Drugstore Bootstrap Challenge: A much better week
This week was so, so, so much better than last week - everything went according to plan. I only paid $1.44 for products at Walgreens (not including tax), and 57¢ for products at CVS (again not including tax). I was able to increase my holdings of ECBs at CVS, though the amount of RRs from Walgreens I have has gone down a bit.
Here's my latest stats:
Walgreens:
Total cash paid: $21.62
Total tax paid: $2.32
RRs started with: $0
RRs on hand: $23
Products purchased:
2 Natrol melatonin
4 Vicks Sinex
4 Butterfinger Snackerz
2 Royal gelatin
1 Arnicare gel
1 Blink Tears
5 Gain dish liquid
4 Skippy peanut butter
2 Ragu pasta sauce
3 Lipton tea
1 Veripur hand sanitizer
2 Crest Pro-Health toothpaste
2 Reach Total Care toothbrushes
1 Lysol Healthy Touch No-Touch soap system
3 greeting cards
CVS:
Total cash paid: $15.29
Total tax paid: $2.32
ECBs started with: $4.99
ECBs on hand: $16.58
Total items purchased:
6 Herbal Essences shampoo
3 Rice Chex cereal
2 Quaker instant oatmeal
2 Speed stick deodorant
1 Tums
2 Colgate Total toothpaste
1 Schick Hydro 3 razor
How are you doing on the Drugstore Bootstrap Challenge? Leave a comment below!
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4 comments:
I'm having trouble trying to figure out what I can get at Walgreen's....not spend too much money, but still come home with RR's.
Marsha,I find it difficult to do at Walgreen's also. What I would do is just focus on those items that are free after RR's. If you can find coupons for those items as well, then you've actually made money!
I have an hour for lunch, and all 3 drugstores are within close proximity, so I tend to gather info in the beginning of week, and then take one store on one lunch hour and see what I can accomplish. Sometimes I save Rite Aid for Saturdays, because it takes me longer and there is one very near my house. So all I have done this week so far is: Bought 4 Arm & Hammer deodorant at Wags (on sale for .99 w/ coupon) but I didn't use my $6 RR because that's all I was buying and didn't want to lose the $2 (there was a limit of 4.) At CVS, I used the $8 ECB's that I got last week (for free shopping) on the 2 tubes of Colgate Sensitive toothpaste along with 2 coupons totalling $1.35. So I walked out of the store with free toothpaste, a bag of Hershey's valentine kisses, also free and $7.98 in ECB's.
And I have $13 in +UP rewards burning a hole in my pocket for Rite Aid.
You will not believe I lost the $11 +UP rewards I got from Rite Aid all on one receipt. Never lost my drugstore credit before, how strange. Oh well, no use crying over spilt milk.
@Debi - could you call Rite Aid's 800 number and see if anything could be done about that?
@Marsha - I agree, Walgreens hasn't had that many good deals the last couple of weeks.
@Cathie - good advice!
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