Economic Endeavors

** Never played the CVS game?? Wondering how I got all the stuff below for less than $2? Read my Beginners Guide to CVS to find out everything you need to know. It's easy, it's fun, it's ridiculously cheap, and you can do it too!


I didn't get to CVS this week until today, so I had a lot of shopping to do! This was all purchased in 5 transactions. 3 on my husband's card and 2 on mine. You can see my base scenarios here (reworked a bit at the store because they were out of the Powerade).

It was not a good day at CVS at all. The little Olay Ribbons lotions were marked $5.99, but rang up $2.50 on clearance and didn't count for the $10 ECBs because of it. So that completely messed me up. So to get me to my $20, I went back and bought the night cream for $5.99 without a coupon (gasp!) and got back $10, but I still burned more ECBs than I wanted to. Oh well. I spent less than $2 oop for everything up there, so it's hard to not be happy about that!

(By the way... I got a raincheck for the first time at CVS and have a question. My raincheck is for the Powerade. I have 8 $0.75/1 coupons, so I asked her to write it for buy 4 and get 4 free. Then I got to thinking that they'll have to take off 4 of them manually, so I'm wondering if they'll take my coupons on the free ones. Has anyone done this before?)

*To see more CVS savings, visit The Centsible Sawyer and Money Saving Mom!

**Edit: Well, folks, it seems like Diapers.com caught on to this deal being a little too good, and changed the requirements to $10 off an order of $49 or more. Both my order and my sister's order have already shipped, so I'm fairly confident that those of us who ordered before the rules changed will receive our orders! Sorry to those of you who didn't get in on this while it was free!
Let us know if any of you are still able to use the $10 off any order amount.


Right now, when you use the code TIML3045 at Diapers.com, it will take $10 off of your order. That $10 carries over to shipping, which is $4.99. Buy a purchase for $5 or less, use the code, and it will take off the price of your item and shipping, leaving you with a balance of zero!
I didn't even have to enter a credit card at all when I placed my order!

There are many items available that cost less than $5. I found wipes, pacifiers, toys, and training pants. Leave me a comment and let me know what you decided to order!

Click here to send a friend (and yourself!) a coupon for a free cookie-on-a-stick from Cookies by Design!

I had never heard of Cookies by Design before, but I looked them up on their store locator, and sure enough, there's one not too far from my home!

It's Thursday again, so I've been waiting and hoping that I'd get an email from CVS with at least one new coupon.

And guess what? I got 3 new coupons! Here's what I got:

• a $3/$15
• a $4/$20
• a $4 off Playskool diapers

They all expire 7/13. I keep checking my husbands email, but so far nothing for him. Maybe we missed out on coupons for his card this time.

I'm hearing reports that additional coupons you may receive are:

• $5/$30
• $2 off Purina Beggin Strips
• $1 off Loreal Anti-Wrinkle Concentrate
• $4 off Loreal Radiance Perfector
  
• $1 off Off Insect Repellent
• $5 off Nature Made Rx Essentials vitamins

What did you get? Anything not listed here? Leave me a comment and let us know!