Right now Jewel has Barilla pasta sauce for 2/$4; use the $1 coupon in 9/29 S and pay $1 a jar.  Buy 3 jars for $3 and get back a $2 OYNO. Now you’re only paying $1 for all 3 jars!  The Sun Times (and smaller papers) have a couple of Essential Everyday coupons in the 9/29 rp:  $2 off One Ultra Soft or Ultra Soft bath tissue (12 or 24 ct) and $1/2 paper towels.  The Awesome  Strength EE Halloween Prints paper towels are on sale for 5/$4, so after the coupon you”ll be paying 30¢ a roll.  If you don’t have enough inserts (or just want more pasta sauce, here’s a printable for a slightly smaller amount:   $0.75 off any jar of BARILLA Pasta Sauce).

Check your stockpile for expiration dates and pull those nearing date for donation and restock with fresh stock.

Ran it to grab some of my P&G order (placed and paid for before the bruhahahahaha) and noticed the organic Gala apples were $1.99/lb – that’s cheaper than some of the non-organics!  Picked up 3 pounds and used the .50 off coupon they have attached to those little paper bags.

The Lisle Township Food Pantry had a table in the back of the store asking for donations, so if you’re anywhere in the area and want to dump off some stuff fast, you know where to go.  I was lucky that I had a bunch of stuff just piling up in the car, ’cause I needed the space for my Puffs!

I’m trying to use up as many of the $1/2 EE coupons as humanly possible – well, without going crazy on prices, that is! You see here expensive eggs (free coupon), Dr. Pepper Ten (free coupon), three Campbell’s Skillet sauces and EE canned beans (.79 before coupon), two small bottles vegetable oil (I’m just finishing the last of the 50¢ Wesson from the days of the great Conagra deals, four packs of EE singles (American & Swiss), two EE coconut milk and nine little cans of Gillette foamy for overage ($6/3 coupons).  These little cans will eventually make their way to the food pantry.

PSA part:  The EE $1/2 coupons expire this Saturday, September 21st – don’t put off a chance to stock up on canned vegetables, beans, etc. on the cheap; the baking soda was only 59¢ a box.

And I ended up with four of the Rachael Ray stamps!

Picked up the Nutra-gel nail stuff on the Osco clearance cart marked $1.99 (retail is $11.99!) – there is a $2 coupon in 8/4 R1.  yeah!  EE coffee filters are on sale for a buck, so I picked up six and used by $1/2 EE coupon to get the packs for 50¢.  The EE coffee creamer also got a coupon – it was $2.69 a quart.  The Ensure multipacks were also on clearance for $1.06 and I’l return with the $3/2 coupon from 9/8 S2 for slight overage.  I also used a $6/3 Gillette coupon on the little foamy cans for the overage.

The Campbell’s Skillet Sauces are on sale for 2/$4 – use the $1 coupon from 8/25 S, which would make it $1 – crazy prices, I know!  By three pouches and you’ll get a $1.50 Catalina, which makes them only 50¢ for some very, very tasty stuff.  The Thai green curry rocks and I will be stocking up on it.

I’ve gotten a lot of emails about this P&G promotion at Jewel, mostly dealing with how many can I buy, what is good about the Lisle Jewel, best ways to combine orders, etc., so here’s my take on this.  I apologize for the length, but I’m trying to be as helpful as possible.  If you still have questions, please don’t think you can’t email any more – I realize that not everyone is used to these combinations and quantities and it’s hard to get your heads around the concept of buy one and pay or buy three and they’re FREE!!

First of all, you don’t need to pick a particular person/cashier/front end person – they’re all great at the Lisle Jewel.  That’s why so many people drive 30+ miles to shop here (yes, people do!).

If you’re running this promotion, you can stack at least 21 orders of three items – I stopped at that point, but no reason not to keep on until you don’t see the $5 appear on the screen after three products.  At that point, take off the last three and you’re good to go!  So at least 3 items times 21 transactions equals 63 products in whatever combination you wish.

Again, everyone has their own particular likes and dislikes – one person hates Mr. Clean or Febreze, but loves Puffs and Mr. Clean Magic Erasers and Cascade.  I can only offer suggestions.

If you don’t find the item on the shelf, ask at the front desk, because they have placed a number of single items to be used for scanning purposes only – you will not be taking these home.  Considering one of them is my three boxes of Magic Erasers, if you abscond with my products, I will hunt you down and beat you to death with your own arm – you’ve been warned!

Do NOT place special orders for little bits of this and that:  4 Febreze, 3 Mr. Clean, 7 Puffs Lotion…See the Store Director doesn’t have time to fill your cart for you; if you’re placing a special order, make it for enough in total that they can just fill the cart with, say, 63 Puffs and 63 Mr. Clean,  What I’m getting at is you should not be specific about Mr. Clean scents in small quantities – if you’re ordering 63, you can call more of the shots!  And if you’re running more than one transaction of 63, make sure you not only have your own register receipt, you have them run a duplicate that they can attach to your special order, to prove it’s been paid for.  And THEN, total up the quantities for ease of filling the orders when they start arriving (you ran 5 transactions and the total was:  63 Mr. Clean; 63 Febreze, 21 Magic Erasers; 99 Puffs; 6 Cascade).

IF you are interested in getting Cascade (which they have on the shelf at Lisle), make sure you are using the overage from Febreze to bring down the cost.  There is a 50¢ coupon in the 9/1 on Cascade, which reduces the $4.99, but say you buy two Air Mist Febreze with the BOGO coupon in 9/1.  You’ll pay $2.08 for all three items ($2.59 x 2 – $2.59 BOGO coupon + $4.99 Cascade – .50 coupon – $5 instant savings = $2.08 for Cascade and 2 Air Mist.