Normally, I’d just stay home, but my toner cartridge was empty!!  Since this could easily wind up being the biggest tragedy of the week, I braved the elements.

First stop was Office Depot where they sucked $73 out of my wallet.  grrrrr  Well, I’ll have to make it up somewhere.

Wags, to check out my Splenda special order and burn some RRs.  Well, the order was due on the 3:30 shipment and frankly, I wasn’t going to hang around.  kwim?   So picked up another Arnicare for DH who is old, tired and weak – you can tell him I said so …  Got another 12 of the Snackerz and threw in a BOGO on the Stress B-complex vitamins  (had a $1/1 coupon) ’cause being married is so very stressful.  Tossed in a pocket tissue for filler, used a $10 Sinex RR and paid $1.73.  Got back $6 RR for the Arnicare.

Dominicks to burn some expiring RRs:  Picked up 3 of the boneless pork chops wrapped separately so I could use 3 of the $1 pork mfr coupons from Jewel a few months ago (exp. 11/15); 1 small RR chuck roast ($2 q) and 1 porterhouse ($2 q); 2 lbs of the sale asparagus; 4 pounds of ruby red grapefruit; 6 1/2 pounds of honey tangerines; 18-ct eggs (supercoupon) and 2 loaves of Asiago cheese bread.  Total came to something crazy high, but after coupons we were at $29.52 (.51 was tax).  Handed over 2 $10 RRs, a $6 RR and a $3 and .52 cents.

The comedy portion of this trip was being told by the cashier that he could only take RRs for things that Dominicks sells (?).  He checked with his supervisor and was told that as long as it scanned, they could take it.  None of the $10 RRs from the appetite spray would scan, so handed over a P&G and a Joint Juice and we were good to go. Got a call from a reader that another Dominicks told her that she could only use one $2 RR coupon per order, even though the cashier could not point to the wording on the coupon where it said so…

Oh, and got another coupon booklet.

Couponers don’t play Lotto, we play Dominicks!