gerber graduate foods go to www.afullcup.com . Click on Target coupons. Then scroll down to find the Gerber coupon. It says " $1.00 off any 2 gerber food products". If you click on it a mini screen will pop up and you can tell it how many you want to print. It will print 4 to a page. It is a great deal for individual jars as they cost anywhere between 54 cents and 72 cents. If you bought two and used a coupon it would end up being 4 to 22 cents a jar depending on what you get. I have used 10 of these coupons at a time to buy 20 different gerber items. I have only been given trouble once. One lady said "We can only take 1 internet coupon per order" so I told her to cancel the order and I left. I went back in the next day and found a young guy to ring me up. He didn't say anything!
These expire next Wednesday so hurry up. If you have success the first day I suggest going back each day until Wednesday. Also, with these being Target coupons you are allowed to combine them with gerber manufacturer coupons to make it even better. Some of those can be found online as well.
We will soon return to our regularly scheduled program of updating you on the kids and family!!!
Sunday, August 12, 2007
If I could offer some advice....
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did you know if you also shopped at Walgreen's, you can get stuff free??!?!?!?! it's costs a certain amount of money up front, but after the first initial cost, you pay nothig thereafter! here, too, you get the walgreen version of ECB's. sometimes it pays to shop and the weirdest places! we pitzos, more importantly the in-laws, spend as little as possible to get as much for the buck! certainly not a bad thing! hi to everyone!
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