My deals the week of 5/1

GIANT EAGLE

OOP: (out of pocket) 7.47 & i got back 6.00 OYNO (off your next order)

here's the breakdown:
Purex was BOGO (buy 1 get 1 free) at giant eagle you don't have to buy 2 to get the sale price. so, the purex was 2.99 and i had 1.00 coupon - 1.99

uncle Ben's ready rice - 2.59 - i had a coupon for a FREE bag - FREE

Honest tea - 1.00 - i had 4 .50 coupons which doubled to 1.00 - FREE

Pantene - 2 for 7.00 - Giant Eagle has "e-offers" on their website that can be combined with paper coupons. The e-offers you just log in online and "clip" them to your card.  When you go to the store and scan your shoppers card the eoffers will come off at the end of the transaction. So, there was an eoffer for 3.00 off 2 pantene. I also had a paper coupon from the 5/1 Sunday paper for 3.00/2. So, i recieved 6.00 off my 2 pantenes. There was a glitch in the system at the time and it actually took off another 3.00 eoffer...therefore i got 9.00 off my 2 pantenes (which was more than the cost of the 2!) There was also a deal on this that you got 2.00 OYNO (off your next order) when you purchased 2. Therefore, i got "paid" $4.00 to take the Pantenes out of the store!

Pampers cruisers - 8.99 - eoffer for 1.50 & i had a paper coupon for $2.00 - 5.49
Pampers sensitive - 8.99 - eoffer for 1.50 & i  had a paper coupon for $2.00 - 5.49
They had a deal when you purchased 2 pampers diapers you got $4.00 OYNO.

Mr. clean magic eraser (pictured in my CVS picture below) - 2.49 - eoffer for 1.50 & paper coupon from the 5/1 Sunday paper for 1.50 - got "paid" .51 to take this out of giant eagle:)

I also used a $4.00 OYNO on this transaction from a previous shopping trip.

Giant Eagle does not give cash back if your ecoupons and paper coupons exceed the cost of your items. So if this is going to happen always sure you have extra items to cover the overage




CVS

OOP:  .23 & i got back 8.54 ECB (Extra Care Bucks)

2 Colgate 2.77 each- I had 2 .75 coupon from the 5/1 Sunday paper - 2.02 each - this week CVS was offering 2.77 in Extra Bucks when you purchased Select Colgate toothpaste. So I paid 2.02 each, but received 2.77 back in EBC each....therefore making it a 1.50 moneymaker

2 Right Guard - 2.99 each - I had a Buy 1 get 1 free coupon from the 5/1 Sunday paper. So, it was 2.99 for 2. CVS was offering 1.00 ECB for each 1 you purchased, therefore i received 2.00 in ECB back. After the ECB each one was .49

2 Cascade & 1 magic eraser - CVS had a deal where you purchased 10.00 in select products, you would receive 3.00 ECB. The cascades were on sale for 4.00 each and the magic eraser for 3.00. (i accidentally grabbed the wrong cascade and it rang up 8.99...but they gave it to be for 4.00!) I had 2 1.00 Cascade coupons from a P&G coupon booklet & 1.50 magic eraser coupon from the 5/1 Sunday paper. Therefore, i paid 8.00 and got back 3.00 ECB

now, the key to drugstore shopping is to "roll" (use your store rewards from last time & earn more). So i used 14.80 in ECB from previous shopping trips and i received 10.54 ECB back....which means everything here "cost" me approx 4.50! (but i used store rewards to pay for that..no my own cash:))




WALGREEN'S:

OOP: 3.74 & i got back $13.00 RR (register rewards)

Now, ill start by saying...Walgreen's is THE hardest drugstore to learn. They have a lot of coupon rules which can be tricky when you barely understand coupons to begin with! If you want to play the drug store game and are totally new to couponing i would say start at CVS or rite aid (which i do not have near my house)..and then move onto Walgreen's. Walgreen's is nice though because they do not have the limits CVS does, but starting out...you can get totally confused shopping here!

2 Noxzema razors - 3.99 each - I had 2 Internet print coupons for 2.00 - 1.99 each - Walgreen's had a deal where you get 3.00 RR when you purchase 1 - therefore after coupons & rr's i "paid" 3.98 & got back 6.00 RR

2 GUM flossers - 2.00 each - there are no coupons for these but Walgreen's is offering 2.00 in register rewards when you purchase one - so even without coupons these are FREE after RRs

2 Tylenol Precise - 7.99 each - There are Internet prints for 5.00 off 1. Walgreen's also has an in store coupon booklet when you walk in the store. In that booklet there was a coupon for 3.00 off. Combined with the Internet coupon both of these were FREE

2 Cottonelle Toilet paper - 5.00 each - used 1 .50 Internet print coupon (i had 2, but the cashier only scanned 1) - there was also a coupon in the booklet i mentioned above for 1.00 off - combining both coupons i paid 7.50 and received 3.00 RR. That made each pack 3.75.

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I used $12.00 in register rewards & received 12.00 in register rewards back!


GIANT EAGLE

OOP: 8.07 & i got back another 4.00 OYNO

i also made 1 final trip to giant eagle for the new ad starts today to take advantage of the diaper deal again. so i purchased:

1 pampers swaddlers - 8.99 - used 1.50 eoffer - 1.50 coupon from the 5/1 Sunday paper
1 pampers easy ups - 8.99  used 1.50 eoffer
1 pampers wipes - 2.59 - used .50 eoffer - 3.50 paper coupon (when you purchased 1 diaper and 1 wipe together)

i also used the 4.00 OYNO from my previous diaper purchase

please note that eoffers only come off 1 time & they do not double. There were 4 different ecoupons for 4 different types of pampers diapers, so i purchased all 4. We aren't picky with our diapers so we can use cruisers, swadders, sensitive etc. If you are more specific with the type of diaper you want, deals like this would not work for you


Also, you will rarely see a "brag" from me for fruit, veggies & meat. Chuck works at a upscale grocery store & therefore purchases all that for us..usually cheaper than i can get at the store. So, don't think we totally eat unhealthy....those are just items i leave up to him to purchase;)

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