Finally, CVS, Wags, and Price Chopper this week

You know, living with a bathroom in the middle of "renovation" puts a cramp in living. Which is why, in part, I'm finally getting around to my rounds. I'm very disappointed, though, because it means I missed all free things I could have gotten at CVS earlier in the week. Well, I still did pretty well there anyway.

Since tomorrow starts a whole new week for CVS and Walgreens, I'm not going to go into details about my savings since I don't think most of you will be running out within the next few hours to score the same deals!

Walgreens was a little disappointing compared to usual since I only had $1 in RR and no coupons! My retail 28.42 was only reduced by 23% to 21.97. I did receive $5 in RR making my final total 16.97 or 40% savings. That's my usual grocery store savings, not Wags! Oh well.

At Price Chopper, however, I did an awesome job. My retail was 21.69 and after sales and coupons, I paid 4.70. That's a 73% savings. Yippee!! I don't usually do that well at grocery stores. found my deals on www.kcpennypinchinmama.com

• The first best deal: Bic pens. They are on sale for 2 for $1.00. Get a coupon from www.coupons.com for $1/2 and they are free. I walked out with 6 packs of pens for nothing.
• Kellogg’s Pop Tarts, Selected Varieties---Price with card: $1.49 Less $0.55/1 coupon 6-7-09 RP (exp. 8-2) or $0.55/1 Blueberry Muffin here Final Price: $0.94
• Sunshine Cheez-Its---Price with card: $1.99 Less $0.75/1 coupon here Final Price: $1.24
• Hunt’s Ketchup--Price with card: $0.99 Less $0.20/1 coupon 6-21-09 SS Final Price: $0.79

CVS was the best deal. My retail was 36.01. After sales, coupons, and ECB, my OOP was 7.31 which was a savings of 80%. Then the gave me $8 back in ECB making my final cost....FREE.

Also, if you have an Extra Care Card from CVS (which you should have by now), you also get a few gift from CVS in August the first time you use your card. My free gift coupon is for a bottle of aspirin. OK, it's not that great...but it will be free when I turn it in!!!!

Free Pens at Price Chopper

This week, Price Chopper has Bic Pens on sale at 2 for $1.00. Hurry over to www.coupons.com. There is a coupon for $1.00/2 Bic items. Bada Bing. Bada Boom...put the sale and the coupon together and you have free pens!

Price Chopper on Saturday

Made a Price Chopper run on Saturday morning. Surprisingly, it wasn't too busy. I had warned Micki that I was going to be taking some time thinking about things, and it wasn't until about the last 5 minutes she started asking, "Are we done yet?"

I'm not going to list everything I purchased, but I did make good use of the two Box Top for Education deals I mentioned below...I purchase 6 boxes of Hamburger/Chicken Helper and 9 boxes of Cheerios. That's what's called "stocking up." I was actually out of cereal, so the timing was great on that one.

I actually did a little better than usual for a grocery store run. My retail was $181. After coupons and sales, my OOP was 71.77 which is a savings of 60%. That means, I walked out of the store with $109 worth of groceries I didn't have to pay for. Wow, I like the thought of that!

Now, I've pulled off my 12 UPCs, circled the items on the receipt, printed up the form and am getting ready to send in for my 100 Box Tops. You may wonder why a homeschooler would care about Box Tops. Two words. Homeschool group.

Box Tops for Education

Some of you may collect Box Tops for Education and this is a great week to do it.
Price Chopper is offering many of them on sale this week AND are offering a way to get 100 more for free.

Some of the deals I picked up for www.kcpennypinchinmama.com this week for Box Tops include:

General Mills Cereals, Select Varieties
Price with card: $1.97Less
$1.00/2 or $1.00/3 coupons 6-28-09, 7-12-09 or 7-19-09 SS or $0.55/1 and $0.75/1 coupon here or here
Final Price: As low as $1.22 each

Hamburger, Chicken or Tuna Helper
Price with card: $0.97
Less $0.75/3 coupons 5-31-09 SS and/or 6-7-09 SS (exp 7-25) or here
Final Price: 3/$2.16 or $0.72 each

(Yes, both are cheaper than you can get them at Aldi's.)

Make sure you purchase at least 12 of the items at the same time, because you then print up this form http://www.mypricechopper.com/SpecialPromotions/2009/BoxTopEntryForm5.pdf and mail in the receipt and the 12 UPC and tada! you get 100 bonus box tops. Make sure you purchase them between 7/20 and 8/16. It must be postmarked by 8/16/09 and received by 8/31/09.