Walgreens: $0.50 Tylenol Cold (After RR & Coupons) + FREE Breathe Right Strips?!

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As you may know from my Walgreens post here, you can score very inexpensive Tylenol this week at Walgreens! Here’s how…

Tylenol 24 ct or liquid 8 oz, Children’s Sudafed PE 4 oz 2/$10 = $5 RR
Deal Scenario:
Buy 2 Tylenol Cold liquid 8oz 2/$10
Use 2 $2/1 blinkie coupons found in-store
(or if you store doesn’t have the blinkie coupons, use 2 $1/1 coupons found here)
Pay as low as $6
Get back a $5 RR
Final cost $1 total – $0.50 each (or $3 total – $1.50 each with $1/1 coupons)

Well, this deal gets even sweeter because according to Steve, over at Couponaholic, when you buy this Tylenol you will receive a manufacturer’s coupon Catalina back valid for a FREE package of Breathe Right Strips 10-12 ct. (will print with your receipt during checkout). What a nice added bonus to this already sweet deal!

Come back to let us know if you also get this *HOT* Catalina coupon!

(Thanks for the heads up and photos, Couponaholic!)

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Comments 72

  1. Olivia Douglass

    Wow- what a great deal! Thanks, Collin!!

  2. karen

    I purchased the vicks dayquil and also got a catalina for free breath right strips.

  3. Jolene

    I just did this same transaction at Wags today and I asked if I could go back and get my breathe right strips. They said that would be another transaction and that corporate only allows one transaction per day!!!

    • Chelsea

      Ha, that’s crazy, next time I wouldn’t ask, I would just go get them and check out. Are they seriously going to tell you that you can only checkout once?! If that’s really a rule then it’s surely only for keeping people from shelf-clearing freebie items…

      • Jolene

        Not to be rude but I knew I was gonna have a fight when I went into the store. The only cashiers there were really old grumpy looking ones. I prefer the 24 hour stores because nobody is there at 2 in the morning.

    • Kristen

      That store may only allow one transaction a day, but it’s certainly not a corporate policy that I’m aware of. I wouldn’t have even asked – I would have just gone to get the Breathe Right strips and gotten back in line 😉 But my Walgreens is not as strict as I’ve heard some can be.

      • Livvy

        Kristen is right—that’s your store’s policy, no corporate (or else we’d all be affected by it!) That’s a horrible policy and those Breathe Right Strips shouldn’t even count as a transaction since they’re completely free, without any money exchanged. At least it has a long expiration date.

        • Jolene

          I think I am done with Walgreens for a while. I have 2 toddlers and a full time job so I don’t have time to keep going back and forth to Wags. Fortunately I live in metro area so I have 2 rite aids and 2 cvs within 5 miles of my house.

    • Janine Zoromski Parkins

      I have done many transactions one after another before….you may need to find another Walgreens to shop at that has nicer cashiers?

  4. D

    Got it too!

  5. Rgeorge

    I got my catalina when I bought the sudafed…..they didn’t have the janurary coupon booklet so I will be going back later to check and get my other transaction done…….thank you collin for the heads up.

    • Rgeorge

      oops I meant January….lol sorry

  6. Rachel Jokela

    I got this catalina with the Alka-Seltzer deal as well. I almost threw it away, cause I had no idea what it was.

  7. lily

    I got a free breathe right cat @ kroger when I bought coffee… be on the lookout at other stores as well!

  8. Rene

    No blinkies at my walgreens but found them at CVS instead yey!

