I headed over to CVS this afternoon to check out the week’s deals. My CVS is not conveniently located so I usually make an effort to only go once a week and I skip going some weeks altogether.  I was kind of excited about the greeting card deal, though I am apparently in an American Greetings, limit one, region, instead of the Hallmark, limit five.  I could only find .99 cards in the Valentine’s section so I bought three cards. Note that they are not well displayed in the picture, and that is because… my Valentine might read this. :) It’s unromantic enough that he knows I bought a card for free, let’s not compound the issue by taking a picture of it.

CVS, Jan 19, 2009

Purchased
3 American Greetings cards, 0.99 each
1 OneTouch Mini glucose meter (pink!), 19.99
2  CVS brand loratadine allergy meds, 3.79 each
1 bag Swedish Fish candy (for my own personal Swede, of course), .69 (clearance, 75%)
1 Lubriderm lotion, 2.00 (clearance, 75%)
7 12-packs of Diet Pepsi (not pictured due to being too lazy to get them out of the trunk), 3.00 each

Coupons
10/50 CVS coupon
1.00/2 Diet Pepsi product x 3 (peelies on the boxes)
1.00 Lubriderm

I hardly ever get X/X coupons, so I was really excited to see the 10/50 pop out today!  I didn’t really have a  $50 purchase planned but I couldn’t resist coming up with one. I bought the Diet Pepsi for my parents–with the three coupons I used, they work out to be $1.14 each!  You just can’t beat that.

ECBs
$10 for Pepsi
$7.58 for CVS brand laratadine allergy meds
$3 for American greetings cards

Summary
I paid $2.61 out of pocket and used $18 ECBs for a grand total of $20.61.
I earned $20.58 in ECBs.

That would mean that I spent only three cents on everything I bought, except my parents will pay me back for the Diet Pepsi, which will be about eight bucks pure profit. Not too shabby!