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Save a little, spend a lot

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Tonight’s lecture is on the folly of chasing deals.  I am holding Meijer rain checks for 24 Smart Balance milks at $1.99/each; I currently have six coupons.  My question is:  Do I drive to Bolingbrook and see if they’re in stock and if so, do they even have 6?  Let’s assume (not a good idea with Meijer) that the milk is in stock and I can get all six using my $2 coupons – so free milk!  But is it?  Toll charges are $1 and the trip will require a minimum of one hour driving and shopping.  Now I can drive a mile to Jewel, where the SB milk is $2.49 and pay (gasp!) .49 for each of the six milks and be back home in a matter of minutes, or save the $3 and hit Meijer… guess what I did (hint:  got more stamps).

You may counter that there are other deals to be had this week at Meijer, but frankly, free pet treats doesn’t justify the trip.  Maybe next week…

Jewel today $2.35

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Just got back from a scouting trip to Jewel, searching for the best way to use that $20 store cat (from gc deal).  Here’s what I found:  cheap meat (woo hoo)!  Took the $4 off ones, then spotted the $5/25 coupon on Stockman & Dakota meat in the “Holiday Joy Made Easy” booklets by the front door, so off to grab more.  You’re looking at:  7 packages of steaks, mostly Delmonicos; 2 18-ct cartons of large eggs; 2 cans of Hills Bros. cappuccino mix ($3.99 mark down).   Subtotal was $78+ then the fun started…2 $4 wts on coffee; each steak was marked with a $4 or $3 clearance sticker; $5/25 Stockman & Dakota coupon; $20 store cat; finally $15 in RRs, which left me paying $2.35 OOP.  Since I only “paid” about $6.50 for that $15 in RRs, the correct way to account for this would be an OOP of slightly less than $8.  I like my $2.35 figure more…

Jewel OOP .02

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Stopped by Jewel to see if they had any clearance meat anything I could use with that $20 store cat (from the gift card deal) – not much.  Actually, I was amazed at the long dates on the meat:  12/06/10?  Just how old is this stuff?  I  found a few store cats, so the $3.99 cookies were free ($4 off on bakery cookies), the cabbage and bananas ($2 off on produce) came to slightly over $2 and I used a $2 rr from the Quaker Oats deal.  Have a bunch of polish sausage in the freezer, lots of potatoes and onions and  cabbage now completes tomorrow night’s dinner.  meal-planning is so exhausting…

Jewel today

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Yeah, tho I wander the crowded aisles of the grocery store in the midst of plenty… well, so much for biblespeak…

Ran in to grab a few (few meaning more than three) of the Zone Perfect candy nutrition bars on sale for $10/10, using a $1/1 coupon (10/31 s) and paid for the Chex Mix with a wt expiring 11/30.  Total for 16 bars and Chex Mix was .31 (damned taxes).

Jewel $1.06 OOP

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Went to help a friend with her shopping, and decided to pick up a few things myself…you know how that goes.

So here we have the 10 GG vegetables (free after the coupons in the Doms book), 6 Swiss Miss (Doms book), 6 Melitta 40-pk filters (10/3 S) and a bag of Beneful dog food (found cat).   Total was $4.06 (!!!), but I used two $1.50 cats from the Meijer coffee deal and ended up at $1.06 which was the tax.

Jewel updates

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Not gonna take a picture of Scotts toilet paper and the Pure Protein bars, even if it was all free – boring…

Make sure you check with your local Jewel before heading out to pick up the BOGO DS games – not all stores are carrying them.  My store did not receive any games and may or may not get them during the sale period; I’ll check other locations later today and post back.  Also did not have any of the Halloween pillsbury tube cookies which other stores have been clearancing out (and which tie in beautifully with the $1/2 blinkies above them and the $3 cat.

Back from scavenging tour…crap on a stick!  Went to the 24 hr Jewel/Osco in Wheaton to see about the DS or wii games and the Pillsbury clearance cookies.  Steerike 3 and you’re out.  Seriously, no games whatsoever (old computer games which you see everywhere), no cookies.  but there were winetags everywhere…

Jewel early bird specials

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Apparently Jewel is getting into the games business for the holidays…In Sunday’s (21st) ad, there is a “Pre-Black Friday” sale of DS and wii games:  B1G1 for $14.99.  Sonic Rush, maybe HS Musical, something about ice cream, some cop games…won’t know more until tomorrow morning.  Some stores have already started selling the DS, but not the wii games.   Great, one more thing to pile on my plate for tomorrow…no rest for the wicked.

Many, many thanks to Barb on CW.

Jewel – even better! – $1.36

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I was only going to check out the skirt steak – honest!  Ended up with:  6 Scott tp ($1 ip); 4 Pure Protein bars ($1 ip); CC cranberry/ walnut bread ($3 store cat); 2 pkgs skirt steak ($4 and $3 off in clearance stickers); 4 Porterhouse steaks ($16 off in clearance stickers and 2 BOGOs on top of the butcher case).  Used a $4/40 found in cart and 2 $5 RRs.  Total OOP was $1.36.

maybe i should feel the luv at dominicks…

Free Scott TP

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Here is a link to a free roll of any Scott product, bath tissue (fancy-schmancy toilet paper) or towel.  Bottom right hand link says Scotts Natural, but what prints is a generic $1 coupon.  Soooooo, single roll of Scotts for free!  Print one, hit back and you’ve got two.  Thanks to OP on CW, who picked them up at Jewel.

And while you’re at Jewel picking that up, how about a couple of free protein bars?  Click here, print, hit back and two $1 coupons.  The .99 sale ends at Jewel (today?), so hurry on over.  I just remembered that the magic coupon machine at CVS spit out a BOGO Pure Protein Bar coupon, sooooo 2 free!  Even better (or worse, depending on how these taste).

Whirlwind shopping tours

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Saturday is ME day, which means I expect my family to take care of themselves.  In between time-consuming tasks like mani/pedicures, sigh, I squeezed in a few shopping runs.  Wags was a last minute – Oh, I forgot the Kleenex sale ends today!! – run and the Jewel?  Well,  let’s just say I have no great faith in the mixers or PF Chang still showing on the preferred cards after tonight.  May be wrong, but I’d rather buy them all now and return with my coupons within the next 60 days.

Found Kleenex at only one Wags, and they were the cube ones, not the 200 ct boxes, but hey, beggars can’t be choosers, right?  So 8 boxes with 4 coupons; ended up OOP $4.37 and got back a $3 RR.  On to Jewel…

This Jewel had a goodly selection of the HC mixers, so ran two transactions of 8 each using my Dominicks Fresh Values cards.  What, you want me to lie about it?  No PF Chang on either of them, only the mixers, but hey… So I ended up OOP $4.35 on each deal, but I’ll go back with the coupons later.  Had I used the coupons at the time, I could have used 8 on each transaction and gotten $4 in overage, which would have been sweet, but in this case, I’d rather go back with only 4 coupons and not worry about missing out on the deal completely.  PITA daughter loves these things, so anything that gets her to eat is fine by me, especially if it’s free…