So we started the day by going to get our coupons and usual cup of coffee at McDonald's. I had $1 off frappe coupons and usually I would go inside and use them but they are destroying our McDonald's currently and you can only use the drive-thru. So we went through, ordered and gave the girl our coupons. After we heard her yelling to a co-worker about using 2 coupons at once and what to do she came back to the window. Husband tried to give her our debit card to pay for the order and she told us it was free with the promo we used. I think she had our coupon confused with one they have for strawberry lemonade free, but I wasn't going to pass up $6.50 of coffee for free, so good start to the day.
They have this amazing hotel here that is part of the university I work at and they do a Sunday jazz brunch buffet which we have been dying to try. It is $20 a person, but they have such good food there I knew it would be worth it. We had reservations for 11am, but I wanted to hit CVS quickly before they ran out of the stuff I wanted this week. We went and got a few things (I will explain with the picture below), and while we were there I checked to see if they had my reach toothbrushes. I have had a rain check for these for over a month. I have looked at all of my CVS stores, I even checked one in New Orleans when I went home, but nothing. Of course they had them today, and of course I didn't have my rain check with me! Not complaining, I am just thrilled they had them!
The buffet was even more amazing than I thought it would be:) At first I was upset because I thought they had prime rib and I didn't see any. We decided to start with breakfast and each had an omelet, it was amazing, but so filling. Soon they did put out the prime rib and it was worth every penny we spent. We will be back and I will not be filling up on eggs!
Anyway... onto today's deals! So we got all of this at CVS. I find CVS confusing sometimes because of the Extra Care Bucks (ECB), which is a coupon you get back on your receipt to use on a future purpose. I try to be careful in getting stuff so that I don't spend to much on things we don't need. I started the day with $2 ECB and I finished the day with $2 ECB. In between I spent about $12, which I think is pretty good. If I would have paid full price for all of this it would have been over $60. The 5 single tooth brushes were the ones I had the rain check for- 5/$5, plus I had $5 in coupons to use. I spent 40 cents in tax for them which is amazing because they are usually more than $4 each. I had some left over coupons for reach and they had these double packs for $3.89 and you get $1 ECB, so I got those for 89 cents a pack, or about 45 cents a toothbrush- I think we are pretty set on those for a while. The Dr. Pepper was on sale $1 each. We have been trying really hard to stay away from soft drinks and we only make an exception for IBC root beer in the bottle. The problem is we drink a lot of root beer and they are expensive! I decided if we just stick to the root beer we are going to be poor, so we decided to break down and get a few soft drinks- only to drink with dinner I swear! So I used some ECB to pay for those. They had the biore stuff on sale for $7.99 each, which I think is insane, but I had a bogo coupon and they gave you $5 ECB when you bought two. So I used my previous $2 ECB and paid a little over $8 out of pocket and got $5 back, I think that is good, although I didn't really need this stuff, that is where it all gets confusing for me. I don't want to buy stuff just because it is cheap. They also had a deal on the suave products, buy $10 and get $3 ECB. The body wash was $2 each and I had bogo coupons and the deodorant, which I don't use but needed to make my $10- it will get donated- was $1 each and I had 50 cents coupons. I was prepared to use my $5 ECB to pay, but he rang up my coupons for $3 instead of $2- again not complaining!- so I used a 99 cent ECB we got for a pack of 99 cent gum we got earlier and paid a little over $2 out of pocket (They will not give you change back from an ECB). I have decided we no longer need body wash, I just counted and we have 18 assorted bottles in the stock pile! I'm guessing some of that will make its way to the donation pile:)
We also made a quick trip over to Kroger. They had the mountain dew on sale so when you bought 4 you got 2 free, which made them 84 cents each. The cookies were $1 after a coupon. I didn't have a coupon for the pasta roni, but it was on sale for $1 each and we make 2 boxes with some shrimp and voila- shrimp fettuccine, another cheap quick meal. Husband really likes the suave men's shampoo stuff and it is on sale for $1.67 a bottle at Kroger and I had 50 cents off 2 coupons that doubled, making it about $1.17 each, which isn't too bad. We paid about $18 for this stuff. The lady in front of us paid $171 for not even a full cart and I just about fell over thinking about spending that!
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