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The rain, the Target and other things…

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Picked up a few more of the CPK pizzas at Ultra; I’d get more but they don’t ever stock enough to use all my coupons!  Remember, for each four you pay $1.06 (after coupons and cat) so my 24 ran $6.36.

Next I headed over to Target to use up a few more coupons (oh, and get some more cat and dog food).  The Benefuls is a better deal price-wise than CVS ($1.57 vs $2), but if you’re rolling your ecbs it works out better for the 8 on each card.  After that, head over to Target for the overage from the $2 coupon (10/10 rp).  Took a number of the Goodlife cat food for .77 each, using the $1 coupon (10/10 rp).   Since there weren’t any of the $2.99 Air Wick candles, decided to buy two of the lavender scented ones ($4.99) and use the overage to pay for them.  Don’t forget to bring your own bags for a nickel discount on each.

Soooooo, I got the stuff in the picture and used the overage from the above coupons to bring my OOP down to $2.43.  Obviously more than I’d like to spend, but sometimes even I have to let ole George out to blink at the light.

CVS

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First order of the day – wipe out CVS…only kidding – left 8 on the shelf for the slackers.

Picked up 24 of the Benefuls, eight per card, earning 3 ecbs for each.  OOP was 1.16 on each transaction (high tax).  Boy, you should see these babies – the simmered chicken has chicken, carrots, green beans and wild rice.  And I’ll bet the sodium content is lower than the HC Fresh Mixers!  I’ll either stop by another CVS or wait until later in the week to use up my other coupons.  Course, I could always use them at Target…

CVS $1.74

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Figured I’d better unload all the Sobe coupons before the 11/30 expiration date, so headed over to the new one in Naperville.  Got 24, using a BOGO rain check and 12 Free Sobe coupons from the contest; 6 Skippy peanut butter using 3  .75/3 mfr coupons and one .75/3 CVS coupon; two Pure Protein bars with $1 mfr and a BOGO CVS coupon; 4 Mentos with 2 $1 coupons and 2 BOGO coupons.  I also had a $5/15 which spit out of the register when I voided out a prior transaction (side note here:  same thing happened on another card, another order, so somehow voids are generating $5/15 coupons!) and used a $2 ecb.  Total OOP was $1.74; got $3 in ecbs for the Skippy.

Free Scott TP

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Here is a link to a free roll of any Scott product, bath tissue (fancy-schmancy toilet paper) or towel.  Bottom right hand link says Scotts Natural, but what prints is a generic $1 coupon.  Soooooo, single roll of Scotts for free!  Print one, hit back and you’ve got two.  Thanks to OP on CW, who picked them up at Jewel.

And while you’re at Jewel picking that up, how about a couple of free protein bars?  Click here, print, hit back and two $1 coupons.  The .99 sale ends at Jewel (today?), so hurry on over.  I just remembered that the magic coupon machine at CVS spit out a BOGO Pure Protein Bar coupon, sooooo 2 free!  Even better (or worse, depending on how these taste).

CVS – I’m starting to feel the luv…

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I’m starting to see hearts and flowers in my CVS future, peeps.  Stopped to pick up the Herbal Essence shampoos which are on sale for $2.99 with $2 ecbs.  Since I didn’t think there was a hope in hell of them getting the Oral B toothbrushes back in stock (saw that movie back in September), I asked if they would substitute the tooth brush heads – they would…

So here you have three separate transactions, all exactly the same:  1 shampoo or conditioner (used the $2 q off anything in the Clairol family 10/31 P&G) and 2 of the Oral-B replacement heads.   I used 2 $10 P&G coupons (11/14 rp) and 1 $2 Clairol, so from the $49.28 subtotal subtract $22.  Paid with 2 $10 ecbs from prior deals, so paid out $9 and got back $26 and $2 in ecbs.

One transaction I used a card that came in the mail and got an additional $4 in ecbs.

In today’s mail I got a CVS savings booklet with store coupons to stack with mfr coupons for all the stuff on sale this week (ex. Skippy).  Also got an Aldi’s grand opening card, but on that one you have to hit $30… I suppose I could go load up on their wild-caught salmon…

CVS vote, please

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You all know by now how I feel about CVS – mostly pah!  Got a call from someone who was turned down today while trying to use the P&G $10 coupon on the Oral B rain check.  You know, those toothbrushes that CVS advertised on sale in SEPTEMBER and have only now gotten in stock…yeah, six weeks…

Thought it might be fun to run a sticky post with comments on the best and worst of the CVS locations – rather like the Dominick ones you see all over.  In this case, give us the location and just what caused you to form your opinion – good and/or bad.

me first, me first!  Good The CVS (near Mashupmom) at Roosevelt and Meyers (Fairview).  It’s clean, the people are friendly and it seems to occasionally have stock.  Its manager told me that they would accept the expired P&G coupons on the Oral Bs.

