School Supplies at CVS and Food Lion

CVS has a 3 day sale on school supplies that are free after ECB. My son's school was nice enough to send home what they need for the 4th grade. And might I say that that is so helpful, rather than getting the list the day school starts and trying to get through the aisles at the drug store or Walmart (which I really hate going there). This way I have been able to buy the items as they go on sale at the store, these sales seem to have started last week. And last week I went to CVS on Tuesday and of course they were out of all the free after ECB items except one. So I got rainchecks. THis week I figured since I needed to use my flips at Food Lion I would go to the CVS next door and since it is the FIRST day they would have them. Well, they had 2 out of the 5 items! I got those 2 items and rainchecks for the other.


When I got to the store they had graham crackers in a cart at the front of the store for $.50 each! My kids absolutely love graham crackers soooo
4 Graham Crackers $.50 each
1 White Cheddar Popcorn $.50
2 Filler paper $2 each ($2.00 ecb earned)
2 Papermate pens $.99 each ($.99 ecb each)
For some reason they have started taxing items even if you pay with your ecbs.
paid with $1.49 ECB
Paid $3.49
have $2 ecb left
($5.47Q)


I then went next door to Food Lion. I still have some great Flips worth free stuff...PLUS the cherries are $.99 regular $4.99 which means if you buy 1.02lbs and use the $2/$5 produce flip, they pay you to take the cherries! However I didn't figure this out until my second trip, plus i needed the lemons and bananas which were not on sale. I did 2 transactions at 2 different stores-you can only use one like flip per transaction.

1 Duncan Hines cake mix ($1 duncan hines flip) reg $1
1lb Navy Beans ($1 Guiding stars flip) reg $1.09
1.31lbs Bananas $.59lb
.82lb Cherries sale $.99lb (they are so hard to weigh using their scales-CALIBRATE!)
2 Lemons ($1/$4 WT+$2/$5 Produce Flip) $.69 each


Paid $1.14 -which sent the manager and cashier into a tizzy because my order was so low. They were trying to figure out how I was cheating the system but didn't want to hold me up (and the lady with a 1.5 qt of ice cream behind me). Also at that store the register wouldn't allow me to use 2 of the flips that didn't meet minimum requirements. That is the first that has happend at this particular store-so I had them remove the items-had they not and it worked my total would have been $.20 lower!


Second Food Lion that I normally shop at-
1 25ft 360 Foil ($1 360 item) sale $.99
1 Gallon Milk ($1 Guiding stars Flip) reg $2.69
1 Food Lion Tater chips ($1 FL tater chips flip) sale $2
1 Duncan Hines cake Mix ($1 DH flip) $1
1 Lemon reg $.69
1.12 lbs cherries ($2/$5 produce flip) sale $.99 lb
1 Hand Sanitizer ( $1 Healthy Accents Flip) reg $.93

No hassle total of $2.55 and the YOUNG MALE cashier complimented me on how well I did.
(19.96/$11.01Q)



Total YTD
Total OOP $1493.11
Total spent buying coupons $115.44 (Extra papers + coupons from ebay)
Total saved $5464.41 (coupons+gift cards used+ECB used)
CVS ECB -$4
Dilworth Coffee $18.35
total $28.35