Behind the Coupon: Quick trip...WALGREENS

This morning on my Sunday Dunkin Donuts coffee run (I LOVE COFFEE!) I stopped into my Wags for a quick coupon trip. Walgreens is having a problem with a shipping distributor for some of their back to school items, so I didn't end up with everything on my list :( I have two brothers still in school, so this year my goal is to get their school supplies as cheap as possible!
What I would like to do in this first Quick Trip post is to tell you how the coupons work. For those of you who already know how to do this I apologize. For those of you who don't please feel free to ask questions. FYI I totally recommend heading over to my favorite coupon site Mashupmom......(she's from Chicago like me and her posts are amazing) to learn all the walgreens lingo HERE

Here is my list of items and their price before coupons:

1 Walgreens Honey 12oz:                                       4.49 each
4 Milka Candy Bars:                                               2.29 each
1 Tylenol Precise pain patch                                    8.49 each
2 Papermate Mechanical Pencils 5pk                       0.19 each
4 Wexford Pencils 10pk                                          0.19 each
5 Mini Highlighters                                                   0.09 each
1 Sheet Protector 10pk                                           0.49 each
3 Penway spiral notebooks                                      0.39 each
2 Dove Men+Care 6pk Soaps                                 7.49 each

So that is a total of $40.56 (not including tax) So just by using the sales alone, (basically the school supplies) I had an advertised savings (so "sales savings") of $30.14  That means that anyone can walk into walgreens and automatically get those savings without coupons.

YOUR QUICK WAGS COUPON KEY:
In Ad coupons = in the walgreens sale ad
WQ = walgreens coupon in the walgreens book for July usually at the front of the store near the ads
MQ = manufacturer coupons from papers and online printable coupons

Here are the coupons i used



My coupons and deals

1 Walgreens Honey 12oz: @ 4.49 each= in ad coupon for 2/$5 so so this makes it $2.50

4 Milka Candy Bars: @ 2.29 each= 4 -$1off 1 printable MQ and 2- $1off 2 WQ makes them FREE

1 Tylenol Precise pain patch @ 8.49 each = 1-$5 off 1 MQ and 1-$3 off 1 WQ makes it FREE

2 Papermate Mechanical Pencils 5pk @ 0.19 each  (no coupons)

4 Wexford Pencils 10pk @ 0.19 each (no coupons)

5 Mini Highlighters   @ 0.09 each (no coupons)

1 Sheet Protector 10pk  @ 0.49 each(no coupons)

3 Penway spiral notebooks @ 0.39 each(no coupons)

2 Dove Men+Care 6pk Soaps  @7.49= each on sale 2 for $12 with a $4RR and 2 $4off 1 MQ=FREE*

*free after rr (register reward is like cash back)

The coupons not from walgreens are from:

Dove Men+Care $4 off one   6/26/11 redplum insert

Milka $1 off 1 online printable HERE 

Tylenol Precise Pain Patch HERE (used to be $5 now only $2 but check back it may come back!)

My total after coupons was $12.08 BUT BUT BUT !!!! I had $7 in register rewards from last weeks purchases. So I handed those over making my new total $5.08......BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!!!

I paid, and got that $4RR from buying the soaps....so if you look at my total of 5.08 minus the 4.00RR I spent $1.08 total $66.21 worth of products. This goes to show retail prices are ridiculous! Don't get caught paying them!

Here's my items

Questions? Comments?