I had a good time at Walgreens today. I was lured there by the 10/$1 seed packets. I picked up enough to get a good start on the garden this year. Among my finds: cukes, beets, spinach, basil, dill, squash, and zucchini. I usually buy my squash and zucchini at a greenhouse, but I only want 1-2 of each plant. This will give me a little more flexibility. I still plan to get my peppers and tomatoes from the greenhouse - I have done these from seed, but they weren't as good.
Anyhoo...in addition to the great seed finds, I also got the following:
-2 packs of Puffs, $.79 each
-1 Finesse conditioner, $3.99 with a $3.99 rebate AND $1 coupon
-1 pack of rewetting eyedrops, discounted from $6.99 to $4.19 due to a packaging change (necessity for me due to my overnight wear contacts).
Combined with my $3 rebate from last month, I spent $6.99. I'll be getting $3.99 back on that as well. I love trips like this!
Just a side note: Something I noticed about myself today. I saw the orange "Last chance" sticker on the rewetting drops. I picked up the first one I saw, also $4.19, and thought it was a great buy. I just happened to glance the Walgreens version and noticed that it was a better buy per ounce, despite not being on sale. One more lucky glance and I found an item exactly the same as the first one I had picked up, but in a larger size box. While I was content to buy .5 oz. for $4.19, I was estatic to buy 1 oz. for $4.19! It pays to look around. Many times I get so excited over a "good" price that I forget to check out the generics and other sales that might be even better.
Gardeners, get thee to Walgreens!
January 23rd, 2007 at 07:27 pm
January 23rd, 2007 at 09:31 pm 1169587874
January 23rd, 2007 at 09:42 pm 1169588578
and since i've been thinking of possible valentine's day gifts all day, you just gave me another idea...B. has said his favorite veggie is the stringbean, so as a cutesy gift i could wrap up a few packets of stringbean seeds, and when he says what's this i could tell him it's his new garden which i will plant for him in the spring.
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:24 pm 1169591087
Last week I did the Finesse conditioner and the OralB toothbrush free-after-rebate offers.
Today, I bought the 3/$1 8-oz pineapple. I bought the 2/$3 10-oz dried apricots and also had a $1 coupon for those. I bought 3/$1 chocolate bars. I also bought the $1 12.6 oz Dawn dish detergent and then used $0.50 coupon on it.
January 24th, 2007 at 03:22 am 1169608954
January 24th, 2007 at 03:44 pm 1169653486
sadly, the veggie seed packets they had at my walgreens were not 10 for $1 and in any event they didn't have any stringbeans, but i can get them elsewhere.