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When you combine the good deals at Amazon plus the free Amazon gift cards from Swagbucks, you’re talking about one of my favorite online stores. Plus, if you have $25 in your order, many times you can get free super saver shipping.
However, when you’re shopping for gifts (and shipping them to the recipient), you don’t always have $25 in your order. Or you need them to arrive sooner than the free shipping allows. Just in time for the holiday shopping season, you can sign up for a free trial of Amazon Prime
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Basically, an Amazon Prime subscription allows you to get unlimited 2-day shipping with no order minimum. Plus, you can upgrade to 1-day shipping for $3.99. Normally Amazon Prime costs $79 for the year, but you can try it for free for one month (for new users only).
How to Sign Up:
- Click here to join
- At any time during your trial, you can go to Your Account, then Manage Prime Membership. Choose Do Not Upgrade Automatically to avoid being charged the annual Amazon Prime membership fee once your month is finished.
I signed up for the trial a couple of years ago, and it was great. I wish you could sign up more than once 
. Update: I just placed an order, and it allowed me to sign up for another free trial!
Thanks Deal Seeking Mom!
Thank you to everyone who entered the Pillsbury Ready to Bake Cookies Thankgiving Prize Pack. The winner is (using Random.org):
Here are your random numbers:
25
Timestamp: 2009-11-22 02:02:47 UTC
Carrie
Congratulations to the winner. I will send you an e-mail, and you have 48 hours to respond with your contact information, or I’ll choose another winner.
The goal of this CVS challenge is to come up with up to 3 scenarios where the total spent out of pocket is $5, while still growing your ECB’s. I’m going to assume that you start out with zero ECB’s to start with, or it makes it too difficult for others to follow. If you do have ECB’s to start, you can reduce your OOP to almost zero.
For more information on the abbreviations used in this post, please see my Coupons 101 article. For more information about shopping at CVS, visit my CVS 101 article.
Well, the deals are not that great the first part of the week (except for the Complete lens solution moneymaker)…probably because the Black Friday deals are usually pretty good. I’ll probably add some additional Black Friday scenarios once I do my coupon matchups for the ad.
Transaction #1
Buy Complete Multi-Purpose Contact Solution 12 oz. $8.99 (limit 2, so you could do this twice)
Use $1.00 QP from 10/25 RP or printable QP
Total after Coupons: $7.99
ECB’s Earned: $8.99
That’s it…I don’t see much else worth purchasing…save your ECB’s for Black Friday.
Total Purchase Price (before QP’s and ECB’s): $8.99
Total OOP: $7.99
ECB’s Left: $8.99
For more CVS deals, check out this post.
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Sign up here to print 2 coupons for $0.50 to $1.00 off Driscoll berries (depends on zip code which coupon you get).
It’s very rare to see a coupon for produce, so you might want to print this one before it’s gone. I’m sure it will go quickly.
Thanks Macomb Money Savers!
