Today has been free pharmacy Monday.
For starters, Karen was able to get two free Glade Expressions Air Freshener Starter Kits at Walgreens thanks to her coupon skills. She was also able to get a free 8x10 picture collage from them too after ordering it online. Apparently, the application used to order pictures online for Walgreens is... well... clunky. (I saw the peculiar online behavior myself... and if I were to order prints again from Walgreens, I would probably order them in the store.)
In addition to that, we went to CVS after dinner. Too bad I suck at CVS. Luckily for me, I received a coupon today from CVS giving me $2 off of any purchase. We didn't really need anything, so we splurged a little by using the coupon on soda. We ended up getting two 2L bottles of soda. Yay!
Needless to say, it has been a free-filled fun day today.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
I Suck At Installing A Towel Ring
Among the many items on my "to-do" list is to install a towel ring in our first floor bathroom. Now, I suck at installing a towel ring. It's not that I can't physically install one. Like many of my other home improvement projects, the project remains on my list and remains there... for months if not years.
But not tonight. After a quick visit to Rite Aid, in which I only paid a whopping $0.32 for a chocolate covered cherry and a jumbo pack of Pamper diapers, I installed the towel ring. I guess I was riding the high of my shopping endeavor.
Interestingly enough, the associates at Rite Aid seem to know me now. I don't know if that is a good thing or not yet. When I walked in tonight, they immediately greeted me and asked if I were getting a good deal.
Anyway, the installation of the towel ring took no time at all. I think more time was spent cleaning up and bringing my tools back and forth from the garage. (I find that is generally the case.) But now, I can cross one item off of that home improvement "to-do" list. Too bad there are so many other items on it.
But not tonight. After a quick visit to Rite Aid, in which I only paid a whopping $0.32 for a chocolate covered cherry and a jumbo pack of Pamper diapers, I installed the towel ring. I guess I was riding the high of my shopping endeavor.
Interestingly enough, the associates at Rite Aid seem to know me now. I don't know if that is a good thing or not yet. When I walked in tonight, they immediately greeted me and asked if I were getting a good deal.
Anyway, the installation of the towel ring took no time at all. I think more time was spent cleaning up and bringing my tools back and forth from the garage. (I find that is generally the case.) But now, I can cross one item off of that home improvement "to-do" list. Too bad there are so many other items on it.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
I Suck At Veet
Today is feminine hygiene day, or at least it is if you happen to me. In an experiment to use coupons to save a boat load of moolah, I went to Rite Aid. As luck would have it, I had a $3 off a $15 purchase at Rite Aid, thanks to partaking in an online survey on a prior Rite Aid receipt.
So naturally, my goal was to buy just enough over the $15 mark to get the maximum saving. This week, certain feminine hygiene products are on sale for 2/$5. Thankfully, there is an online coupon for $1 off of 1 Carefree product.
For anyone curious, users are allowed to print 2 online coupons per item per computer. Because I am a tech geek, I have more than one computer. Consequently, I ended up printing 4 Carefree coupons.
I probably could have printed 6 coupons, but buying a quantity of 6 Carefree pads was overkill. Karen and I (although most likely Karen) would have to find some creative uses for that many pads.
As it was, I thought a quantity of 4 seemed like a lot. Consequently, I needed something else to get my order over $15. Enter Veet. Now, I suck at Veet. Naturally, Karen thought I was absolutely bonkers for even thinking about getting the hair removing product. Incidentally, "depilatory" was never in my vocabulary until now.
To me, Veet served as a means to an end. Rite Aid has an in-ad coupon for $2. There also happens to a $3 coupon for any Veet product compliments of Facebook. (I guess that is one of the few benefits of Facebook.) Although the price varies depending on the Veet product, I was able to find the cheapest Veet product: wax strips, which retailed for $4.49. At that price (including tax), and with the two coupons, I actually would get paid to buy that item.
So, throw in a candy bar or two (because the candy bar was buy one get one free this week), and I was able to get my purchase just over $15. When all was said and done, I paid a handful of change for my entire order. The actual final price came to a little over $3, but I had $3 in rewards to use. Hence, change.
