I headed over to CVS Pharmacy this morning to pair their $30/$10 ExtraBucks sale with my stash of free Coca-Cola 12-pack coupons from all the end-of-2016 Coke Rewards points deals. Coke 12-packs are 3-for-$10 as part of the $30/$10.
I had six free 12-pack coupons from my points, so that covered $20 of my $30 sale threshold. All the Coke would be free, so basically, I could buy $10 worth of anything I wanted and get $10 back on it, making that free too.
Incredibly, we’re down to four 6-packs of paper towels in my house, and that’s enough to trigger my internal “we need more paper towels” alarm. Viva 6-roll packs of paper towels are on sale for $4.99 this week. I added two to my cart. (ExtraBucks do trigger when they’re pennies under the spend threshold at CVS, so $29.98 worth of items would do.) The 1/1 SS1 has a .50 Viva coupon, so I brought two along.
Then, I walked around CVS for a little while to see what other deals I could put together.
I got a $2 coupon from the CVS Magic Coupon Machine, so I paired it with the $7.99 Gillette Mach 3 disposable razors this week. (My store had “Bonus +1” 4-pack razors, so look for those if you’re doing a similar deal!) With this $4 Mach 3 printable, I’d pay $1.99 and get $1 back.
I also grabbed a 10oz. bottle of Palmolive dish detergent. Scanning your CVS card at the coupon machine will give you a .25 coupon this week. Stacking with this .25 printable drops it to .49.
I also had a $2 coupon for any vitamin or supplement from my last trip. It was expiring today, so I picked up two bottles of CVS Children’s vitamins. They’re on sale for $6.49, Buy One Get One Free. After coupon, they’re $4.49 for two, or about $2.50 each!
Finally, it was Coke time! I added six 12-packs to my cart. I also had $10.75 in ExtraBucks from my previous shopping trip, and $3 in birthday ExtraBucks!
I split my order into two transactions, as the Coke coupons are limit 4 per shopping trip. Putting everything together with all coupons, here’s how it went:
Six Coca-Cola 12-packs – $20
Two Viva 6-roll paper towels – $9.98 (now $29.98)
One Gillette Mach 3 4ct. disposable razors – $7.99 (now $37.97)
One Palmolive dish detergent – .99 (now $38.96)
Two CVS children’s vitamins 60ct. – $6.49, Buy One get One Free (now $45.45)
I used six free Coke 12-pack coupons – now $25.45
I used two .50 Viva coupons – now $24.45
I used a $2 CVS coupon and a $4 Gillette coupon on the razors – now $18.45
I used a .25 CVS coupon and a .25 Palmolive coupon on the detergent – now $17.95
I used a $2 CVS coupon on the vitamins – now $15.95
I used $13.75 in Extrabucks to drop this to $2.20!
With $2.98 tax, I paid a total of $5.19 and got $11 ExtraBucks back — $10 for the $30/$10 deal and $1 for the Gillette!
What a fun trip — and I’m well-stocked on Cokes now.
wolverine70 says
A trip that would make any couponer proud!
Judy says
I bought my Coke 12 packs in groups of 2 so that I would get $4.49 credit towards the $30 for each. I paid a little more in tax but got more credit towards the $30.
Coupon Maven says
Now THAT is a great idea that I hadn’t even considered! Yes, if you bought six 12-packs two at a time, you’d have $26.94 in credit toward your $30 instead of $20!
Very, VERY nicely done. :D I could have gotten by with ONE package of Viva and had more of a moneymaker. :)
Jennifer says
I’m usually pretty good at understanding coupon deals, but I don’t follow this one. How is buying 2 at a time better than buying 4 at a time?
soapboxtray says
Jennifer, They are on sale 3 for $10 or $4.99 each if you don’t buy in multiples of 3. :-) This makes sense ONLY if you have the free 12 pack coupons. If you don’t and you are a coke fan, better to buy 9 cokes (if that is all you need) for $30 and then you will get $10 back for $2.22 each 12 pack.
PS. You can do separate trips and with your rewards card it keeps track and will reward you when you hit the threshold. I am planning on breaking the Persil in 2 transactions and buying 5 total with $1. coupons from 1/22RP that will make them 2.34 each.
Diane says
My Coke coupons wouldn’t scan at CVS :(
Coupon Maven says
They do beep because the cashier has to enter the price of the 12-pack. Did they really not let you use them?! That’s terrible.
Jennifer Chropkowski says
How do you get the Code Coupons?
Coupon Maven says
If you save My Coke Rewards points that are printed inside the cardboard cases or bottle caps of Coca-Cola products, you can enter them into Coke’s MyCokeRewards.com site and accrue them for free 12-pack coupons, as well as other prizes. (Each 12-pack is worth 10 Coke points.) Near the end of 2016, they had multiple deals where only 30 points would net you a free 12-pack coupon. They had that offer running six times, so I got six free 12-pack coupons :) Each time they offered this deal, I put posts up in the Hot Deals section of the blog, like this one:
https://jillcataldo.com/two-more-free-coke-12-pack-coupons-for-30-points
They do offer free 12-pack coupons for points ALL year long, but they usually cost more points than the 30-point specials.
Theresa says
I have 2.00 back on 2 Viva at select retailers and CVS is one of them–on Checkout51. If you have this you will get more back.
Coupon Maven says
Oh man – I shopped too soon! That would make this an even BETTER deal, for sure. Thanks for sharing that — I’m sure it will help someone put a nice deal together :)
SSMark1 says
I missed these Cokes posts since it was busy season at work when they were posted.
I only got 2 coupons vs. all 6 coupons…
Some of my codes from flaps had EXPIRED when I entered them in last month!
I didn’t know codes expired.
Lesson learned, don’t hang onto codes too long for those double point days.
-Mark
ellen says
i got an email today that my coke rewards are ending. last day to submit codes is march 22 and last day to spend points is june 30.
Coupon Maven says
Wow – it sure is! They have an announcement on their site right now:
https://www.mycokerewards.com/content/home.html
I have a LOT of points lying around the house right now. You can only enter 75 points per week, so I guess I should get entering them in :(
soapboxtray says
wow, that is a bummer!