Dan-Clark Designs » money http://danclarkdesigns.com Artisan Jewelry from the Coast of Maine Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:46:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Saving Money is a Good Thing http://danclarkdesigns.com/money/saving-money-is-a-good-thing/ http://danclarkdesigns.com/money/saving-money-is-a-good-thing/#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:23:26 +0000 Dan http://dan-clark.com/?p=47 This has nothing to do with jewelry, crafts, art, or anything like that, but I just wanted to share. I somehow surfed my way over to Money Saving Mom and started reading about CVS-ing. I read, and re-read, and kinda-sorta got an understanding of how it works. Last week was my first week trying it. I went and bought a bunch of stuff that I needed, or would use anyway. I saved approximately $15 by buying only stuff that was on sale. Not such a big deal, but I walked away with $20 in Extra Care Bucks (ECBs), which is a form of store credit that you can use on any item in the store.

This week, however was pretty exciting, and is the whole reason for my writing this. Here’s a list of what I got:

5 boxes of cereal (Cheerios, Honey-nut Cheerios, Fruity Cheerios, Total, Fiber One)
1 box of Nature Valley Granola Bars
2 bottles of Listerine Smartrinse (pretty nasty stuff, btw…I prolly won’t buy it again)
1 twinpack of Oral-B Crossaction toothbrushes
2 boxes of CVS bandages
and I donated $1 to ALS

That brings my total to $46.89

Since all these items were on some kind of sale, it took off $7.94 from the total.

I had a CVS coupon to save $3 on a purchase of $15
I also had on to save $4 on a purchase of $20
I had $4.65 in various manufacturers coupons (sorry, I don’t remember which ones!)

That brings my new total to $27.30

I used my $20 in ECBs from last week, so I only paid $7.30 out of pocket.

PLUS…I got back $27.95 in new ECBs. So, technically, I MADE $0.65 today. Not such a big deal, but how often do you get to make money when you go shopping…lol.

I am in no way affiliated with CVS, MoneySavingMom, Coupons.com, or any other related service/store/site/etc. I’m just really impressed with how quickly I was able to make this system work, with pretty minimal work on my part.

For more information, details, and weekly examples what to buy, head over to MoneySavingMom and start with “CVS 101″. Read it a couple of times. I needed to.

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