Welcome, my fellow Walgreens fans! It’s Sunday, time for our weekly Walgreens $5 Challenge. The place to come for simple scenarios with step-by-step instructions.
It’s actually a great week at WAGS to stock up! Grab your weekly ad, a printer and some scissors to get started.
If you are new to shopping at Walgreens, and wanting to learn the basics, check out this post.
If you are a first time visitor, here’s the lowdown:
Join me each week as I host The Walgreens $5 Challenge!
Seasoned WAGS shoppers: share your best scenario(s) for the upcoming week at Walgreens.
Your budget: $5.00 out-of-pocket cash.
Your mission: to grow that $5.00 into more Register Rewards (RR) to use in upcoming weeks.
Want to participate? Start by reading the rules here.
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Here is MY $5 Scenario for the week of November 15th:
*coupons in red
Transaction #1
Buy 1 Ricola Mixes Berry Cough Drops (19 ct.) @ $1.00
Buy 1 Aussie Hair Care @ $2.99
$0.50/1 Ricola Walgreens Coupon (found inside Walgreens Healthy Savings Coupon Book)
$1.00/1 Aussie Product (P&G insert 10/11/09)
Total After Coupons= $2.49
RRs Earned= $1.00, $2.00
Transaction #2
Buy 1 Gillette Series Shave Gel @ $1.99
Buy 1 Welch’s Sparkling Grape Juice @ 2/$5.00 with in-ad coupon
Buy 1 Christmas pencil @ 8/$1 with in-ad coupon (filler)
55¢/1 Gillette Shave Gel (P&G insert 11/1/09)
$2.00/1 Welch’s printable HERE (IE) or HERE (FF)
Pay with $2.00 RR from above
Total After Coupons & RR= $0.07
RRs Earned= FREE Gillette Series Shave Gel (to use in a future transaction)
Grand Total OOP= $2.56
Total Value= $8.61 with Free Shave Gel and $1.00 in Register Rewards remaining!
Keep rolling those RR’s for more savings!
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Let’s see what fabulous scenarios you come up with for $5.00 or less!
Simply post your scenarios on your blog, then drop by Keeping the Kingdom First and add your permalink to Mr. Linky below. (If you are reading via email or in a reader please click through to see the Mr. Linky)
Please link directly to your scenarios. Links directly to your homepage will be deleted. Linking back to this meme to share it with others is greatly appreciated!
Don’t have a blog? You can leave a comment with your scenario, too. I invite everyone to participate.
So, the 50 cents off coupon I see in the Healthy Savings booklet is for the 50 count Ricola, not the 19-count mixed berry one… Am I missing something?
Thanks!
It is not the green book it is another book.
I’ve never thought of this, but sometimes I get a pencil as a filler item at .25…Can you still use the 8/$1 and get 1 pencil with that coupon for .13?
Mellisa…Look at your coupon again…Mine says 19 – 50 ct….And I don’t think the flavor matters. Check it again.Hope that helps!
Thanks for clearing that up, Jennifer! And yes, you can get just 1 pencil with the in-ad coupon.
I don’t see how transaction #2 is going to work….you’re buying 3 items and using 5 coupons. You have to have the same amount of items as coupons that you use. The in-ad Qs count as 1 coupon each, the RR counts as a coupon too, unlike ECBs that count as money. You will have to have 5 items to use 5 Qs.
Hi Rebecca!
Thanks for your question, I am sure many others are wondering about transaction number 2. Actually, Walgreens does not count the in-ad coupons for that rule, only manufacturer. So 3 items, 3 manufacturer coupons (including the RR). The register should not beep with this scenario. I am going to double check it myself today to make sure it does work, but I am 99.9% sure that it will. 🙂
Hope it works for you! Wouldn’t work at my Wags, I know from experience. I have found that not all the computers/registers are programmed to be the same, nationwide. What will work at a Wags a couple towns from me will not work at my local one. Would love it if it did.
Ugh, that is so frustrating! Well, my plan was to check this scenario today but unfortunately the Welchs’ coupons hit a print limit. I am hoping they will reset this week. I agree, it would be nice if Walgreens had one consistent coupon policy across the board!