Next week’s Wags (9/4) sale will include a Mitchum deod./AP sale for $2.99 with a $2RR.  There is a $1 coupon in the 8/21 S and here’s another mfr coupon listed under personal care.  Check the other coupons, since they add new ones (and reset limits) all the time (and you might as well print out three, since you’re using the paper anyway).

Looking for a way to extend your $10 Estroven RRs, that same week (94/) has a sale onNova Max Plus blood glucose monitors for $10 with a $10 RR.  Low-tax item, so great way to roll some cats.  Don’t wanna donate?  Try to sell them or open up and take the batteries…

Driving by a Wags (Steeplerun), PITA and I decided to stop in “just in case.”  Well, they had a bunch of lonely boxes of Estroven just sitting there, so I decided to take them home using the two-pocket with prong folders (6/$1 in-ad) as fillers.

Funny story:  Standing at the cosmetics counter waiting for the BA, when the Asst Mgr at the front register calls out hello and “Haven’t seen you in a long time; don’t you shop at Walgreens?”  Wow.  I said I usually shop at Wheaton — and he knew all about the special orders and huge numbers Steve is racking up!  Mind you, this is a different division entirely, but word travels, huh?  His mgr isn’t übercoupon-friendly or we’d have another division to play with ’cause he’s always been cool; sucks donkey balls, don’t it…

The Wheaton Wags has not yet received any of the $10 Estroven; it’s still showing 200 pieces for Tuesday delivery.  This is a main warehouse delivery, so plan on mid-morning Tuesday.  My advice?  Print out the coupons, cut them out and then carry with you.  See a Walgreens on your travels in the next few days, stop in and relieve them of a couple.

The computer still shows that the 200 pieces will be delivered; don’t know if I’m becoming too cynical, but maybe it won’t be in and they don’t update the warehouse records over the weekend.  my bad.

Here’s a quickie shot:  my Colgate is sensitive, even if I’m not.  I actually stopped in to pick up my Hot/Lean Pockets and test out the pdf coupon for tomorrow’s Estroven deal:  On sale for $10, get a $10 RR, less the $3 mfr coupon.  Use school folders or something similar for filler(s) and roll some of those RRs.  Also pasted 3/page to save paper and ink. Both coupons worked fine – no beeping, but some of you might have qualms about a pdf coupon being copied (bwahahahahahaha, sometimes I just crack myself up).

I saw this in the store the other day and was wondering how it tasted, since Newman’s Own Complete Skillet Meal should be a cut above Hamburger Helper (although that was pretty much free, so it doesn’t count, right?)  Print out this high value $1.50 coupon for what will probably be a great sale on a new product.  Remember, high value coupons tend to hit their print limits very quickly (duh).  I used the default zip code 12345, but check around if they’ve moved.

If you’re not all toothpaste-out, Colgate Sensitive Pro-Relief is on sale at Walgreen’s through Saturday at $4.99 with a $4 RR.  Use this new $1.50 coupon and earn a small MM, at least enough to pay the high tax.  Print two copies per computer.

Look around for some of the newer coupons; I saw a $1 Minute Maid 10-pk juice box coupon.

BTW – Don’t bother with the Wheaton store…just sayin’

The Hot Pockets in-ad coupon for 2/$3 can be stacked with the $1/2 August IVC and the $1/3 from 8/21 SS.  Pick up six (since the coupons cover different amounts, six is the lowest common denominator) and you will be paying …..about .66 a box.  Wheaton has a ton of these in all varieties, so stock up.  And since it’s not a RR deal, stack it!

The soap, not the chocolate bars, that is.  The Dove soap bars are on sale for .99 with the in-ad coupon.  Buy three and get back $6RR, so a $3 MM!  Just so you know, corporate has already sent out an email instructing stores that they are aware of this glitch and to not issue the RRs when someone purchases the bars.  Whether the stores will follow this policy or even read the email is doubtful.

However, if you are looking to make some fast cash, go for it.  I can almost guarantee that this deal will be dead tomorrow.  I have lots of RRs and no desire to go traipsing off into the woods for more.  Gain detergent, yes, soap, no.

They love us!  Wanted to pick up a “few” more of the Huggies wipes with my $5.99 rain check.  Also found a couple more of those $5 off any Huggies products I received from K-C after that Jewel gift card fiasco.  grrrr.   Threw in some Degree deodorants, the Colgate Pro, Dial body wash and some clearance (.50) Dove chocolate bars to roll some RRs.  Ended up at $7.85, of which $6.47 was tax!  curse you, pat quinn!

Been out most of the afternoon at Chez Mama’s…Just read on MUM that the Degree cat is not printing on the .88 deodorants, even though they were tagged.  She opines that they’ve probably pulled those tags from the shelves by now.  So you’re back to the two Walgreens scenarios.

The $4 RR that prints out when you purchase four of the 2/$4 Degree deodorants at Walgreens is the only RR you get – the extra RRs don’t print.

Which leaves your Wags choices as:  buy the travel size, pay tax.  You won’t get RRs, but you can run them all in one transaction.  Buy four of the 2/$4 Degree, hand over $4 in coupons, pay $4 and get back a $4RR.  The only way this makes sense is if you are rolling either the Pert or Revlon $3 RRs with a filler.

Last choice is the .88 deal at Ultra.  If you can get the overage, great.  If not, you are still making $4.  Again, it’s your choice – Ultra Foods can be very ymmv places to shop.

Just spoke with Rachel, who shopped Ultra earlier today.  She says that the .88 Degree deodorants are tagged for the national catalina promotion.  What does this mean for those of you with 500 coupons?  You can either run this in groups of four at the regular register and hope the cashier gives you overage, or just take the free deodorant with the $4 cat.  Either way you get the $4.  Normally you take those overage coupons to self-scan, but Ultra doesn’t have cat machines at those registers, so no go:(.  And she confirmed that the catalina promotion end date showing on those tags reads 9/04.  Great news for those of you wanting to run the deal at Wags – now you’ve got all week.  Your call.

Tomorrow is one of those Saturday Beauty Days that Wags cosmetics people periodically hold. The Beauty Advisors get extra PMs (commissions) on things like Dove and Snickers…which pretty much explains this picture.   Using the 7/31 RP BOGO coupons, it works out like this:  Buy four deodorants for $15.  Use the buy one woman’s deodorant and get one men’s deodorant for FREE which subtracts $8.98 ($4.49 x 2) and brings you down to $6.02 plus high tax.  I threw in the two Snickers because:  1) I needed two fillers to use either the $3 Pert or Revlon RRS and 2) I LIKE SNICKERS, okay Ms. Nosey-Posey?  Ended up at $2.16 with $1.16 being the high tax.  Thank you Pat Quinn.

The reason I bring this up is two-fold:  When you hand over the deodorants, the men’s MUST be rung first.  Otherwise the crazy registers will show $4.49, $4.49, $4.49 and $1.53.  Stupid, right?  By running the two men’s first, that’s what the cashier will subtract from your subtotal.  Next point I want to make is that this is a great way to gain support from your local Wag’s BAs.  If you are buying sufficient quantity of the items generating PMs, they will have to start showing you respect – it’s cash put directly into their pockets.  You don’t get to be Senior Beauty Advisor if you’re not lean and hungry (or at least hungry).  Give ’em a few of your extra coupons.  It’s like a garden:  plant the seeds and water them with cash – don’t smother them in manure.