Just a quick reminder to run either your Gain deals or get rain checks by this evening.  I’ve been picking up a few here and there and have separate rain checks for the dish soap and powder.  I’ll check back in a couple of weeks when I get more dish soap coupons.

Tried the powder and two dish soaps today and did not get the cat.  Could not figure out what went wrong.  CS gave me $3.05, which was very nice, but I wanted to stock up.  Just realized what the problem is/was:  I had read on many places that there was trouble with the Red Apple scent, but since I had purchased many of them, figured they had fixed the problem.  Apparently there are two red apple scents:  Apple Mango Tango (which is what I bought before) and Apple Berry Twist (today’s purchase).  So make sure you are not picking up the bad red.

Great, now I have to hit the stores again…

Jennifer commented on FB that:

“Just ran it with liquid detergent since LITH Dominicks was out of the box – IT’S WORKING!!! YAY!!”  So now we have confirmation that the liquid is now working.  One more option since Dominicks will undoubtedly be out of something.

I held off posting this, but now I’ve read confirmation from people whose judgment I trust, so here goes:  You know how Dominicks is running that Buy Three Gain products and get an instant $3 taken off?  Well, there is a catalina promotion that was scheduled to start on the 19th, where you get a $3 OYNO mfr cat.  It is now running, so this is what you do (after clipping all your little coupons):  Buy two of the Gain dish soaps for $1.99 each and one of the Gain laundry detergents (only the powder is working for this deal) for $6.99.  Total is $10.97 less instant $3 = $7.97 less two .50 Gain dish coupons (8/14 RP) and one $2 Gain powder from 7/17 SS.  Now you’re at $4.97.  Pay the bill and out spits the $3 cat.  Since you can roll cats at Dominicks, roll it into the next deal.  Bottom line is $1.97 for two large dish soaps and one small box of detergent.

I’ll head out to Dominicks tomorrow and check this out but it looks real good right now.  While it’s not my favorite detergent or dish soap, you sure can’t beat the price.  Deals are coming few and far between so stock up.

Quick run to pick up some Gain dish soap from the Buy 3 get $3 off instantly promotion Dominicks is running.  The only “deal” is the Gain dish soap at $1.99 each.  Drop the buck and you’re at .99, which isn’t anything to write home about, but use the .50 from today’s RP and you’re at .49 for the 30 oz size.  I got the last three from the Doms on 63rd:  Apple Mango Tango.  Get yourselves some rainchecks (I got one for 9 more).

First mistake was going to the Naperville Dominicks, where Ogden turns south – place was empty of customers and products.  Let’s see, ONE pound of unsalted butter on the shelf, the entire yogurt display was empty, one Sorrento mozzarella ball and nine Magnum ice cream bars.  I used an open box of the 3 pack to complete my ten, but when I went to check out I scanned in my mfr coupons first.  The store coupon ($5 off $15 frozen) wouldn’t work and the mgr told me it was because I was under $15 in frozen and it had to be over $15 after coupons.  Well, they were nice and polite, but you cain’t fix stupid, so I said cancel the whole thing, which they did.  And then I said I want my coupons back (like I’m giving ’em extra money, right!) – took my coupons and fat ass over to the Dominicks on 63rd in Woodridge.  After the Western Springs Dominicks, this is my favorite Dominicks. Everyone’s polite, they have  stock and no attitude about using coupons.  You can even see customers!

You see here $28(!) of groceries.  Decided to take five of the butters, using the $2.59 JFU price (cheaper than Aldi), the heavy whipping cream is cheaper than the light cream at Jewel, the all-natural, thin-sliced chicken breasts were on clearance for 1.99/lb.  They no longer carry the Sorrento fresh mozzarella, so they substituted the other kind and pushed through the coupons.  The Ice Mountain was FREE on my JFU.  Best deal was the Magnum ice cream bars, on sale for 2/$3.  Buy 10, use the $5/$15 ad coupon and 10 of the 7/31 rp $1/1 Magnum coupons (which makes them free).

While I’m not thrilled spending money, even I have to admit that we like to eat and eat well.