CVS ECB deals - Sales for Week 6/24-6/30

[DisneyFreq]

Okay..I think I've finally cracked the "code" on the YTD spending/savings. The numbers are correct. EGADS! I spent $350 in 9 weeks!

The summer quarter started with all reciepts dated 6/20 or later (well they do for me...that was the first date I made a trip that week..so for some of you your totals may begin with 6/17.

My total is 1.95 to date for the summer quarter:

0.47 oop 6/20
0.79 oop 6/21 trip#1
0.00 oop 6/21 trip #2
0.69 oop 6/21 trip #3

They calculate your total spent after discounts, coupons, and ECBs BUT also after Tax...which may make some sense as to why totals aren't matching up on some of your homemade excel sheets. The confusing part about these totals is they don't update them but once a week.

I'm determined to do better for the summer quarter than I did in spring (Hey! I was still learning). I still can't believe I spent SO MUCH money. I could use the $350 for a lot of other things. But I did get many needed items along with my stockpile items. So I shouldn't complain. I could have easily spent that much on household goods during the 2 months.

According to my spreadsheet so far, for summer, I have:
Total Cost 400.34
Total Spent 13.34
Total Savings 387
Savings Percentage 96.67%
Quantity Purchased 126

This is in 6 trips. Not bad.
If anyone wants my spreadsheet (fx already plugged in) to modify for personal use, PM me your email and you can have it!

I have a column for "clipfree savings" (discounts for sale prices, found at the bottom of your reciept), Coupons (manufactures), and CRT (total of Cvs email coupons, CRTs and ECB's USED). I don't have a place for Ecb's generated b/c their value is worked in under CRT when I actually "cash" it in. I hope that makes sense.

 

[sarahlovesmickey]

I have been itching to go to CVS today but have not mapped out my plan at all!!!!!!!!!! Any ideas??? Cereal maybe???

 

[floridafam]

I went to Walgreens on my way to CVS today and picked up a few things.

They had Dove Nourishing Hand Wash on clearance for 2.19. It rang up as 1.59 at the register and I had (2) $1.00 off coupons from a few weeks ago. I bought two at .59 each.

They also had the Huggies Cleanteam products on clearance for 2.39. I also had (2) $1.00 off coupons so I bought 2 at .1.39 each.

I also had a coupon for a $2.00 off any Huggies Bath and Body procuct with a Huggies Wipe purchase. Wipes were 3.49. Huggies Bath Wash was on clearance for $2.00. I had a $1.00 off wipes coupon so I got both items for 2.49.

I purchased 1 kids toothbrush from the clearance section at $1.49 and I had a $1.00 off coupon so that was .49

They have Hefty trash bags (the Ultra Flex kind) on sale at 2 for $10 or $11. I bought 1 box and had a $1.00 off coupon. I bought the 38 count box.

I also splurged on a coupon holder to hold all of my coupons since I keep dropping them.

We never made it to CVS because DD didn't feel well and I decided just to go home. I wanted to go back for 4 more Colgate toothpastes after talking to corporate this morning but I don't absolutely need the toothpaste this morning so I decided to wait.

Corporate told me that all managers have been instructed to issue gift cards in the amount of the ECB's if you buy the toothpaste.

 

[grumpy28]

Has anyone tried to buy any Colgate today, and received the correct ecb's? I am hoping it is fixed, b/c I want to go and get that great deal!

 

[sarahlovesmickey]

I am heading there in a little while hopefully if they will let me out of my prison, oops, I mean cubicle!! LOL

 

[grumpy28]

Do you have a game plan? I have been looking at this ad, and just blankly staring - is there some great deal (minus the tp) that I am just not seeing??

 

[It's A Happy Day]

Not a lot of deals for me this week either. I have done the Hersheys, Pain reliever (see below), and cereal this week. I have rainchecks for the Kashi cereal so those are free fillers for me with the $2.00 printables I have. Gum is another free filler at $1 with $1 coupons. And I still have plenty of J&J coupons that I can use as well.

