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Jewel card promotion

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I’ve been sitting here wondering what any of my readers could possibly do with a $1,000 Jewel gift card.  Would it even be possible to spend that much money, considering how low we manage to keep our totals?  So I came up with a scenario for anyone winning a $1,000 gift card:

Buy five of the Igloo freezers, keep the coupons and sell the freezers (list free on Craigslist or Bookoo) for $100 cash.  You’re $500 bucks ahead, you’ve got lots of coupons for free stuff and still have cash on the gift card.  If you win a lesser amount, just buy however many freezers you can!

Jewel Spring Thing promotion

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Since everybody and her brother has already posted the Jewel gift card promotion, I figured I wouldn’t need to…but on the off-chance you haven’t yet seen this, Jewel, together with Maytag, is running a daily promotion called “It’s a Spring Thing.”  You enter your email and an optional code and click play.  Three grocery bags appear and you click each one to see if you are an instant winner of a gift card valued from $25 up to $1000 (yes, one of MUM’s readers won that biggie); all entries are placed into the grand prize drawing for $10,000 of Maytag appliances.  Starting 3/20, you can enter more than one time using codes generated by purchasing two or more of the participating “It’s a Spring Thing” products:

Tyson Grilled &Ready Refrigerated Fully Cooked Chicken Breast Strips
Kraft Grated Parmesan Cheese – all varieties
Kraft 2% Milk Shredded Cheese – all varieties
Tyson Grilled & Ready Frozen Fully Cooked Chicken Breast Strips
Tyson Grilled & Ready Oven Roasted Diced Chicken Breast
Healthy ChoiceCafe Steamers – all Complete Selections, All Natural Entrees, Lunch Steamers, Simple Selections, and Steamers
Diet Coke – 20 oz, 24 oz 6pk, 12oz 8pk, 12pk
Fuze – Black and Green Tea, Green Tea, Slenderize Goji Wild Berry, Slenderize Pomegranate Acai Berry, Banana Colada, Peach Mango, Strawberry Guava, Slenderize Blueberry Raspberry, Slenderize Cranberry, Raspberry, Slenderize Tropical Punch, Orange Mango and Mixed Berry flavors
Dasani – 20 oz, 24oz 6pk, 12oz 8pk, 1/2L 6pk, 1/2 L, and 1 L
Special K cereals, bars, shakes and Protein Multi Pack Meal Bars, Crisps, and Protein Water Powder
Hunt’s Manwich – 12 oz, 24oz cans
Orville Redenbacher’s Pop Up Bowl – 10 ct, 24ct, 10oz, Variety 6pk
Wonder SmartWhite bread – 20oz
Wonder SmartWheat bread – 20oz
Del Monte Canned Fruits and Veggies – all varieties
Propel Zero – all flavors
Kraft Homestyle Dinners – Macaroni & Cheese, Velveeta Rotini & Broccoli, Velveeta Cheese w/Bacon, Velveeta 2% Cheese, Velveeta Original, Deluxe Sharp Cheddar, Deluxe 4 Cheese, Deluxe 2% Cheese, Deluxe Original, Velveeta Rotini Whole Grain, Deluxe 4 Cheese, Deluxe Classic Cheddar, Parmesan Alfredo varieties
Maxwell House Coffee – 33oz, 31.5oz varieties
Triscuit Original Crackers – 9.5oz all flavors
Mio Liquid Water Enhancer – all flavors
Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe Cake Mix – all cake mixes, cupcake mixes and frosting
Cortizone 10 – Intensive Healing and Eczema Care, all varieties
Allegra for Allergies – 24hr caplet, 12 hr caplet, Kids’ 12hr Quick Melt, Kids’ 12hr Suspension, all varieties
Purex Complete – 72oz all varieties
Purex Crystals – All varieties
Bounty – All Big Roll varieties
Febreze – All Spray and Plug-in
Swiffer WetJet – Base Starter Kit and Refills
Clorox Bleach – Disinfecting Wipes and Sprays
Palmolive – 25oz all varieties
Brita Filtration – all varieties
Windex – 26oz

The only product that interests me is the Propel, since I can buy multiples of 10 for free (after $5 instant discount and my 5 coupons), so that’s my suggestion.  If any of you have some good coupon match-ups, feel free to comment.

Day trippin’

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From now on I’m going to start taking people’s advice:  don’t post the deals until you’ve gotten your limit…hit Jewel this afternoon to score more Purex but it was all gone.  There was a shelf of Arm & Hammer Sensitive Skin for $1.75, so I grabbed 6 of them, and will return with the $1/2 coupons (2/13 s).  Wanted to try the Propel Zero, so chucked 20 into my cart.  Now, on what other site could you read a statement like that and not find it odd?  Just so you know that not everything is free in my universe, I also picked up two bags of the spring mix lettuce, a package of pita bread and two bottles of magnesium on clearance for 6.89.  When paying down the subtotal with Register Rewards or any other cat, it’s important to subtract the value of coupons you’ll be returning with.  In this case, I have a $3/30 cat and the 3 $1 detergent coupons, so I brought my subtotal down to $8.39; I’ll get back $6 to end up at $2.39 actual OOP.

