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• May. 11, 2008 - Sudden Craving for Coupons

Okay, so I finally moved near enough to CVS to do the deals MoneySavingMom recommends. This is quite fun! Right up my alley. Immediately, I realized that I am going to need a better stockpile of coupons than online printables will allow. Nevertheless, I managed to dig enough coupons up to buy a few things and generate ECBs for next time.

I now have $13.99 in ECBs. What next, CVS bargain experts?

I'll post a picture of my purchases later, when I regain access to the main computer (too many kids, too few computers).

I also went to the local grocery store. It doubles coupons up to 50 cents. I got $1.75 off lunchmeat that was marked 2/$6. Combining those with Claussen pickles (I had $1 off coupon), I was able to get Kraft mayo for free! I had two coupons for $3 off 1 Post LiveActive cereal. The store had them marked down for $2.50 apiece! So I got two of them for more than "free"! I combined that with another store coupon I had: buy any two Post cereals and a gallon of milk, get a certain amount off (can't remember how much, but at least a couple of dollars). Even more "free"! On top of that, I had a store coupon for $3 off a $30 purchase. I did buy a family pack of sale ground beef, three gallons of milk, two loaves of bread, and on-sale strawberries ($1.88). Pretty good, for around $20 cash!

I hope I get better at this with practice.

Comments

• May. 13, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous

Keep your ECB's to use when the store is offering things for free. I haven't been in yet this week, but last week you could get a toothbrush for 3.99 and get 3.99 in ECB's you were allowed to purchase 3 and if you had a coupon you could actually make a buck off CVS. Now that you have about $14 you buy things that give you equal bucks back so that you can build your bucks. When you have between 20 to 35 ECB's you can use them to buy things like spend $20 on Johnson and Johnson products and get 10ecb's, this will work if you have coupons that value up to $10. I got pretty good at this for a while, but I slacked off in recent weeks becasue I didn't get the coupons out of the sunday paper. I still got the free stuff but wasn't able to do more.

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