CVS Deals - 3/29

I headed to CVS on Sunday to take advantage of the one day deals and to pick up some of the other deals that interested me this week. There were a few things that they were out of already - the Glade Sense and Spray and the Rimmel Sexy Curves Mascara.

Here is what I was able to get:

Transaction #1

1 - Lysol Toilet Bowl Cleaner
1 - Lysol Wipes
1 - Paas Egg Decorator
2 - M&M 12.6oz bags

-$1 CVS coupon for Lysol product
-$1 Lysol mfg coupon
-$.75 Lysol mfg coupon
-$1 $1/2 M&M mfg coupon

Paid with $2 and $3.49 in ECBs and $.79 OOP. Earned $1.99 ECBs.

I will be submitting this receipt for the Lysol Pediatrician $5 Reward Mail-In Offer.

Transaction #2

1 - Lysol Toilet Bowl Cleaner
1 - Lysol Wipes
1 - Lysol All Purpose Cleaner
4 - Ensure 6pk

-$1 CVS Lysol coupon
-$1 Lysol Mfg coupon
-$.75 Lysol Mfg coupon
-$.50 Lysol Mfg coupon
-$3 Ensure IP
-$3 Ensure IP
-$3 Ensure IP
-$6.99 Ensure free IP
-$2 CVS $2/$10 coupon

Paid with $3.99 in ECBs and $11.73 OOP.

I will submit this receipt for the Lysol $3 Mail-In Rebate Offer.

I spent a lot of money and ECBs today. I decreased my ECBs by $7.49 and spent $11.73 OOP for a total "cost" of $19.22. I will get back $8 by mail, making my net cost $11.22. I don't think that is too bad for everything I got.

I use the Ensure as a protein source after working out. I typically get the high protein ones, but they only had three on shelf, so one was not high protein. I also was able to get a good amount of cleaning supplies. I couldn't have even come close to this deal elsewhere.

Of course for those of you that recall this post, you will see I spent in one visit almost 10% (prior to rebates) of what I spent in the last 10 months (prior to rebates as well). Sometimes, you have to spend in order to save. My savings for this visit was $49.10 - since they roll my ECBs into this savings, that means that I got $60.83 worth of product (at CVS shelf price) for $11.73 a savings of 81%.

For more deals, check out Super Savings Saturuday at Money Saving Mom and Shopping Superstars at The Thrifty Mama. For more CVS Deals, check out CVS Superstars at The "Cent"sible Sawyer.

My Two Year Old Doesn't Nap

What's a mom to do? My two year old will go upstairs, read a book, rock and climb into bed at nap time, but she doesn't go to sleep. She'll climb out of bed, grab a book and climb back in. You can hear her read her books, which is just too cute for me. Then, it will get quiet and I will think aha, finally, sleep. Only to be followed a few minutes later with a crash. Something has fallen, I being the worried mom of course head upstairs to see what happened. She's sitting on her floor playing with something and looks up at me and says, I woke up! I try to explain that in order to wake up, you must first go to sleep. When I suggest we rock or climb into bed, she'll tell me "I'm done".

I find myself running errands some days, just because I know that 5 minutes in the car will put her to sleep and if I hang out in the car for a while, she will at least get some semblance of a nap. To me, the fact that she falls asleep in the car means that she is still needing a nap - she's just not able to resist it there.

They tell me a similar tale at school, it takes her about 45 minutes to fall asleep at nap time. Of course there, she has no choice but to lie on her cot until she ultimately gives in. All the kids are doing it.

With my son, we eventually had to stop calling it a nap, he simply didn't want to nap. We would call it time to recharge. This worked. We always said, you don't have to sleep, just recharge. Invariably, he would fall asleep 5 - 10 minutes later.

How do you get your reluctant kid to stay in bed long enough to fall asleep? I don't want to stay in her room with her and rock her or pat her bottom long enough for her to fall asleep, but I'm starting to think that is my only option.

Can you help others? Head over to We Are THAT Family for a backwards edition of Works for Me Wednesday and see what dilemmas others are facing.

Free Chicken Wrap Snacker

Today only, head on over to Tim Hortons between 11:30 am and 2:00 pm to enjoy a free Chicken Wrap Snacker. You can choose from Chicken Ranch and BBQ Chicken. Offer is limited to one per customer, while supplies last at participating locations. It probably would be best to call ahead.