I got the Ascensia monitor & Pain reliever (tylenol/motrin) in 1 deal:

9.99 - Monitor
11.00 - Tylenol or Motrin (I did 1 card w/Tylenol and 1 w/Motrin)
20.99 Total
-4/20
-2 (1.00)
-12 ECB's

2.99 OOP and I got back $5 & $9.99.

So ECB's + cash spent = 14.99
ECB's back to spend = 14.99

FREE TYLENOL or MOTRIN for the kiddos!!! I only got the 2.50 on pain reliever on 1 card so I profited $2.50 on 1 card while breaking even on card #2

You could also use the glucose monitor to boost your total for other ECB deals to take advantage of the $4/20 - Hershey bars & glucose monitor your already at $15 so you would need another 5 - plenty of clearance medicine right now to boost totals too. If you have sucrets, sudacare, dimetapp, blistex coupons and alot of clearanced makeup you can use those items to boost you to the coupon level and pay cents for them.

 

[FirstTimertoDiz]

This week the ad states you get one box of bars free with purchase of the shakes. The shakes run like $10.99 so:

10.99 Shakes
6.49 Bars (i think)
---------------
-6.49 Free bars w/card
-10.00 Q for shakes
-1.25 Q for bars

-0.25 in overage. I know you can't get overage at CVS but I think it will work in the case of "free" items.

Add 9.01 worth of product and you can use the $4/20. Do this twice and you've not only gotten it all free but added 21.98 to your weightloss deal...over half way to a $10 ECB!!!!!

Question on this one- can you actually use a manuf Q for the bars since they are "free" to begin with? I am wondering because when I got my monitor last week, the cashier price adjusted the Q to 19.99 because they couldn't give me 20.00 discount on something that only cost 19.99. So I can only imagine what they will say for something that is free.

 

[It's A Happy Day]

I have been itching to go to CVS today but have not mapped out my plan at all!!!!!!!!!! Any ideas??? Cereal maybe???

Do you have any cereal Q's??? I ended up getting it last night with the tylenol deal on 1 of my cards (did the other Tylenol deal on card 2 above) and paid for 1 box of cereal and got 5 more free!!! I posted that last night though. I have to really go through the ad again because I don't think there is much more for me this week unless I get my hands on some more med coupons and want to do another clearance run.

 

[It's A Happy Day]

Question on this one- can you actually use a manuf Q for the bars since they are "free" to begin with? I am wondering because when I got my monitor last week, the cashier price adjusted the Q to 19.99 because they couldn't give me 20.00 discount on something that only cost 19.99. So I can only imagine what they will say for something that is free.

You are allowed to use 1 mfg coupon & 1 cvs coupon PER ITEM even when the 2nd item is FREE so the computer should accept the coupon w/o a problem. Just make sure that you have other things to soak up any overage. See my cereal deal on previous page (I think):

6 boxes of cereal
3 free from B1G1 free sale
2 free from MY mfg coupons that state B2G1 Free
= paid for 1 box of cereal!

The computer accepted it without a hassle and clerk didn't blink an
eye

 

[FirstTimertoDiz]

Hmm, interesting- maybe I will give it a shot! I can combine the glucerna with the meds, and use my 4/20....hmm, I am a newbie, but I may have a great deal in the works for this one, lol. Thanks for the quick reply!

 

[mommyoftwinfants]

yes you can use the coupons because the items actuall ring up regular price but in the end it will give you a CVS coupon for the amount of the free one. When I got the oreos for b1g1 they came up 4.19 each but on the bottom of my reciept it said CVS coupon 4.19.

 

[grumpy28]

Not a lot of deals for me this week either. I have done the Hersheys, Pain reliever (see below), and cereal this week. I have rainchecks for the Kashi cereal so those are free fillers for me with the $2.00 printables I have. Gum is another free filler at $1 with $1 coupons. And I still have plenty of J&J coupons that I can use as well.

