Step 1: Buy a $25 CVS gift card. (This helps you to see how much of your initial investment money you've spent.) Tip: If you have to actually buy your $25 gift card, buy it from somewhere that gives you rewards for your purchase (your local grocery store perhaps, Upromise, MyPoints). (I'm a member of MyPoints which allows you to earn pts. for looking at advertisements, among other things. It's slow going, but it doesn't cost me any money. I look at one or two a day and wait for my pts. to accumulate. When I have enough I can redeem them for gift cards. So, to jump start my CVS shopping I redeemed some of my pts. for a $25 gift card.)
Step 2: Get a CVS ExtraCare card (ask for one in the store) and a CVS Green Bag Tag. The tags cost about $1. Hook that tag around any reusable shopping bag (it can even be a plastic CVS bag from a previous purchase) and remember to take it with you to CVS. Every time you go in and make a purchase be sure to have the cashier scan your tag. (Your card will only record 1 scan per day.) You will earn $1 ECB every 4th time the tag is scanned. : ) (Your Green Bag Tag can be used with any CVS ExtraCare card. So the next time you go CVS shopping with a friend, let them use your tag too. Both your card and your friend's card will record one scan.)
Step 3: Clip/gather your coupons and get ready to go shopping. If this is your first trip to CVS you will not have the ECBs to pay for purchase #1. That's okay. This is where you will want to use your $25 gift card to pay for your purchases.
Note: CVS will not accept any internet coupon with a barcode that does NOT scan.
WEEKLY PURCHASES
Day 1 / Purchase #1
1 Listerine Zero (also Listerine Total Care or Advanced - if using alt. coupons) (pg. 12) 16.9 oz. $3.99/1
- $2/1 Listerine Zero Printable = $1.99/1 OOP
[or $1/1 Listerine Total Care Mouthwash, exp. 12-31 (SS 8/1/10)]
[or $1/1 Listerine Total Care Mouthwash, exp. 12-31-10 (RP 03/07/10)]
- $2 ECB wyb 1 (Limit 2) = MAKE $0.01
(NOTE: Listerine Cinnamint Total Care may be on clearance $2.49/1 - $1/1 MFC = $1.49/1 OOP Earn $2 ECB - they print! = MAKE $0.51) **Remember that your OOP will be different, so you'll have to refigure.**
(NOTE: Listerine Citrus may also be on clearance (500 ml) $1.24/1 - $1/1 MFC = $0.24/1 OOP Earn $2 ECB = MAKE $1.76) **Remember that your OOP will be different, so you'll have to refigure.**
1 Blink Tears Eye Drops (pg. 15) 0.5 oz. $7.99/1
(*This is a different one from last week.*)
- $1.50/1 Blink Tears Lubricating Eye Drops Printable = $6.49/1 OOP
[or $4/1 Blink Tears (peelies from Blink at Wags and RA)]
[or $1/1 Blink Tears or Gel Tears Eye Drops, exp. 9-30 (RP 8/15/10)]
- $7.99 ECB (Limit 1) = MAKE $1.50
1 Clinical Gum Protection Toothpaste (pg. 16) 4 oz. (or Glide Clinical Protection Floss 38.2 yd.) $3.49/1
(*Same items as last week, but they have a different offer number. So you can get 2 more!*)
- $1/1 Crest Toothpaste or Liquid Gel, exp. 8-31-10 (P&G 08/01/10) = $2.49/1 OOP
[or $1/1 Glide Floss, exp. 8-31-10 (P&G 08/01/10)]
- $2.50 ECB (Limit - seems to be around 5? - for sure more than 3) = MAKE $0.01
2 BIC Wite Out (pg. )B1G1 $2.29/1 = $2.29/2
- $1/2 Bic Stationery Product, exp. 9-30-10 (SS 08/01/10; Printable) = $1.29/2 ($0.65/1)
2 Mentos (pg. 4) B1G1 ($1.79/1) = $1.79/2
- 2 $0.80/1 Mentos Sugar-Free Gum Bottles, exp. 9-30-10 (SS 07/18/10) = $0.19/2
[or $1/2 Mentos Gum, exp. 9-30-10 (SS 07/18/10)]
(OR instead of BIC and Mentos - 3 Hershey's Singles (pg. 1) $1/2 = $1.50/3)
Total before coupons = $19.55 + tax (??)
