The Checkout Chicks

Here are a few of the deals I’m working this week.

Kroger
Tyson whole chickens - $.49/lb (some stores in the Richmond, VA area have different prices. As low as $.29/lb!)

RiteAid
Jane Be Pure mineral makeup - $5.99 - $5.99 rebate - $2.00 coupon Money Maker!!
OralB toothbrushes - $3.19 - $3.19 rebate FREE
GUM toothbrushes - $2 - $1 rebate - $1 q FREE

CVS
I need to do some research on the CVS deals for this week but these two struck me right off the bat.

Raisin Bran - 2 for $3.99 - $1.50 q - $1.50 q Money Maker!! *The coupon on SmartSource.com sometimes prints as $1 and sometimes as $1.50. If you are able to print two of them at $1.50 or one of each, you make money.

Herbal Essence - BOGO
Purchase 10 (5 free). At $4.29 ea, your total is $21.45. Use a “$4 off of $20” coupon.  Use five $3 off of 2 Herbal Essences coupons for an additional $15 off your total.  You will pay $2.45 for 10 bottles of shampoo, or $.24/bottle.

Sources: $4/$20 @ I *heart* CVS, deal from HotCouponWorld.com

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I love RiteAid! If you watch for their loss leaders, you can walk away with free or close-to-free toiletries and household cleaners weekly.

Each month, RiteAid releases a list of all the rebated items. You can find this list on the RiteAid Rebates Plus site and in a special sales flier at the front of the store. I always keep a copy of the paper flier in my coupon tote for easy reference.  These rebates are called Single Rebate Checks (SRCs).

I always scan the rebate list each week before I go through the weekly sales flier. This helps refresh my memory and helps key sale products to jump out at me. Most of the time, RiteAid weekly sales fliers will tell you which items have Single Rebate Checks available but sometimes they don’t.

As I make out my weekly shopping list, I compare sales prices amongst the various stores, keeping in mind the SRCs at RiteAid, ECBs at CVS and mail-in rebates at Walgreen’s. The key is to find the best price keeping in mind all these extras, plus coupons, plus sale prices.

Once you’re done shopping, claiming your rebates is so easy! Go to the RiteAid Rebates Plus site, log-in, and enter your receipt info.  The site shows you how to do this step-by-step.  Once your info is entered, their system will verify the items you purchased and check for any applicable rebates.  It takes a few days for this transaction to happen so don’t freak out that it doesn’t give any info right away.  If you didn’t purchase enough items to qualify for a rebate, the site will note this for you.

Keep entering your receipts throughout the month.  Once the month is over and all your receipts have been processed, simply click and your rebate check will be processed and mailed to you.  I told you it was easy!

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On Monday, I gave you a list of the best buys for restocking my family. These are products that we use regularly. I always buy these items when they are on deep discount or free. I have not had to purchase these items at full price since I started couponing this past fall. But the proof is in the pudding, as they say, so here’s what I bought!

RiteAid

(1) Aquafresh Extreme Clean - $2.49
(2) Secret Deoderant + BONUS trial size - $2.50 ea - $5.00
(1) GasX Thin Strips - $4.99

Coupons:
- $1.00 Aquafresh Extreme Clean Polish
- $1.00 GasX
- $ .50 Secret
- $ .50 Secret

Total OOP: $9.48

Rebates:
$2.49 Aquafresh
$1.00 GasX (You can claim up to 3 this month)
$1.00 Secret
$1.00 Secret (limit 2 rebates this month)

Total cost: $1.99

CVS

(2) GasX Thin Strips - $5.69 ea
(4) Hardbound journals - $1.00 ea

Coupons:

- $1.00 GasX
- $1.50 GasX

Total: $12.88
ECB: - $12.00
Total OOP: $ .88

ECB Earned:
$10.00 - buy $10 of GasX
$2 off $10 of CVS products
$3 off CVS Air Shield

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http://www.riteaid.com/www.riteaid.com/w-content/images/pharmacy/TransferPrescriptionCpn0308.pdf

$20 prescription transfer coupon, expires 6/30/08

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I sat down this morning with all the sales fliers to determine my shopping plan for this week. As usual, most of the drugstores have the same items on sale so it’s a matter of price shopping to get the best deals.

For example:

Rite Aid Lysol Wipes are 2 for $5, then you get a Single Rebate Check (SRC) for $1. Your effective prices before coupons is 2 for $4. Not bad but I kept looking.

Walgreens has Lysol Wipes in a twin-pack for $3.49. Even better!

Then I took a closer look. The twin-pack wipes were 70 count each. The Rite Aid sale wipes were 35-40 count! Definitely a much better deal at Walgreens.

Go to The Coupon Clippers and search on Lysol to purchase a $1/2 q for Lysol Wipes.

Secret Deodorant
Secret deodorant is on sale $4/2 after SRC at Rite Aid. I have $2qs for Secret Clinical Strength. If the Secret Clinical Strength is included in the sale, these will be free. If not, I have $.50 qs for any Secret for an effective price of $1.50 each.

Here’s the list of items I’ll be restocking this week:

Rite Aid

(1) Aquafresh Extreme Clean: $2.49 - $2.49SRC = FREE *Use a q for overage (limit 1 SRC)
(2) Secret Deoderant: 2 for $5 - $1SRC = $2 each (use q’s for $2 or $.50 off each) (limit 1 SRC)
(1) GasX: $4.99 - $1SRC - $1q = $2.99 ea (limit 1 SRC)

CVS

(2) GasX : $4.99 - $1q = $3.99 **Purchase 2 and get $10 ECB

Walgreens

Milk - Need to check the prices. The sales flier only said “Great Low Price”.
(2) Lysol Twin Packs - $3.49 per pack - $1/2 = $2.49 or $1.29 each

Items of Note:

• There are $1 and $1.50 GasX qs out there. Use the $1.50 for better savings
• Go to The Coupon Clippers to purchase any of the qs you need to make these deals.

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Rite Aid has Aquafresh Extreme Clean on sale this week.

Aquafresh Extreme Clean $2.49
Single Rebate Check -$2.49

That makes it free. BUT! There’s a coupon form out there for a manufacturer refund up to $3.99

“Aquafresh Extreme Clean Polishing Action Toothpaste Try Me Free Form, buy any Aquafresh Extreme Clean Polishing Acton Toothpaste, 5.6 oz or larger, send form, UPC, cash register receipt dated 2/18/08-5/31/09, BOX 2002, receive refund up to $3.99″
You can purchase the coupon from The Coupon Clippers (until they run out of them).

By combining the sale price, the rebate and the coupon, you actually make money.

Edited to add: If you can’t get the coupon mentioned above, go to www.aquafresh.com, click on Extreme Clean and print out the $1 coupon.

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