Went closer into the city today – not to check CVS stores! – and stopped for some land without shelf tags shopping.  Yes, surprisingly enough, most of the items did not have the clearance tags – – good thing I remember the numbers and names by now!  Remember, when in doubt, the scanner is your new best friend.  Tons of Nexxus clearance items at 75% off, although not many were tagged.  Buy and use them towards the Spend $20 get $10 ecb promo currently running.  Most Nexxus items hovered around the $3 mark – pretty decent for almost $14 original-priced items.  Obviously you can all look up the coupons on the data base; these are the same Clairol and L’Oreal coupons I’ve been using all week.  There are no Nexxus coupons.  Enjoy!

Update: 55 boxes of hair color – 39 L’Oreal sulfate-free products.

PITA texts me from school asking about a video on my computer. Don’t know, I text back, I’m shopping at CVS. WHAT!!! You haven’t been to CVS in months! I said, almost-free hair color and products…she got it.

Vidal Sassoon, Clairol Age Defy, Clairol Natural Instincts and Clairol Shine shades are being clearanced out at CVS – 75% off!  Even if the tag reads 25% off, that just means they were too lazy to replace the tags – scan and you’ll see the huge drop.  Also 75% off on many of the sulfate-free L’Oreal products and when you buy two of them you earn a $4 ecb!  Coupons for ALL products in 2/1 S and rp and the February P&G.  I also got the money-maker Colgate Total toothpaste using the $2.50 Magic Coupon Machine coupon and the $1 mfr coupon from the single page insert on the 2/1 paper.

My total OOP was $35.26 plus high tax.  I have no idea of the number of hair colors…will probably count and update this post later just for grins.  Whether or not I’m being seduced by advertising or not, I like the sulfate-free products.

$10 in ecbs expiring today and good luck finding something to buy from the sales ad!  Ended up grabbing two more Deans’ milks, a Colgate, couple of Cadbury bars and 8 Almay eye shadows on B1G1 50% off sale this week.  First shadow was $5.49, the second $2.74.  Used the $4 6/1 S coupons and paid $8.23 for both, less the two $4 coupons.  Not free, but if Walgreens really does have their registers set to not give overage, we’ll be using these high-value coupons more and more at CVS.

If you haven’t tried these eye shadows yet, you’ll be surprised at how nice they go on and how much lighter they are than they appear in the pot.

I was actually in the neighborhood of an Ultra so stopped in for the Palmolive deal: $1.48 for the 28 oz size. Used the 50¢ coupon from 5/18 S and paid 98¢ a bottle.  Someone had stocked the first aisle (sale items) with the 25 oz size, which rang up at $2.79!!  Sure, I wanna pay $1.31 more for less product!

Hit two CVS locations without any success whatsoever – at one store someone had stocked the 100 count Gelusil in the 20 count sale spot.  Wonder if anyone paid too much for the wrong product?  Finally found a store with one Ban and one Gelusil so grabbed them both and a Colgate toothpaste.  The Magic Coupon Machine is spitting out $2 Colgate coupons so stack it with the $1 mfr coupon from 6/1 S for FREE toothpaste.  The Gelusil is on sale for $2, which plays nicely with the $2 coupon from the 6/1 rp and the Ban cooling wipes (about $3.50 each less the $2 coupons from 6/1 S less the $4 in ecbs).  The Ban deal requires the purchase of two items for the $4 ecbs, but since the store only had the one, it will sit on my card until I purchase the second, third, fourth and so on.  Have a whole pile of these Ban wipes from prior Walgreens sales – finally had blistering hot weather on Sunday…and I forgot all about them!