My Wed CVS and Walmart Exploits

I started out with CVS and was pleasently surprised at the good deals I managed to grab on round 2 this week. I picked up 2 John Freida products shampoo/conditioner that I had $3 coupons for. The ECB said get $10 in product and get $3 ECB back. Well it was on sale from $7 down to $5 and I picked them up for $2 each or .50 after ECB. Our store had Pantene half off with peelies so I grabbed 2 and used the peelies and $1/2 coupon and got 2 family sized Pantenes for a total of $5. I went ahead and grabbed 4 boxes of cereal using 75 cent off a box coupons and they were on sale for 3/10 with $4 ECB. I snagged even more poptarts on sale at 3/5 and used the $1/2 coupons. Now my pantry is overflowing with poptarts from a shopping spree at walmart a month ago and this was a better price. Also this week had V-8 and V-8 splash on sale for 2/6 with $1 ECB. I used coupons and got 6 bottles. We are on food stamps for about another month. So I ended up using about $40 off of that and out of pocket (oop) cost none. I used the $7 ECB I walked into the store with but came out with $10.
Walmart I managed to shop well too. The best deals came from two more Gillette Body Washes for free, used a buy one get one coupon and a $4 off coupon. They are $3.47 each there and now my husband has 6 bottles of it stocked and he is shaking his head at me over the phone while I laugh. Also the other really good deal was the Lysol no touch Hand Sanitizer was on Sale from $10 to $6. I used $3 off coupons and picked 3 up for $9 total. I won't bore you with the rest but I walked out of this store with $24 in sales savings $25 in coupon savings, $12 o.o.p. and $7 of that is coming back to me in rebates. It isn't easy pulling the kids through the store while doing it. In fact I have been known to grumble before hand and threaten to call it quits with couponing. But to me I have been blessed with the privalage of staying home while my husband works like crazy. I have to remind myself that this is God's job for me right now, helping him save money so that it goes farther and gets us out of debt sooner. So when I grumble and gripe before hand it always turn into a smile after the work is done when the results are seen. I just need to remember that a little bit more before.