Nail polish score!!!

Normally, I completely overlook the beauty sales. I just don't even really go there. I am not a girly-girl. I rarely wear make up and don't "treat" my skin or anything like that, so I let those sales blow past me. However, my untrained beauty eyes sure spotted a ROCKIN' DEAL at CVS this week. Thank you so much to Jenny on Southernsavers for posting it as a beginner deal. I wouldn't have even noticed it otherwise. I paid total $2.80 for these 6 lovely nail polish bottles shown below. TOTAL! And it gets sweeter. Not only did I pay $2.80 total, I also have a $4.00ECB at the end of the day! SWEET DEAL.

I had five coupons and the deal was a limit of six bottles. So, I paid 1.29 on the first bottle. Got a 4ECB in exchange. Paid 30 cents on bottle number two. Got a 4ECB in exchange. Rinse and repeat all the way to bottle six. Total spent after 6 transactions $2.80. ECB left standing: $4.00. Total cost of all nail polish: -$1.20 SAY WHAT?!?!? How cool was that deal? I was playing a nice little game with the cashier-- who by the way was super nice about said game-- he scanned my card, scanned the next nail polish, scanned the coupon, scanned the ECB and chuckled as he said "that will be 30 cents" each time. Lovely. Lovely.

Which color should adorn my toes first?!



I also hit up Publix and Rite Aid but the deals weren't quite as colorful to post about. Spent 12, saved 17.50 at RA. Spent 74, saved 81 at Publix! (awesome coffee deal this week at publix I thought)

do you have any coupons?

Why yes. Yes I do.

Today I saved 27 dollars at Rite Aid, paying just under 8 bucks! Sweeet. I swear I'm never paying full price for body wash ever again. Nivea had a sweet sale this week. I got 6 body wash, spent 7 something and earned 5UPS back for later spending.

I've been to publix and kroger lately with awesome deals. I haven't been posting great updates but hopefully I can get back at it. My stockpile is growing and I'm so pleased to be helping my family with it. My goal for May is to USE the stockpile to plan meals from it and see if we can't save the grocery dough!

This is mostly a post to say I'm still in this game and don't worry cool break downs are coming back. I haven't slid off this horse, I'll be playing this game forever! There is no going back!

Rite Aid Score

12 Desitin
2 Johnson's baby wash
1 bag of M&Ms

TOTAL COST: $6.89
Cost of one Desitin normally: $4.99 ....say what?!?!
Total SAVED: $65.38
Percentage of savings: 90.47%

Desitin and J&J products are on sale at RA this week for 2.99 with 2UPS back. With a 1.00 coupon that makes them $1.99 and I had UPS to use. Very very thankful for my new coupon group with some gals--we've been swapping coupons so I had 12 Desitin coupons to use! ... I did three transactions between two different stores spending $1.84, $2.68, and $2.38 be/c I tore off the new UPS from each receipt to use on the current transaction. It's amazing. Completely amazing. They basically paid me a ton to take their product off the shelves yesterday! (I don't want to seem like a shelf cleaner, so I will say that at the first store the product was limited, but I did leave 2 Desitin on the shelf, only taking four. And at the second store, the product was well stocked, so I took the 8 more I wanted and still left at least that many.)

We're set on Desitin for the YEAR and I think the same probably goes for the baby wash. I've got about 6-8 bottles now stocked up. So so happy about the little things we don't have to shell out full price for anymore! It is so worth it!

Besides this, not pictured I scored some awesome dove deodorant this week--four bottles for free and some nearly free ziplock bags at RA. I am LOVING this store.

my new love

I've discovered a new love... it's called the Rite Aid. They have a program very similar to CVS where you get "store money" printed on your receipt for certain items based on what's on sale that week...

Last week was my first Rite Aid (RA) visit. I signed up for their in-store card (wellness something or another) and spent 4 dollars on two jars of peanut butter. It was BOGO and then you got two of their "bucks" back which are called Up Rewards (UPs). Not bad. So I paid for one and got two and got 2UPs to spend later.

Today was later.

I bought 4 Gillette men body wash for cheeeeeap! They were on sale 2 for $8 (limit of two). So I made two separate transactions. I paid 2.48 for the first two washes with my coupons (two of $2/1 ...found in RP??? or PG??? 1/30) and my two UPs from the peanut butter. I got three UPs back on that receipt. I tore those off, and did the second transaction of two washes with two coupons and the three UPs. Hello! I paid 1.48 for the second two AND got 3 more UPs back for a later date. Sooo because I'd be lost at that math if I were reading it... I spent $3.96 on FOUR body washes that should have been $4.00 EACH! Cha-Ching!

I wanted the "later date" to be today, they also had a nice Betty Crocker deal I have coupons for, however the shelf was empty. I was told they'll get a truck in tomorrow and I can check back. I may call first and see if there are any on the shelf before heading out again, but I was pretty pleased with basically buying one body wash and getting THREE FREE!

I'm beginning to think I'm going to reallllly like RA! (Look out CVS!)