On to Wags...I don’t have a picture because most of the stuff isn’t in yet.  It’s easier to pay and then wait.  So imagine 25 12-pks of Coke Zero, 8 Purex Complete 3-in-1 and 4 Right Guard body wash.  Used the $2/1 Wags coupon on the Coke (which was still $3),  a BOGO rain check for the Purex and 8 $3 coupons and 2 BOGO Right Guard coupons.  Everything was high tax, dammit, so after using a shitload of RRs (remember, the 25 Coke Zeros did not have a mfr coupon attached to them), I ended up paying $6.48.

My subtotal was almost $160…and I still have about $90 in RRs.  Methinks it’s pampering time.

Rewarding a good store

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I find myself harping on this with regularity, because some don’t get it:  it makes no sense to shop at your local stores if they do not have treat you and your coupons with respect.  Case in point:  reader tells me she hit three “local” Jewels yesterday trying to score some free Pretzel Crisps.  Store one said the coupon was a copy (forgery) and wouldn’t let her use it, even after she explained that it was a print-out from the company’s FB page.  Second Jewel said that the coupon limits you to one per transaction and they would only allow one transaction.  Store three said that she could not use a BOGO on a BOGO sale, because then the item would be free (I did think for a minute that she had wandered into a Dominicks by mistake); she had to buy one and then three would be free.  She finally drove all the way to a store she knew to be über-coupon friendly and had no trouble getting her eight bags.  When I asked why she had gone to the first three stores (where she had had trouble in the past) she replied that they were close to where she lives.  So how much time and gas did she save by this decision?  Raise your hands, class…

My first rule is to shop at stores where they respect you as a customer and willingly accept your coupons, even if I’m not buying something with coupons.  Why not give a good store the extra business?  By only patronizing stores where we are treated well, those stores will eventually jump to the top of the food chain in sales.  Initially, the suits will claim it’s because of new store/layout/promotions, but month-after-month results will prove that we demand respect and will shop only those stores where we receive it.

end of rant.

Jewel tripping

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Decided to stop over and pick up a few more of the Pretzel Crisps (3 bags already gone, not by me).  Saw a bunch of clearance “stuff” and grabbed:  9 Purex for $1.75 each (I’ll go back with the $1 coupons) and 2 True lemon for .60 each.  Lots of organic produce and Irish soda bread that Wags was kind enough to buy for me.  So how much did I actually spend?  I put $12.79 on a gift card, but the $9 from Purex and one more $3.49 Pretzel Crisp coupon I get back will mean I spent thirty cents.  So that’s OK.

Why we coupon

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Another of the reminder posts of why we do all these “crazy” deals.

DH calls and asks me to pick him up some orange spice tea.  Every now and then I actually do something he asks; it lulls him into a false sense of complacency.  See all these little boxes of tea?  Each lousy box was almost four bucks, non-sale, non-coupon.  Total came to over $17, but I used those free $3 Post RRs from last week’s Fruity Pebbles giveaway and ended up OOP .36.  The deals allow us to buy non-deal items without selling major organs.

This now concludes our lecture/post.

Jewel 3/17

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The Buy 10 get $5 off instantly is shaping up nicely after coupons.  I’ll probably pick up the .49 Propel vitamin water.  Here’s the list with prices after instant discount.  Package sizes are still MIA on some items so will update as I get more info:

Ragu .99 (B2G free pasta; 3/13 r)
Maxwell House $5.99 ($1/2; 2/13 s)
Propel .49 ($1/2 2/13 s)
Sobe lifewater .75
Kraft mac n cheese .75
Hellmann’s Mayo or Heinz Ketchup $1.99
Kraft American cheese singles $1.99
Oscar Mayer Carving board, deli shaved $2.49 ($1/1 1/23s)
Jello pudding or gelatin (box, powder) .79
Planters Flavor Grove  and 16 oz peanuts $1.99
Nabisco Ritz, crackers, Crackerfuls $1.99 ($1/2 1/30 s)
Bulls eye .99
Wishbone $1.29
7 Up, A&W, Canada Dry, Sunkist 6 pack bottles $2.49
Gatorade, G2 packs $4.50 (BOGO 1/09r)
Arm & Hammer laundry soap $2.99 ($1/2 2/13s)
Hersheys drops and Reeses pieces-these are those candy things that were on
sale at Wags as part of the $15 promo two weeks ago – stay away from the drops
if you plan to wear a swimsuit any time this year $2.49 ($2/2 1/30s)

And here’s a picture of something you just did not know you needed:  Vitamin-type water for dogs.

the original list was stolen from couponers wanted…shhh!

