and a pleasant experience was had by all!!!

Wags was the last day for the 15% library card discount, so took the twelve Colgate Optic White boxes left and about 70 packs of Mentos…oh, and one lousy Quattro cartridge ’cause the coupon was in the Trib and I got a buncha rock inserts (insert ugly mean face here).  Worked out okay, since I would pay $5 and get back a $6 RR …and lots and lots of toothpaste.

Butera had Granny Smith apples for .99, so we packed up a bag to go with the cheese chunks.  They have a pretty decent selection of cheese flavors:  mozzarella; sharp cheddar; medium cheddar; monterrey jack; co-jack; colby jack; pepper jack (boy, that jack sure gets around); muenster…i forget the rest.  Remember, you get 4 for $5 or $2.50 A POUND!  Of course, you could pick up five of the Kraft punys at Jewel for $5 and have less than one pound…your choice.  Personally, I feel it’s a bad use of your free gift card.  and I did not take a picture of boring stacks of cheese.

Hope we don't get any trick or treaters this year!

Then CVS…You all know about my love/hate relationship with CVS.  The relatively new store at Ogden and Naper Blvd is clean and the people who work here are über-friendly, and I really, really want to give them business. They just never have stock!  And while I could love them to death as people, lack of stock is the deal-killer for me.  So you can imagine my surprise when I hit them up on my last shopping leg of the day that not only did the cashier remember me from the non-supply of Air Wick deal a few weeks ago, she had stock for me AND boxes upon boxes of the Hershey chocolate bars.  Sweet!  (pun intended)  You are looking at about 150 chocolate bars..hehehehehe.  Obviously I couldn’t eliminate all costs (high taxes, thank you rat bastard Q), but I ended up about $18 OOP.  Oh, I forgot…that included a gallon of Dean’s milk.