This came earlier today, but I’ve just been too lazy to post…call me the Coupon Sloth… So MUM gets a kick out of a coupon site offering a coupon code, huh? How about the College of Dupage offering a BOGO on summer classes?
Coupon Code – 15% OFF all week!
Memorial Day break from couponing? If your answer is NO! then please use the coupon code: MEMORIAL at checkout for any order placed now through Saturday, June 4th at midnight, cst.
So who says you can’t get everything at a discount?
An article in Today’s Trib cites an advance copy of a five-year study commissioned by the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops that concludes that neither the all-male celibate priesthood nor homosexuality caused the church’s sexual abuse crisis, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, but instead was caused by priests who were poorly prepared and monitored, and were under stress, due to the social and sexual turmoil of the 1960s and ’70s. Yes, that’s right: Woodstock made me do it!
Yet another problem with this report is that it defines “prepubescent” children as those age 10 and under. Using this cutoff, the report found that only 22 percent of the priests’ victims were prepubescent. But the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders classifies a prepubescent child as age 13 or younger. Under that definition, the vast majority of the abusers’ victims would have been considered prepubescent.
Putting aside the sheer absurdity of this “Blame Woodstock” comment, how then do you explain the pedophile priests of earlier years? The Wizard of Odd? Gone with the Wand? hey, i’m on a roll here, folks.
Since I was kinda/sorta headed in that direction anyway…stopped in at the Melrose Park 
Fannie May warehouse. Here’s a couple of pictures. The first one is rows upon rows of Pixes. The 12.5 oz boxes were selling for $3.99! 
The spring Mint Meltaways were also cheap at $4.99/lb. I picked up a couple of fudge/pecan eggs for $1.99 each. They had tons of 3 lb trays of most of the Fannie May assortments: Mint Meltaways; Pixies; Trinidads. You name it, it was probably here in tray size. Most trays were marked $19.99, but the dark chocolate/expresso creams were only $9.98. They also had a large selection of other branded items: jars of olives; black pepper crackers; decorative metal and woven baskets; fruit toppings; popcorns…lots and lots of stuff.
The box on the left is $22.99 at Fannie May; the one on the right is $4.99. Buy a shitload of them and you have solved your year-end teachers/aides/health professionals/bus drivers… gift-giving dilemma. So unless gas goes up to $17 a gallon, you’re still ahead.
Wanted to get some of those Dole fruit crisps, so checked online to see which Target stores carry them – only the SuperTarget in Warrenville (apparently, like WM, only the Supers carry the stuff) showed in stock. So drove on over with my coupons and Wags ad for the price match. Only five on the shelf (shelf tag read $1.65) so scanned and it showed that they had them in the stockroom. It also gave the price as $1.99. Kid gets all they had in the back: 11. No Revlon single pack nail files, no current deals on John Frieda, no longer carry the Ore-Ida microwave fries, picked up four of the Up brand ibuprofen for Rachel’s House of Plague. CS wouldn’t price match the fruit crisps because Target sells the double cups and the Wags ad didn’t show doubles.
So I ended up driving all the way to Warrenville for four store-brand ibuprofen for someone else. At least with the store coupon I paid squat. Target 
By Julie Deardorff, Tribune newspapers
May 13, 2011
After a North Carolina judge recently denied Alaina Giordano primary custody of her two children — in part because Giordano has Stage 4 breast cancer — according to ABCnews.com, the stunned mother turned to the electronic court of public opinion.
She started a blog urging readers to “Say NO! to CANCER discrimination!” A Facebook page supporting her plight has over 14,000 fans. And more than 75,000 people have signed an online petition to the governor called “Do Not Allow NC Judge To Take Alaina Giordano’s Children Just Because She Has Cancer.”
Tweeters, meanwhile, are overwhelmingly siding with Giordano, warning, “Beware this could be you!” and “Legal insanity!”
The case, already a bitter custody dispute involving 11-year-old Sofia and 5-year-old Bud, is both heartbreaking and messy, involving claims of abuse and cheating.
But Giordano says her husband, Kane Snyder, has made cancer the key issue. On her blog, Giordano said she was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2007. Though it has metastasized, monthly treatments have kept it in check.
In August, Giordano says Snyder moved to the Chicago area for a job at Sears Holding Inc., leaving her with the kids. But Giordano said Snyder sought custody of their children, arguing that he had a job – she’s currently unemployed — and Giordano’s health was uncertain.
Judge Nancy E. Gordon agreed, according to ABCnews.com, which reported that she ruled the two children should move from their home in Durham to live primarily with their father in Chicago, citing both Giordano’s health and unemployment as factors, noting “the course of her disease is unknown,” and that “children who have a parent with cancer need more contact with the non-ill parent.”
Giordano, who on her blog said she was the full-time caregiver and called Snyder a “weekend dad at best,” argued that no one knows how long they will live. Snyder, for example, could get hit by a bus tomorrow and the children have no support system in Chicago, she wrote.“There are jobs in Durham,” she told Matt Lauer on the NBC’s “Today Show.” “I would like to see him move back.”
Snyder has said he can’t move back to Durham because there are limited job opportunities. Giordano said she is thriving in part due to her great medical team at Duke University and doesn’t want to change her health care.
And the children? Barring an appeal – Giordano is currently trying to raise money for a lawyer — they’ll be living in the Chicago area, 600 miles from their terminally ill mother, starting on June 17, according to ABCnews.com. Snyder didn’t return a call for comment.