CVS at Naper and Ogden (in Naperville).  Good Store opened last week with a complete lack of fanfare.  In fact, I wanted to call the store a couple of days ago and not only are they not listed on the corporate website, corporate had no info whatsoever about them when I called.  just a little too low key, wouldn’t you say? Anyway, the asst. mgr assured me that they would accept my expired P&G Oral B coupon and the ecbs that expired 11/04 and which I had planned on using to buy the damned toothbrush.  and i’ve got his name, so he can’t hide!

CVS on Roosevelt and Blanchard (in Wheaton) Bad Nasty, nothing in stock and management the result of in-breeding.

Meijer (and others) MMs

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Hadn’t posted this yet, not that I have any scruples about it (don’t bother wasting your emails), but the $5 combo coupon in the 10/31 P&G for Secret deodorant and Olay body wash (or bar) ALSO WORKS ON THE TRIAL SIZES! I already knew that the deodorant trial size worked, which gave some cheap body wash, but cheap is not the same as free, so I held off on posting.

I now read on a few sites that both the .97 deodorant and the 1.29 body wash trial sizes allow you to use the $5 coupon, so almost a $3 MM!

I honor those whose minds are so twisted that they come up with and attempt these scenarios!   I know Meijer’s carries both these products in trial sizes, but not sure about Target, Wags, CVS, WM, et alia, so if you see ’em, try.

Tomorrow’s deals – Update

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The $1/1 Mrs. T’s Pierogi’s coupon has reset. Go to the right side bar for the coupons.com button.   I seem to gravitate to the 90210 zip (although other CA ones also work), so that’s what I used.  Print out as many as you can as quickly as you can because these’ll be gone FAST.  Mrs. T’s are 3/$5 and get the spinach one free.

A fast post and then off to the tub. Can’t afford that Groupon massage deal, so I’ll just have to rub myself the wrong way…sorry

Tomorrow I’m off to Meijers, DG and Jewel, quick jaunts all, for the following:  DG has the Libby’s canned vegetables at .45/each (limited varieties, but not bad) which you combine with the $1/3 from 8/29 rp, so what’re we talking here:  .35/3?  and the best part is you don’t have to play freezer tetris!  Oh, and the 10/3 s has coupons for MORE free Franks hot sauce.  Will someone please stop me?  While I like free more than the next guy (unless the next guy is appearing on Hoarders), the deal at Ultra way back when was better ’cause they had the reg and extra hot available – DG does not carry the extra hot.

Next is Jewel for more beverages (I know, I know, but since it doesn’t have to be refrigerated or fancy-storage needed, why not pick up some of the BOGO Fuze?  The 10/24 S has $1/2, so 2 free for each coupon.  Since I only have 8 coupons so far, it’ll be a fly over Jewel visit.

Meijer’s is going to give me MM milk and cheap coffee – I think I can safely pass on any spreads for the next year or two (well, unless it’s a MM).  I need to check out some other deals there before I post, just to be certain that what they say and what really is meet in my reality.

Still have to check out CVS to see if the Oral B toothbrushes came in.  Eventually all the stores should have sufficient supply to cover all the rain checks and expired P&G coupons.

A tale of two drug stores… CVS vs Wags

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Used to be that Wags held my heart because there just weren’t that many CVS stores around.  I know it’s different in some areas, but here?  You can spit in any direction and hit five or more Wags.  So the fact that there was a new CVS store opening 2.13 miles away made me think that, perhaps, my affections would shift.

CVS grand opening today.  No notices in mail, no inserts or notices in Trib, no emails, plenty of parking (not a good sign). No Oral B vitality toothbrushes (claimed 4 or 5 customers had taken them earlier).  Apparently no budgets for grand openings.  I did point out, quite sweetly, that if they would stop paying such large fines to the government there would be plenty of money left over. Did not get much of a response.  Only positive was the convenient location.  Got 4 of the battery toothbrushes.  Using two cards, spent $9.40 OOP and got back $8 ecb, which I can only use at CVS.

Wags a mile down the street…Mostly full parking lot.  Had the ZarBEE cough syrup (told you to print them before print limit reached!) and Nyquil/Dayquil Sinex (Sept. P&G $4 q, exp. 10/31) MMs.  ’nuff said.  Ran four transactions:  $18.90 OOP, got $39 in RRs, which I can use at Dominicks or Jewel.

Found! The elusive golden toothbrush!

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I got the last two Oral B toothbrushes at the CVS right by Mashupmom’s house (ha! that’s what you get for leaving town).  She, of course, will either say: 1)  she already got them or 2) has no interest in getting them.  liar, liar, pants on fire!

The new package has an extra head included, so it’s a much better deal, seeing as the Oral B replacement heads are about $13 each!  Each toothbrush (on a raincheck) was $23, less the $10 P&G coupon expiring 10/31 (which CVS should still honor after that date with the raincheck).  You also get $13 in ecbs for each one.  So yes, it’s cheaper to buy the whole unit than replacement heads.  a very sad commentary on our throw-away society…