Huggies

When I found out that we were having a baby, one of my goals was to have a year's supply of household essentials, including diapers, in my stock pile before the baby arrived.  I accomplished my goal.  One family that I shop for currently has two children in diapers and another blessing on the way.  I was recruited to help find a diaper savings if possible.  I know how expensive diapers are, and I was more than excited to help with such request because I had ten $3 Huggies coupons that expired in a few days that I needed to use.  I told my client that as of that day, there weren't any amazing diaper deals, but I would continue to watch.  I told my client that I had ten coupons and worse case scenario I would go to Walmart to use the $3 coupons on each $8.98 pack, and we would pay $5.98 a pack.  Don't get me wrong, $5.98 a pack is great, but I've scored better deals.  The client gave me $70 to buy ten packs of diapers knowing that I would pay $64.74 including tax on 10 packs of diapers.  

I received a message from a friend that there was a $2 off of $10 CVS diaper coupon on www.coupons.com/cvs and of course I printed two of those off.  I mapped out a plan with the $2 off of $10 purchase and the CVS sale price of $8.99 and got sale price to be better than the Walmart plan.    I headed out to CVS with a plan in mind, but when I went to CVS and I received two $5 off of $30 diaper coupons from the magic machine!  I instantly started doing the math in the aisle to determine which coupons would work better.

I broke up my purchase into 3 separate transactions and the results are as follows:

Transaction #1:  4 packs of Huggies at $8.99 each.  I used a $3 coupon on each pack and used the $5 off of $30 CVS coupon.  My total after tax was $20.52 for 4 packs.

Transaction #2:  (Same as first transaction) 4 packs of Huggies at $8.99 each.  I used a $3 coupon on each pack and used the $5 off of $30 CVS coupon.  My total after tax was $20.52 for 4 packs. 

Transaction #3: 2 packs of Huggies at $8.99 each.  I used a $3 coupon on each pack and I used my $2 off of $10 diaper coupon I printed before my trip.  I paid $10.80 for two packs of diapers.  

$51.84 for ten packs of Huggies diapers ($5.18 each)!  

I was so relieved that I found such a great stock up price on diapers for this family.  Diapers are so expensive and can really eat away at your budget even if you buy in bulk at a warehouse store.  I still had $18 left from the clients diaper budget.  I sent the client a message and asked if they wanted the $18 back or if they wanted me to coupon the remaining balance.  They said to coupon it out!

I was able to score three Aveeno shave creams.  The shave creams were $4.99 each.  CVS had a promotion to receive $10 in Extra Bucks if you purchased three Aveeno products.  I also had $1 Aveeno coupons.  I bought 3 shave creams and paid $12.96 OOP and receive $10 back in Extra Bucks.  I then used the remaining money and bought six boxes of cereal! I started out just buying diapers and was able to buy more than just diapers!!