Great article by the way.

It’s amazing the savings that can be found at Rite Aid and Walgreens.

If you really want to do #68 this week:

Citrucel and Phazyme are both $11.99 + the $3.99 box you found:

(1) $11.99
(1) $11.99
(1) $3.99
= $27.97
- $5/$25 RA coupon
= $22.97
- $10/3 manufacturer coupon
= $12.97
- $10.00 Rite Aid Gift Card = $2.97

Now, if you want to find a store that has more of the $3.99:

(7) $3.99
= $27.93
- $5/$25 RA coupon
= $22.93
- (2) $7/2 manufacturer coupon
- (1) $10/3 manufacturer coupons
= Errrr too much. That would be free as long as they’d adjust the last coupon, or if you do not want to deal with it, give (3) $7/2 coupon
= $1.93 OOP + Receive $10 RA gift card

Ann

That’s why I was very tempted to get items at RA I did not need… no tax means it was all free (well a $5 moneymaker every $25) even without coupons.

I stopped at second RA that had about 20 poligrip on the shelf. Wish I had had more free coupons with me.

Ann

Took a long time to organize for Rite Aid. Spent $21 will get back $47.Did rebate #77 buying a total of 6 Herbal Essence shampoo and 6 styling product. Today’s paper had a buy shampoo and get styling product free. Also used 6 ($1) and split it into 2 orders. Will receive back a $10 gift card.

Trying to come up with a deal on #68. Buy $25 Advantage products and get a $10 gift card. There was a box of Phazyme for $3.99, but they only had 2. Coupons in today’s paper…$10 off 3.

I managed to get 11 of the 14 free items. I got lots of stuff I’m not going to use but all of this week’s items (except the Poligrip) don’t have sales tax so they are really free. I had coupons for 4 of the items so those were money makers. The best one was the $3 coupon I had for the Chloraseptic Allergen Block. Between the 4 coupons, the $5/$25 coupon and the $2 Discover coupon, I made $13.

Walgreens has a really great deal on Skippy peanut butter especially if you were lucky enough to get the .75 coupons in last weekend’s inserts. The Skippy is 3/$5 and if you buy 8, you get $8 in register rewards. The 8 Skippys came to $13.34. I had 7 coupons ($5.25) so after the register rewards my cost was 9 cents!!! If you have 8 coupons, you can make a profit. I didn’t mind having only 7 because I could use a $2.50 register rewards that was expiring today.

Walgreens also has a good deal on the Quaker Instant oatmeal (2/$5) and you get $5 in register rewards if you spend $10. I had 2 $1.25/2 coupons so my net cost for 4 boxes was $2.50.

I usually have problems at Walgreens but today was problem free!

Gita

You may want to check out my Stockpile Recipes for what to do with apples, squash, etc.

This last post lists them all

Ann