CVS Shopping Trip

I am having a great time purchasing items we need for our household regularly at 80% or 90% or more off. After so many years of spending cash for toothbrushes, it is great fun to take full advantage of manufacturer coupons and store sales and bring them home for little or no cash out of pocket expense.

I learned how to shop this way by studying blogs of ladies who pay very little cash out of pocket for their merchandise. These ladies took the time to post their transactions online. So, I am posting these tranactions so other people can learn to shop this way, too.

I stopped in CVS today to pick up some toothbrushes and some candy.

transaction 1

$ 2.50 Hershey candy, York pieces
$ 2.50 Hershey candy, York pieces
$ 2.50 Hershey candy, Almond Joy pieces
$ 2.50 Hershey candy, cookins 'n' creme drops
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$10.00

- 2.00 CVS coupon $2 off $10 candy purchase, printed from red price scanner at CVS, previous week
- 2.00 manufacturer coupon Hershey $2 off 2 from 5/1/2011 Smart Source coupon insert
- 2.00 manufacturer coupon Hershey $2 off 2 from 5/1/2011 Smart Source coupon insert
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$ 4.00 plus sales tax paid with $3.99 extra care bucks, $0.01 cash

- 3.00 received back $3 extra care bucks for purchasing $10 worth of selected candy
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$ 1.00

transaction 2

$ 1.99 Oral B indicator tooth brush
$ 1.99 Oral B indicator tooth brush
$ 0.50 M & Ms
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$ 4.48

- 1.50 manufacturer coupon Oral B $1.50 off 2 toothbrushes May Proctor & Gamble coupon insert
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$ 2.98 paid with $3 extra care bucks

- 2.00 received back $2 extra care bucks, Oral B
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$ 0.98 plus sales tax