No, I Don't Have a Baby...They're For My Sister

I mean my future niece/nephew (my sister doesn't wear pampers). My Rite Aid run today produced the following money making transactions:

Transaction One (my SCR acct)

1 Pampers 8.99
1 Bordreaux's Butt paste $3.99
1 Bufferin $6.99
1 Pantene Beautiful Lengths $4.00
1 Nivea for Men body wash $3.00

Coupons:
•1, $5.00 off $25.00
•1, $3.00 off Bufferin
•1, $2.00 off Bourdreaux
•1, $3.00 off Bourdreaux Ad Perks
•1, $1.00 off Nivea bodywash
•1, $2.00 off Pantene (8/29 P&G)
•1, $3.00 off pampers from home mailer
•2, $3.00 Up rewards from last week (yesterday)

Paid:
$1.11 OOP ($0.14 was tax)

Received/Will Receive:
$4.00 in Up Rewards (1,$2.00 pantene & 1, $2.00 pampers)
$6.00 SCR from the bufferin

Transaction Two (mom's SCR account)

1 Pampers $8.99
1 Wipes $3.49 (rang up $2.79 with 20% discount)
1 Gain $0.89
1 Lint roller $1.00 (rang up $0.80 with 20% discount)
1 Nivea Lip $2.99 (rang up $2.39 with 20% discount)
1 Bufferin $6.99
1 Trident gum $1.29 (rang up $1.03 with discount)
1 Kit kat $1.59 (rang up $1.25 with discount)
1 Everlast energy shots $5.99 (rang up $4.79 with discount)

Coupons:
•1, $5.00 off $25.00
•1, $3.00 off pampers
•1, $2.00 off pampers from RA mom's rebate book
•1, $3.49 Buy pampers get free wipes (cashier entered pre-discount price)
•1, $1.00 Nivea Lip (sept all you)
•1, $3.00 Bufferin
•1, $10.00 Everlast supplement printable good through 12/31/10
•1, $1.00 gain (8/29 p&g)

Paid:
$0.43

Received/Will Receive:
$3.00 in Up Rewards (1,$1.00 nivea & 1, $2.00 pampers)
$6.00 SCR from the bufferin, $1.99 Nivea

Transaction Three (my SCR account)

4 Schick Hydro Razors (rain check $5.99 each)
1 Shick Hydro shave gel $3.49
1 Poster board lights $3.59

Coupons:

•1, $5.00 off $25.00
•4, $5.00 off schick hydro
•1, buy schick razor get free shave gel ($3.49)

Paid:
$4.37 ($1.82 was tax)

Received/Will Receive:
$3.59 SCR from the poster board lights

Total spent Out of Pocket (OOP) for all 3 transactions (everything in the photo!):

$5.91!! Less then the cost of one razor! PLUS will get back $17.58 in SCRs for a Moneymaker of $11.67 And, I have $9.00 in UP rewards to use next trip!

Did you get paid to shop this week? Tell me about it!

Fourth of July Finds at Rite Aid

Rite Aid is having an amazing sale this week. There were so many SCRs and Ups that I didn't even know where to begin. Lately I've been trying to only purchase things I know I'll have a use for (or can donate) as I'm up to my eyeballs in Everlast vitamins and can't seem to find anyone that wants them. I was really worried the contact solution might be gone by the time I got there, but amazingly there were bottles and bottles everywhere. I'm glad that this time they stocked up on the SCR items, because usually by the time I get there there's nothing left. This could be due to the fact I was shopping at 9:30pm on the fourth of july (weird I know).

My transaction:

1 Renu $7.29
1 Crest mouthwash $4.99
1 Oral B cross action $5.99
1 Blink $7.99
1 Crest toothpaste $2.49
1 Burts Bees Hand Salve $2.49 (rang up $2.29 with discount)

Coupons:
1, $5.00 off 20 RA Value video
1, $2.00 Renu printable
1, $2.00 RA value video July
1, $2.00 off crest mouthwash
1, $3.00 off Oral B power toothbrush (6/6?)
1, $2.00 off blink
1, $2.00 burts bees non-lip product (attached to the lip balm I bought previously, but when I got to the car I noticed the cashier didn't scan this and I didn't have the energy to go back in ugg)
1, $10.00 Up rewards from the john frieda I bought last week

Paid:
$4.25 OOP, will get back the following SCRs: $7.29 Renu, $4.00 oral B, $5.00 blink, $4.00 Crest mouthwash. For a money maker of $16.04! Plus I got back a $2.00 Up on the blink.

