A Remarkable Day

As was posted earlier, I shopped several stores on 9-02-10 and made a killing.  Overall, I spent just $7.06 in real actual cash for $129.00 worth of products.  OK, true, that $129.00 reflects the ridiculously high drugstore pricing, but saving nearly 95% is impressive.

Also, of that $7.06, over half of it ($4.26) is local tax.  So that reduces the actual non-tax purchase total to $2.80. Amazing.

Using simple sale and clearance pricing, that $129 gets reduced to just over $80.  So spending a mere seven dollars for what others are paying $80 is pretty phenomenal.

Of course, it certainly helps that I am able to purchase for three separate households, allowing me to take advantage of the nifty "Save $4 Off Any $20+ Purchase" in-store CVS coupons which are spitting out of the coupon machines roughly 48 hours after you use the PREVIOUS one.  In fact, I have had to restrain my purchases somewhat to keep my purchase level ONLY $20-$25.  There have been several times I could have bought even more items, but that would minimize the impact of the "$4 Off $20+" coupons.

I still have not completed roughly half the ECB offers this week on each of the cards.  After all, the sales/offers do continue until Saturday.

As for Thursday, for $7.06 in actual cash, I bought:

15 Oral B toothbrushes
2 Glide Floss
2 Boxes of Cereal
2 Candy Bars
1 Medium Bag of MMs
2 Snack Size Peanuts (4oz)
1 DayQuil
1 Dulcolax
2 Energy Chews
2 XMAS Gifts

Oh, and even though I spent a tad over seven dollars in real cash, I increased my stash of in-store ExtraCareBucks from nearly 57.00ECB to nearly 67.00ECB -- an increase of TEN DOLLARS in store credit.   So, in effect, CVS paid me $3.00 to take home all the items listed above.