Publix and CVS

I made my weekly Publix run and then went to CVS. Both trips were awesome! Cvs was a moment of- oh MAN! If only I carried every coupon everywhere- they had mega packs of Pampers and Huggies clearanced for $4.00!!! And I have coupons for both- AT HOME. *sigh*. So I paid the grand whopping total of $4 per pack for 12 packs. Maybe I'll go back with some q's and see if they'll adjust. Worst they can say is no, right?
:)

Publix:
(Ran into Kelly from ilovepublix while there- she was leaving, I was coming... Hi Kelly! It was good seeing you! Savannah was so pretty in her skirt)
I filled up one grocery cart and needed another so I walked to the front with it and asked Jim (one of the asst mgrs) if I could leave it at register one (unmanned) while I finished up. He said "sure!" and got another cart for me. I filled up cart two (well, about halfway. LOL) and walked up there where one of my fave cashiers was on self checkout. I went to get my basket and asked her if someone could help me take the other one over to reg.3. She said, "well, hang on." and went to talk to Jim. Then she went and got a drawer and opened up the register for me! Jim jumped on self-checkout. This was an AWESOME trip! I saw all my favorite managers- Jim and Mary and I chatted about retail, coupons and such. Jim asked me if I taught a coupon class (meanwhile he was punching in his override code. LOL). I said no, but had considered it. (If anyone out there is interested in having me do so, let me know! I've been looking for a place to have one.). Everyone was super-nice, I did GREAT, and had a great shopping trip overall. I did get a bunch of rainchecks (seemed like a lot of items on my list I wanted flavors that were already sold out) but that's all good. I'm ok with that.

Total food tax: $7.99
Total non-food tax: $11.41
Total oop (on gift card): $4.59
Total savings: $471.37


ETA: Allright allright. LOL! I don't have time to type up all the q's but I'll highlight the mm's (since my kids are asleep and I just mostly cleaned the kitchen)

Moneymakers
10 Eggo Waffles
5 fruit items
4 Kingsford Charcoal (with raincheck)
4 beef items
4 pork items
4 Glad straws
16 Covergirl Mascara
3 Yakisoba
10 Clorox Greenworks items
2 Cascade rinse items (with Clean in your cart q's)
2 Bounty paper towels (with Clean in your cart q's)
19 Birdseye vegetables
3 Lea&Perrins Worcestersire Sauce

Free things (after coupon/s)
10 Purina One Cat Food
6 Reusable Bags

Nearly Free/ Super-Cheap items
10 YoPlait YoPlus
2 Smart Balance sticks
3 Lender's Bagels (with raincheck)
3 Tide Stain Release (with Clean in your cart q's)
1 Bounce Dryer Bar (with Clean in your cart q's)
2 Cheerios
9 Spray -n- Wash
10 Dole fruit bowls
4 Sabra Hummus

Other things
2 Publix Salad Mix
2 Sorrento Cheese Sticks
1 Organic Valley Half Gallon Milk
1 Chunk Parmesan
1 Tropicana
3 Publix Greenwise Organic Black beans


CVS
12 Tide detergent
3 Dawn Dishwashing liquid
2 Vaseline Sheer
8 Pampers mega-pack
4 Huggies Mega-pack
Total oop: $81.37
Total saved: $279.73

A few of these packs I am going to resell (hoping for about $8/ea), and some I will keep. :) IF I can get them to reimburse some of the coupon amount, I hopefully can get at least $9-$10 back depending on which coupons I have. (Since I used ecb's on them, I can't go below zero)
I also bought the detergents for my Mom and Grandmother and they're going to pay me for them (since I had out of pocket). So 7 of the detergents I will get back about $3/ea for= $21.

Total after refunds/$$: $51.37
Still a darn good deal!