E also did the same transaction, minus the hand salve. Frustrating things that happened during the trip: the cashier insisted that we were buying the wrong blink and made us buy the blink for contacts, which I'm sure won't produce the $5.00 SCR, and the $2.00 up rewards that we should have received on both toothpastes didn't print. There was no manager on site, so they couldn't do anything and told us we could come back to fix the problem. I'm not sure I'll bother, as it was still a good trip.

Rite Aid John Frieda Money Maker

This weekend I persuaded E to make several Rite Aid runs with me. Here's what the transactions looked like:

Bought:
4 John Frieda Root Awakening Products

Coupons:
1, $5.00 off $20.00
1, $1.00 off $10.00 hair care wellness
4, $3.00 off John Frieda Root Awakening (bought $20 for $1.99 on ebay last week)

Paid:
Paid with a $2.00 UP reward from buying Colgate last week
OOP was $ZERO! tax was $0.98
The pringles are in there because E had to have them and I had one $3.00 Up that I needed to use because I ran out of $2.00 rewards. They were $1.50 ekk

Got back $10 Up Reward on each transaction

Rinse and Repeat 5 times- for a money maker of $45.00!

Disclaimer: We went to different stores so we wouldn't wipe out any one store's stock. We do actually use this shampoo/conditioner and now will be fully stocked for the rest of the year. I have Rubbermaid containers (a little larger then shoe box size) that I put all of my alike products in...one for shampoo, one for toothpaste etc. To keep myself from going overboard and buying quantities too large for us to use, I give away and donate any products that can't fit in the containers. This week several toothbrushes, bodywashes and shampoos made their way to our local men's shelter.

Side note: Word on the street is that Rite Aid will now be coding all of it's $5.00 off $20.00 coupons and tying them to the new wellness card. I'm going to check with my local store this week as I had previously asked them about the coupon and they said there was no limit to the number I could use. I shop for my grandma, so it looks like I might need to sign her up for a separate card and videos account and watch the videos twice, bummer, but you know what they say about deals that are too good to be true!

Rite Aid $4.76 Money Maker!

A trip to Rite Aid this Sunday yielded the following:

2 Rolls of Bounty Basic $0.99 each
2 Purex 3-in-one laundry sheets $3.00 each
1 Motrin $3.00
2 Pantene shampoo/conditioner $3.50 each
1 Colgate toothpaste $2.99

Coupons:
1, $5.00 off $20 RA coupon
2, $1.00 off Purex printables
1, $2.00 off Purex VV (May)
1, $1.00 off two Bounty towels
1, $3.00 off Motrin PM
1, $1.50 off pantene from home mailing
1, $1.00 off colgate

Paid:
$6.24 OOP, Got back $3.00 Up reward on Motrin, $2.00 Up on Colgate, $3.00 Up on Panteen. Plus I got back a $3.00 SCR on the Pantene (this has to be e-mailed to you or you won't receive credit for it). For a Money Maker of $4.76. For some reason the Up reward did not print on the Purex, but it's only a dollar so I let it slide.

Corporate Calling...I'm Bringing Coupons Back!

So I took the day off Friday to for a little R&R. During the day I made a "quick" trip to Rite Aid to pick up some of last weeks deals. Everything was going smoothly as planned until...the cashier looked at my two $10.00 Everlast coupons and told me, "you can only use one".

Now I frequently need to "educate" cashiers about their own corporate coupon policies, but this particular cashier wouldn't not hear it (or see it, as I bring my own copy of the policy for exactly this reason). The cashier called for the manager who also told me (even after seeing the policy)that her district manager said they were "losing too much money" so they are "cutting back on coupon use". She then told me that "they"(district manager) don't "interpret" the policy to mean that customers can use two coupons on a bogo sale.

I stayed calm while the manager went to the back to call her district manager. I explained "in a calm and appropriate manner" that it doesn't really matter what the district manager says, as I have a copy of Corporate's policy, but she was not able to hear this. While she called, I called corporate from my cell phone. Once I got the CSR I told her the situation and handed my phone to the cashier who then handed the phone to the manager.

They were gone for about 5 minutes, but when they came back the manager apologized (after both the cashier and manager repeatedly acted like I was trying to leave the building with a flat screen TV in my pants). The cashier even said to me, "You'd be getting 5 items for $0.76". I responded, "Exactly, that's why I use coupons". She then asked me if I worked for corporate, I didn't say anything, just smiled.

Long story short the manager told me that I was right and she was sorry for the "confusion". I concurred and responded, "I'm glad we're all on the same page".

