Starting out the new week

This week's biggest deal for me personally will be the buy 3 Dimetap and get $10 RR. Dimetap are $3.99 on sale this week - and you can print as many $2/1 coupons as your little heart desires here. Basic math makes this $5.97 out of pocket and $10 back or a $4.03 profit one each set of three. I plan to do this a couple times and save the RR for another deal in a couple weeks.

I did pick up the Arm & Hammer laundry detergent. On sale for $2.99, $1/1 here and $1 ESR - bringing it down to $.99 for a bottle of detergent. I've heard some good things about this stuff - maybe this will be what finally cures our cloth diaper woes!

I had a little snafu with insurance about one of my prescriptions, so I know I'll be back at Walgreens tomorrow. But here was today's summary:

Arm & Hammer $2.99
Dimetap $3.99
Dimetap $3.99
Dimetap $3.99
-$1
-$2
-$2
-$2

Total $7.96
Received $10 RR and $1.10 ESR (110%)

Everything was in stock!!!!

Everything was there, and one of the products (the Pediatric Sinus Rinse) had an additional $1.00 off NOW coupon on it! There was a $1.50 rebate coupon attached to my Sucrets, but it's good well into 2009 and I have a $2.00 rebate on that one for now. So, I'll hang on to that one. Also, the BOGO on the throat coolers was only up to $2.50 and mine were $2.99. But, seriously, $.49 for a second box - I'm FINE with that!

This was such a great deal because not only will things come back FAR, but the out of pocket up front was so much lower because most of them were on sale, too. I don't usually do the regular price/sale price listing, but for this deal I really want to. If nothing else, just another reminder of how God has blessed us in a time when money is tight. And I'm thankful.

*Sucrets Herbal Berry $4.49/$2.99
*Chapstick Nat Lip Btr $2.99
Theraflu Warming Cough and Cold $6.29/$3.99
Lizard Lips $1.99/$.99
Triaminic Daytime Cough and Cold strips $6.99/$3.99
NeilMed Neti Pot w/ 50 Pkts $14.99/$10.99
Sinus Rinse Pedi Kit $7.99/$4.99
Soft Lips Pomegranate $3.99/$2.99
Little Colds Cough $5.99/$3.99
LypSyl $2.99/$1.99
Throat Cooler Grape $3.99/$2.99
Throat Cooler Strawberry $3.99/$2.99
Hyland's Sniffles and Sneezes Kids $6.49/$3.99
Simply Saline Baby $5.99/$3.99
Simply Saline Sinus Kit $9.99/$6.99
Bee MD Honey Lemon Cough Drops $2.99/$2.49
Children's Advil Blue Raspberry $6.99/$3.99
Excedrin Extra Strength Express Gels $4.69/$3.99

Coupons (links here):
-$2.50 (throat cooler BOGO)
-$1.00 Sinus Rinse Pediatric
-$2.00 Excedrin
-$2.00 Triaminic
-$3.00 Neti Pot
-$1.00 Theraflu
-$1.00 Children's Advil

Totals:
Regular $103.82
Sale $71.32
After coupons/gift card (OOP) $48.82

Single Check Rebate -$71.32
Additional MIRs (-$7.99)

FINAL -$30.49

Between the Robitussin deal from Walgreens last month and this AWESOME deal from RA, we are set to tackle whatever this winter throws at us! Plus, I left there today with all those things above and an additional $30.49 soon to be in my pocket! What a great way to start the day!

My second home

Since I'm submitting this for a weekly wind-up, here's the links to all of my Walgreens trips for the week:
MamaOnABudget: I'm on a Walgreens HIGH!
MamaOnABudget: This is becoming my go-to store

I went back to Walgreens today and had the price corrected on the toilet gels (they were, in fact, $.50 less than what they rang up - giving me $1 back). I've never returned an ESR item (or two) before, so I'm not sure how that's going to work... since it had already been approved. I think I'll just enter the new receipt with the two of them on there for the correct price and hope that covers my bases. Otherwise - I'll just give them a call.

Also got the Halloween candy with the sale, coupon and ESR mentioned in the last post.

I really do have a great Walgreens!

Time to ready the medicine cabinets!

Rite Aid has 30 different products for cold and flu season FREE AFTER REBATE this week! If free isn't good enough for you, I've also found some additional coupons that I'll be using at my RA tomorrow. Many were from this post by Money Saving Mom, but a few I hunted out on my own (as you'll see in the comment section of her post).

I admit it - I'm not in RA often enough yet to know the layout of the store, so I made the decision to go there this week simply to case out where the items for this sale are located. I even made notes in my rebate booklet =) So I've got my "map" drawn up, and I'm heading there as soon as they open tomorrow (8 AM) to get my products for this rebate. I'm doubly excited that my $10 RA gift card arrived this week - so that will be even less out of pocket!

