My life is just a whirlwind of activity today!  First stop was CVS, because I had read that the Magic Coupon Machine was spitting out $2 coupons off shampoo.  VO5 is .89 (free hand soap) so you could pick up a couple for free.  HA! I say!  repeat…Tried a couple of cards (oh, don’t act like you only have one card) and gave up.  However, the second card spit out a $5 ecb because apparently all the little Lumene jars I’ve been “buying” have reached a $50 threshold.   At that point I decided to see what was not on the shelves.  They did have a couple of the .5 Freeze Time Lumene jars, but I’m not a big fan of this one.  A friend had raved about their cleansing wipes for removing makeup, especially the 10 ct packs because she could throw them in her bag when traveling.  so i took them all and if she wants any more in the Chicagoland area, she’s gonna have to shop my basement!  bwahahahahah. Wipes are $3.19, so used the overage, plus the $5 ecb plus another coupon to pay for the regular size of the Lumene Vitamin C cream and ended up paying $2.22 – and then got a $5 rewards for buying the Lumene!  I was not lying about this stuff.  It’s great and I will be hitting them hard and heavy.

Then off to Wags (not one of my usuals) for the Trident Vitality gum:  24 of them.  While I don’t like paying for gum in any amount, we go through a lot in this house o’ cud.  Total came to $4.33, of which 1.37 was tax.  Since the coupon is worded buy 3 get $X off, I was unable to use any of my RRs from Crest since each coupon was already attached to an item and I would have had to buy something additional.  Sometimes it’s a toss-up, but in this case I just spent the cash.