We're back home and CVS was great today!

The Martinez on the Beach at Padre Island




We're back home from a great vacation. It was wonderful to be relaxing for 7 days on the coast of Texas! We have already reserved us a condo for next year! We fished, swam, played games, read, watched movies, crocheted, cooked, ate, drank, slept late and stayed up late. We had from 10 to 15 people with us the whole time.


My vacation stockpile was put to very good use!! It saved us soooo much money this way. We gave most of the leftovers to my step daughter who lives in Corpus Christi. I did bring my sodas, coffee, creamer, and a few unopened boxes of cereal home.





Now I'm back to couponing and saving my pennies. CVS had some great deals today. I spent $ .16 on all of this.......





What a welcome back to town!
I bought 2 Dawn dishwashing liquid $1 each(used 2 .25 Qs and got $1EB back)
2 head and shoulders shampoo $4.99 each (used BOGO Q and got $4EB back)
3 invisible tapes $1.49 each (got $4.47 EB back)
3 packs of pencils $ .99 each (got $2.97 EB back)
2 febreze noticables $6.50 each (used 2 $4 Qs and got $5EB back)
1 CVS pantiliners $ .89 (got $ .89 EB back)
1 .33 caramel (filler)

I used my 5/25 coupon I received in an email earlier this week. I used $14 EBs and got back about $18 EBs-so this was actually a perfect deal! Since the limits are higher this week for the febreze noticable deal and the head and shoulders deal, I plan to do them again after I buy more Sunday papers tomorrow!

I will be hitting Walgreens very hard this week. I have over $30 in RRs expiring this week!

We are on vacation!

We are enjoying the Texas Gulf Coast this week with family! We are staying in a 3 bedroom condo on the water. It's extremely hot! We're used to this. San Antonio has very hot summers too. Last year when we spent a week on the coast, it rained almost every day. Wish it would do that this year. San Antonio and Corpus Christi need the rain sooo bad.

It was crazy trying to get away from San Antonio on Friday. We both worked half day and had to get end of month reports/paperwork done. We had both been working non-stop last week. I did the serious packing Thursday night until midnight and got up at 4:30am on Friday t0 get to work as early as I could. As it was, I didn't get home until after 1 Friday afternoon. It took us an hour to load up the truck and off we go!!

We're having a great time! Fishing, swimming, eating, playing games, watching movies.............sleeping late cuz we're staying up late.............to be continued

Great deals this week

My favorite deals this week......TARGET-razor deal and tea deal

Walmart-got some tea and the weiners for free!

I'm behind

I can't believe it's Monday.........Here's what has happened since Friday.
Friday-spent day at SILs.
Saturday-worked and did WAGS deals with less than $5 OOP
Sunday-drugstore game and spent the rest of day with Darlin Dan. He had to work this weekend.
Monday-Went shopping with Amanda after my part time job. We went to CVS and Target.
I don't have OOP totals.

I'm very tired this evening. I made meat loaf after shopping for dinner.

CVS MONEY MAKER DEAL

I was able to take advantage of this deal today!

The deal is explained here

http://iheartcvs.com/2009/06/lens-cleaning-cloths-614-620.html

This is a great money maker!

More great deals at WAGS

I had an unbelievable day at Walgreens. I started out the morning making a pit stop at a WAGS near my part time job so I could roll my $10RR that was expiring today. Well when I was passing the toy aisle, I saw an employee on a ladder putting up 75% off stickers on some games. I asked the lady if she could get me some games since she was there on the ladder and the games were too high to safely get. I ended up getting 8 games for $1.74 each and 2 games at $3.25! These will make great Christmas presents for nieces and nephews.

I did 5 transactions during my morning run.

I bought a money maker St. Ives body wash with a game and paid with RR's. It was great!

I left with 10 games, 5 body washes, 2 boxes of cakesters, and 3 John Frieda Root Awakening products! I spent under $10 cash OOP because of the money maker body wash.

The afternoon shopping spree at WAGS was another story. Amanda and I went to my former favorite WAGS near my neighborhood. It now has a new manager and that manager happens to have transferred from one of my least favorite WAGS.....because of him! Anyway, today when I spotted him in this WAGS, I gasped and knew we were doomed. Well, we weren't really doomed today. We got all the deals we wanted, except he would only let us buy 1 St Ives body wash. We each had 2 bottles in the basket. Oh well. At first, the cashier said we could only buy 1 John Frieda item. I questioned the manager about that one. I said it was advertised 3 for $15. He said we could do only 1- 3/$15 John Frieda purchase per customer. I was fine with that because that's all I was going to do anyway. The thing about this trip was that the clerk in the cosmetic department was verging on stalking us. She kept asking us if we were ready to check out and looking in our basket. As we were approaching the cashier, she called her and reminded her of the limits. This poor cashier commented, well tell him to come up here and show me what is limit of 1. She apologized to us and said the store has a new manager and he put a limit on the sale items and I made the comment that I had some experience with this particular manager. When I saw him I knew we should expect some problems. Once at his old WAGS he inspected each of my coupons as if they were fake or counterfeit. He made me feel like I was committing coupon fraud! I try very hard to use my coupons appropriately.

Afternoon WAGS-I bought 1 St. Ives, 1 soft chew rolaids, 2 oreo cakesters, 1 soft and dry deodorant, 3 John Frieda Root Awakening products, and 2 clearance spiral notebooks. I paid with a $5 RR and an $8 RR and $2 OOP and got back $13 in RRs!($3 for St. Ives, $2 for rolaids, $3 for cakesters, and $5 for John Frieda products). So all in all, this was a great trip.

We plan to attack Target tomorrow. We are needing Pepsi and ice cream!!

Emergency RR's Expiring

I ran to WAG's when I discovered that I had $26 of RR's expiring today.

My picture does not include 4 Sunday papers. I also bought 4 body washes, 6 Ragu's, 2 peanut butters, 2 rolaids, 2 OFF clip ons, 1 right guard deodorant, 4 reusable shopping bags, and 1 box of envelopes.

Everything was on sale and bought with coup0ns (of course).

I did pretty good- I bought $68.77 worth of goodies-but spent $ 5.50 cash OOP! (Just my 4 Sunday papers should've cost me $8!) I rolled $34 of RR's to $27 of RR's that expire in 2 weeks. I still have one $10 RR that expires tomorrow. I used $26.19 in manufact. coupons and $4.83 in Walgreen's in-ad coupons. I didn't pay any tax today. 3 of my receipts had a negative number for the tax!

Right now I'm holding $49 in RR's.