Walgreens: Earn bonus points for coupons – use them to buy snow shoes…

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Check your Walgreens clearance aisles and end caps for Vidal Sassoon hair color. I’ve been finding them priced between $4.89 and $5.29. If the former, toss in one of the FREE Ban cooling cloths to get over $25 and score those 5,000 points on the cheap using those $5 Vidal Sassoon hair color coupons from 4/13 S1.  I’ve been seeing lots of products on the shelf that weren’t tagged, but scanned for clearance, so don’t be discouraged – just load up the cart and have them scanned at beauty or photo (so you don’t tie up the front registers). I can’t tell you one color or another is clearance ’cause it seems to be lots of different ones. Good luck! Remember, tomorrow is the last day for the bonus.

Oh, and I’d split up the transactions into groups of $25, even though it would probably work in multiples. Hey, why chance it?  And if they tell you it’s limited to one per card…they’re sadly misinformed.

Wags & Staples & flea markets

Photo.jpg Actually spent most of the day at a Swap a Rama with PITA and friends.  Haven’t been to one in years and had a blast!  But since there’s always time for a deal, ran out to grab a few of the Ban cooling cloths at Walgreens so I could score the extra 5,000 points using the FREE coupon in the 4/13 SS.  Remember, though, that this is all high tax stuff, so your points will end up costing you something after all.  Check for the packs with the MIR peelies, too.

Staples has only the one ream this week – I’ll have to watch my printing!   But train yourself to always complete the online rebate when you get home – it’s literally a minute.

A Tale of Two Retails

Photo.jpgit was the best of stores and the worst of stores…with apologies to Mr. Dickens

4/6 redplum has a coupon for a FREE (up to $1.99) .75 oz tube of Poligrip.  On shelf at Walgreens they’re $2.59, online at Wags they’re $2.29, on the way to Walmart…$1.88.  You know where to use these coupons now.  These are low tax, so make wonderful donation items – – ’cause yes I still have my teeth, thankyouverymuch

Interesting that the coupon is such a low value this time, because it’s gone up to $2.60 in prior years.  Oh, and Walmart has restocked the Hydroxy shakes – – they’re now $6.98.  My coupons are safe in their holder.

Watch the Walgreen clearance shelves

Just picked up ten boxes of Natural Instinct at one Walgreens marked $1.99 each;  used the $3/2 from the April P&G to score some very cheap hair color (oh, you know what I mean!).  Remember, P&G coupons say Limit Four per Transaction and the Walgreens registers respect the wording (even if I don’t), so split up any orders using more than four into two or more.

If you’re going to doing any driving around, you might want to carry just the hair color inserts in the car with you – find stock and run back to the car and grab the appropriate inserts and clip, clip, clip.  Always check the home page with the “Find a Coupon” tab.

free Lypsyl at Walgreens thru tomorrow

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These Lysyl products are on sale at Walgreens B&M and online this week for only 99¢ (regularly $3.19 online and $3.49 at my stores) – use the $1 coupon from 1/26 S for more FREE lip balms!  The only one that isn’t part of the deal is the super-expensive one ($6.99).  Even if they’re not marked with the sale tag at your store, they’ll scan at 99¢.  Since the coupon is over the value of the product, your cashier will either have to mark each coupon down a penny, mark up each item to a dollar (not official Walgreens policy, but some stores work it this way) or scan all $1 coupons until the last one and then reduce it by however many you purchase.

These are found with the Chapsticks and other lip balm products.

April 1st (today!) is Senior Savings Day at Walgreens

Attention creaky old people everywhere: Today (Tuesday, April 1st) is at Walgreens. Get 20% off all Walgreens, W brand and Nice! products and 15% off brand names. Discounts not valid on prescriptions, cigarettes, dairy products, liquor, liquor department items, phone cards, newspapers, magazines, stamps, gift cards, items or services submitted to insurance for reimbursement or where otherwise limited by law. Also not valid toward Prescription Savings Club membership fee. Online orders give you 15% off beauty and personal care products with code BEAUTYSR15.

You must be at least 55 years old or an AARP member if younger.  And now you’re back to using fake IDs, pretending to be older…

Make $2 @ Wags through tomorrow

A great way to pick up a couple of bucks is with this new $2 printable for Vaprino A+D now on sale at Walgreens for $5 with a $5 RR – make $2 with each transaction.  I’ll figure out something to pick up with free money.

April 1st is Senior Day at Walgreens – no joke.