- $7.10 (in MFC)
- $2 ECB (Purex) and $7.99 ECB (Blink) and $2.50 ECB (Crest) from last week (Purchase #2)
Total OOP $0 + tax
(Remember to scan Green Bag Tag! - Scan #3) (Scan #1 and #2 done last week.)
Earn $2 ECB for Listerine
Earn $7.99 ECB for Blink
Earn $2.50 ECB for Crest
(NOTE: This purchase is over $15, so if you recieved a CVS coupon for $5/$15 you can use it now and get $5 worth of anything you want FREE. If you are going to use a $5/$15 coupon, you could also leave off everything in light blue - BIC and Mentos - and you'd have $6.52 of FREE stuff to pick up. Of course, you could use any $/$$ coupon, you'd just need to add enough to reach that minimum amount.)
Day 2 / Purchase #2
1 Listerine Zero (also Listerine Total Care or Advanced - if using alt. coupons) (pg. 12) 16.9 oz. $3.99/1
- $2/1 Listerine Zero Printable = $1.99/1 OOP
[or $1/1 Listerine Total Care Mouthwash, exp. 12-31 (SS 8/1/10)]
[or $1/1 Listerine Total Care Mouthwash, exp. 12-31-10 (RP 03/07/10)]
- $2 ECB wyb 1 (Limit 2) = MAKE $0.01
(NOTE: Listerine Cinnamint Total Care may be on clearance $2.49/1 - $1/1 MFC = $1.49/1 OOP Earn $2 ECB - they print! = MAKE $0.51) **Remember that your OOP will be different, so you'll have to refigure.**
(NOTE: Listerine Citrus may also be on clearance (500 ml) $1.24/1 - $1/1 MFC = $0.24/1 OOP Earn $2 ECB = MAKE $1.76) **Remember that your OOP will be different, so you'll have to refigure.**
2 Clinical Gum Protection Toothpaste (pg. 16) 4 oz. (or Glide Clinical Protection Floss 38.2 yd.) $3.49/1 = $6.98/2
(*Same items as last week, but they have a different offer number. So you can get 2 more!*)
- 2 $1/1 Crest Toothpaste or Liquid Gel, exp. 8-31-10 (P&G 08/01/10) = $4.98/2 OOP
[or $1/1 Glide Floss, exp. 8-31-10 (P&G 08/01/10)]
- $2.50 ECB (Limit - seems to be around 5? - for sure more than 3) = MAKE $0.01
Total before coupons = $10.97 + tax (??)
- $4 (in MFC)
- $7 ECB (Zegerid) from last week (Purchase #1)
Total OOP $0 + tax
(Remember to scan Green Bag Tag! - Scan #4)
Earn $2 ECB for Listerine
Earn $2.50 ECB for Crest
Earn $2.50 ECB for Crest
Earn $1 ECB for Green Bag Tag
So, I'll end the week with (2) $2 ECBs for Listerine, (1) $7.99 ECB for Blink, (3) $2.50 ECB for Crest, (1) ECB for Green Bag Tag. I'll have paid nothing OOP (ie. not used my gift card).
Keep saving those SoBe coupons! The B1G1 deal will be back on 9/5/10 to 9/11/10.
2 Sobe Water B1G1 = $1.69/2 ?
-B1G1 free coupon Printable (play the game) = FREE
(Remember that a B1G1 coupon with a B1G1 sale = 2 FREE)
(You can play the game once per day. Then print each coupon twice! If you play every day, you should be able to earn enough B1G1 coupons for a lot of FREE SoBe's!)
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