And if you are curious, I also made $5 in loyalty rewards from the purchase. So I like to think that the $3 rewards that I put in to purchasing all those items was returned with $2 extra. Not bad if I do say so myself.
The associate at Rite Aid was amazed at my purchase, although she was probably more amazed that I bought the feminine products than the actual savings. She did say that my wife was "one lucky girl", because she said her husband would never have done that. As a side note, I had no idea there were so many types of pads. As well, pads are tax-free in the state of Massachusetts... another interesting note.
Anyway, so now I am a proud owner of Veet wax strips, a product that I will never use. Add that to my growing number of useless items (like the Got2B mousse). I will have my stockpile of useless items in no time. I will need to figure out how to pawn these items off onto my friends... although asking my female friends if they need to wax may be a little difficult...
So naturally, my goal was to buy just enough over the $15 mark to get the maximum saving. This week, certain feminine hygiene products are on sale for 2/$5. Thankfully, there is an online coupon for $1 off of 1 Carefree product.
For anyone curious, users are allowed to print 2 online coupons per item per computer. Because I am a tech geek, I have more than one computer. Consequently, I ended up printing 4 Carefree coupons.
I probably could have printed 6 coupons, but buying a quantity of 6 Carefree pads was overkill. Karen and I (although most likely Karen) would have to find some creative uses for that many pads.
As it was, I thought a quantity of 4 seemed like a lot. Consequently, I needed something else to get my order over $15. Enter Veet. Now, I suck at Veet. Naturally, Karen thought I was absolutely bonkers for even thinking about getting the hair removing product. Incidentally, "depilatory" was never in my vocabulary until now.
To me, Veet served as a means to an end. Rite Aid has an in-ad coupon for $2. There also happens to a $3 coupon for any Veet product compliments of Facebook. (I guess that is one of the few benefits of Facebook.) Although the price varies depending on the Veet product, I was able to find the cheapest Veet product: wax strips, which retailed for $4.49. At that price (including tax), and with the two coupons, I actually would get paid to buy that item.
So, throw in a candy bar or two (because the candy bar was buy one get one free this week), and I was able to get my purchase just over $15. When all was said and done, I paid a handful of change for my entire order. The actual final price came to a little over $3, but I had $3 in rewards to use. Hence, change.
And if you are curious, I also made $5 in loyalty rewards from the purchase. So I like to think that the $3 rewards that I put in to purchasing all those items was returned with $2 extra. Not bad if I do say so myself.
The associate at Rite Aid was amazed at my purchase, although she was probably more amazed that I bought the feminine products than the actual savings. She did say that my wife was "one lucky girl", because she said her husband would never have done that. As a side note, I had no idea there were so many types of pads. As well, pads are tax-free in the state of Massachusetts... another interesting note.
Anyway, so now I am a proud owner of Veet wax strips, a product that I will never use. Add that to my growing number of useless items (like the Got2B mousse). I will have my stockpile of useless items in no time. I will need to figure out how to pawn these items off onto my friends... although asking my female friends if they need to wax may be a little difficult...
Sunday, June 26, 2011
I Suck At Got2B Fat-tastic
During my hiatus from blogging, I decided to get into the seedy underworld known as couponing. My fancy started shortly after watching TLC's Extreme Couponing. Naturally with my curious nature, I wondered how difficult it would be to do something like that here in New England.
For those who have never seen the show, each week Extreme Couponing chronicles a couple of people who are considered "extreme couponers" because they can make purchases of thousands of retail items for over 90% off the price. Watching it being done on the show is simply amazing.
Granted, most of the people on the show seem to be hoarders or have some sort of compulsiveness because they have these stockpiles chock full of items that they themselves claim that they do not or will not use. For example, one woman has thousands of baby diapers in her stockpile, yet does not have a baby. Weird.
Regardless, I wanted to see about the feasibility of getting items for over 90% off the price here in New England. The major grocery stores here in Massachusetts seem to only double coupons under $1 up to a certain number. Once that limit is reached, the coupon is taken for face value.
