Coupon “High” Trips to Walgreens, Lowes, Sears & Bottom Dollar

Well I can officially say I’ve started my Christmas Shopping.  My youngest has her first Christmas present purchased and it only cost me $3.74 at Walgreens.

At Walgreens I did two transactions and got $47 worth of merchandise for only $10.56 or a 77% savings.  Here’s what I did:

Buy 2 Kleenex (4 Packs) $4 each
less $2 for $1 Kleenex Walgreens Coupon in September Booklet
         $1 for two of the $.50/3 Kleenex Coupons from 8/12 SS
Equals $5 for 8 Boxes Plus get $2 OYNO for buying 7+ boxes of Kleenex = $3 for 8 boxes or 38 cents each

Suave Naturals $1 each
Get $2 RR wyb 2
Free Shampoo and Conditioner

Carmex Pomegranate Click Sticks 2/$3
Get $2 RR wyb 2
used two $.30/1 Carmex Printable (previously available on Coupons.com) or HERE
20 cents each

Then I scoped out the clearance section for items to use my RRs on since I haven’t been making it to Walgreens too often lately, and didn’t want to loose them.

They had baby toys for 75% off including the Leapfrog Chat & Count Phone that my little one will be getting for Christmas.  It was normally $14.99 and I got it for $3.74.  I also picked up another toy for $2.24, but she’s already playing with that one.  Finally, I picked up some Nice Crunchy Peanuts for only 90 cents.  I love to keep these for snacks in the car while I’m running errands.

The next stop was Lowes to use my $10/$10 coupon.  I used it to pick up two bottles of Stainless Steel appliance cleaner.  I only had to pay 7 cents after the coupon and it worked perfectly – even through self check-out.

After that, it was a quick run to Sears Outlet to pick-up my Free Apparel Tuesday item that I shared over on The Coupon “High” Facebook Page.  This time I picked up a pair of Land’s End Leggings that normally would have been $10 and I got them FREE.

Finally, it was a stop at Bottom Dollar where I picked up a couple of their weekly specials and Price Matched some produce to the Aldis ad.  I also picked up some sandwich baggies there because I was totally out and I need them for the kids lunches.

I spent $18.95 and got a bunch of produce and more.  I plan on using the Butternut Squash for baby food and already made my first batch of baby food plums.

Here’s a breakdown of my Bottom Dollar trip:

2 Ragu Spaghetti Sauces @ 99 cents each
Butternut Squash $3.52 (saw it and figured the little one hadn’t tried this yet, so I picked it up.  No it’s not cheap)
6 lbs Bananas – Price matched to Aldis ad for 28 cents/lb 
2 lbs Plums – Price matched to Aldis for 78 cents/lb.  This was $1 cheaper per pound than the Bottom Dollar Price for the week
3 lbs Nectarines – Price Matched to Aldis for 78 cents/lb.  Also a $1 cheaper than the Bottom Dollar Price.
5 lbs Grapes – Price Matched to Aldis for 78 cents/lb.
Celery –98 cents
2 Pleated 150 ct sandwich bags – 98 cents each
1 Ziploc 100 ct sandwich bags $1.98

So all totaled, I got $93.30 worth of items for only $29.58.   That equals a 68% savings.  That’s definitely a Coupon High “Trip” in my mind.

How have your Coupon “High” trips been this week?