Four stops in one post

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Went to pick up the free Panda Express at their Ogden Avenue, DG store.  Since I was only across the parking lot from Dominicks, figured I’d run in and pick up some more of the Quaker Oats Square.  they had four… So I threw in the free 2L of Coke Zero on my Just 4U account and 18 packs of Trident, since I had nine BOGO coupons and it was a BOGO sale.  Cashier rings up everything fine until she gets to maybe the last couple of gum coupons…register beeps (probably because the sheer volume of coupons) and she looks closely at the coupons.  “Oh, they’re BOGO.”  this is a surprise?  “They’re on sale BOGO.”  cue twilight zone music.  “I can’t sell you them.  You’d have to buy one and then get 3 free.”  no, that’s not how BOGO coupons and BOGO sales work.  Brings over cs (not coupon nazi Mary), who says she’ll call the manager.  Store manager comes over and says he can let me do two transactions since I have two different types of gum and the coupon says only one coupon per purchase… Try to explain how the wording prevents someone from using ten coupons on one item, but realize that I should save my breath to cool my porridge.  Just take off all the gum and hand me back my coupons ’cause you people are majorly screwed up.  Send PITA to cs to get rain check for six cereal which I’ll use at Western Springs or Woodridge (have total of 16).   My cereal and pop purchase, less cereal coupons and $1.25 CPK OYNO came to .81.  and all the management shakeups in the world won’t help Dominicks ’cause you cain’t fix stupid…

Crossed to Panda Express and got our two free shrimp entrees.  It’s fairly spicy and very tasty.  Second set was from Butterfield/Naper location.

Driving down Ogden, decided to visit the Saratoga Jewel (Main Street) to check out their clearance section.  Couldn’t find it, but did find a whole shitload of chicken quarters (mostly frozen) reduced to .50/lb.  Also saw a sirloin steak with a $4 off coupon, which paired nicely with the BOGO on sirloin steak (so two for $6+).  Asked someone about the clearance section and they told us where it was hidden – yes hidden.  Spices that I paid .25 yesterday at the Lisle Jewel were marked .99!  Nutzoid.  They did have a rather large amount of Trident Superpack gum (spearmint and wintergreen, 18 pieces each) for .10.  Yes, you read that right, 10 cents!  So I was able to use up my nine Trident BOGO coupons after all.  It actually worked out much better because the Dominicks purchase would have been over a buck in high tax, whereas this was about .50 total.  Ended up with 66 packs which I will enjoy tremendously.  You can never have too much gum.  I paid with ten Motrin RRs, the nine Trident coupons and $1.68 in cash.

 

Jewel

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Well, got shut out at the Pappadeaux Mardi Gras celebration.  Crazy inside; a full hour wait for bar seating.  Next year we’re there at 3 – take a big table and rent chair space.  always a plan.

Since PITA and I are starving, decided to drop by the old Jewel and check out the makings for a salad.  Got that and a whole lot more:  the back clearance rack was full (note the operative word “was”).  We picked up four cans of Emerald cashews for a $1 each ($1.50/2 1/30R2 or .25/each); two packs Sunsweet dried blueberries for $1 each (.75/1 12/5S or .25/each); Wonka Exceptionals ($1/1 3/6S or FREE).  We also grabbed two boxes of Nutrasweet for .50/each and four jars of pumpkin pie spice (they had other types, too) for .25 each (exp 10/13).  I like to add the pp spice to coffee before it’s brewed.  Smells and tastes fantastic.  Produce, no coupons – sniff – but I did use RRs to bring down the total.  I’ll return with the clipped coupons ($7.50) so my actual OOP will be $.70.   And why are people always crying about how expensive it is to feed a family of four?!  buncha whiners…

Target and Jewel and the Moosies

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Took two Moosies to Puppy Parlor for their first grooming.  Here is Soul Patch (gray shades) and Runtie (brindle).  Although they all have brown eyes, PITA ‘s hair is blond.

Checked out the Gortons 50% off frozen deal at Jewel.  Though it pains me to say it, the deal at Dominicks is much better.  Buy four of the $3.99 Gortons and after coupons and $5 instant savings, you’re left paying $2.24/bag, whereas the Jewel deal is $2.99/bag.  Now, if you’re looking to burn those Motrin RRs, well then go for it, but I’m going to use up some more expired wts, so might as well give them the business.  And let’s be honest:  would it really be hard to use up the RRs on groceries?  I’ll probably get more clearance meat for the freezers.

Then off to Target for a few more pairs of pants.  Naturally by now their only selection is among puny PITA and Ringling Bros sizes.