Deals as they come in…

If any of you have (or are even aware of) wine tags, there are quite a few $2 ones for salty snacks.  This could line up quite nicely with the Keebler cookies, Cheez-Its and Synder’s Pretzels or the Planters Peanuts selection or even on the Ore-Ida potatoes (well, they’re seasoned, aren’t they?).  I would always throw in one Wisk with the coupon to bring you up to the ten mark.

Wisk is part of this buy 10 items get .50 off each.  I think it’s really, really stupid, because they’re taking the same amount off any item.  Well, here goes:  If you need laundry detergent (and we’re talking a lot here) a Wisk only deal with be $4.99 x 10 = $49.90 less $5.  However, let’s clip out some money-savers.  In the 8/29 RP there is a $3/1 coupon (exp. 9/26), so take off another $30 for that (well I have 10 inserts, why don’t you?).  You are then at $1.49 for each.  The upside is that you will get 4 pots stamps, the down side is that nobody should have to do this much laundry.  I’ll figure out some other scenarios that will make more sense for most people.

Hey, Sobe’s part of this deal, so use your freebies or BOGOs to bring the cost down and still get the stamps.  I have $1/2 Sobe coupons from a tearpad, so use 4 (for eight Sobe) and a free Sobe coupon (from that stupid game) and 1 Wisk (with $3/1q)  Total will be less than two bucks.  I’ll try this on Thursday morning and see how it plays out.

Slow day for shopping…stopped off at Jewel a short while ago to pick up the Purdue chicken.  I took 2 of those big oven roaster chickens, which were BOGO, but also had a sign with a budget buy of $1.49/lb.  Turns out that the oven stuffed roasters weren’t the ones at that price, even though they were the only ones there and filled the entire section marked with the $1.49 price.  so they gave them to me at that price.  (Actually, cs was very nice about it.  I never have to ask about stuff, they just suggest it.)  Next transaction was for 2 packages of Purdue chicken breasts, 9 boxes of GG veggies and one puny Bisquick mix.

First transaction was $10.02, but since I didn’t have two of my $1 coupons, I’ll stop by another time and get my cashola.  Total should have been $8.02.  Second transaction (whole roasters) was $7.45.

I used some of my catalinas from the Aquapods deal to bring down the totals to basically, a buck.

Just got a call from Geri who says that Jewel is clearancing out all the Novella sweeteners, both the 100 and 200 packet boxes.  Check around, since the prices vary depending on when each Jewel put them on clearance, going from $1.49 to $2.99 for the 100 count box and $5.49(!) for the 200 count box.  Big deal, you may say, and you would be right.  Except……there’s a $2 coupon in the 7/11 RP.  Now do you see the light?  Free or greatly reduced sweetener.

This sweetener claims to be probiotic!? Puhleeze.  If this is not the new marketing bandwagon to jump on, I’ll go back to cyclamates.   But if it gives me free stuff, I’m all for it.