CVS Trip

I hit CVS without children yesterday and had a good time poking around and seeing how much I couldn’t spend!

First, I got a prescription filled, a new one so I got to use an “ECB” to get a $25 gift card for filling it.  This was nice to have because I just used the rest of the last one last week.  FYI… I was filling my Chantix (stop smoking drug) and I knew it was going to be $40 but I had a discount card from my doctor and I called Chantix to activate it and it came out to $15.  That was a nice surprise.  I thought it would only take off $10 but maybe my co-pay for Chantix isn’t as high as normal name brand medication because of it making you healthier, I don’t know.  Regardless, it was $15 and I got a $25 gift card. 

Next, I used my mother in law’s CVS card at the coupon scanner and got $3 off “As Seen on TV” product and $3 off $10 grocery purchase.  The first place I headed was the grocery aisles.  They had a deal going on cereal but I already have way too much cereal (even after taking five boxes to the beach house), but they did have a two pack of Cheez-Its for $5.99 and on the package it said I would get back $3 in ECBs.  Not a bad deal.  Then, I noticed peanut butter was on sale and we’re about out at my house so I got two jars of Skippy ($2 each) so that brings my grocery total to $9.99.  I knew that was close enough.

Then, I perused the as seen on TV products and found Aqua Globes priced at $2.99… cha-ching!  FREEBIE!  I will use these for Christmas presents.  I also went down the clearance aisle and they had a little Tinkerbell figurine (and when I say little I mean teensy tiny) with her little animal for .47.  I went ahead and got this too for a stocking stuffer for Christmas.  I also saw they had all kinds of cooler stuff on sale for 75% off so I found one that would work GREAT for me for lunch.  It is on the bigger side of lunch box coolers, is a flexible one, made to fit a six pack easily, the top zips up and has plenty of room for all kinds of Tupperware containers.  I am happy to report that I got this for $1.99!!!!  I also got a $1 pack of dum dums as a filler because I knew I was paying with ECBs.  All in all my total was $10.90 and I used (2) $5 ECBs to pay for it, so .90 OOP and got back $3 ECBs for the Cheez Its.

I remembered that I didn’t scan my CVS card, so I went to the scanner and scanned my card.  I got the $3 off As Seen on TV product and $3 off $10 grocery purchase.  I got the double pack of Cheez Its, (2) jars Skippy Peanut butter and another pack of Aqua Globes.  My total was $7.21 and I used the gift card to pay for it.  I also got back another $3 ECB.

All in all .90 OOP for everything.  I’m really excited about that.  I went back today on break and scanned my card hoping to get another $3 As Seen on TV product, but I didn’t.  I got .75 off King size candy… limited to certain kinds, so I got peanut M&M’s for .25!