Saving money using coupons is only good if you are matching a store sale to a manufacturers coupon and getting that product for super cheap or nearly free.

Coupons are usually issued by manufacturers for consumer packaged goods (CPG) or by retail stores and they are for using in retail or grocery store as a part of sales promotions. Coupons are often distributed nationally through the mail, magazines, newspapers, the Internet, and mobile devices such as cell phones.

At CVS you can do just this by not only using the store flyer to find the weekly sales but combining those sales with manufacturers coupons and sometimes finding great CVS coupons online at the CVS website, or in a special CVS coupon booklet you can get in their store during special events like the flu clinic. On top of that you can participate in ECB - Extra Care Bucks - sales each week. Take a look through the CVS flyer and you will find they are offering products that give you Extr Care Bucks back the next week.

It is like getting money to go shopping and then getting that product for free. Well, free, usually only if you find a manufacturers printable coupons to go with the sale. But, often times they are giving you that product for free.

Why? Well the only way you get it for free is if you use the ECB the next week. And why would you just go into the store to use the ECB? They are hoping that you will come back next week and buy more products. There is a method to their madness so to speak and it ends up with you spending more money out of your pocket.

But, if you are smart you will turn those ECBs into another super coupon shopping experience. Once again, the next week you take your CVS sales flyer, find out what is on sale, search online and through your Sunday newspaper for coupons in the inserts, and get those products that are on sale this week and that will earn you more Extra Care Bucks back the next week. In this way you can keep the money rolling and spend the least amount of money out of your pocket.