Here's my list:
NeilMed Nasalflo Neti Pot--$10.99
There's a $3/1 printable here
Free plus $3 overage

NeilMed Sinus Rinse Starter--$4.99
There's a $3/1 printable MIR here
(This MIR only needs a copy of the receipt - so I can keep it with the other purchases)
Free plus $3 overage

Simply Saline Sinus Kit--$6.99
Free after rebate

Children's Advil 4 oz. Liquid--$3.99
There's a $1/1 printable here
Free plus $1 overage

Theraflu 8.3 oz.--$3.99
There's a $1/1 printable here
Free plus $1 overage

Excedrin Express Gels 20-ct.--$3.99
There's a $2/1 printable here
Free plus $2 overage

Triaminic Strips 14-ct.
There's a $2/1 coupon here
Free plus $2 overage

Simply Saline Baby 1.5 oz.--$3.99
Free after rebate

Children's Throat Cooler Pops 6-ct--$2.99
BOGO coupon here
TWO Free after rebate

Little Colds/Noses 1.7 oz. mist or 1 oz. liquid--$3.99
Free after rebate

Hyland's 125-ct. or 4 oz. liquid--$3.99
Free after rebate

Bee MD Drops 21-ct.--$2.49
Free after rebate

Softlips 1 or 2 pk.--$2.99
Free after rebate

Lizard Lips--$0.99
Free after rebate

Lypsyl 1-ct.--$1.99
Free after rebate

Separate Transaction
Sucrets 18-ct.--$2.99
Additional $2 MIR here
Free plus $2 overage

Separate Transaction
Chapstick True Shimmer--$1.99
MIR in this Sunday's (10/12) Red Plum insert - free up to $2.99
Free after rebate x2!!!

This is becoming my go-to store

I really didn't feel like leaving the house today. It may not seem that way from this blog, but I really do not like to go shopping. I'm a homebody - I'd rather be home with my family and taking care of things here than out and about... especially E-V-E-R-Y day. But that last post... I knew I had to get there today or tomorrow to get the rest of the things on the list for the rebate while they were on sale. So, my incredibly awesome husband offered to get whatever I needed at Walgreens if I made him a list.

And he did good!

Scrubbing Bubbles Shower Cleaner Kit $19.99
Shout Wipes $2.50
Gator Bite mints $.99 (they weren't on the list, but I cut him some slack =) )
Scrubbing Bubbles Toilet Brush Max Kit $3.99
Windex $2.50
Scrubbing Bubbles Toilet Gel $4.49 (this should have been $3.99 - and it was wrong last time, too...)
Subtotal: $34.46

Coupons
-$1.50 Shout product
-$2.00 Toilet Gels
-$2.00 Toilet Brush Max
-$2.00 Windex
-$10.00 Automatic Shower Cleaner

Total: $16.96
(110% ESRs for $16.50)

If I can get that toilet gels thing corrected (the ad says they're on sale - I thought the tag in the store did as well), we'll make $.04 on this deal. But even without, we did really, really well.

(Edit - I did get it price corrected on 10/11, so we were paid $.04 to shop there today!)

I tried to find the coupon I had for Halloween candy before G left, but I didn't until he was already gone. So I will be heading out one more time tomorrow. Hershey's funsize candies are part of the big sale this week that will break down like this for us:
Sale - $10/4
ESR (110%) - $4/4(.40)
2 coupons for $1/2
$1 ($.90) each bag!

We're in a new area for Halloween this year (actually, we weren't even here for Halloween last year as we were out of town for a funeral). So we have NO idea if we'll get a lot of kids or not. There are a ton of vacation rentals around us, so I have a feeling that it will be a slow area here in favor of the year-round homes on the east side of town. But I don't want to be caught empty treat-bowled =)

So ONE more post tomorrow. Then, I'm pretty sure, I'll even be able to send in my ESR after that (though I may just wait until the end of the month... just in case).

Making ESR #27 a little sweeter

Money Saving Mom has a new link to some coupons from Right @ Home with great deals on the SC Johnson products in ESR #27, as well as a coupon making the Automatic Shower Cleaner free after coupon and ESR #29 this week!

Yup - I'll be heading back to Walgreens to finish off 27 with some shout wipes and either the scrubbing bubbles shower cleaner spray or Windex. And I haven't heard much good about the automatic shower cleaner... but maybe this will be my chance to try it and give my own review! Either that or it would make a nice addition to a basket of other cleaning products to give to a friend or child as a new-home present or for a college apartment!

How 'bout some cake?

A diaper cake, that is!

Home Ec 101 is doing a giveaway for a diaper cake! Pop over here and enter for a chance to enter for the giveaway. Contest ends midnight (Central) tomorrow!