Walgreens register rewards...

now that i've been getting into couponing, i wanted to figure out walgreen's register rewards. i googled "$5 walgreen's challenge" and TONS of couponing blogs came up explaining how to do it, so i thought i'd give it a try!

now to get the ball rolling, you do have to spend a little out of pocket. my pumpking carving kit was something i had to get for the boy's school tomorrow, but if you take that off, i did hit the $5.19 mark ($.20 was tax)!
Here's how i did it:
Zantac Sale price $8.99 used $5 off coupon making it $3.99
Hall's Drops sale price $1 used a $.50 off coupon making them $.50
Trident gum sale price 2 for $2 used a $1.50 off 2 coupon making them $.50 ($.25 each!)
Pumking carving kit $1.99

Total: 6.98+.20 tax = $7.18

Now here's where it gets good!!!
Zantac earned $9 register reward (rr)
Hall's earned $1rr
Trident gum earned $1rr
MAKING IT $11 BACK IN RR'S!!!

the rr's are good to use on your next purchase. so i MADE $3.82 making all my stuff basically free with an overage! now i couldn't pay for that stuff with those rr's, BUT, on my next trip (and some people just do multiple purchases) i can get $11 worth of stuff for free now!!!

i plan on going back tomorrow and getting some more rr earning items so i can "roll" my rr's! right now, i've got it planned out to where i can get $58.15 worth of (SALE PRICES, it would be way more retail) stuff for only the original $7.18 out of pocket (oop)!!!

i suggest googling "$5 walgreens challenge" and "$5 cvs challenge" to learn all about these reward programs! it's amazing how much you can get for FREE!!!

tomorrow i HAVE to find a place to store all this free stuff! lol! with all my stockpiling/couponing, my pantry is super full!!! that's a whole other organizing story!