One of our favorite features of 4Our2Cents is posting the victories of the readers and friends of 4Our2Cents! Here’s Erin’s Victory at CVS this week! Note to Readers: Erin is a resident of Florida and her stores may do things a little differently but most sales are national when it comes to the major drugstores!
Paying $1 for over $41 worth of household products at CVS
The beginning of the quarter of the year is a happy day in my house. Why? It’s payout time for the ExtraBucks you’ve earned over the past quarter. Just visit the coupon machine in CVS, scan your ExtraBucks card, and voila, ‘free’ money!
I got $7.50 in ExtraBucks for the last quarter of 2010, and here’s how I used them to get $41.44 worth of stuff for $1.00 out of pocket. (You still have to pay sales tax in cash in FL). Don’t have $7.50 in ExtraBucks laying around? No problem. This deal can still be a money-maker.
Here’s what the CVS ad offers: $10 ExtraBucks when you buy $20 Lysol, Finish, Airwick LIMIT 1
**Deal Idea** – courtesy of SouthernSavers.com ( http://www.southernsavers.com/2011/01/cvs-weekly-ad-scenarios-19-115/)
Buy:
(4) Finish Detergents $3
(1) Air Wick FreshMatic Kit $5 (SouthernSavers.com quoted $6 price on this, but it rang up as $5 at my CVS.
(1) Lysol Neutra Air Spray $3
(4) Finish Detergents $3
(1) Air Wick FreshMatic Kit $5 (SouthernSavers.com quoted $6 price on this, but it rang up as $5 at my CVS.
(1) Lysol Neutra Air Spray $3
Use:
(4) -$2.25 off Finish 20 ct +, SS 1/02 (SmartSource newspaper insert from January 2nd)
(4) -$2.25 off Finish 20 ct +, SS 1/02 (SmartSource newspaper insert from January 2nd)
$1 off Lysol Neutra Air Aerosol Sanitizing spray printable
$4 off Air Wick Freshmatic Ultra starter kit, SS 1/02 (SmartSource newspaper insert from January 2nd) or printable or printable
$4 off Air Wick Freshmatic Ultra starter kit, SS 1/02 (SmartSource newspaper insert from January 2nd) or printable or printable
Total Due: $6 (adjusted for the prices at my store; it’ll be more if the AirWick Freshmatic Kit is pricier at your CVS)
Get Back: $10 ExtraBucks, you make $4 profit!!
Get Back: $10 ExtraBucks, you make $4 profit!!
For this transaction, I also did the following deal to use up the full amount of the $7.50 ExtraBucks coupon. (For those new to CVS couponing, the value of each ExtraBuck ‘coupon’ has to be used at one time. It’s best to spend a teeny bit over the amount of the ExtraBuck so you’re not wasting its value)
$1.59 ExtraBucks when you buy Reese’s Minis/Hershey’s Drops $1.59 LIMIT 1 (makes it FREE)
So, with $14 in coupons, $7.50 in ExtraBucks, and $18.94 in sale price savings, I paid $1 out of pocket for all the stuff in the photo. (I took the AirWick starter kit out of its package so I could use it right away.)
AND, I walked out with two ExtraBucks coupons, one for $10 and one for $1.59.
Even if you do just the Airwick/Finish/Lysol deal without starting off with ExtraBucks, you pay $6 out of pocket and walk out with $10 in ExtraBucks. That’s a cool $4 you could use to buy something else you need, or use it to do another CVS deal.
Happy savings,
Erin
Erin was one of the winners of the Orlando Sentinel’s Super Saver contest this past fall. She’s the blogger behind AfewofMommysFavoriteThings, and writes websites about toys, parenting, recipes and other stuff that helps make busy families’ lives easier and more enjoyable.
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