RA is Really Making Me Think Today

I've been thinking about finishing out SCR #160 (spend $50 on participating J&J products and get a $25 RA gift card) that I started by buying Stayfree pads here and here. In total, I bought 20 packages of pads for $3.99 each, which equals $79.80. RA said I did not reach the $50 limit, so that means they did not count the BOGO pads as part of the deal. Dividing $79.80 in two gets me to $39.90, which is only $10.10 away from my $50 goal. Even if I have to spend that money out of pocket, I'll still make a profit when I qualify for the $25 gift card since I spent nothing OOP for the Stayfree. Now I just have to do some price matching of the qualifying items and see what would get me closest to $10.10. Ok, on to today's shopping:

Rite Aid - my cashier was super nice so I just did both transactions right after the other. She didn't even bat an eyelash.

Here's some FYI stuff for this deal: there is a $3 Huggies coupon but I could not get it to print for me. Maybe you'll have better luck. Also, I used a $2 Little Swimmers coupon that was really for skincare or suncare items, but it went through without a beep on the diapers. I had my $1.50 coupons for the diapers with me just in case.

Transaction One:

• Huggies Mega Pack of Diapers $14.99, used $2 coupon (5/17 SS) = $12.99
• Huggies Little Swimmers Diapers $6.99, used $2 coupon (5/17 SS) = $4.99
• Crest Pro-Health Enamel Shield Toothpaste (4.2 oz) $2.69, used $1 coupon (P&G Year of Savings coupon booklet from previous rebate) and will get back $2.69 (SCR #146) = $1 profit
• 2 Snickers candy bars $0.88 each, BOGO sale and used freebie coupon = FREE
• Used $5 off $25 coupon, total was $14.79

Transaction Two:

• Huggies Mega Pack of Diapers $14.99, used $2 coupon (5/17 SS) = $12.99
• 2 Huggies Little Swimmers Diapers $6.99 each, used two $2 coupons (5/17 SS) = $9.98
• Used $5 off $25 coupon, total was $17.97

Now here come the rebates. Hold on to your hats cause this is a wee-bit confusing:

• $2 - SCR #53 WYB a Huggies Mega Pack of diapers (Limit 1)
• $25 RA gift card - SCR #61 WYB $50 worth of participating Kimberly-Clark/Bayer/Schick/Unilever products (Limit 1). Includes Huggies Supreme or Huggies Snug and Dry diapers (34-60 count), Pull-Ups Training Pants (33 count), GoodNites Underpants (27 count), Little Swimmers swim diapers (10-12 pack), Huggies Wipes (184-232 count) and tons of other stuff. The whole list is here.
• $2.25 Caregiver's Marketplace rebate for Little Swimmers diapers ($0.75 each)
• Voucher for a pack of FREE Diapers - SCR #800 WYB 5 packages of Huggies Supreme (22-46 ct) or Huggies Snug & Dry (26-60 ct) diapers. I'm not really sure whether this rebate will clear or not since it doesn't list the Little Swimmers. Fingers crossed!

Now that your head is spinning, let's break this down. I paid $32.76 OOP for all this stuff, and I'm getting back $2.69 (Crest), $2, $2.25 and $25 in rebates, so that works out to a true cost of $0.82. And if you count in my $1 profit on the Crest, that's a profit of $0.18! What a steal!

CVS - thanks for the coupons dancinmama!

• Gillette Fusion Manual or Power Razor $7.99, used $4 coupon (6/7 P&G) and got back $4 EB (Limit 1) = FREE/$0.01 profit
• Used $0.99 EB and $2.99 EB, total was $0.29

A&P

• 4 Old Orchard Healthy Balance juices $1.66 each, used four $0.50 coupons (5/10 SS) = $0.64 or $0.16 each
• 2 California Pizza Kitchen pizzas $3 each, used two $1 coupons (5/17 SS) and got back $1 OYNO catalina = $3 or $1.50 each
• Tortillas $3.29
• Used $6 raincheck, total was $1.38

Look at the flavors on these! Apple Kiwi Strawberry, Pomegranate Cranberry, Apple Cranberry and Pomegranate Blueberry Acai Yum!