If you follow the shopping blogs, you’ll find the trick to raking in big savings with drugstore rebates is when you can roll over one rebate to another rebate-able purchase.

I did that today at CVS.

I just got home with a gallon of milk (seriously needed); 10 Soy Joy / Luna bars (husband likes to take those to work for snack); and five bags of Hersey chocolate / York / Reese’s minis (candy is something we only buy when it is really cheap).

And I paid $7.14.

How did I get to that total? I turned in $11 worth of CVS Extra Care Bucks that I earned from last week’s sales, plus $4.65 in manufacturer’s coupons on the York candy, Country Fresh milk and Soy Joys that I had cut out from previous week’s Sunday newspapers.

I put all that on the kitchen counter and told my husband what I paid. He was impressed.

Now here’s the punch line.

I got another $5 Extra Care Bucks rebate with that purchase.

See page 3 of this week’s CVS flier – buy $10 worth of selected candy – get $5 back. (The bag of Hershey’s minis that normally costs $3.49 retail is only $2 this week.)