Big trip to Rite Aid today! The new sale started and the spend $50 get $25 rebate was calling my name! Big thanks to cashier and my new friend Lindsey, at the Rite Aid in East Ridge, for all of her patience with the crazy couponers today! Here is the recap. Transaction #1: (Along with Transaction #2 qualifies for $25 rebate) 4 Boxes Band Aid Bandaids 4 Neosporin (3 of which had free travel containers, made to hold Neosporin & bandaids) 1 Visine Dry Eye Eye Drops Used: $5 off $25 (4) $3 off Neosporin & Bandaid purchase $3 off Visine March All You Magazine $3 off Visine, in ad coupon Total Due: $10.31 Transaction #2: (Along with Transaction #1 qualifies for $25 rebate) 2 Johnson & Johnson Baby Lotions 1 Benadryl Child 1 Visine Dry Eye Eye Drops 1 Herbal Essence Styler on clearance 1 Herbal Essence Shampoo on clearance Used: $5 off $25 purchase $2 off Visine home mailer $3 off Visine in ad coupon (2) $1 off Johnson & Johnson printable $1 off Benadryl home mailer $2 off Benadryl in store add $1 off Johnson & Johnson in store ad Herbal Essences buy shampoo get styler product for free $1 off Herbal Essences shampoo Total Due $10.96 Transaction #3: (2) Wet & Wild Eye Shadow on clearance Eyeshadow Applicators on clearance NYC Lip gloss on clearance (2) NYC Eye Shadow on clearance Sunday Paper Almay Foundation Almay Pressed Powder Used: $5 off $25 printable (2) $1 off NYC product (2) $2 off Almay product (ordered from Ebay) Total Due: $10.99 Total Out of pocket: $32.26 $25 SCR #24 $5 Almay SCR #7 Final Out of pocket cost: $2.26 Total Value:$87.00 This trip yielded several new items for the donation bag, so many in fact I had to start another bag. I'm gonna have to go on a search for a box! If you would like to see a complete list of everything in the bag you can go here!

Another trip to Rite Aid on Friday before the sale changed....the husband needed some 9 volt batteries and I wouldn't let him go buy them himself so I ran to Rite Aid to get those and some more free Cover Girl make up, I had one more BIGI coupon and I couldn't bear to let it go to waste! Duracell 9 Volt Batteries $8.99 Simply Ageless Foundation $15.99 Simply Ageless Foundation $13.99 Used: $5 off $25 printable $1 off Duracell Batteries BIGI Cover Girl Coupon Total: $4.84 2 more nice items for the donation bag. If you would like to see the complete list of items for the donation bag you can go here

Everyone knows that when you extreme coupon as its called, you end up with more toothpaste, body wash, and razors then you could use in a LONG time. And alot of weeks there are free products that you yourself don't use, but someone somewhere could. With this in mind I keep a reusable shopping bag in my laundry room over the washing machine and when I get an item that I defintly won't use or one that I already have several of, I put it in the bag. When the bag gets full it goes into a box and when the box gets full it gets donated. I will continue to update this list as I go but here is what in the bag to start with now: Accu-Chek Aviva Diabetes Monitoring Kit Beautiful Botanicals Hair Relaxer 2 Dayquil Sinus Medicine Johnson & Johnson 1st Aid Kit 2 Cover Girl Pressed Powders 2 Cover Girl Foundations 3 boxes Kotex Panty Liners Emergen-C Various Pad/Panty Liner Samples 5 boxes Niquil 4 Theraflu Poligrip 2 Cover Girl Simply Ageless Foundations 2 degree deoderants 2 bottles of Johnson & Johnson Baby Lotion (the pink stuff, I love this stuff!) Neosporin 2 boxes of bandaids 2 boxes Visine Eye Drops

Pampers Jumbo Pack 9.99

Eye Shadow Applicators on clearance .24

Nail Polish on clearance .24

Lipstick on clearance .49

Tootsie Roll Suckers (for my 1 year old) .88

Lipstick on clearance .49

Biore Moisturizer on clearance for 50% off 4.99

Fake fingernails for little girls 1.50

Fake fingernails for little girls 1.50

Fake fingernails for little girls 1.50

Cover Girl Simply Ageless Foundation BIGI 15.82

Cover Girl Simply Ageless Concealer BIGI 12.99

Cover Girl Mascara BIGI 8.99

Cover Girl Eyeshadow kit BIGI 8.99

Cover Girl Foundation BIGI 6.99

Cover Girl Foundation BIGI 6.99

Used:

$5 off $25 purchase

Cover Girl BIGI face product 12.99

Cover Girl BIGI face product 8.99

Cover Girl BIGI face product 6.99

$5 off 2 simply ageless products 5.00

$2 off Pampers Jumbo Pack 2.00

Total Out of pocket $9.42 (The price of the diapers alone)

I accomplished quite a few things with this trip so I'm very excited!

-My 9 yr old has a birthday coming up in 2 weeks and the lipstick, fingernail polish and eyeshadow applicators are going to be added to some other little items and make a make up bag for her to do make over with.

-The fake nail kits will be going into the Christmas toy fund I am working on. If you have no clue what I'm talking about, you can read my previous post about Couponing for Christmas here. You can see the running list of the couponing for christmas here.

-All of the make up (except the mascara I desperatly needed) will be added to my donation bag. I keep this bag on a shelf above my washing machine. When it gets full, I transfer it to a box and when the box gets full I donate it to a shelter or some other charity center who can use it. Check out this post that will tell you everything that is in the donation bag as of now.