One of the best ways to save tons of money with coupons, is at major drug stores such as CVS and Walgreens. Both stores offer cash back towards your future purchases at CVS the dollars are known as Extra Care Bucks, or ECB, and at Walgreens they are known as Register Rewards or RR. By rolling these dollars, or using them over and over again, you are able to re-spend your initial investment of $5 or $10, turning it into 100's of dollars in product. This coming week, a good starting point for Walgreens is with the following example.
Glossary of terms:
RR= Register Reward
OOP= Out of Pocket Expense
SS= Weekly coupon newspaper insert Smart Source
RP= Weekly coupon newspaper insert Red Plum
P&G= Monthly coupon newspaper insert Proctor & Gamble
WYB= When You Buy
Scenario: 6 Transactions
Transaction 1
Buy 1 Perfection Tampons, 8pk $1.50 (get $1.50 RR)
Payment: $1.50 OOP and get $1.50 RR back
Transaction 2
Buy 1 Mini Memo or Composition Book, Penway, or Wexford 50 or 80 sheets $.19 with in-ad coupon, limit 3
Buy 1 DenTek Comfort Clean Flosser, 50pk $2.99 (get $2.00 RR)
Use Mini Memo In-Ad Coupon
Use 1
$1/1 DenTek Floss Picks printable
Payment: use $1.50 RR from transaction 1
Final Price: $0.68 OOP and get $2.00 RR back
Transaction 3
Buy 2 Scrunci No Damage Hair Elastics, 18ct 2/$3 (get $3.00 RR wyb 2)
Payment: use $2.00 RR from transaction 2
Final Price: $1.00 OOP and get $3.00 RR back
Transaction 4
Buy 1 Perfection Tampons, 8pk – $1.50 (get $1.50 RR)
Buy 1 DenTek Comfort Clean Flosser, 50pk $2.99 (get $2.00 RR)
Use 1
$1/1 DenTek Floss Picks printable
Payment: use $3.00 RR from transaction 3
Final Price: $0.49 OOP and get $1.50 & $2.00 RR back
Transaction 5
Buy 2 Mini Memo or Composition Book, Penway or Wexford 50 or 80 sheets $0.19 w/in-ad coupon, limit 3
Buy 2 Irish Spring Antipersperant/Deoderant
, 2.7 or 3oz 2/$6 get $4.00 RR wyb 2
Use Mini Memo In-Ad Coupon
Use 2
$1/1 Irish Spring Deoderant, SS 07/24 (exp. 8/13/11)
Payment: use $1.50 & $2.00 RR from transaction 4
Final Price $0.88 OOP and $4.00 RR back
*You can stop here for an OOP under $5 or go on to transaction 6 for more products and more RR for next week
Transaction 6
Buy 2 Scrunci No Damage Hair Elastics, 18ct 2/$3 get $3.00 RR wyb 2
Buy 2 Oral-B Indicator Toothbrush 2/$4.98 get $3.00 RR wyb 2
Use 1
$2/2 Oral-B Indicator Toothbrushes, PG 07/03 (exp. 7/31/11)Payment: use $4.00 RR from transaction 5
Final Price: $1.98 OOP and get (2) $3.00 RR back
Total:
$6.53 OOP for $26.53 worth of product, plus $6.00 RR for next week!
-Happy Shopping!
