CVS for the Aquafresh toothbrushes and pump. They’re part of the $5/5 oral health care promo, so buying 5 or more brings you down to coupon price.  Sadly, this was all they had on the shelf so ended up .51 OOP.  I’ll check back later in the week for toothbrushes when their next shipment comes in.

Wags was only a quickie stop to grab twelve Capn Crunch clearance boxes using the .50/1 from today’s inserts.  OOP was .11, probably the only thing I’ve bought at Wags for low tax!

On to PetSmart, where I just noticed that they are charging up to 10% tax on some pet food.  Wheaton basically sucks donkey balls when it comes to taxation.  If I had to actually pay cash for this stuff I’d be broke.  They let me run everything in one transaction, using three of the $5 store coupons and the various mfr coupons:  22 cans of Friskies; 40 cans of Mighty Dog; 2 pedigree.  OOP was $4.  Note the coupon matchups were from the prior post.  I’ll hit the DG one another day to empty out my wallet.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  I really hope you are using the PetSmart coupons with your name and PetPerks number on them.  They checked my coupons against my card (!) because they had received a corporate memo that the ones with the blank space where the names/numbers are usually printed are fraudulent (with copies of coupons people had tried to use taped to the registers).  They told me that mine weren’t right because the print type was different than what corporate sent out, but since my name and number were on them and matched my card, that wouldn’t fly (I don’t know why the type would be different, unless I have a mac?).  Either way, they were very courteous and I do not mean to imply that it was anything but a pleasure to shop there.

Stopped at Puppy Parlor to drop off ten Sunday papers (not all mine!) – wait, you actually read the print edition?

Jewel was almost completely out of Fuze – apparently some sonofabitch came in last night and took 500 off the shelves and out of the backroom.  There is a reason why we special order, folks.  Otherwise mgmt gets pissed because there’s nothing left for those regular shoppers and especially today because there was a table set up for sampling.  Hard to sell and sample limited product…

Ended up with four SB milk, 16 Fuze, seven Allegra (for MUM’s House of Plague), Deans light cream and two packages of Jewel brand lima beans.  I used the $2/25 from the Jewel email, coupons on everything else except the cream.  PITA found three FREE jewel veggies cats, so used one.  OOP was $5.13 and I freaked, thinking I’d missed a coupon.  Realized at the very end that my cream alone was $4 – silly Goddess.   I’ll probably hand over a small RR to get cash back when I return tomorrow for more Allegra and Fuze.

NOTE: Jewel warehouse computer had a glitch/hiccup and no Fuze was sent out yesterday, so 17 stores are short.  ouch! Deliveries will be made tonight, so it should be back in stock, although I don’t know of the quantities available then.  Get a rain check.