Speaking of Walgreen's.....

Wow is all I can say.

This week's Walgreen's ad is awesome. This store allows you to combine their store coupons with manufacturer's coupons for tremendous savings. The Lady Speed Stick deodorant coupon is $1 each, limit of 4 (means if you buy 4, you get them all for $1 ea.). PLUS I had 2 manufacturer coupons for 75 cents off two. So, I got 4 deodorants, minus the store coupons and the manufacturer coupons for a grand total of 63 cents apiece. If I had more manufacturer coupons, I would have bought them out (again....buying coupon inserts pays
off.....).

Then the Easy Saver rebates on the Soft Soap Body Wash and the Walgreen's brand maxi pads. Both items FREE after you send in the rebate at the end of the month. I bought them to donate to my church's homeless mission. In fact, I'll donate all this stuff, and after all the savings and rebates, I only spent $2.50 and am donating about $30 worth of stuff (I bought multiples of the free ones too, and sending one of the rebates to my daughter in another town).

I am so pumped about coupons and rebates. It is so worth it. The cashier lady was in total awe of this incredible buy. She congratulated me on a job well done. I told her I was donating it all
and she was even more impressed. I told her, "Don't be impressed, copy what I do and donate it somewhere. People need this stuff."

Making these kinds of purchases allows me the opportunity to be more generous that I could otherwise. The mission needs personal care items. Food they can get at the food bank, hygiene items are valuable and in demand. Here is info on the mission we donate to: http://www.basilicaofstjohn.org/St.%20Benedict's%20Mission.htm

It is my hope, that by my sharing my own frugal and couponing experiences, that other people reading this will learn and make their own dollars stretch more as well.