Colgate Total Toothpaste

Toothpaste and other toiletries can take up quite a bit of your monthly grocery bill. But there's a way to save big on these items, and even get many of them free. Yep, get free stuff! What if you never had to pay for toothpaste again? Its possible and I'll tell you how. Now, when I say that you can save big with coupons you might think, yeah, right! The only coupons I have seen are for fifty cents or one dollar off a tube of toothpaste and no full tube of toothpaste I've ever seen is only one dollar or fifty cents. That's true. But, did you know each week different stores in your area will advertise sales on different toiletries like toothpaste? One week it might be that Walgreens has Crest on sale and the next Publix has Colgate on sale. This is very important because you match the coupons to the items on sale to save big!

Here's an example: CVS Pharmacy normally has Colgate Total toothpaste priced at about $3.50 or similar. It will depend of course on which store you visit. There can even be cases where if there are two CVS Pharmacies within driving distance of your home that they would have completely different prices. Normally, each CVS will match the national ad prices regardless of what their normal price is. This means that the CVS closest to you may normally price their Colgate at $3.59, and the CVS furthest away may price theirs at $3.40, but if Colgate is part of the national weekly ad and is advertised on sale at $2.99, it will be $2.99 at any CVS you visit. So let's say there is a sale on Colgate for $2.99 and you have a coupon for $1.00 off of Colgate. Now you're getting it for only $1.99. That's a decent deal, but not as good as free, right? Well, let's say that CVS has a deal that if you buy their sale priced Colgate at $2.99 you get $2 in extra care bucks back. Extra care bucks are like credits that print out on your receipt. It's kind of like a cash coupon that can be used for dollars off of your next CVS purchase. In this case, the sale made the toothpaste $2.99, you used a coupon to make it $1.99, and you got $2 in extra care bucks back. That's just as good as getting it free, my friend. At this point you may be thinking, great example, but does that actually ever happen? Yes, it does. That deal is still going on as I write this article on January 1, 2010, and will be good through tomorrow.

So, what if there is not some great rewards program deal that offers $2 back in extra care bucks or register rewards or whatever? There is always the possibility of stacking coupons. Coupon stacking is where you use one manufacturers coupon (the maker of the product) and one store coupon (coupons generated by the store). Most stores in addition to their ads will offer monthly coupon booklets with coupons that can only be redeemed at their store. On top of this, they still accept the manufacturers coupon. So, in the example above instead of extra care bucks it might have been a situation where there was a CVS coupon for $2 off any Colgate toothpaste and you could use it together with the $1 manufacturers coupon.

Your next thought may be how you would get your hands on this $1.00 manufacturers coupon I mentioned. There are so many sources for coupons. The one you are most likely familiar with is the Sunday paper. This still is a fantastic resource for coupons, and if you don't subscribe to your local Sunday paper you should. In most cases you can get a better price per paper for subscribing rather than buying it off the stands. Furthermore, wrongdoers will actually go to local paper stands and rifle through them and take the coupon inserts out. I can remember the anticipation of waiting for my husband to bring home my first official Sunday paper with coupon inserts, only to find that someone had stolen my inserts. I was so bummed out. Lesson learned, always subscribe.

Another great resource for coupons is All You magazine. This is where I got the $1 off Colgate coupon I used for this deal on my free tube of toothpaste. It is sold at Walmart or online either at All You or Amazon.

One of my best resources for coupons is online. There are many sites that will allow you to print valuable coupons right from your printer. Some stores will not accept printable coupons, but most do. Always ask if you are unsure.

You can look through your weekly ad to find the current weeks sales and match them up with coupons from the paper, a magazine, or online. If this sounds like too much work for you, don't worry. Other people do this for you! There are many online sites that do the research work and match up weekly sales ads with coupons and tell you where to find the deals. Check out the resource section of this article for more details on that.

Remember, toothpaste is not the only toiletry you can get either free or at a really discounted price. Just imagine how much money you can save over time by using sales and coupons to reduce your monthly bills. Happy couponing!

Laura is a money saving mama, and loves her new hobby of couponing to get free stuff and deep discounts through printable coupons.

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