I don't like to argue, but when I'm right I will be aggressive assertive until I make my point. I left the store with everything in the photo for just $3.20 (two transactions). Plus I'll get back a $10.00 scr on the sunglasses and a $3.00 scr on the secret for a moneymaker of $6.80! The moral of this story is, be assertive, if you know you're right, don't let cashier bully you into feeling like you're doing something wrong. The whole ride home poor E had to listen to me singing my best rendition of "I'm bringing coupons back..." Yeah I Lame, I know.

Another Rite Aid Trip, Another Money Maker!

Transaction #1:
Bought:
2 Stayfree Maxi Pads (on sale Buy 1 Get 1 50% Off) $4.29 each
1 Visine All Day Itchy Relief .17 oz $12.99
1 Motrin PM 40 count $4.99
1 Johnson first Aid tape $1.99

Coupons:
1, $5/$25 Rite Aid coupon printable
1, bogo free staygree 1/3 RP (made the 50% off item $2.14 FREE)
1, $1.00 Stayfree coupon from a mailing
1, $3.00 Visine in-ad coupon
1, $3.00 Visine coupon 3/14 RP
1, $1.00 Motrin coupon 3/14 RP
1, $1.00 Johnson first aid 1/3 RP

Paid: $9.26


Transaction #2:

Bought:
1 Neosporin Cream $3.99
1 Band-aid Brand Bandages $1.99
1 KY Yours & Mine Couples Lubricant $14.99
1 Johnson’s bedtime bath $4.49

Coupons:
$5/$25 Rite Aid coupon
1, $1.00 Johnsons Baby in-ad coupon
1, $1.00 Johnson’s coupon printable
1, $3.00/2 Neosporin/Band-aid coupon 2/21 SS

Paid: Zero (paid with a gift card). Would have been $17.40 if I'd paid out of pocket.

Total from both transactions:

Will get back $25 Single Check Rebate #24 Making my total cost FREE! Plus a $15.74 moneymaker! Plus I'll probably auction off the yours and mine on e-bay making this a bigger money maker.

As I mentioned in my last Rite Aid post, I shop for my mom and grandma since they aren't Rite Aid shoppers. If you're just shopping for yourself you can only do one Single Check Rebate per household.

Rite Aid, Saved $104.05! MADE$1.32!!, 4 Transactions

Transaction One

Bought:
1 Pampers $9.99 (Keeping these in case I need a shower gift)
2 John Frieda $10
2 Starburst $1.49 BOGO

Coupons Used:
1, $5.00/$20.00 Rite Aid VV
1, $1.50 Pampers (couldn't find the ones listed on the $2.00 cpn)
1, $1.00 John Frieda Rite Aid VV
2, $3.00 John Frieda from 3/7 SS
1, $1.49 BOGO Starburst from facebook
1, $1.00 off $1.99 or greater hair care wellness coupon from a Rite Aid Receipt
Total = $5.88 ($0.39 was tax)
Saved: $29.28!

Transaction Two

Bought:
2 Almay One coat mascaras $6.99 bogo
1 Cover Girl tru blend powder Free (bogo cover girl)
1 Cover Girl tru blend minerals powder $8.69

Coupons:
1, $3.00/$15.00 Rite Aid
1, $1.00 off Almay 3/7 SS

Total=$1.88 ($0.88 was tax)
Saved: $23.07!
Will get back $5.00 Almay SCR (hopefully depending on if they count the bogo)

Transaction Three:

Bought:
2 Biore Pore Strips $10
2 Biore Cleansers $10

Coupons:
1, $5.00/$20.00 Rite Aid VV
2, Buy pore strips get cleanser free=$10.00

Total=$6.05 ($1.05 was tax),
Saved: $17.92
Will get back 2, $5.00 SCRs (one from the 3 Biore and one with 1 Biore plus the two John Freidas from transaction 1)

Transaction Four:

Bought:
1 Crest with Scope $2.74
1, Nyquil $4.99
1 Metamucil $9.99 (Huge container!)
2 Cover Girl tru blend powder $8.69 bogo

Coupons:
1, $5.00 off $2.00 Rite Aid
1, $1.00 off crest
1, $1.50 off Nyquil 3/7
1, $3.00 off metamucil
1, $8.69 bogo Cover Girl

Total= $7.87 ($0.45 was tax)
Saved: $33.78!
Will get back $1.00 on the crest, $5.00 on the metamucil, $2.00 on the nyquil.

Total for all 4 transactions= $21.68 (Saved $104.05), Total minus SCR= MoneyMaker of $1.32! Plus I'll have $27.71 towards the $10.00 Rite Aid gift card when you buy $30.00 of Proctor and Gamble products(more if the cover girl counts towards that total).