Welcome to How I Save Money. I am on a quest to see how much stuff I can get from CVS without spending any extra money out of my pocket.
Last time I got a gift card so I decided that I needed to keep the gift card separate from the ECB, especially since I can now get gift cards from MyPoints. I added a little section in green at the end where I track the gift card amounts separately from the rest of the ECBs. In today’s transaction the gift card was actually the ECBs from the last transaction…but that might be a little bit confusing. 🙂
Transaction 1
Item: Nivea Body Wash
Price: $4.99
CVS Extra Care Bucks earned: $4.99
Coupon used: $$1.00 plus $3 ECB plus $1.15 Gift Card
Transaction 2
Item: L’Oreal serum
Price: $11.99
CVS Extra Care Bucks earned: $11.99
Coupon used: $1.00 plus $5.99 ECB plus $1.17 Gift Card
Total out of pocket today: $0.00 (using the gift card and coupons made everything FREE!!!)
Total CVS Extra Care Bucks earned today: $16.98
Total out of pocket to date: $139.14
Gift Card used to date: $2.32
Gift Card balance left to date: $3.68
Total CVS Extra Care Bucks earned to date: $271.73
CVS Extra Care Bucks Used to date: $259.74
CVS Extra Care Bucks Balance to date: $11.99
I was tempted to buy some more stuff but I opted to only get the totally free items today.
Join me next time as I look for more ways to save money as I visit CVS.
Thanks for the information. I think that I am going to have to try shopping at CVS.
Great buys!Great savings on product purchase.
Thanks. It is only possible because I already had ECBs from earlier purchases and coupons.
Now if I can just stick to the totally free items every week then I will not be spending any more money out of pocket at CVS. 🙂
Wow. That’s pretty amazing. I wonder how CVS manages to do this, you must not be the only person that’s figured out how to get these kind of deals.
@ LMB
CVS has higher prices than WalMart so I am sure that they budget for that.
Besides you would be surprised at the number of people who shop at CVS but do not take advantage of the free stuff. I see the same people there every week and some of them don’t even have a CVS card.
Thanks, good to know!