Walgreens: From 0 to $17 in RRs!
Unlike my trip to CVS, I had lots of success at Walgreens. I came in without any RRs at all (due to doing the Clean Out the Cupboards Challenge in January), and left with $17 in hand and a lot of products to boot! (Get it? "Boot"?)
I found out something important for doing Walgreens deals. I already knew that Walgreens will only take one manufacturer's coupon per item, and that RRs count as manufacturer's coupons. What I didn't know was that if you have a $1/2 coupon, it counts as two coupons. So I had to make a quick change to my plans, which ended up costing me 40¢ more.
Here were my transactions:
Transactions #1 and #2 (identical transactions):
Buy 1 Natrol Melatonin (100 ct) at $3 (receive $3 RR)
$2/1 coupon from the 10/10 RedPlum insert
Total cost: $1.00
Get $3.00 RR
(total $2 cost, $6 in RRs)
Transaction #3:
Buy 4 Vicks Sinex at $5 (receive $10 RR)
Buy 2 Butterfinger Snackerz at 39¢ (with in-ad coupon)
Buy 1 Royal gelatin at 20¢ (with in-ad coupon)
Use 4 $4/1 Sinex coupons from the 12/26 P&G insert (expires 1/31/11)
Use 1 $1/2 Butterfinger Snackerz coupon from Coupons.com
Pay with $3 RR from Transaction #1
Total cost $1.03 (98¢ product and 5¢ tax)
Get $10 RR
Transaction #4
Buy 1 Arnicare gel @ $5.99 (receive $6 RR)
Buy 1 Blink Tears @ $7.99 (receive $8 RR)
Buy 2 Butterfinger Snackerz at 39¢ (with in-ad coupon)
Buy 1 Royal gelatin at 20¢ (with in-ad coupon)
Use $2/1 Arnicare printable coupon
Use $1/1 Blink Tears coupon from 1/2 SmartSource insert
Use 1 $1/2 Butterfinger Snackerz coupon from Coupons.com
Pay with $10 RR from Transaction #3
Total cost: $1.02 (96¢ product and 5¢ tax)
Receive $14 RR
Total RRs received: $3 RR from Transaction #2 and $14 from Transaction #4 = $17 in RRs!
My status for the Walgreens Drugstore Bootstrap Challenge:
Total cash paid: $3.94
Total tax paid: 10¢
RRs on hand: $17
Products purchased:
2 Natrol melatonin
4 Vicks Sinex
4 Butterfinger Snackerz
2 Royal gelatin
1 Arnicare gel
1 Blink Tears
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2 comments:
That's excellent! Unfortunately I don't get the Red Plum or P&G in my area. I want to do some deals like you did (money wise with the results you did) but I'll have to see what I can do with what I have. So far it's still too much out of pocket.
I did my walgreens challenge oop $6.50 RR received $5.00 Details on my blog. I also linked up to $5.00 Walgreens challenge at Kingdom First Mom
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