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 decent week at Wags this week. Grab your weekly Walgreens 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. 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 October 10th:
*coupons in red (scenarios never include tax as this will vary by region)
Transaction #1
Buy 1 Halls Refresh Lemon-Raspberry Cough Drops @ $1.00
– $0.75/1 Halls Refresh Coupon (ALL YOU Sept ’10 or Oct ’10)
Total After Coupon = $0.25
RRs Earned= $1.00
Transaction #2
Buy 1 Crest Pro-Health Toothpaste @ $2.49
Buy 1 No-nonsense Essential Basics Knee-highs $0.25
$0.75/1 Crest Toothpaste or Liquid Gel Coupon (PG insert 10/10/10)
Pay with $1.00 RR from above
Total After Coupon and RRs= $0.99
RRs Earned= $1.50
Transaction #3
Buy 2 Brachs Autumn Candy (11 or 14.6 oz.) @ $1.50 ea.
Pay with $1.50 RR from above
Total After RRs= $1.50
RRs Earned= $1.00
Grand Total OOP=$2.74
Total Value= $6.74 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 leave your link 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, not your homepage. 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.
Good Job!
I went to Rite Aid today and got about $92.50 worth of stuff for a total of $11.50 with rewards, rebates, and coupons. I did three sep. transactions, but the two under $5.00 were:
#1–Two boxes of Platex Tampons and one Oral B toothbrush:
Two for $8 sale, and used three coupons and UP Rwrd. (1) RA $2.00, (2) manu. $2.00, and $2.00 up reward=FREE for two boxes.
Oral B. tb was $2.49, minus (1) $1.00 off RA coupon and (1) $1.00 manu. coupon for a total of $0.49.
with tax it come out to a total of $1.01.
#2–2 containers of Lysol wipes, one bottle of peroxide, and one bottle of rubbing ISP alcohol.
BOGO free Lysol wipes $3.49, and then I used (1) manu coupon for $1.50 off 2 and RA coupon for $1.00 (or vice versa…I forget lol).
BOGO free one bottle of peroxide $1.99, and one bottle of rubbing ISP alcohol, plus $0.50 off RA coupon and $2.00 Up Reward.
Total receipt w/tax $0.65
The third transaction was more than $5.00, but I still got some great deals!!!
I’ve been reading your blog for almost a year and I’ve NEVER been able to come up with a great deal of my own…until TODAY 🙂
Transaction #1: Buy 1 Halls Refresh Lemon-Raspberry Cough Drops @ $1.00
– $0.75/1 Halls Refresh Coupon (ALL YOU Sept ’10 or Oct ’10)
Total After Coupon = $0.25
RRs Earned= $1.00
Transaction #2: Colgate Total Advanced toothpaste or 8pk Wisp @ $2.99
-$1/ Colgate Total from 10/10 SS OR
-$1 Wisp from Oct. ALL YOU
Pay with $1 RR from transaction #1; Cost OOP $.99
Transaction #3: Buy 2 Ghiradelli Intense Dark bars @ 2/$3
Use -$1 from Coupons.com or http://www.newintensedark.com
Pay with $1 RR from transaction #2
Cost OOP = $1
When I do my own $5 challenge I try to get as much in one transaction as I can for under $5 and saving as much as possible. Today I went to Walgreens and here is what I scored.
Transaction #1
2 Halls Refresh Lemon-Raspberry Cough Drops (20 ct) @ $1 ea
-$1/2 20ct or larger Halls product 10/10 Redplum
2 Right Guard Total Defense 5 @ b1g1 free (orig $3.99)
-$3/2 Right Guard Total Defense 5 printable
1 Reach Total Care Toothbrush @$3.99
-$2 Reach Toothbrush or Floss in ad coupon
-$1 Reach Toothbrush 10/10 Redplum
2 Met RX Protein Plus @ $1.79 ea
-B1G1 any Met RX 10/3 SS
Then I used a $3 RR left over from last week
Total OOP- $2.29
Total Rewards to carry over- $1
Transaction #2
1 Colgate Total Advanced toothpaste @ $2.99
-$1/ Colgate Total Advanced toothpaste 10/10 SS
No Nonsense Knee Highs (Deal of the Week) @$0.25
-$1 RR from previous transaction
Total OOP-$2.40
Total Rewards- $1
Total for Trip $4.69
Total Saved-$21.36
I’m curious as to why you buy the Knee high’s? They seem like an unnecessary purchase to me. I know they are only .25 but isn’t that .25c that you can be saving off your $5 budget?
@TERESITA BABCOCK, Hi Teresita! The knee highs are included in her scenario as a “filler item.” At Walgreens, you can only use one coupon per item (unless in the case of Walgreens in-store coupons where you can use both the Wags in-store coupon with a manufacturer coupon).
The knee-highs act as a cheap filler to allow her to use both the $0.75/1 Crest coupon AND the $1 Register Reward.
HTH 🙂
-Amy
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@Amy, Thanks so much for the info! I was so confused