Now, I'll admit. I am quite lazy. The majority of the extreme couponers featured on the television show find ways to get the weekly insert of coupons in the Sunday paper. To acquire these coupon inserts, they have gone dumpster diving, rummaged through other people's recycle bins, asked other people, etc. Like I said, I'm lazy. I don't want to do any of that. Instead, I'll stick to using the good o' internet for online coupons. (Of course, if someone were to offer me these coupon inserts, I would gladly accept them.)
Consequently, my chances for saving big on items seem pretty bleak. Today, however, I was able to get something close to free. All I had to pay was the state tax on the item. That item: Got2B Fat-tastic Mousse. Now, I suck at Got2B Fat-tastic. I have never used the item, probably because I have very little hair to style. And as luck would have it, Rite Aid was advertising the mousse this week as an item eligible for a full rebate.
Despite the fact that I never used (and probably will never use) the product due to my lack of hair, I decided to get the mousse. That doesn't make sense, right? But, I can now see why extreme couponers buy things they don't need. It seems to me that the act of buying these items are merely a means to an end. In my case, the reason why I purchased something I will never use is because of the fact that I would get a rebate of cold hard cash on the item.
That still doesn't make much sense until you discover that the method I had used to pay for the item in the first place was a coupon. Using a carry over from a previous week, I had accumulated enough Rite Aid +UP rewards (it's version of the store loyalty saving program) to pay for the mousse. So essentially, I was converting these additional rewards/coupons over into money. That was my reasoning.
Anyway, I was quite happy with my couponing excursion! Granted, it's not the greatest deal, but it's a step toward figuring out this whole couponing thing of getting items over 90% off. Baby steps.
By the way, if anyone is interested, they are always welcomed to the mousse.
For those who have never seen the show, each week Extreme Couponing chronicles a couple of people who are considered "extreme couponers" because they can make purchases of thousands of retail items for over 90% off the price. Watching it being done on the show is simply amazing.
Granted, most of the people on the show seem to be hoarders or have some sort of compulsiveness because they have these stockpiles chock full of items that they themselves claim that they do not or will not use. For example, one woman has thousands of baby diapers in her stockpile, yet does not have a baby. Weird.
Regardless, I wanted to see about the feasibility of getting items for over 90% off the price here in New England. The major grocery stores here in Massachusetts seem to only double coupons under $1 up to a certain number. Once that limit is reached, the coupon is taken for face value.
Now, I'll admit. I am quite lazy. The majority of the extreme couponers featured on the television show find ways to get the weekly insert of coupons in the Sunday paper. To acquire these coupon inserts, they have gone dumpster diving, rummaged through other people's recycle bins, asked other people, etc. Like I said, I'm lazy. I don't want to do any of that. Instead, I'll stick to using the good o' internet for online coupons. (Of course, if someone were to offer me these coupon inserts, I would gladly accept them.)
Consequently, my chances for saving big on items seem pretty bleak. Today, however, I was able to get something close to free. All I had to pay was the state tax on the item. That item: Got2B Fat-tastic Mousse. Now, I suck at Got2B Fat-tastic. I have never used the item, probably because I have very little hair to style. And as luck would have it, Rite Aid was advertising the mousse this week as an item eligible for a full rebate.
Despite the fact that I never used (and probably will never use) the product due to my lack of hair, I decided to get the mousse. That doesn't make sense, right? But, I can now see why extreme couponers buy things they don't need. It seems to me that the act of buying these items are merely a means to an end. In my case, the reason why I purchased something I will never use is because of the fact that I would get a rebate of cold hard cash on the item.
That still doesn't make much sense until you discover that the method I had used to pay for the item in the first place was a coupon. Using a carry over from a previous week, I had accumulated enough Rite Aid +UP rewards (it's version of the store loyalty saving program) to pay for the mousse. So essentially, I was converting these additional rewards/coupons over into money. That was my reasoning.
Anyway, I was quite happy with my couponing excursion! Granted, it's not the greatest deal, but it's a step toward figuring out this whole couponing thing of getting items over 90% off. Baby steps.
By the way, if anyone is interested, they are always welcomed to the mousse.
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