Mastering the Coupon Game: A Step-by-Step Guide to Saving Big at CVS

Guess who I brought couponing with me at CVS. This cowboy right here. The hubby. Are you ready? I’m ready. Are you ready? I don’t know. Are we ready? Let’s go. Let’s get it. We have entered couponing county. Let’s see if this cowboy is ready to get his coupon on. Do you have your CVS app? No, I do. I always have my CVS app on. Okay, great. Here’s where we’re gonna start this week. CVS has this coupon that says when we spend $25, we will get $10 off. But it has to be on select personal care items. I’m gonna do is literally walk you step by step so that you can see what we can do to get the most bang for our buck. First thing we’re grabbing is this Garnier Skin Active. It’s priced at 10:49. And we’re also gonna grab one of these Garnier Blackhead scrubs priced at 8 69. These items are on promotion. Buy one, get one 50% off. And when you buy two, you’ll receive five extra bucks. But we also have coupons on the CVS app. What you need to do is scan each one of these items to make sure that each one has a coupon. CVS app, go to the little barcode at the top right hand corner. This barcode scanner pop up. Now go ahead and scan the barcode of this one. The 10 off 25. So this product applies for that specific coupon. And we also Have these two 3 dollar off. And as you can see, that one also has the coupons. Next we are grabbing two of these. Palmer’s Cocoa Butter. They’re priced at 7:49. Buy one get one 50% off. And when you buy two you’ll get six extra bucks. Go ahead and scan them and see that it’s part of the promotion. And also we have a 1:50 off coupon. This coupon has not been clipped, so make sure to click where it’s the plus sign is at. A quick question. So what if I, I noticed that this particular product didn’t have a yellow tag like most of these do. What then? So you see it doesn’t have a yellow tag. Wanna do is go into your CVS app, okay? You’re gonna scan the barcode of the item. Gonna pop up the item right here. And what you want to do is go ahead and click on that. Going to show you one. If there’s any offers who is scroll. And if there’s a promotion, you will see this. For example here it says spend more, earn more. Five extra bucks when you buy two. And if you want to see what items qualify for this promotion, let’s say you want to take something different, just go ahead and click on see Eligible Products. It’ll show you a list of all of the items that qualify for that promotion. I highly recommend that you always still click on the items. Scroll Down and make sure that it actually does qualify for that promotions. The total for all of these items is 26 0 6, but now we’re gonna head on over to check out. Once you’re at check out, make sure to scan your items. First your extra care card, but then scan your CVS app, hit finish and pay. Our total drops to 9 21, which we do have to pay out of pocket. Should still get Extra Care Bucks. Yeah. Five for the Garnier and then 6 for the Palmer’s. So we have 5 and six. We will now use that towards our next transaction. Wait, wait, wait. Where are you going? We’re done. No, we’re not done. Come back. You still have extra bucks, which is pretty much CVS money that you can use towards another transaction. Oh nice, I got money back! Yep, you got money back. So we spent about $9, but we got back how many extra bucks? 11. 11 extra bucks, which makes this deal a money maker. Free money haha. And a money maker. Now using these 11 extra bucks towards another transaction, I’m gonna grab two of these Purcell laundry detergents. They’re priced at 6 99 and they’re on promotion. When you buy two, you’ll get five extra bucks. Once for these. We don’t have coupons, but what I want you to do is open up your Ibotta app to see if there’s any rebates available for these items. Any offers available? As offers. Go ahead and click on that so we can see the details of the offer. Get one dollar and fifty cents back for each one of these purses that we purchase. And we can do it up to five times per receipt. Can see here CVS is one of those stores that qualify for this promotion. So just make sure to clip the offer. So just make sure to clip the offer. 40 fluid ounces only. Uh huh. Let’s make sure to clip the offer. Clipped. Thank you. Clipped. It’s cause if you forget and then you leave the store and then you try to scan your receipt, it won’t go through. It might not go through. So always clip it before you make the purchase. Okay, let’s go to check out finish. And you’re only gonna select 11 because that’s all we have from our previous transaction. This one. Yes. Our total is 3 twenty three. That’s with tax that we have to pay out of pocket. Still get those five extra bucks. Now taking these five extra bucks to use towards our next transaction. And we’re grabbing these Fiji waters that are regularly 8 99. They’re on promotion for 4 99. And when you buy one, you’ll get one extra bucks. And go ahead and scan to see if we have any coupons. Right here it says we couldn’t find any deal for that product. The Fiji Water is 4 99. We have that five extra Bucks. So how much will you pay out of pocket? Zero dollars. Correct. Zero dollars. And if you’re planning on using the paper five dollar extra buck. Let’s say you haven’t sent sent it to your card. You go ahead and skip this screen. Just go to continue. Scan coupon now. And now you scan your coupon. If finished, insert coupon into slot near the blinking light. Thank you. Continue button if finished. And $0. But now get that $1 extra buck that we won’t use on our next transaction. No more transactions. Make it stop. We’re done with our transactions for the day. But here’s how you did. You scored all of these items that regularly retail for about $63. For how much? Eleven dollars and fifty four cents. You still ended up with this $1 extra buck. And then what do we have to do with our receipt for the procile? Submit it to Ibotta. For how much? $3. $3 back. Submitting your receipt to Ibotta. All you have to do is click redeem, select the store, which is CVS. And now we click Upload Receipt. The screen will pop up. Make sure to take a photo of your receipt. Once you’ve taken the photo, click Use Receipt Photo. And here you can see that those two offers have been matched. Confirm and submit. And we should see those $3 on our Ibotta account within 24 hours. Which gives us a net final of seven dollars and fifty Four cents. So if you’re still not following, make sure that you do, so that you two can score fire deals. Don’t forget to hit the like and let me know if you score.