Another good day at CVS

After the gym today, we stopped off at CVS to pick up some things. There were a few things that are free after Extra Care Bucks that I hadn’t already picked up. I’m all for free stuff. My goal was to have a bill of $50 so that I could use my $10 off a $50 purchase. This wasn’t going to be hard this time around.

I got the following:

Ascensia Control Monitor $14.99
Precision Xtra Monitor $19.99
Softsoap Spa $4.99
2-CVS Diapers size 4 $8.99each
3-Peanut Butter M&Ms $0.50each

Here’s the breakdown:
Rough Total (no taxes included) $59.45
The CVS brand diapers were Buy one get one free, so -$8.99. Once that happened I was no longer above $50 without taxes and the register wouldn’t take my $10 off $50 purchase. This is the reason we got the three bags of M&Ms.
I had a coupon from the newspaper for the Ascensia Monitor for $30 off. Since it only cost $14.99, they adjusted the coupon to reflect that, so -$14.99.
The $10 off $50 purchase coupon worked after getting the M&Ms, so -$10.00
Are you keeping up?
When I scanned my CVS card at the store price checker/coupon machine today, it gave me a $3 off $10 CVS Brand purchase. I was able to use this on the diapers, which I got because I knew it would end up being free and we needed some anyway so I thought we’d try them. I’ve actually heard good things about them, so -$3.00
I used a $19.96 Extra Care Buck to pay and then owed $2.51. I paid the $2.51 with a gift card I received from a transferred prescription previously.

Now for the best part.
Total Merchandise Original Cost (Before any CVS Sales) $178.32 (Those diabetes monitors are not cheap normally.)
Total I actually paid in Extra Care Bucks and giftcard $22.47
Total I received back in Extra Care Bucks for future use $39.97

So I got $178.32 worth of merchandise and in the end CVS paid me $17.50 to take it all home.
We do not have a use for the diabetes monitors (but they were money makers) so I took them to the Fire Dept. One brand is that kind they use and it always helps to have extras. The other they will give to someone who needs one.

So not a bad day at all. CVS paid me $17.50 and I got two diabetes monitors to donate, 2 packs of diapers, 3 packs of M&Ms, and 1 Softsoap Spa Body Wash.

Gym today..

So we decided to get up and go to the gym today. The on duty guys should have been there about 9am, which is when we go. So I told Little Monkey that he’d get to see Big Monkey. Only problem with that, the guys didn’t show up. Slackers! Little Monkey went in to the childcare room and surprisingly was the only kid there. He was reluctant to go in but did fine once he did.

I walked on the treadmill again. I decided that seeing the clock counting up and the distance counting up is very frustrating. It seems like you’ve been on there a long time and it has only been two minutes. There is a clock that is in front of the treadmills, so I did still have an idea of how long I had been there. I took my towel today and covered up the time/distance until about 35 minutes in. I walked for 50 minutes (including cool down) and went 3.07 miles. So better than Tuesday, which is good. I’m guessing Big Monkey might want to go to the gym tomorrow…so maybe we’ll go too. (I have however fulfilled his three times a week requirement!) Taking too long of a break will probably not be good though. So if we do not go tomorrow morning, we’ll have to go on Saturday morning, or Sunday afternoon. There is no childcare on Sundays though, so we’d have to trade off who is at the gym and who is at home.