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Archive for April 16th, 2008

I love CVS! While the above picture doesn’t look like much, I paid only $2.05 for what you see plus one more Cadbury bar that didn’t make it home to be in the photo! =) Even more impressive than paying $2.05 is the savings of $24.90 and the $11.97 ECBs I have to use next time! So how did I do it?

First, I did everything in one transaction because the ECBs I had to use were $9.98 and $3.

The CVS Tylenol was $3.99 (orig. $4.49 each) x 3 = $11.97
Cadbury bars were 88 cents (orig. $1.59 each) x 2 = $1.76
The Airwick Mini Starter was $4.99 (orig. $9.99) = $4.99
Total before coupons = $18.74 (orig. $26.26)
Coupons = $4 off Airwick starter, $9.98 ECB, and $3 ECB
Total paid oop = $2.05
ECBs earned = $3.99 per Tylenol for $11.97 total

The Cadbury bars weren’t entirely necessary but I’ve been promising my husband for two weeks that the next time we went to CVS, I’d buy him some chocolate (simply because I refuse to pay for it anywhere else). Plus I wanted to make sure my total was enough to use both ECBs. Without the Cadbury bars, my total before the $3 ECBs would’ve been $2.98. The CVS I was at isn’t my favorite, and I’m sure that I could’ve found chocolate of some sort with ECBs but this CVS marks hardly anything with the little tags. It took me forever to find the CVS Tylenol because the shelf wasn’t marked.

I really wanted to buy 5 CVS Tylenol, but they only had 3 on the shelf (once I found it). My DH takes 4000 mg a day of Tylenol so free Tylenol was a really awesome deal for us! I also wanted to do an Essence of Beauty deal, but I ran out of time and really didn’t need toe separators. =)

And to add sweetness to life, in Wednesday’s mail I received CVS coupons for Hershey products! This is apparently another benefit of doing that Hershey’s deal I had no idea that I did until I received my $5 gift card in the mail! =) Now I’m just waiting for my May issue of Good Housekeeping to show up with the CVS coupons in it.

Read about my 2nd trip to CVS this week here.