  9. Ann

    Woo! I just got 2 breathe right catalinas! 2 printed out for some reason!
    This is what I bought:
    1 Tylenol Cold Multi-Symptom liquid honey lemon 8 oz 2/$10
    1Tylenol Cold and Flu Severe liquid 8 oz 2/$10
    1 Herbal Essence Totally Twisted Conditioner 12 oz $2.99
    2 Covergirl Wetslick Amazement lip glosses clearanced at $1.59 each b1g 1/2 off

    Used 2 $2 off blinkie coupons on the Tylenol
    1 $2.50/2 Covergirl coupon
    1 $1 off Herbal Essence coupon

    Paid $7.87 plus tax

    Got back 1 $5 RR for the Tylenols
    1 $1 RR for the Herbal Essence
    2 Breathe Right catalinas for 2 free 10-12 cts which I went and got and immediatley redeemed, paying only sales tax on the 2!

    • Livvy

      Fabulous deal on the Cover Girl lip glosses! I need to check my Walgreens for those. Thanks for the heads up. 🙂

      • Ann

        I know! You are welcome! They were both free with the new $2.50/2 coupon! I think they were originally over 6 dollars each! My store had plenty of shades left. My daughters love to add them to birthday presents for their friends.

    • Angie

      I looked for the Covergirl lipglosses at my store….I did not find them. Can you tell me if they were by the other Covergirl items? Also, do you know what the regular price was on them? Thanks!!

      • Heather

        I have two stores in my area and both had them in the regular Cover Girl section. They were marked by bright orange clearance tags. They were originally priced at $8.99!

  10. Carole L. Kruckow Monasmith

    So, I am new to this so sorry for my asking, but doesn’t this mean you still have to put out the initial $6.00 first? You can’t you the RR on your transaction right? NOT that this isn’t a good deal still, but I have very little money and want to be sure I have this straight. It would only be the second transaction where you can get it down to $1.00 right?

    • alana

      yes, you pay the $6 (plus tax) first. Then when your reciept prints out, it will also print your register rewards (RR) and the breath right strip coupon. You can then use the RR on something else, it counts as cash. Some stores let you turn around and use them right away, some stores make you come back later

      • Rose

        You can also roll between deals. Use the $5RR from the Triaminic deal to pay for the Tylenol/Sudafed deal, and then use that $5RR to pay for the Triaminic deal again. Just go back and forth. You can also do that with the Lichi Super Probiotic and the Nutralife SAMe vitamins. There are lots of rolling opportunities this week and that keeps your out-of-pocket $$ much lower. Then use your RR’s from this week for next week’s purchases, instead of starting all over again. I’ve been rolling mine for a year now and spend very little out of pocket. When you get money makers (such as $1 on the Triaminic deal), you can get another item that you would otherwise have to pay that amount for; such as the Aussie/Herbal Essence that gets down to .99—if you bought the Triaminic ($4 after coupons) and Aussie ($2 after coupons) together, it would cost $6 and then you’d get back $6 in RR’s ($5RR and $1RR), making the Aussie free. Hope that wasn’t too confusing.

  11. Alla

    Happy New Year to you and your family, Collin and Happy New Year to all my fellow Hipsters and their families. May this year bring joy, love, peace, happiness & success in your everyday lives.
    This question is off topic but I really need an answer to it.
    I am plannig to purchase the Enfamil/Enfagrow formula and I have 2 catalinas that were printed while ago. Since I never used catalina in Wags before can anyone answer my question please. Can I use the $5.00 printed coupon from internet for the enfamil and the $5.00 catalina also. Is it like an RR or I cannot use them together? Thank you so much.

    • abigail

      if it says, “manufacturer’s coupon” on the top, you cannot stack the two coupons. but if it’s a Wags coupon you should be able to!

      • Alla

        Thanks a lot Abigail,
        That answered my question. It actually says manif. coupon ” on the top” , so I guess I will use either of them since they both have the same value e.i. $5.00 of 1 can of enfamil.

  12. Judy

    Worked for perfectly for me! Thank you Colin for the heads up!! 🙂

  13. Amy O

    Purchased 2 Tylenol cold liquids. Blinkies were all out but I searched under the products near the blinkie and found 2!!! Received the $5RR AND the Breath Right catalina. They were $6.29 for the nasal strips! SCORE! Thanks Collin!!!

