Walgreens and CVS pharmacies both have programs that will return most or all of your purchase price on certain items.  Walgreens has a monthly booklet which allows you to send in your register receipts and get rebates if you buy items from the booklet. They pay promptly and if you put your rebates on a Walgreens gift card (which is reloadable) they will give you 10% more rebate!!  I let my gift card build up over several months and use the card to buy things for the troops. 

CVS will print out Extra Bucks on your register receipt when you buy certain advertised items. Sometimes it's the entire price of the item.  I use the Extra Bucks to buy items for the troops.  Since postage is never free, I use this "free money" to buy the stuff in the box and only have to pay postage.  What a help!

 

Yessirree,  CVS has provided me with a lot of goodies by using ECBs in a continuous fashion.  Love the limit 5 toothpaste offers....and the vitamin C....etc.

I don't shop Walgreens much...and haven't since they introduced their program.  Is it as good as CVS?

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I think Walgreens prices are better than CVS, and they now have two "free money" promotions. One is the little booklet that lists each month's promotions, and you can have your "rewards" for your purchases posted to a rebate card (choose the card ioption nstead of getting a check in the mail and you get an extra 10% posted to your card.) In a few states (Arizona is one of them) you don't even have to mail in your receipt because it can be done online. You just type in the number of your register receipt, saving a stamp! The second promotion comes as a register receipt for "free money" when you buy certain projects. The register receipt can then be used on your next purchase at Walgreens. The receipt is good for about three weeks, just like cash.

The other big "money maker" you can take advantage of if you have a CVS and a Walgreens close together involves medications.  If you take maintenance medications that you have to have re-prescribed once a year, I take the newly written prescriptions to Walgreens and get them filled there until CVS runs a special that pays you $30 to transfer your prescription from another pharmacy.  Then I transfer the prescription (the two pharmacies are across the street from each other in my neighborhood) and get a $30 CVS gift card to fill a box or two for the troops. 

If anyone isn't taking advantage of CVS's program, you really need to look into it.

This month, you could get 3 free deoderants, 3 free toothbrushes, 3 tubes of toothpaste, 3 boxes of allergy pills and 2 packs of disolvable Tums.

And if you use coupons, you can actually make money to get more soldier stuff.

Example, Toothbrushes are $2.99 each. I had 3 $1 coupons. So I paid $5.97. The CVS deal gives you the full price back in store money, so I got $8.97 back at the register. I had coupons for the toothpaste too, so I added $6 to my soldier fund.

One other thing you might be interested in, is CVS has had 2 pack granola bars (4 bars) for $1. There are coupons for them - $.80 off 2 boxes. I like them for the boxes.

 

oh, and you can do Rite-Aide rebates on line now too.  They've been doing 3 for a $1 candy deals. You can pick up 3 rolls of sweettarts or laffy taffys etc.

I also stop at the cosmetics counter of Walgreens and ask if they have any samples for my "gal troops".  Usually, as soon as you say "troops" they can find a handful of something and the girls always appreciate it. 

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If anyone isn't taking advantage of CVS's program, you really need to look into it.

This month, you could get 3 free deoderants, 3 free toothbrushes, 3 tubes of toothpaste, 3 boxes of allergy pills and 2 packs of disolvable Tums.

And if you use coupons, you can actually make money to get more soldier stuff.

Example, Toothbrushes are $2.99 each. I had 3 $1 coupons. So I paid $5.97. The CVS deal gives you the full price back in store money, so I got $8.97 back at the register. I had coupons for the toothpaste too, so I added $6 to my soldier fund.

One other thing you might be interested in, is CVS has had 2 pack granola bars (4 bars) for $1. There are coupons for them - $.80 off 2 boxes. I like them for the boxes.

 

 

Well, wow!  How you do you find out what the specials are?  Are they printed on the receipt, like the 'Easy Bucks' are?  I usually only shop at CVS for prescriptions, but now I'm tempted to shop there more!

You can get a monthly booklet at the beginning of each month at the store, and the weekly paper inserts (or from the store) list the specials.  The weekly papers just show one or two of the items for the month.  It will show the price you pay with your card, then the amount you'll get back in Easy Care Bucks (ECBs), then it will say "it's like getting it for $XX." And they will openly say "free."  I get the monthly book, so I know all the specials soon. They sell out iof stuff in many stores. There's so many around here, I can usually find the deals at one store.

You can still get this months deals. And if you register your name on the cvs website, they'll give you a coupon to print for $4. You get very few emails from them, and most of the ones I've gotten have had more coupons.

 If you get a  Sunday paper, start keeping the toothpaste, deoderant, toothbrush and other drugstore type coupons.Today I got a razor that was $9.99 They were giving back $6.00 in ECBs. Last weeks paper had a $4.00 coupon. So, I paid $5.99 and got $6.00 back to spend later. So that one wasn't free from the store, but the coupon made it that way.

the weekly papers are also on line at www.cvs.com

I think the razor I mentioned was on page 18 and the first "freebie" is the aquafresh toothpaste on page 19.

 

In the CVS circular they may have toothbrushes that you get "free" with extra bucks.  It will say underneath "limit 5".  Is that limit for the whole month or just that week?  Sometimes things are offered numerous times in a month and I never know how many times I can get the offer.  Thanks for the help.