Walgreen's

I haven't shopped at Walgreen's for quite a while now. The last thing I did was buy the monthly rebate items. If you're new at shopping at Walgreen's (Mink), you might want to try doing that. You get the Easy Saver Catalog from Walgreen's - it's usually right by the front door - open the booklet to the page where it lists all the items you can buy and get free after rebate. You send in a rebate, and get all your money back for them. Just remember you can only buy one of each item listed (unless it says otherwise). You can send your rebates in online and they'll send you a gift card. Then each month, you can keep doing the rebates and they'll keep putting it on your gift card, plus 10%. (or you can have them mail you a check, but they don't give you the extra 10% on it).

So...anyway, I had my gift card - about $28.

This is what I bought, and I paid nothing for it:


This was done in three transactions at two different stores (only because the first store was out of stock).


TRANSACTION #1:
- (3) Robitussin, on sale for $3.99 each
= Total: $11.97

- (3) $3 off coupons
= $9 off

New total: $2.97
Paid with gift card (nothing out-of-pocket)

Received $10 register rewards (RR)
- That's a profit of $7.03

FYI: Mink, RR print out from a machine separate from the receipt, but it comes at the same time as the receipt. At the stores I've been at, the cashier will pull off the receipt, as well as the RR and give it to you. You can use it like a manufacturer coupon afterwards and buy almost anything in the store with it. The idea is to use it to buy something else that will give you RR again. You don't get cash back on it. You cannot do this deal again and pay with that RR. You would have to do a different deal, get a different RR, and then you could do this deal again.



TRANSACTION #2:
I saw a few things on the free-after-rebate list from the monthly saver, so I bought those really quick (I was going to do the cleaner deal, but they didn't have the stock for it at this store).

Excedrin - 20 ct = $3.99
Crest Pro-Health Toothpaste (4.0 oz, I think) = 3.79
- I didn't use any coupons, but there might be some that would've gone with these. I kind of randomly decided to buy this and didn't really check the coupons (I'm behind on cutting mine out and didn't bring them all with me!)
= 7.78

Paid with my gift card.
Will send in the rebate info and get $7.78 on my gift card.

In the end it will be FREE.




TRANSACTION #3:
I went to a different store and they were better stocked:

The deal that I did was buy seven items that were listed in the weekly ad (you can mix and match the items that are 2.49 and 3.79. Just look through the ad, somewhere near the middle, and you'll see what I'm talking about - you can mix and match those). I bought seven of them so that I could get $10 back in RR. There is also the option of only buying two and getting $2 RR and some other option, but I don't remember. .

This is what I got:

Scrubbing Bubbles Wipes - 2.49
Windex - 2.49
Scrubbing Bubbles Shower - 3.79
- Coupon for $1.00
(2) Shout Wipes - 2.49 X 2 = 4.98
(2) Scrubbing Bubbles Starter Kit - 3.79 X 2 = 7.58
- Coupon for $2.75

Total (prior to coupons) = 21.33

$9.50 off from coupons

New total = $11.83
Paid with gift card (nothing out-of-pocket)

Received $10 RR
(kind of like paying $1.83 for all of that)

Another coupon you could use is for the Scrubbing Bubbles Toilet Gel $1 off

I used a coupon for each of the things I bought. The 7/20 SmartSource has lots of Scrubbing Bubble coupons, and Windex coupons. The 8/10 SS has the Shout coupon.

The plan was to pay with my $10 RR I just got from the Robitussin deal, but Violet was screaming and TS was upset, and I was flustered and couldn't quickly find an eighth item, so that I could use the RR. The kids are actually surprisingly good when I go shopping! I try to make it as fast of a trip as possible. This was probably the worst it has ever been shopping. Luckily it was only about five minutes of crying, and it was at the end of the shopping trip!

Just FYI, a RR is treated like a coupon. So, if you buy seven items, use seven coupons, and want to use your RR to pay for it - it will appear that you are using eight coupons on seven items. So, I was planning on buying a little $0.25 item to get my eight items, but Violet was starving and screaming, so I just gave up and paid with my gift card.

Now I have $20 in RR that I can use. I think tomorrow I am going to try to do the Robitussin deal again (if there is any left!) and I'll pay with my cleaners RR. Then I might do the cleaning one again, and pay with my Robitussin RR. I'll also try to do more of the monthly catalog items and will pay with either of the RR (and will get the rebates on those).

Mink, I know you might not do this deal, but I thought I'd include all that info in there to help teach a little bit about Walgreen's shopping. If you have any questions, let me know. If I don't know the answer, I have this nifty friend who almost for sure will!

I ramble a lot. I can't seem to make it short and simple...