  14. Ashleigh

    Got it too Collin – its a MQ so you can take it to another store and use if your Walgreens is out! I’m excited!

  15. Heather

    Anybody know, if I buy more cold meds and Nasal strips using that FREE catalina coupon from the first transaction, would another Nasal Strips coupon not print out just as it wouldn’t had this been a register reward for the same deal?

    • Karen

      Great question! I was wondering the same thing.

    • Heather

      I tried it today and another FREE coupon does print – yay!!

  16. michelle

    I found the blinkies so I’m excited about .50 tylenol but no cats for free breathe right here in kalamazoo MI HTH!!

    • Sarah

      Definitely helps me! I’m in Kalamazoo too! 🙂

  17. Alanah

    There is a $2.00 off 1 printable on Happy Money Saver for any Sudafed product. I was able to hit the back button and print 4.

  18. NIchele

    I got 2 tylenol produts and used the blinkies but didn’t get the cat for the breathright. Very said here in “portland Or”. 🙁
    Hubby uses these everynight so was really hoping to get the cat.

    • Ann

      Did you get the tylenol liquid? I heard it is only working on liquids.

      • Dawn Nelson

        I bought two liquids at Bethany Walgreens & Fairview Walgreens and got catalinas for BR both times.

    • Becky

      I bought 2 of the plain tylenol “sore throat” liquids and it did NOT print the breath rite coup… but it DID print when I bought 1 “sore throat” and 1 multi-symptom Tylenol liquid. HTH

    • JJ

      Got the RR and breathe right cat in Aloha Oregon. I bought 2 liquids and my second transaction was a sudafed and a liquid. I’m good until 8/2012! (exp. date)
      Thanks!

  19. lovedeals

    I got breathe right coupon too.

  20. Sarah

    I did two transactions of this and only got it on one of the transactions. 1 free box is fine with me. Free is free.

  21. heatherbarrow

    I got 2 Catalinas for the Breathe Right strips, but I am not sure if I got them both in the Sudafed transaction or if I also got one in one of my other transactions. I had the Triaminic on one and the AlkaSeltzer Cold/Alleve on another. Bummer though – my walgreens wouldn’t let me use the IVC for Triaminic because I didn’t buy the ‘dual’ pack.

  22. sma9497

    I got the catalina when I went in and just bought 2 newspapers!

    • Keri

      Same here! (although I only bought one paper)

  23. Mary

    I am new to “extreme” couponing and made out pretty good in the last few days at Walgreens. Last week I scored the condoms paid $5 got a $5 RR plus the $5 catalina for KY. Today I ended up doing numerous separate transactions so I could use the RR. I had to add filler items to use the RR because of all the coupons I had. Found some pencils that were 4/1.00 and were marked down 50%. Added a pencil when I needed to to get everything to work.

  24. Katey

    The breathe right strips catalina didn’t print for me in Mississippi. 🙁

  25. Mary

    Paid $14 for $53 of sale merchandise almost 75% savings. Not bad for just starting this week.

  26. Mary

    I got the breathe right strips catalina In Wisconsin.

  27. Amanda

    worked perfectly…thanks for the heads up bc I would have thrown it away

  28. Alysia

    I got my free strips plus some dummy left there’s so I got there free ones too!!! Thank you !!

  29. Bev

    Just wondering if the $2.00 off tide detergent can be used on Tide stain release tablets?

  30. Brenda

    Thanks for the great deal Colin. I also received the catalina for free breathe right strips!

  31. Hollie DeBerry

    I did this deal today and got the free strips coupon too. Of course they didn’t have any on the shelve so I’ll hold onto it for later. I was just walking around and found huge bottles of Walgreens shampoo for $1.29/bottle. My husband’s getting into saving money so he says buy all of them! Then the Garnier Fructis dandruff shampoo’s were on clearance so I got over $15 of them to get the $5rr. Great deals at Walgreen’s today!!!