I got the Ascensia monitor & Pain reliever (tylenol/motrin) in 1 deal:

9.99 - Monitor
11.00 - Tylenol or Motrin (I did 1 card w/Tylenol and 1 w/Motrin)
20.99 Total
-4/20
-2 (1.00)
-12 ECB's

2.99 OOP and I got back $5 & $9.99.

So ECB's + cash spent = 14.99
ECB's back to spend = 14.99

FREE TYLENOL or MOTRIN for the kiddos!!! I only got the 2.50 on pain reliever on 1 card so I profited $2.50 on 1 card while breaking even on card #2

You could also use the glucose monitor to boost your total for other ECB deals to take advantage of the $4/20 - Hershey bars & glucose monitor your already at $15 so you would need another 5 - plenty of clearance medicine right now to boost totals too. If you have sucrets, sudacare, dimetapp, blistex coupons and alot of clearanced makeup you can use those items to boost you to the coupon level and pay cents for them.

Thanks for the suggestion! I may just have to "steal" that combo!

 

[It's A Happy Day]

I wanted to give everyone a heads up! My CVS stores have been installing blinkie machines I found 1 for the Rolaids that are part of the Meds Deal for this week! It is for 1.00 off certain Rolaids products including the 3 pack pictured in the ad (checked price in store & I believe they are 2.49 B4 coupon).

If you aren't buying the tylenol, motrin products there are $3 mylanta printables out as well http://mylanta.com/

So many combinations to make this deal work for free or profit after ECB!!! If you purchase 2 mylanta with 2 Q's = 5+5-6(2Q's)=4 with $5 back so profit w/o using any other products, 4/20, etc. If you have a 2/10 then you would make another 2 on just those products!

 

[DisneyFreq]

I noticed the rolaids blinkie too. I just figured I wasn't paying attention before. Lol..I can be blind like that.

On an offhand note: I plan to do a one night stay in Tampa in August (pre-cruise) so we can do a day at busch gardens (we have fun cards from our last trip..pay for one day get in the rest of the year for free!). Just found out that La Quinta offers a 10% discount off their best room rate with a Sams membership! Just type "SAMS" into the discount code box! (Must show your sams card at check-in). So for a 2.5 star hotel across the street from the park (free continental breakfast), my bill is $58.65 + tax.

If you've ever stayed in tampa the hotel prices are RIDICOULOUS. I think its one of the few cities where supply barely meets demand so they can afford to charge alot more than cities like Orlando.

 

[mommyoftwinfants]

Forgot to say that I went to 2 different CVS saturday and they had red SmartSource signs everywhere but they were just the red signs no coupons or anything that would actually hold coupons in them.... kinda weird. I wonder if they just don't want to put the coupons out. I am wondering whey smartsourse would have the signs out but no coupons.

 

[It's A Happy Day]

Forgot to say that I went to 2 different CVS saturday and they had red SmartSource signs everywhere but they were just the red signs no coupons or anything that would actually hold coupons in them.... kinda weird. I wonder if they just don't want to put the coupons out. I am wondering whey smartsourse would have the signs out but no coupons.

They might have just not installed them yet. I saw those for a couple weeks until this past week when I started to see the blinkie machines. Don't tell me CVS (corporate not the employees ) don't like us using coupons! They wouldn't be installed those machines or putting out the coupons if they weren't making a profit!

 

[grumpy28]

Thanks to you CVS pros, I have 2 "orders" mapped out. Would it look suspicious/weird/wrong, if I used a $4/20 for both orders (one right after the other). TIA

 

[maggiew]

Thanks to you CVS pros, I have 2 "orders" mapped out. Would it look suspicious/weird/wrong, if I used a $4/20 for both orders (one right after the other). TIA

I personally do not do that. But then my store is very strict and would quickly point out the "one per person" or whatever it says on there (I don't have one in front of me.) I have branched out to a few more stores that are by my work and they seem more liberal in their coupon policies. I just spread my deals out among 3 or 4 stores during the week.

Maggie

 

[maggiew]

They might have just not installed them yet. I saw those for a couple weeks until this past week when I started to see the blinkie machines. Don't tell me CVS (corporate not the employees ) don't like us using coupons! They wouldn't be installed those machines or putting out the coupons if they weren't making a profit!

I saw the blinkies this week too. I think there is one for Zest soap.

Maggie