The bad news first:  I had placed a special order for 8 cases of Angel Soft toilet paper – which came in – to go with my HC 10 case order – which didn’t.  So here’s my dilemma:  do I get sucked down the overpayment drain or walk out on my special order and make the store eat it.  You have to understand that my Jewel has a ridiculously small back room with no storage.  Nowhere near enough to keep an extra 8 to 10 cases of toilet paper.

Obviously I bought the damned toilet paper.  Once you go back on a special order, you can pretty much kiss any future deals bye bye.  Why would they take a chance on you again?

Sooooooo, in total,  OOP is $82.85.  Picked up 39 Angel Soft ($120.51), 6 cans of Folgers (22.68) and 13 snack cups (the only thing that was cheap: $1.64).  I used up a bunch of the Ultra Aquapod cats and some RRs.  Ended up with 3 $10 Con Agra cats; only rolling the Con Agra cats would have been $144.83.  Hope to get more of the .50 Angel Soft coupons in the next 60 days, which will ease the pain somewhat.

but I’m hoping to turn a profit during stomach flu season.

and I got 18 more stickers for pots…

Just a quick post to let you all know that I haven’t died or been strangled by a jealous wife (sigh, i only wish).  Spent the day at my mom’s, since I knew that Jewel would be a madhouse.  My orders are scheduled to come in tonight, so tomorrow morning I’ll head on over and see what Santa brought me.  Thinking of stocking up on the Folgers coffee, etc.  since free coffee is good coffee.   Anybody on here know anything about this brand?  We’re been using Hills for a long time, then switched to the Maxwell House breakfast blend coffee from the Meijer’s deal a few weeks ago (which I like very much).  Safeway brand coffee sucks donkey balls – it’s as weak as Scots tea (3 cups to a bag) and even if you double the amount used, it’s still weak.  And now all your savings are down the toilet!  Let me know, ’cause I need the caffeine jolt.

I’ll post tomorrow with the various scenarios I’m planning to run.  Don’t want to post until I’m certain they all work.  If any of you have been running anything different from the UPC list, comment and let us know.  It gets tiring having SOUP in every friggin’ transaction!

that is all.  don’t stay out too late shopping.

Stay away from the pecan Poppycock – it’s the devil!

Went to check on my numerous special orders and met the new manager.  She’s funny, nice and understands coupons – what’s not to like?  Actually, she’s now my BFF, since, upon learning we both attended the same high school, thought we would be in approximately the same graduating class (instead of 13 years apart!).

How much money would you like to borrow…

Decided to take my own advice and do a few more deals before tomorrow morning’s cluster….well, you remember…

1. Four boxes OR popcorn, two bags Poppycock pecan (shut up, ok?, I’m certain the nuts are antioxidant or something) $13.69 less $2 salty snack wt and $10 prior cat or $1.69 OOP
2. Ditto above
3. Six cans HC soup (gumbo, which will go well with my fako lobster) and one pack Sparkle paper towels: $11.85 less $10 prior cat or $1.85 OOP
4. Ditto above

That’s it for now.  I still have plenty of stuff coming in on special orders, so I should be fine.  One thing people don’t understand is why anyone would buy so much toilet paper.  Well, let’s think about this:  it doesn’t expire; doesn’t go out of fashion; is something you will always need/use and finally, why not get a year’s supply for the cost of a couple of packs?  Ain’t rocket science, peeps.  If you don’t have the space at your place (although you can stuff tons of canned goods in banana boxes or totes under a bed), see if you can store things with family in an unused part of a basement or bedroom.

Yeah, I’m glad to be back shopping at Jewel.  Always better when you know the store personnel and the policies aren’t written in shifting sand…

Here we have 15 bottles of Wesson oil, run in sets of 5.  This was a special order placed last week.  Ended up spending $2.72 on each run, again rolling a prior $10 cat.

Took the sole package of Sparkle paper towels on the shelf:  it was lonely and looking for a good home.  seriously!  Added 6 cans of soup and spent $1.79 OOP, since those cats were arollin’.

Realized that I was going to need to increase in my special orders on the Angel Soft and Sparkle, so met with asst mgr and upped it.  He’s only been at this store for about two weeks – he must have freaked at the way I was casually  mentioning 10 cases of toilet paper, 2 additional of Hungry Jack pancake syrup, etc.  Either that or my family suffers terribly from amoebic dysentery.

Important Note:  Jill Cataldo posts her deals on Monday morning.  If you plan to hit the stores on this deal – do it today or at least stop by and place your special order today.  We know what we’re doing and why and what triggers the catalinas.  So many newbies (obviously not all) have no interest in learning, just gimme my free stuff.  If it doesn’t work, they blame the employees!  So why get in the middle of a clusterfuck?

For those of you who have emailed me looking for deals on formula:  there were a few clearance ready mix and powder at the Lisle Jewel/Osco clearance – both items were less than $4.  Keep checking both your “regular” Jewel and any others you might happen across, since every area works on its own markdown schedule.

I waited until tonight before hitting the Jewel for the Angel Soft tp.  There was a glitch in the catalina software program where the UPCs for the 20% bonus packs weren’t registering.  As you know, I won’t post until I’ve done it and NOW I HAVE!

I picked up 1 pack tp and 6 soups, using one .50/1 q from 9/19 RP.  OOP was $1.29.  Ran this three times, no tp left on shelf.

I have now added 2 more cases of soup to my special orders and placed a tp order for 5 or 6 cases (of 5 packs).  Should last for the next year for less than $20 and the soup is free!  This is the smart way to shop, peeps.

Once again I stop at Jewel desperately seeking my gummy vitamins (they hadn’t called, but I was full of hope and other things…).  The Osco mgr said that none had come in on the order so she was putting it through again for Tuesday delivery.  Good thing I snatched the last few from the shelf yesterday.  yeah, tough!

Since I was there anyway, decided to avail myself of a few more cans of soup and that fako crabbo, except this time it was actually fako lobstero and quite tasty.  Detoured around the pancake syrup aisle, and picked up 9 cans of Healthy Choice soup ($2.89 x 9 = 26.01, so over the $25 threshold).  Since the actual preferred total would be only $7.92, I needed to throw a couple of bucks in the pot, so to speak, so I could roll over a prior $10 cat.  Added the mini French loaves for $2.29.  My actual OOP for this ended up at .49.