My First Big Savings Adventure at Rite Aid

I have been playing with couponing for almost a year now but I have never been able to figure out how to get the great deals. So I turned to the internet to read about others success. Inspired by the success of others I decided to did a little to find a really special deal. After two trips to Rite Aid and feeling like I did really good I created a tracking sheet to figure out how well I did on purchasing Covergirl Cosmetics for my teenage daughter. I created columns to show the actual retail, coupons used, sale price and lastly how much did I actually spend column. WOW! I am so excited I finally had a great story to tell and decided I would join the other couponing frugal bloggers of the world. I hope by creating a blog I will continue search out the deals. My big savings adventure began with the Rite Aid sales paper which had a Buy One Get One Free Covergirl Cosmetics sale on the front page. Since my daughter has been sneaking into my wife's cosmetics I thought it was time to buy her own. A little short on cash I began to figure out a way to buy as much as possible and spend as little as possible. I collected 10 $1.00 off coupons and a $25.00 Rite Aid Gift card I recieved when I transferred a prescription last month and began to do the math actually I had two gift cards but one only had $1.oo and some change left on it. In two trips I was able to purchase $80.17 worth of cosemtics for 31.73 and used my prescription transfer gift cards to reduce the Out of Pocket cost to $5.19!! I know the OOP is not under a $1 but I was so happy. My wife is happy because she does not have to share with my daughter and my daughter is happy to have her own collection of cosmetics. It was a great shopping day and figuring out my overall savings! The savings just seem more impressive to me in a chart since the reciepts leave off some of the details. Visit the "Cent"sible Sawyer's Drugstore Divas! @ http://thecentsiblesawyer.blogspot.com/search/label/Drugstore%20Divas