Two Months and 31 Transactions Later

OK, so now it has been two months since I first started tracking my savings at CVS.  By using store coupons, manufacturers coupons, and in-store "scrip" (ExtraBucks!), I have made quite a haul.

My 31 transactions have cost me slightly under $50 in actual cash out-of-packet ($48.77).  That small amount of real, actual currency has yielded $880.84 worth of products.  While it is true the nearly $881 in product represents the grossly-overpriced prices that drugstores often charge, a savings of 94.5% is pretty impressive.

Of course, I would rarely buy any item for FULL PRICE, so let's take a look at the savings versus Sale Prices.   Many, many of the items I have purchased have been on sale or clearance. Still, the total purchase amount comes to $580.63, a savings of nearly 92%.

Now, the other key number is the amount of tax I have had to pay.  My total out-of-pocket actual expense has been $48.77. Yet, of that amount, well over half is TAX.  My total tax paid comes to $28.77, leaving the actual amount of cash used to purchase nearly nine hundred dollars worth of items is barely twenty dollars.

Yup,  that's right, $20.20 is the non-tax amount spent to buy dozens of items.