How to Use Your Points to Earn More Points!

Here are some tips on earning points while using points at Walgreens 🙂 . If the offer to earn points is to buy a QUANTITY of product, you can pay with points and you’ll still earn them. For example, if the offer is to earn $5 (5,000 Balance Reward Points) for buying two Product A’s then, here’s the deal…

Walgreens Deals (Sample)
Buy (2) Product A, $3.99 Sale Price
(2) $1/1 Product A Coupon
Pay with $5 (5,000 Balance Reward Points)
Total = $5.98, Get back 20 Everyday Points
+ $3 (3,000 Balance Reward Points) for buying two

If the offer is to earn points by reaching a THRESHOLD, then you can’t use points. HOWEVER, if you can make a large enough transaction you can earn points so long as the value of the points redemption still leaves the THRESHOLD required to earn the points after the points redemption is deducted. For example, you have to spend $20 worth of Product B in order to earn $5 (5,000 Balance Reward Points). If you buy $30 worth of product B, you can pay with $10 (10,000 Balance Reward Points) and still earn your $5.

The THRESHOLD amount can be covered by paying cash and/or Manufacturer coupons. It’s easier to accomplish this when it’s a points catalina or points clip2card coupon that you may have, because then you don’t have to stick to product B and go over that threshold for that one product. Here’s a transaction I picked up a couple of weeks ago with a points booster coupon. This is helpful because I only had to spend $8.10 out of pocket ($10.42 with tax) and still earned the threshold points even though I paid with 18,000 points.

SAMPLE TRANSACTION 
Buy (2) Sally Hansen Gel Nail Color $9.99 B1G1 50% off Sale Price
Buy (1) Clairol Root Touch Up by Nice ‘n Easy, $8.29 B1G1 50% off Sale Price
Buy (1) Clairol Nice ‘n Easy Hair Color, $7.99 B1G1 50% off Sale Price
Buy (2) Rimmel Brow This Way Pomade or Shake Powder, $4.59 B1G1 50% off
Buy (2) Garnier Fructis Wondermask Treatment, $2.99 Reg. Price
$1/1 Garnier Fructis Shampoo or Conditioner 12-12.5oz · Stylers or Treatments (5503), Walgreens, July [-$2]
Subtotal = $53.10
10,000 BR  points WYB $25+ Catalina – Printing for Some!
(4) $3/1 Sally Hansen miracle gel color product (NLA)
(1) $6.00 OFF TWO (2) boxes of Clairol Nice ‘n Easy or Natural Instincts Hair Color (NLA)
(2) $2/1 Rimmel London Eye Product, exp. 8/31/18 (SS 06/17/18)
(1) $3/2 Fructis on TWO (2) Garnier Fructis Shampoo, Conditioner, Treatment or Style Product clip2card (NLA)
Total = $28.10
Paid with $20 (18,000 Balance Reward Points)
Total = $8.10, Get back 330 Everyday Points
+ $12 (6,000 Balance Reward Points for each set of 2 Sally Hansen)
+ $3 (3,000 Balance Reward Points) for buying two Rimmel
+ $10 (10,000 Balance Reward Points) for spending $25 with Catalina Coupon
+ $2/1 Clairol Nice ‘n Easy Hair color ibotta deposit
+ $2/1 Clairol Nice ‘n Easy Root touch Up Permanent ibotta deposit
+ $1 bonus when you redeem two different Clairol offers

Here is the purchase summary from the transaction above. You can find your purchase summaries in the Product Purchase History. Click on the receipt number to open the details and summary which is above. Sometimes is  helpful to review these when something goes wrong with your transaction. If you can plan your transactions at home and then fill in the blanks for what the purchase summary will look like, you’ll be able to grab these spend points while earning points transactions more easily.

You have to do these transactions very carefully, but it can be accomplished! Be sure to calculate the point redemption value at the Dollar amount and not the points. In other words 18,000 points is worth $20 so don’t make the mistake of subtracting $18 thinking you’re using 18,000 points. You must use the $20 value.

It’s not a good idea to add up the coupons to find you have $25 worth of coupons and then use points, since sometimes points can be used to pay for tax. This happens in my state but I’m not sure if it happens on other states.Here’s an example of where it did not work for me. So this incorrect transaction below I had $58.24 worth of items and redeemed $35 so you can see $23.24 is not enough for the $25 threshold.

So having high value coupons is essential in these kinds of deals but don’t just go by the total value of the coupons: ADD your total before taxes, THEN subtract your redemption value, and see how much you have left over. This left over amount should be equal to or greater than the threshold amount required. Ideally you would like to cover that “amount left over ” with as many manufacturer coupons as possible. Also, don’t forget to leave out the usual suspects like dairy, stamps, etc where points cannot be earned.

I have tried a couple of transactions where there is a threshold required for points to be earned for spending a certain amount of money on a particular BRAND, and I’ve been successful, but I’ve done only one such points deal requiring a threshold in the transaction, and they have been small ones. In this one below I grabbed this SUNDAY I bought $21.52 of Schick and $25.45 worth of something else. The total before taxes was $46.97, minus the $20 redemption, I had $26.97 left over after that {This amount was covered with $23 in coupons and $3.97 cash} I DID receive my $5 (5,000 Balance Reward Points) for spending $20 of Schick. I had a $10 WYB $25 Catalina that printed for me last Thursday. I have not tried something bigger like spending $50 on Baby items to earn $10. If the redemption value is applied to that section, it may be that those deal specific points would not generate, so for these proceed with caution.

Walgreens Deals (Thru 8/18)
Buy (1) Schick Quattro You, $8.79 B1G1 50% off
Buy (2) Schick Xtreme Men’s 4ct, $8.49 B1G1 50%
Buy (1) Gillette G5 Razor, $6.99 Sale Price
Buy (1) Purell 8oz, $1.99 Sale Price
Buy (3) CoverGirl Easy Breezy Twin Pencils, $5.49 Reg. Price
Subtotal = $46.97
10,000 BR  points WYB $25+ Catalina–Printing for Some!
(2) $4/1 Schick Disp. Razor Pk excl 1 ct/Slim Twin 2&6 ct (NLA)
(1) $4/1 Schick Disp. Razor Pk excl 1 ct/ST 2&6 ct Clip2Card 
(3) $3/1 CoverGirl Eye (Ets & 1-kit shadows, accessories)
(1) $1/1 8 oz+ bottle of PURELL Instant Hand Sanitizer
(1) $1/1 Gillette Gillette3 or 5 Razor, exp. 8/25 (P&G 7/29/18)
Paid with 18,000 Balance reward Points [-$20]
Total = $3.97, Get back 2600 10x Everyday points (VIA Clip2Card)
+ $5 (5,000 Balance Reward Points) for spending $20 on Schick
+ $10 (10,000 Balance Reward Points) for spending $25 with Catalina Booster Coupon
+ $8 RR CoverGirl

Now for this particular one I was due for my Beauty so I earned 22,600 [10,000 for Catalina + 5,000 for Schick + 5,000 for Beauty + 2600 10x Everyday] I paid ONLY $3.97 +  tax  out of pocket 🙂 .

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