One place I went today was Bath and Body Works. BBW always has something on sale and in addition to that I'm on their email subscription list, so they email me coupons sometimes. I usually wait until their semi annual sales to shop because that's when you get the best deals, but I had a coupon for a free item when you spent $10 and the free item could be anything up to $14. One of the sales they had going on was 3 mini candles for $10. This was the sale I took advantage of along with my coupon because I am a huge candle lover! These candles would normally be $13.50 for 3. For my free item I got stress relief lotion from their Aromatherapy line. This usually sells for $13.
So overall the cost for these four items should have been $26.50 and I only paid $10. That's a 62% savings!
The other store I went to today was Walgreen's. I know this blog is fairly new, but if you saw my post a few days ago about Walgreen's you might be coming to the conclusion that I like that store. You would be absolutely right. Walgreen's is such a great place to get big deals. They fairly regularly have buy one get one free sales and I've even seen some buy one get two free! Combining these sales with coupons can get you huge savings. Another thing that I love about Walgreen's is that you can use a manufacturers coupon in combination with a store coupon. I've never managed to hit the jackpot and combine all of these deals, but I usually get 2 of them.
So anyways back to my haul of the day. I found two buy one get one free deals that I took advantage of. The first was Pond's products and the second was Caress shower gel. I got two packages of Pond's face wipes. I've never used these before but I also had a Pond's coupon and it was an offer I couldn't pass up because I had been thinking about buying them anyway. Each of these wipes sells for $6.49, so two would normally cost $13. By combining the sale with a coupon I got both for $5.49. The Caress shower gels are my favorite! I always use these because they don't irritate my skin. Buy one get one free was something that I couldn't miss. They had my favorite scent in a larger size for the same price as the other scents so of course I was going to get the bigger size. I also had a coupon for Caress. Normally buying 2 Caress shower gels would cost $10, but with the sale and coupon I paid $4.49 for both! The last thing I got was Clear shampoo. This is another product I haven't tried. It was on sale for $1 off plus I had a coupon, so I paid $2.50 for $6 shampoo!
Overall the cost for my Walgreen's trip should have been $28.95, but I only paid $12.47. That's a 57% savings!
I know that there are other blogs that are strictly about couponing and that they may get better deals than me, but I'm not interested in going crazy like they do. I respect that they take all the time to do it and write their blogs, but I don't have the time for it. I'm happy cutting down my spending the way I am. It's easy to do and really helps my college budget.
If you want anymore tips let me know in the comments, or if you want me to do a review of any of these products. Have a great night!
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