Money Maker Hair Care and Iced Coffee at CVS

Saturday morning at 4:30, I wrote a blog but did not share it on Facebook, so if you'd like to check it out--you can: HERE :)

I hope everyone got a paper or a few today because the coupons were great! There are several that won't be used this week but I'm sure will make for great deals in a few weeks. But, as for this week--we have a couple awesome money maker situations at CVS, and some penny school supplies (yea, a penny!).

Here's what Andrew and I did this morning: we spent a total of $10.19 and got back $21.49 at CVS and OfficeMax. These deals were awesome!

CVS:

This week at CVS, you can actually make a decent profit on Herbal Essences, Tena Pads, and Starbucks Iced Coffee. I took advantage of these sales for a couple people in my family, so I won't be keeping the pads or the hair care, but I got paid to buy it and here's how:

Herbal Essences are on sale $5 for 2 products (stylers, shampoo, and conditioner) reg. $3.99-$4.49

--Buy 2, receive $1 Extra Buck (the ad states limit 1, but not the case!!!!)

--use a coupon from today's P&G insert (7/28) for Buy one Shampoo, get a Conditioner or Styler FREE (up to $4.99)

since the coupon will go through at max value, you will pay a total of $0.28 in tax, and get $1 Extra Buck so you get a 72 cent money maker for each set of 2 you buy :)

*The ad says limit 1 per card, but the deal must be a month long deal because when I purchased 3 sets of 2, I actually got $3 Extra Bucks and my receipt says it can be done 3 more times...I will be going back later in the week to use 3 more coupons to do the same deal again. Since P&G coupons are limit 4 per household per day, I just held on to the others :) Also, if anyone STILL has those $5/2 Clairol item coupons, they could be used the same way with the same result, except they expire on Wednesday!

Starbucks Iced Coffee is on sale for $1.50 (reg. $1.99)

It will be FREE after you get $1.50 Extra Buck for buying but a MONEY MAKER if you use a coupon :)

---Use a $1 coupon (Google Starbucks Iced Coffee coupon, it's on coupons.com)

---pay a total of $0.54 (50 cents plus tax) and get $1.50 Extra Buck for a $0.96 cent mm

Tena Pads are on sale for buy one at reg. price (varied) get one 50% off

They are on a promotion with Johnson and Johnson products: spend $30 get $10 Extra Bucks, or spend $50, get $20 Extra Bucks

---Some of you are probably thinking these are a funny way for me to spend time on couponing, but I have two family members who buy these regularly and I just saved them like 94% so...

I had 5 of the Tena coupons from the 7/14 paper for "Up to $5 off ANY Tena pads" because I accidentally lost one of them :( but there were $1 coupons in the store, so I bought 6 items and used 6 coupons (5 at $5 and 1 at $1)

5 packs were $7.29 and 1 pack was $4.19 (2 of the bigger packs rang up half off at $3.64 and the smaller pack rang up half off at $2.09)

Here's what my transaction looked like:

6 Herbal Essences products at $2.50 each ($15 total)

6 packs of Tena Pads at $31.25 total (after the sale)

1 Starbucks Iced Coffee at $1.50 sale

1 case of CVS water for $2.44 on sale

Coupons used:

CVS coupon for $3 off any $15 shampoo, conditioner, styler purchase (this 'paid' for my water!)

3 BOGO FREE Herbal Essences from today's paper (took off $4.99 each, so $14.97 off)

5 Tena coupons for $5 off any Tena products from 7/14 paper (took off $25)

1 Tena coupon for $1 off any Tena product

1 Starbucks Iced Coffee coupon which I printed today from coupons.com (took $1 off)

$5 in Extra Bucks

My subtotal was 21 cents (!) and tax was $2.55 so we paid a cash total of $2.76

I received a $10 Extra Bucks from the Tena pads, a $1.50 Extra Buck from the Starbucks, and a $3 Extra Bucks from the Herbal Essences for a total of $14.50 in new Extra Bucks :)

I turned a previous $5 into $14.50 new so that's cool!

I could also look at it as: I paid about the same amount for a case of water, and got everything else free (and then some) haha

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Office Max:

We then went to Office Max because they have some great deals this week on office/school stuff. The penny deals don't require a paper, but the Sharpie highlighter deal does require the store coupon from the paper today.

Sales:

500 sheet ream of Office Max paper, on sale for $6.99 and receive a $6.98 store reward (like paying a penny!)

Clear pencil pouches, reg. $2 each, on sale for 1 cent when you spend at least $5 in store (limit 5)

Small scissors, reg. $1.50 each, on sale for 1 cent when you spend at least $5 in store (limit 2)

Sharpie 4 pack of highlighters, reg. price $3/pack, FREE with in-store coupon (limit 2 per coupon)

I bought the above, and paid a total of $7.43 and will get back $6.98 in Office Max rewards. My net total is $0.45 for $32.79 worth of office supplies, and who doesn't need computer paper?? Since Andrew was with me, we used 2 of the FREE Sharpie highlighter coupons and he got 2 also, and those do not require tax so they are 100% completely FREE after coupon, yay!

I am not sure yet, but I think the Office Max FREE Sharpie coupon could be taken to WalMart and used to score a couple packs there, too. The store policy says they will take competitor coupons for branded products, so I have not tried this yet but plan to later in the week since I have 4 more coupons :)

I will be working on some coupon match-ups later in the week, once I sort through my binder and see what I still have and see what store sales look good. I can say that Kroger has some decent prices on ice cream and frozen chicken, but not sure about the rest yet.