Using Overage to Buy Diapers at CVS

I mentioned in my weekly deals post that I’d be stocking up on Huggies this week. My goal was to use other on-sale/ECB/coupon items to increase my savings on the diapers. I have $1.50 and $2 off coupons from the Huggies mailer, but by adding these items to my transaction, I can do even better:

• Alavert is on sale this week for $5.99. I have a $4 off coupon, then I earn $3 ECBs. That’s $1.01 overage that’s applied to my diaper cost.
• The least expensive CVS Sunscreen is $2.39, and this week it’s on sale for .39. I have $1 off coupons, which give me .61 overage for my diapers.
• The Children’s Advil is a monthly deal, free-after-ECBs. Whenever you combine a coupon with a free-after-ECB item, you get overage.

Here’s the breakdown of my transaction:

3 Huggies Diapers 26.97 (used 5.50 coupons)
1 Alavert 5.99 (4.00 coupon from here)
1 Children’s Advil 5.79 (1.00 from here plus a $2.50 CRT off any painkiller)
1 CVS Sunscreen .39 (1.00 coupon from Beauty Handbook)
2 Dove bags 6.00 (two 1.50 coupons from ?? paper)
2 M&M bags 4.00 (1.50 coupon from 6/1 paper)
1 Diet Coke 1.49 (1.49 coupon from MCR)

My total was $50.63, I used a $10/$50 from the magic scanner machine and my $19.99 in manu coupons, bringing it down to $20.64. I paid with a $19.98 ECB from the Photo DVDs a few weeks back, paid .95 out of pocket (basically, just the tax), and I earned $18.79 in ECBs. Plus, I can submit my receipt to Caregiver’s Marketplace and get another $3.00 added to my rebate (I do this monthly). To top it off, I got another $10/$50 CRT at the end of my receipt.

In summary, I spent $1.19 ECBs and .95 cash for (among other things) 3 Jumbo Packs of Huggies. Ignoring the rest of the order, I paid .03 cents per diaper!

PS–I am not going to eat that chocolate. We have a big birthday party coming up, so it’s going out then.