Monday, February 7, 2011

Walgreens Trip

This is my Walgreens trip today. I just want to show what you can do at the stores that give you reward bucks back. With one single investment of  $14 you can just keep turning it over to get free items. First buy products that will give you the full price back in reward bucks. Example: Hand Sanitizer $3.99 and you get $3.99 back in reward bucks. Get around $10-20 dollars for your investment. The next weekend use those reward bucks on items that will give you full value of reward bucks back. Then so on and so on.

SO, I had $14 in Register Rewards (RR) from Walgreens from last week. So this week I tried my best to match it up to get about the same back. There was only one item this week that you can get full price back in RR, so I had to make do. Here is what I got:


Total out of pocket $2.62 not bad! PLUS I have $10.99 in RR for next week!

Here is how it breaks down:

Hand Sanitizer: $3.99 = $3.99 in RR
Lysol Soap System: $11.99 and I used a $3 off coupon = $8.99 Got $7 in RR
Charmin Toilet Paper 6 Mega Rolls: $3.49 used in ad coupon to pay only $2.99 then I used a manufacture coupon for .25 cents off that = $2.74
I had to add 2 candies so I could use all my coupons .35 cents each = .70

This totals to $16.42 add tax for a total of $16.62
Then I used my $14 RR to pay for this so my total out of pocket ended up being $2.62!! Not bad!

The total before coupons would have $19.75!

Important to know about Walgreens: You can use a manufacture coupon on top of an in-ad coupon. You also have to have as many products as you do coupons. That's why I had to add the two .35 candies. I'm pretty sure there are pencils you can get for .10 near the card section for a better deal.

4 comments:

Michelle @ Crafts and Crap said...

Hi! I'm Michelle and I guest posted over at Miller Happily After. I saw your kind comment about my projects (paint chip mosaic, etched glass, and apple hand sanitizer). I would love for you to come check out my blog directly :) Thanks so much.

p.s. Your blog is really cute and you have lots of great savings to share!

Jenny said...

Thanks so much for stopping by! I just LOVE your tutorials!! I can't seem to get your blog to load. Do you have a direct link?

Gwen said...

I just wish that we had a Walgreens near us.

Jenny said...

You can do this at CVS and Rite Aid to. I find CVS is actually better than all of them. They are so nice and actually try to help you get deals like this. At Walgreens they always seemed annoyed with me! LOL!

CVS it's called Extra Care Bucks, they usually have better deals than Walgreens.

Rite Aid it's calle Up Rewards. Ours is about 30 minutes away, so I haven't tried them out yet. I hear their rebate check program is great to though!