Walgreens is having trouble with Nabisco actually shipping the Crackerfuls to their warehouses and then on to the individual stores. And not only the Wags warehouses, but also private concerns – no one has any product because they claim Nabisco isn’t shipping any. The way I see it, Nabisco shares a promotion with Walgreens, but then refuses to ship the product so the sales can’t be honored. Even getting a rain check won’t help because Wags doesn’t issue register rewards after the fact. New Info: The 5/22 S has a full page of Wags coupons…$1/2 Crackerfuls is one of them. So with a $2 RR it’s a $1.50 MM, without it, it’s .50 a box. Coupon exp. date is 7/5/11.
My suggestion? Call the National Biscuit Company and raise hell. Toll free: 1-800-NABISCO www.nabiscoworld.com.
Just got off the phone with the Nabisco customer service – they must be trained at the Dominicks Center for Helpful Service. Their position is that they ship product to distributors throughout the country and it’s up to the distributor to deliver the Crackerfuls to Walgreens. Woman kept asking for the UPC code, which is a little difficult to provide when you don’t have the product! She also had no idea of how the Register Rewards program worked and in point of fact, didn’t shop at Walgreens (and before you ask, yes, they have them on the east coast). I asked for information on the distributor for the Chicagoland area – she suggested the Yellow Pages – bitch.
If enough people call Nabisco and ask them just the hell kind of game they’re playing, maybe they’ll get on the stick and ship stuff out. Vent!!!
I also recommend contacting Walgreen’s corporate office: toll-free (800) 925-4733 – PRESS 4 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time, Monday thru Friday and, in the immortal words of Pee-wee Herman, “Scream Real Loud!”
I find it difficult to accept that a nationwide chain does not have sufficient pull that when a partner pulls out of a joint promotion (and believe me, not shipping product is my definition of refusing to meet the terms of the contract), they have no legal recourse.
In the best of all possible drugstore worlds, Walgreens would have sufficient Crackerfuls to fill our orders. In the second best drugstore world, say CVS, they would issue rain checks and the $2 Register Rewards when the Crackerfuls come in. In this Kmart universe, the consumer, once more, gets the shaft. without lube. repeatedly.
And the above rant can be used for other Memorial Day promos…just substitute IcyHot for Crackerfuls. and i am not kidding in the least.
So, until I get further information on this Crackerfuls situation, there is no point in rushing out the winners’ coupons. The expiration dates are July 10, so there’s no hurry. If anyone has seen these in quantity at any Walgreens in any location, please comment or send me a message. I’ll spend as much time as I have to to resolve this.
The Wags Memorial Day sale on Crackerfuls is good at free, but great when you throw in that $1 coupon….so let’s sweeten the deal: Comment below by Friday, May 20th at 5pm and PITA might choose you. Yes, that’s right. PITA will pick five people who will get 10 Crackerfuls coupons each. That’s 10 free boxes and a $10 MM. are you feeling the love yet?
“A 42-year-old Indiana woman who authorities believe was high on bath salts trashed a hotel room Wednesday, Indiana State Police said this morning.
Police said Tammy Winter of Demotte was sitting on the bed when they arrived at the hotel on State Road 114 near Rensselaer, rambing about evil spirits and needing to write on the walls of the room to protect her from the spirits.
A family member who was present told police that Winter was an abuser of bath salts. When snorted, bath salts cause hallucinations, police said.
Winter was arrested and charged with criminal mischief and resisting officers after she became combative and needed to be restrained at the Jasper County Jail, police said. Both are misdemeanors.”
and this is what they’re talking about
Youths are ingesting bath salts by snorting, injecting and smoking the powdery substance; the bubble bath solution is consumed in the same manner but requires it to be “cooked” first. Cooking the solution involves pouring the liquid into a glass pan and baking it in the oven. The liquid turns into a powder and is then consumed.
Referred to on the street as ivory wave, white lighting, dove scrub, Hurricane Katrina and Mr. Bubble, this new drug is now beginning to infiltrate high schools and college campuses across the nation. The drug is known to produce the following effects: hallucinations, euphoria, rapid heart rate, overall happiness, and anal leakage. The last effect most of the users don’t seem to want (yah think!?) but feel that the other effects outweigh the one minor drawback.
Clean Freak
“The butt thing is manageable, we just buy some of those old people diapers and we’re good to go,” said Jim Rogers a junior at some college and “clean freak”, “I have such an awesome time when I’m cleaning that I usually forget about the leakage.” “Cleaning” is the street term for using the new drug and users are known as “clean freaks”.
That story I posted last week about the incidence of ID theft from compromised PIN pads? The damage is much more widespread than originally thought. Though the thefts are limited to Michaels stores, it apparently spread throughout the United States, although Illinois was hit particularly hard. Here’s the entire story. The biggest problem with debit card theft is that the funds are removed from your checking account immediately, but banks can take up to two weeks (10 business days) to return the money, after their investigation. That’s two weeks of no access to your money. and not everyone accepts RRs…
I’m think of starting a new post entitled “who are they kidding?” that will be updated with pix from me and readers knocking down those generic/big box store “deals.” I’ll start, ’cause I’m the Goddess:
Okay, then, let’s look at a few “deals” from today’s ad…oooh, water from those “other supermarkets” is selling for $5.08, Ball Park franks are $3.15, with Wonder buns going for $2.26. Seriously, in what universe is this “other supermarket” located? Who pays for water? We like our liquids to be either free or MMs, right? So, as PITA says, “We’re not rich; we can’t afford to shop at Aldi.”
So send in those crazy pics and I’ll post them. Note: Jewel does not allow any photographing of ANYTHING in their stores, so don’t bother ’cause I can’t post them (was contacted by mgmt once…). Except that they can have all those lunatics from EC stocking up on noodles, apparently. Or “Money in the Bank” Maalox…