My husband and daughter stayed home and played in the snow while I drove  out of town to hit a few drugstores. I really meant to go to Rite Aid and it turns out to be the one drugstore I didn’t go to.  Ooops!  I had an pretty hot shopping day.  I was feeling so darned good about myself that I called on my way home and arranged for a date at Longhorn.  Expensive but delicious! 

Walgreens

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Total OOP: $24.32 (2.74, 3.46, 3.96, 1.20, 1.20, 3.00, 7.74, 1.02)
Total RR Used: $43 (10, 5, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4, 2, 2, 10, 3)
Total Spent: $67.32
Total RR Received: $119 (5, 5, 3, 3, 2, 3, 2, 5, 5, 3, 10, 5, 5, 3, 1, 1, 5, 5, 6, 1, 2, 2, 1, 5, 5, 6, 3, 5, 5, 6, 1)
Total Cost: $51.68 profit

This was the result of shopping at several stores, so no need to fear that I am roaming the countryside, demolishing the stock at all of your neighborhood Walgreens.  I even left sugar testing kits in stock at every single store!  ;)  Right now, if you buy one of each in a transaction, you get two $5 RRs and one extra $3 RR. Since I used coupons to make them all free–that makes it a pretty hot deal.  For some reason, I don’t even have to pay tax on them anymore. If you purchase another qualifying item, you get a $6 instead of a $3.  The last two stores I was in had the Bayer crystals above on clearance for $2.19. I didn’t have any coupons with me but it was still profitable to buy them.  If I had just bought those monitors and Bayer crystals, I would have had $80 of profit. :)

The other thing to mention about this picture is that you should never believe everything you read on the internet.  I am occasionally guilty of just compiling my shopping lists and not noticing if something corresponds with reality.  I had read somewhere that the Sensodyne was $3.49. After a $1 coupon and $2 ad coupon, that would make it $.49.  I rarely see this on a good sale, and people have asked me for it at my yard sales, so I figured I’d get it.  Turns out that they were $4.99, not $3.49, making those toothpastes $1.99 each.  Terrible!  I will live with the loss, though, especially considering that the day was very profitable anyway. I was planning on selling them for $2 each anyway, so at least I’ll get my money back, assuming they sell (and I think they will.)  I could return them but I don’t want to be obnoxious.

CVS

I also hit a CVS on impulse.  It was the nicest CVS I have ever been into!  Large and spacious and with actual merchandise on the shelves!  ;)   I have one tiny CVS in town and one in the next that I hit occasionally, and other than that I have only walked into maybe one or two others, so I don’t exactly have a lot of experience to draw from, but they’re all tiny little stores. By the way, if you’re in a nice store, complimenting it to the cashiers makes them much friendlier.  I never say it if it isn’t true, but I make a point of telling them if it is. 

Anyway!

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Total Spent:$1.75 (1.75, 0)
Total ECB used: $23.49 (2.49, 4, 5, 12)
Total ECB received: $32 (2, 6, 12, 12)
Total Cost: $8.51 profit

My husband just groaned and said, "More Soy Joy?? Ugh!"  hehe  The Oust is a fantastic deal right now.  $3.99 each and you get $3 back per bottle–plus a B1G1 coupon came out in last week’s paper. 

It was a good day.