My Good Walgreens Deal

I just have to say that I do use coupons but honestly I'm not really very good at it yet. I want to do so much better and get the items for free but practice makes perfect right.

First a little background: I went to Walgreen's 2 weeks ago to do their Kellogg deal where you buy a certain amount of Kellogg products and you get a $5 Register Reward (RR). There were some great coupons that came out in that weeks paper so I went and bought my cereal, Rice Crispy Treats, Pop tarts, Yogos fruit snacks, and Nutrigrain bars and ended up with $30 worth of RR that expired yesterday.

So my dilemma was: What do I buy to use up the RR and also be cheap enough that I don't use too much money to pay for it? For those who don't know you need to purchase one item for each coupon/RR you have. Well looking through their add I saw that Pampers diapers were on sale for $9.49 for a Jumbo pack and there are coupons out there for $1.50 off of 1 Jumbo pack. I had 3 coupons for that.

Anyway I bought 1 pack newborn diapers, 2 packs of size 3 diapers , 1 Pert Plus shampoo, 3 candy bars, and 3 packs of college ruled filler paper. I spent a total of $2.18 Out of Pocket (OOP) and used 3 $1.50 pampers coupons, 1 in store coupon for the paper making it .39 each, another in store coupon for the candy bars also making it .39 each, and 6 $5 RR. Oh and the shampoo is free after rebate this month so I will get back $3.79 meaning that I made a profit from this deal :) Matt even told me that I did a good job after trying to convince me not to go and just let my RR expire.