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 is a tough week to stay under $5 this week, but let’s do this anyway! Grab your weekly Walgreens ad, a printer and some scissors to get started. Be sure to pick up a copy of the August Coupon Book as well.
If you are new to shopping at Walgreens, and wanting to learn the basics, check out this post. New to couponing? Learn the lingo here.
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 August 15th:
*coupons in red (scenarios never include tax as this will vary by region)
Transaction #1
Buy 1 Aussie Hair Product @ $2.99
Buy 1 Herbal Essence Hair Product @ $2.99
FREE Aussie Styler wyb Herbal Essence/Aussie Item Coupon (P&G insert 08/01/10)
Total After Coupon = $2.99
RRs Earned= $1.00
Transaction #2
Buy 1 Listerine Zero Mouthwash@ $2.99
Buy 1 Royal Gelatin @ $0.20 (with in-ad coupon)
$0.50/1 Select Listerine or Reach Items Coupon (RP insert 04/11/10)
Pay with $1.00 RR from above
Total After Coupon and RRs= $1.69
RRs Earned= $1.00
Grand Total OOP=$4.68
Total Value= $9.17 with $1.00 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.
Last week Wags had Pilot pens for 1.99 and I tried to use the Wags coupon and the $1 printable, but they wouldn’t let me. I even added a .17 glue stick to make it over $2, but they still wouldn’t put it through, because the Wags coupon kept beeping. I asked about manually adjusting it, and the “team leader” that had come over to help told me that is illegal. ??? She also said they could not manually adjust the price of the item. Because it was a penny less than the total of the two coupons, I could only use one coupon. I politely thanked her and left without the pens.
Now, I am new to this – only my second purchase at Walgreen’s, and the first time was fantastic – so can anyone tell me what I did wrong, or how I can do something differently? The Wags coupon beeped whether they scanned it first or second, so I’m thinking it was their own problem, but I don’t know. I don’t want to be a bother to them and get a bad reputation, but I would like to be able to take advantage of these great deals without such difficulty.
And was the team leader right about manually adjusting the coupon being illegal? Because, like I told her, every other store does it regularly.
thanks
Great deals!!
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