My Walgreens Shop March 4th

As most of you know I've been terribly sick with my gallbladder and have been in and out of the hospital.  Well while waiting for my prescription to be filled to tide me over until surgery, I found a great deal and made a little shop.  (Hubby thought I was being ridiculous for doing this when I could barely walk by the way).

First I want to show you what I got for a total of 11.73 plus tax.

Now I'll show you step by step what I did.  Walgreens currently has a Register Reward (RR) on Colgate Toothpaste.  The cost is $3 and you get a $3 RR after purchase.  I also had a .75 cents off coupon for Colgate.  I spent 2.25 on the first purchase of toothpaste.

After I paid for the toothpaste a $3 RR printed for the toothpaste.  I took that $3 RR and put it toward the purchase of the Softsoap 2/$6 with another $3 RR printing after purchase.

Sorry about the orientation of the photo.  After I purchased the two softsoap body washes for $3 I got another RR for $3.  Which I used to purchase laundry detergent which was on sale for $3.49.  So the detergent cost me .49 cents.  I also bought a pack of gum (for which I had a $1 off coupon) and it cost me another .49 cents.  Under $1 for detergent and gum?  Deal.

 No it's not a name brand detergent and typically with couponing you can get name brands for SUPER cheap, but the good thing about the drug store reward programs is you can save money on off brands too when you don't have a coupon for a name brand or when your coupon still wouldn't make the name brand as cheap.  Next I bought the toothpaste and a pack of gum.  I spent 2.74 on both (same gum with another $1 off coupon and .75 cents off coupon for the toothpaste).

When I bought the toothpaste I got another $3 RR.  I used that to buy another laundry detergent for .49 cents.  Then I bought the toothpaste in two more transactions with my coupons and got two more $3 RR which I used toward some over the counter pharmacy items that we needed.

So this is a small shop but there are a lot of ins and outs to it.  The Walgreens employees are generally very helpful if you don't understand what you are doing.  I invite you to review the Register Reward policies, but I will give you some general help below.

1.  If you use the RR to purchase same thing that you earned it with, you will not get a new RR.  For example, if I had used the RR I got from the colgate purchase, to buy another colgate, I would not have received a new RR.  It should always be for a different item.

2.  That item CAN be a RR earner.  For example, I used my first colgate RR to put towards the bodywash which also had a RR on it.

3.  Walgreens will not allow you to have more coupons than product.  For example, I could not have used a register reward to purchase only the colgate because I had a manufacturers coupon (the .75 cents off) and a RR (also considered a coupon).  Usually you can add a candy or something cheap to it.

If a RR doesn't print don't lose you mind on the Walgreens cashier.  The Register Rewards are printed using the Catelina machine (the same machines that most grocery stores have).  Walgreens is not like CVS where they can force the ECBs to print if it doesn't work. 

Here's the link to Walgreen's coupon policy.

http://www.walgreens.com/topic/help/generalhelp/coupon_policy_main.jsp?erule=couponpolicy

I like shopping CVS as far as drug stores go, but this Walgreens deal was really amazing.  I was quite happy with the shop.  I invite you to check it out with just a small simple shop the first time.  There are lots of ins and outs, but it is so much fun!

Please feel free to leave comments or suggestions on your own shops in the comments!