  32. Dawn

    Funny story… My hubby made a quick trip to walgreens to get me a new contact case. After paying for the $3 case, a catalina printed out for the free breathe right strips. He was so excited to show me when he got home! So it must be printing for things in certain categories in the computer system.

  33. CHI

    THe “honey” tylenol tastes awful. My mom has the flu, so we tought it would be perfect b/c of the deals. We got two daytime honey warming liquids and they are repulsive. I don’t doubt their efficacy just wish they would taste better.

  34. Blancaes

    I only purchased a newspaper and also received the Free Breathe Right Nasal Strips for 10 ct or 12 ct only Catalina!! I watched it print so I know it was with my transaction.

  35. Rachael

    Personally, I still have issues with the quality of Tylenol’s products since last year’s MASSIVE recalls of virtually every product they manufactured….. Motrin 24 count was just recalled AGAIN at the Walgreens I work at 2 days ago. How can a drug company keep having “oops” with the chemical makeup of something that’s suppossed to be used to make me feel better when I’m not feeling good??
    I’m not saying that their products aren’t good, but as a personal opinion, I’m still uneasy using their products until they stop recalling their stuff for “quality concerns” every other month.

  36. A nnie

    I did not get the liquid but rather the capulets and did not get the breathe rite strips

    • Amanda

      Annie, where do you live? I did the same thing and I didn’t get the breathe right strips either? I live in WA state.

  37. Tonya

    I didnt get the tylenol cold but I did get the childrens cheweable Advil that were on sale for $5 my, which then gives u $3 RR. That makes them $3.50 each well then two catalina coupons printed as well that were $1 off any childrens advil product.

    • Tonya

      Also at my store there is Pantene on clearance for 2.69. Use the three dollar on 2 get both for 2.38. Thats 1.19 each. Maybe u guys should see if your Wags has that deal as well.

  38. amy heffington

    woohoo just scored this deal

  39. Tiffany

    If anyone has the breath right catalina that they don’t care to use, I would appreciate it. My husband uses those every night and it is a very expensive problem to snore…lol. Thank you in advance.

  40. Amanda

    So, I bought the tylenol and didn’t get the breathe right catalina, it must only be with the liquid and not the tablets? I also would love the coupon if anyone doesn’t use them…my husband snores ridiculously loud. Email me and I can trade you a coupon for something else Amandasc01@aol.com

  41. Amanda

    Anyone in WA state scoring the free breathe right strips catalina? I certainly was not lucky enough to get it!

  42. Taw Chy

    I got one today and was lucky they had some on the selves! Thanks Collin for the heads up on this one.

  43. Misty Mc

    If anyone would like to trade their Breathe Right Catalina’s for any printable or newspaper coupons, please e-mail me at misty at mctexus dot com. My husband and I both use these every night, so this Catalina is a HUGE deal for us. We have lots of $5 Enfamil or Parent’s Choice formula Qs to trade as well as nearly all recent newspaper Qs. Thanks!

  44. Michelle

    I did two transactions of Tylenol products. The caplets did not produce the Breathe Rite catalina however the liquid did. We love those strips. They help my husband which in turn helps me sleep!

  45. Jamie

    Just did the deal at two different stores for the Tylenol liquid. Got the $5 RR and a direct tv advetisment. No strips Catalina. Have they reached their print number?

    • michelle

      I didnt get the catalina for the strips either… 🙁

  46. Daria

    Had an interesting experience tonight doing the Tylenol deal. It wasnt accepting my second $2mfq for some reason, and then manager told me that because the top said “not subject to doubling” I couldnt use two of the same coupons, even though I had two bottles. I tried to explain to him about “doubling”, and he was like “well thats what our last corporate meeting said, obviously we have the blinkie machine so you could get them right over there….so thats why you cant use 2”. Needless to say, when he walked away, the cashier manually entered it in anyway after I told both of them I would just go to the walgreens down the street where the manager knew what “doubling” meant.

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