Sunday Savings 1/3/10

This week was fairly low key at the drugstores but the inserts in the paper were terrific! There were five inserts this week; two Smart Source, two Red Plum and one General Mills. I bought TEN papers! That is the most I've ever bought but I couldn't resist.
AND, I have ALREADY realized that I doubled my investment with ONE coupon! The papers were $1.25 each and in one of the Smart Sources is a coupon for $2.50 off of Electrosol Dishwasher Gel Tablets! (I will explain later how I used these to get them for FREE!)

So, my first stop was CVS where I intended on buying GE Light bulbs priced at $2.99 and using a $1.50/1 printable coupon from the Target website. This deal included a $2 ECB (Extra Care Buck) that I could spend on my next purchase which made the light bulb FREE.
I had also intended to buy two Rubbermaid containers as they were B1G1 for $1.99 and then use two $1/1 coupons from the 1/3 SS insert but I could not find ANY containers and there seemed to be no one working.
I also picked up a Soft Soap hand soap for the bathroom it was on sale for $.99 and I had a $.40 coupon.
All in all not a great shopping trip...

On to Walgreens. I picked up two StayFree Maxi Pads 28-28 count on sale for $6.29. I had a B1G1 coupon from one of the 1/3 SS inserts and Walgreens had an in-ad coupon for $3 off (it rings up in multiples so it took off $6) so I paid $.15 each for the pads!
I used a similar deal for two Reach Ultraclean Toothbrushes (singles). There was a B1G1 coupon in one of the 1/3 RP inserts and an in-ad coupon from Walgreens for $2 which made them both FREE!
And then the Electrosol Tablets were on sale for $3.49 with $1 RR (Register Rewards) when you buy 1; combined with the $2.50 coupon from the 1/3 SS insert those were also FREE!
The Electrosol deal says one per customer so I hit both Walgreens and will do so this week to use all ten of my coupons; this will give me 200 dish washing cycles FREE! I imagine that you may be able to do multiple transactions if your cashiers are patient and you have a manager handy to force the RR (if you use a RR to pay it doesn't like to give back a RR but a manager WILL override this for you).

Happy Savings! -Dessy