CVS-ing...my new shopping experiences

So I have decided that I'm going to start couponing and looking for deals when I shop in order to help us be better stewards of our money. The last two weeks I've gotten the Sunday paper, and last night a friend from church gave me a whole lot of coupons! I was checking out a friend's blog several months ago, and noticed that she was getting tons of free stuff from CVS. So I loooked into it, and have tried it out. I got info about shopping at CVS from a website (moneysavingmom...i'll put link below). On the website there is a link on CVS 101, and how to make it work for you. So far, I've been doing pretty good with it, and I will make $10 for our family this week. I know it isn't much, but it is better then nothing, right...so, here's what I got today:

I got all this for $4.69

Here's what I did:

First transaction:

First I had $5.00 ECBs (just like $5.00 cash to use at CVS from previous order)

I bought the two boxes of throat coolers for toddlers. Each box is 4.99. I had a buy one get one free coupon for the throat coolers. So, I just used the $5.00 in ECBs that I had. Then, the throat coolers are on special this week. When you buy them, you get your money back in ECBs. (So they are actually free.) So I got ten dollars back even though I technically paid $5.00!! Out of pocket money was 49 cents for tax.

Second transaction:

I bought the diapers and pull ups in this transaction:

Both were on sale for $10. (that is cheaper then the walmart prices for the pull ups and about the same for the diapers...have to be careful about that at CVS)

Here's what I did:

$2.00 off coupon for pull ups

$1.50 off coupon for diapers

$10 of ECBs (from 1st transaction)

$3.00 of ECBs (from last week)

So I paid $4.20 for the diapers and $0.49 for the throat coolers....oh, yeah....I got $5.00 more when I cashed out to use for my next trip. I already know what that will be...there's a limit of 5 throat coolers you can buy, so I'll use my $5.00 to get 2 more boxes of the throat coolers, and then they'll give me $10 back when I check out!!! YAY!!!! So, I'll have ten dollars to work with next week:)

Here's the link to the website that has helped me:

http://www.moneysavingmom.com/