Free pens + Jen rambles incessantly about peeper removal

If the only thing you seem to be successful at lately is getting older (like me), and you have not yet started to slather creams on your face morning, noon and night (like me) and you read that article in InStyle that made you realize you should have been slathering yourself for at least the last ten years but you haven’t so your face is probably going to shrivel up and fall off before you turn 35 (like me)…this post is for you! No super great deals. Just mediocre deals on skin care.

I’m not a product snob about many things (just Viva paper towels, Seventh Generation dish soap & detergent, Diet Dr. Pepper, and anti- Apple), so I decided to give the CVS skincare products a go. They are B1G1 50% off this week. I picked up the Age Renewal Anti-Oxidant Day Lotion (that InStyle says I should have started using in my twenties) and the Age Renewal Deep Wrinkle Moisturizer (cause InStyle says you should use something with Retinol in it when you hit your thirties).

I also picked up a bottle of Nuance (by Salma Hayek) Dual Phase Makeup Remover. I take serious issue with most makeup removers. Here’s why: I’m super crazy about mascara. I want people to look at me and think “geez, those lashes are so thick and dark and long and insane; they must be super heavy; how does she keep those peepers open?” EVERY makeup remover I have EVER tried has been a disappointment. I have to scrub my lashes with a q-tip until I swear my eyes are about to fall out. I want a remover that I can gently swipe across my lashes and that’s it. No more scrubbing and cursing the day makeup remover was born. Cause I’m a lady.

Anyway, the Nuance remover is really pretty – it’s pink and clear and has iris silhouettes on it. Salma – Sally – I’m gonna call her Sally (Salma makes me wanna brush my teeth) – says (on the bottle) her products are inspired by her grandmother and are designed to help every woman enhance her individual beauty. Grandmothers are one my favorite types of people. And I want to be beautiful. It’s made of fun things like cucumber and rosewater and prickly pear. (BTW, the best margarita I ever tasted was prickly pear.) (I’m such a sucker for the word “rosewater”. Maybe it’s that is sounds a little old-fashioned-y. Maybe it’s that it sounds like something sweet girls would use and I often think about being sweeter.) Down to business: the remover is regularly $7.99 and is now on clearance for $3.49. Not sure why it’s on clearance since it’s not even supposed to come out until next month. I don’t know exactly when it hit shelves in Milton but it can’t have been long ago since it shouldn’t be there yet. Maybe putting something new on clearance is the retail version of “what, this old thing”.

I made two transactions – first an 8ct pack of PaperMate pens for $1.99 with a $1.99 ECB. Second, the skin care. I used the $1.99 ECB and a $5 off $30 from the magic coupon printer during the second transaction.

Be sure to stop by the magic coupon printer. I got another $5 off a purchase of $30 or more coupon today (and something else that I don’t remember – it was lame).

Original Prices: $43.96
Sale Prices: $31.46
Total Paid:$24.46
Total Savings: $19.50 or slightly over 44%

Scouting the Hawaiian Tropics

CVS is offering tons of ECBs this week. $10 ECBs with the purchase of two Hawaiian Tropic products is one such offer. And lip balm counts! Purchase two Hawaiian Tropic lip balms for a total of $5.98 to receive your $10 ECB. You make $4.02!

My scouts and I have searched local stores and found that the Gulf Breeze CVS does carry the lip balm. Stores that do NOT: Milton, Pace, Olive Rd, 9 Mile, 9th Ave, Brent. Shout out to Sarah for making the find in Gulf Breeze.

Walgreens Switch-A-Roo = Free-er Tampons!

I hate buying feminine products. They are expensive, no fun to buy and certainly no fun to use! Walgreens is helping make it a little easier this week. They are giving away an 18 ct box of Playtex Sport or Gentle Glide tampons when you purchase a 36 ct box. The 36 ct box is $8.49 and the 18 ct box is normally $5.29. Combine this with two of the $1.50 manufacturers coupons from the 5/22/11 SmartSource and you get both boxes for $5.49! That’s a savings of $8.29 or over 60%. It’s like you are getting the larger box free!

So that's 36 ct tampons + 18 ct tampons = $5.49
(Walgreens sale + 2 $1.50 manufacturer's coupons = $8.29 savings)

If you are currently in need of tampons, you'll probably like this deal: pop on over to CVS where you can get $5.99 in ECBs on a $5.99 bag of Hershey's Bliss. That's free - you have to pay $5.99 for the Bliss - a $5.99 Extra Care Bucks "coupon" will print on your receipt that you may use on your next purchase. Go ahead and use it right away if you want. Buy your chocolate then turn right around and buy a few things you need that add up to $5.99 (like bread, pet food, etc) and use your ECB just like a coupon! You walk out of the store with your Hershey's Bliss and other item(s) that equal $5.99 all for $5.99! Consider the Bliss free or the other stuff free, either way, you left with free stuff!