When I fractured my ankle recently, I limped into CVS to pick up a prescription...and the pharmacist asked me if I was taking calcium. (When you work until midnight, and run errands on your way home, you get to talk with the pharmacist. It's NOT like there's a line.)

Being newly addicted to sales and coupons, this was a mission...to get the best deal on calcium pills. Did you know that Walgreens and CVS often have buy-one-get-one-free deals for vitamins? And that there are $1 off coupons out there (for example, in the coupon inserts in your Sunday SunSentinel) for various brands: Natures Bounty, Nature Made and Sundown to mention a few. If you do the BOGO and use 2 coupons for $1 each, you can make those expensive vitamins more affordable.

One step further: Nature Made has a Wellness Program, where you earn points for buying vitamins. When you earn 500 points, they mail you a coupon for a free bottle of vitamins (up to $7).

It's a simple easy to do program. Each vitamin is worth a certain number of points, listed on their website. A bottle is worth about 100 points, so you only have to buy about five bottles to earn a free one. No mailing necessary, you just enter the codes online at the Nature Made website.

While you are there, you can also print a $1 off coupon for Nature Made to get you started.

Nature Made Wellness Rewards