Wags 9/26

Oh, I just tore it up at Walgreens during my lunch hour today! This weekend is what they call Double Dip Days - it means that it's the end of their September Easy Saver Catalog and the beginning of their October Easy Saver Catalog. The Easy Saver Catalog is a catalog that prints out - online and they usually have copies of it in their stores -these Instant Value Coupons that can be stacked with Manufacturer's coupons. The catalog also has all the store's rebates for the month. Well Double Dip Days are cool because for two days you can use one month's IVC coupons with another month's rebates and vice versa. See? And they were pretty good this month! Here's what I did:

The October Easy Saver Catlog had an Instant Value Coupon for $3 off a 25.4 oz Garnier Fructis Shampoo or Conditioner. September has a rebate that if you buy $20.00 worth of Garnier products, you get a 10 dollar rebate. So - to sweeten this deal up, I went on Ebay and there was a seller out of Kalamazoo selling Garnier coupons - $1.00 off any product. They sell in increments of 10 for 1.99 (shipping included) so I bought them early this week, they came in the mail on Wednesday -and now I'm getting $4 off each bottle. But the nice thing about the rebates is that they take the rebates off the price BEFORE coupons are added. So - I used 3 -$3 IVC coupons (printed off the computer) and 3-$1 manufacturing coupons from Ebay. They are regularly priced 6.99 and I got 3 of them for 2.99 each - 8.97 + tax OOP (out of pocket)...submit to Easy Saver for Rebate get 10$ back! Did they just pay me .49 to take 75 ounces of shampoo home???? Uh - I think they did!

Even if you factor in the 1.99 I used to buy the coupons - I still paid 1.50 for 75 ounces of a GOOD shampoo! Whew!

Now, I still have 7 of those $1 coupons from Ebay left and the $3 IVCs are running all month long - so I'm going to wait it out and see if they put those big mammoth shampoos on sale some week and then really cash in :)

I also did this with Pert Plus - they have a September rebate for up to 4.59 and an October IVC for 2.50 off -plus I had a 2.00 coupon off of the 25.4 oz size and a 1.50 coupon off the 13.5 oz size. So I put two coupons with each bottle and paid $1.49 for the 25.4 oz size and uh - here we go again - they paid me .41 cents for the smaller bottle. That's 1.08 +tax for both. AND - I submit to the rebates for 4.59 so it's a 3.51 profit. See what I did there? Oh yeah...

My third and final rebate for September was this: they had a September sale: buy 4 bags (14 oz) of Halloween M&M's 4/$10 - buy 4 and get a $5.00 rebate. There was an October IVC coupon that was get $1 off 2 bags of Halloween M&Ms - so - I paid 8$ for 4 bags of yummy M&Ms and am getting 5 bucks back...that's not 4/10 baby, that's 4/3! And who doesn't like M&M's???

Walgreen's also puts out these coupons online every once in a while like get 10$ off a 40$ purchase, etc...this week it was buy 20$ (after coupons are tallied) get an extra 5.00$ off. So I used that and put in some filler sale items as well that I had coupons with.

Here's what I got this afternoon:

4 bags Halloween M&M's - 10.00
3 bottles of Garnier Fructis - 20.97
1 bottle of Pert Plus 25.4 oz - 5.99
1 bottle of Pert Plus 13.5 oz - 3.59
2 Mitchum Lady Deodorants - 3.98
1 Snuggle Fabric Softener Sheets - 3.59
1 Hall's bag of cough drops - 1.99
1 bottle Glade Pet deodorizer air freshner - 3.99

Total before coupons: 54.10 + tax

Coupons:
Garnier Fructis - $3 IVC
Garnier Fructis - $3 IVC
Garnier Fructis - $3 IVC
Garnier Fructis - $1 MQ
Garnier Fructis - $1 MQ
Garnier Fructis - $1 MQ
Pert Plus - 2.50 IVC
Pert Plus - 2.50 IVC
Pert Plus - 2.00 MQ
Pert Plus - 1.50 MQ
Mitchum - 1.00 IP (internet printable)
Mitchum - 1.00 IP (internet printable)
Halls Cough Drop - .99 7 Day Coupon (from Wag's weekly flyer) ($1 off RP)
Halls Cough Drop - .35 MQ
Glade Air Freshner - $1 IVC
Glade Air Freshner - $1.50 MQ
Snuggle Fabric Softner - 2/4 7 Day Coupon (1.89 off RP)
M&M - $1/2 IVC
M&M - $1/2 IVC

Total of Coupons: 30.24

Total: 25.29 ZING! 5.00 coupon!

Total Out of Pocket: 20.29 (that's what I paid! Crazy!)

Total Rebates Earned: 19.59
Difference: .70


ALL THAT FOR 70CENTS????? My math may be off a bit, but it's still an insanely small price for all that....!

Am I out of my freaking mind here or what??? Please feel free to skip over Wags postings if you think I'm going a little psychotic, but this is SUCH a FUN game. I've got shampoo pretty much for all of 2009 dont'cha think? And next week Johnson's & Johnson's is on sale! And I of COURSE have coupons :)

The hard part about these are getting the exact items for the exact deals and coupons - they are VERY specific -coupons and rebates alike. The other hard part is the cashier's sometimes don't know what to do with all my coupons and things. Like this afternoon the cashier told me that I couldn't use three of the same IVC coupon (for the Pert Plus & Garnier) because it says 1 item per coupon. Well that's fine, but I had 3 items and I had 3 coupons - so I'm sorry - but it goes through! But, I just said - that's fine, just give me the one then and took the other coupons knowing that I can just come in tonight when my favorite cashier, Katie, is working and do my deal. So - she took off all the extra merchandise, and then it turned out that I had picked up the wrong cough drops, so she asked me if she wanted her to go and get me the right kind. I said "sure" (otherwise, no cough drops for Amy) - this is interesting because I knew the store manager was over by the cough drops stocking because I had asked him where the Snuggle was earlier. So she comes back and says, "You know what? I'm just gonna go ahead and let you take all that shampoo...etc..." Translation: "I asked the store manager and he said you can use as many IVC's as you want, I was wrong, you were right, but I'm not going to let you know that..." Sorry, Carol - I am ON to you! But who cares? You've got to be nice to the cashiers, giving them crap never gets you anywhere and I got my freaking boatload of shampoo. Not to mention 7 more bottles to come in the month of October...

Ah, it's the little things in life isn't? Do not dismay - a picture will come :)