I managed to get out of the house today! I have a serious attack of the homebody fever this winter.  Too cold to drag an unwilling child into store after store. I hit all three of the drugstores. CVS was really boring so I’m going to skip that part. I don’t want to write about it in detail and I certainly didn’t want to take a picture of it.  Eyeshadow plus six 12-packs of Pepsi.  The most interesting thing about that trip was the ladies in front of me in line who were angry at the cashier and really confused about things.  They kept talking about the Pepsi deal from last week, which was 6 for $11.  You know, because you buy 6 for $20 and get $10 ECB back, making it $11.  Because… $20 – $10 = $11.  IN CRAZY TOWN.  Actually, my husband inexplicably pointed out that it would be $11.20 with tax and maybe that’s what she was talking about.  I say inexplicably because my darling husband has many fine qualities, but his tendencies to assume the best about stupid people is really not one of them.

Rite Aid

At the beginning of the week, I made my shopping lists and actually did not find a single item to put on the Rite Aid list.  I think that’s the first time ever. If I take the time to make a list, I always find something that I could buy if I go.  I might decide that it’s not worth the time and effort when the deals are slim, but there’s always something.  But, then I decided to start working the $5/$20 coupons with the free glucose monitor coupons, so I went in today to pick up some toilet paper.  I did two identical transactions and they made me Happy.

100_2099Total Cost: $.72

Also, there was an extra M&Ms but it is no more.  The monitors were $19.99, so the $5/$20 essentially allows me to get five dollars worth of free stuff.  Bless Rite Aid’s little heart.  They didn’t even challenge my usage of the $5/$20 before coupons.  That’s new!  Now that I’m carrying a copy of their coupon policy, I haven’t had to use it.  Believe me, I am not complaining.  That store gives me high blood pressure sometime

Walgreens

100_2100I could have bought more Contours, but I refrained because I intend to go shopping on Sunday morning and if I wipe them out today, I can’t buy them on Sunday.  The diaper deal isn’t stellar, but it’s adequate for my purposes.  I resell at six bucks each.  These were 3 for $13, minus Caregiver’s Marketplace rebates, so $3.57 each. Theoretically.  I just now noticed that $2 went missing.  The Pull-ups didn’t work for the Walgreens Huggies coupon from the kids coloring activity book.  Oh well.  

I kind of don’t want to do a cost analysis. It’s going to be ugly, I think.

OOP: $7.79 (1.80, 4.03, 1.96)
RR Used: $58 (10, 10, 10, 10, 5, 5, 5, 3)
Total Spent: $65.79
RR Received: $30 (5, 5, 5, 2, 5, 5, 3)
Rebates (CGM): $2.25
Total Cost: $33.54

So, that makes them $3.72 per pack of diapers, after tax (and not counting the chicken stock and other stuff) which is pretty good.  I should get back about twice that in my yard sale. :)  I’ve never not sold out on diapers.  They’re one of my best sellers and one of the hardest to obtain at a resellable price.

I have got to stop staying up so late.