My bargains of the day

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Registered: 07-26-1999
My bargains of the day
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Sat, 10-25-2008 - 11:18pm

I read the flyers this morning and Shoppers Drug Mart had tampons, toilet paper and facial tissue on really great sale, so I went. They always have a little section of perfumes that are on sale for $19.99 a bottle too. It's where I bought my one bottle of perfume close to a year ago and I thought another bottle would be nice.

I grabbed my tampons and tissue at one end of the store and didn't pick up toilet paper. Then I found myself with three bottles of $19.99 perfume in my hand. One of which I know I like and one that was reasonably okay, and one that they didn't have a tester for that is normally very expensive. So I asked the (excellent, for once) sales woman if I smelled the perfume somewhere else and didn't like it, could I bring it back (unopened and with the receipt). She said sure, no problem, so I bought the one I hadn't smelled.

Then she said that they had a deal on this week where if you spend $50 before tax and coupons you get a $10 gift certificate for your *next* purchase. I was at $47 something so I ran back across the store and got the tp. Carted my stuff to my car and thought why would I wait to use that $10 gift certificate on another visit where I will buy something I don't want or need and likely spend way more than $10 on a return visit. So I ran back in and got 4 boxes of tampons at 2 for $5. I used the gc and those four boxes cost me 50 cents.

Then I went elsewhere and the perfume I bought without smelling was $60. I smelled it and hated it, so I went right back and exchanged the bottle I'd just bought. I figured I would just exchange it for the other same priced bottle. After a big production of them refunding me for the one I returned, the one I wanted in exchange was only $9.99. Nobody said **anything** about that $10 gc that I got with the original $50 purchase, so I signed for my $10 bottle of perfume and sailed out the door. So I got that $10 gc for spending just over $40, though I honestly wasn't trying to scam them. I was figuring on doing a same-value exchange.

I just did the math on it all and 6 boxes of tampons, a package of pads, a big package of toilet paper and a box of facial tissue cost me $12.39 including the tax. Yes the perfume was expensive but I will enjoy it for a long time to come and I won't have to spend money on paper products for quite some time. I know there is probably a better forum but I am quite pleased with myself and felt like sharing. Anyone else find a great deal they'd like to share?

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Registered: 04-12-2007
Sun, 10-26-2008 - 10:17am

I went to CVS the other day to get some cough syrup for DH.

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Registered: 10-01-2008
Mon, 10-27-2008 - 12:23pm

I've been using my CVS customer card to purchase makeup items instead of buying from the dermatologist or Estee Lauder.

Norma


"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble"- Plautus


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Registered: 07-05-2006
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 10:09pm

I really did my homework this week on groceries. I looked for coupons, checked the sale fliers, went online and planned my meals according to what I had on hand. I bought 183 dollars of groceries for 144. Plus I have 7 dollars worth of rebates coming my way from some of the items I bought. That's almost 50 dollars that I saved! Yay! And if you think that's a lot of money on groceries, I have 3 kids and I actually planned out 7 dinners, 7 breakfasts and 7 lunches so we would NOT go out to eat this week! If we run out of food midway through the week, we

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Registered: 07-26-1999
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 10:13pm
That is excellent. I really need to start planning what I am going to eat and I really, really need to start making my snacks and lunches for work. I have no discipline for that.
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Registered: 10-02-2008
Tue, 10-28-2008 - 11:34pm

We don't have a CVS around here but I SCORED at Walgreen's yesterday.

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Registered: 07-05-2006
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 8:39am

HEY.....Walgreens has some great rebates and coupons online. Go to http://www.walgreens.com/store/rebateclub.jsp