Talk to Friends About Savings

This week a friend of mine posted pictures and how much she spent out of pocket for certain items at CVS.  These items happen to be part of the clearance, but not marked in stores.  I inquired about what store and what coupons she used to get the items so cheap.  Since my friend shared it with me, I was able to duplicate it.  If you know of a good deal on things, let others know.  With so many sales and clearance events happening we are likely to miss something.

Today coupon and saving wise I did quite well.  At Toys "R" Us I saved 75% and saved at CVS I saved 96%.  After the 96% savings I did a little happy dance in the parking lot.  Yup I was very proud of myself.

Some of the things I bought for Christmas was from Toys "R" Us and ended up racking up some rewards.  I had $6 in rewards that expires on January 11th.  I decided to use it on a Yahtzee game and knew I was going to have to pay some out of pocket.  Also, most of their Christmas items are now 90%.  I picked up a few rolls of wrapping paper.  With my rewards I paid .19 a roll,  without the rewards the 3.99 rolls are down to .39.  Their price beat most places I have been to lately. I picked up three rolls so I'm all set for next year now :-)

At CVS I paid only .51 for two bottles of Dial 21 oz. lotion.  I went to three different CVS before I found them.  They were all in the areas I was heading today so I didn't have to go out of my way to look for this lotion.  I have found that it is just the Nutriskin 21 oz bottle of lotion that is on clearance.  The store I purchased mine from the regular price is 6.99 and they were on clearance for 1.74.  They did not have them marked on clearance, but still had the sticker at full price.  If my friend hadn't told me about this I would have walked right by them.  I scanned the bottles they had there to find the one on clearance.  I had already printed two coupons from coupons.com to save $1.50 off 1.  The cashier said, "Now that's a good deal" after she scanned my two 1.50 off coupons and saw all I had to pay was .51.

Here is what only spending $1.11 looks like.

These six items total cost me $6.03.  The majority of the out of pocket was spent on yahtzee.

If I had purchased all of these items at full price without any coupons or sales I would have spent a total of $36.30 out of pocket.  Wow what a big difference coupons and sales make.  I'll take my $6.03 out of pocket any day.