Weekend Shopping

so weekend shopping trips:
I'll probably end up using coupon jargon, if you're not familiar with it, check out some couponing sites, they're pretty good about explaining things or ask here I suppose.

CVS
Ok here I have two CVS cards, my regular one, and the one I get from my health insurace (it uses the CVS Caremark program. I use it mostly for perscriptions, or if I'm buying CVS branded stuff (card gets a 20% discount on it)).
on my caremark I had $4 in Extra bucks (EB) expiring on Sunday, so I went in and just picked up 2 thermacares which were Free after EB. Apparently there is an online coupon for it, but it's not working at the moment, still free is good.
so transaction
2 thermacare (neck and shoulder) 4.98
- $4 ecb
0.98 ( 0.06 tax) paid,
get back $4.98 in EB

so pay a dollar to get an EB and not let it expire, not bad.
I'll roll my other card's EB this week I have $8 in EB on it. And it usually gets a $3 off $15 so I'll probably need to cook up a bigger scenario.


next stop, rite aid. The hand soap took me forever to find in the store, seriously.

This was a bigger purchase
2x Purex 3-in-1 (20 sheets) 8.99 (B1G1 store promo)
1x Kotex-U pads $3.49
1x Pure and Natural Hand soap $4.49
2x GE Reveal Lightbulbs (40 and 60 watts) $6/2
$22.98
- $5/20 rite aid coupon
- 2x $2/1 purex 3-in-1 (Rite Aid VV)
- 2x $2/1 purex 3-in-1 (MF RP 4/18)
- $1/1 Kotex U MQ (printed online)
- $3/1 Pure and Natural hand or bath soap (Rite Aid VV)
- $2/1 Pure and Natural, any (coupons.com)
- 2x $1/1 GE Reveal (RP 3/7? I think, also in 4/18)
= 1.98+tax
plus submit for SCRs and get
$3.49 Kotex U
$2 + $2 for GE Reveals
so made 5 bucks there

Also stopped in at price chopper to grab some kitty food
they had 9 lives on sale for 3.49, and I had a 75c coupon which doubled, so about $2 for 3.5lbs of food. My usual goal here is to get about a dollar a pound for the food. So while the food ranks on my scale on the poorer end (I judge by the first few meat products that appear, in general: deboned chicken > chicken > chicken meal > chicken by-product meal > poultry by-product meal). Of course I could buy all the nice organic stuff for them, but hey then they'd be eating better than we are (also one is partly outdoors and supplements her meals quite nicely with mice and such things).

further plans for the week,
Walgreens is having a nature's bounty vitamin D sale, Free after register rewards, so print a few coupons for them and make some money there. Pair up with their kotex U deal (3.49 -1q, get 2.50RR) and I'll have a nice switch setup with a few extras tossed in). Also thursday is apparently $1 cartridge refill day, so that sounds good, given I'm all but out of ink.

Nothing particularly interesting on the grocery front, so I'll just buy standard groceries for the week, maybe whittle down the supply of frozen veggies I have.