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Fannie May for the boxed stuff, Wags for the other…I’m only buying the Wonka bars to win the golden ticket…seriously, i am...

Go to coupons.com, conveniently located on the right side bar.  Click under food and start printing out the Wonka coupons.  You want the 3 coupons for the bars:  1 BOGO, 1 $3/2 bars and $1/1 bar.  Stack this with the $1/2 in the Wags monthly booklet and you’ll be left with free, but high tax chocolate bars.  In my case it was .29 for each transaction of 2.  Make sure you print out your first set of 3 and then go back and find them once again (you can’t just hit the back key with coupons.com).  Your transactions should go as follows:  1 BOGO and the Wags $1/2 = FREE.  $3/2 coupon with $1/2 Wags  = FREE.  You can do this twice with each set, netting you 8 bars.

Puny giveaway for peeps w/ rugrats update

And the winner (slightly late, i know) is Leslie.  I gave the PITA free rein with this one and Leslie’s who she picked.  do not even try to understand the dark workings of a teen-age girl’s mind…

Sorry, but I forgot to put a deadline on this thing gotta get those meds checked… so here it is:  5 pm on Sunday, December 26, 2010.  Since it’s only going email, no worry about snail mail and the long lead time will give me time to collect as many of these codes as I can.

Well, the title kinda says it all…I have a collection of those Enjoy the Ride codes from the large boxes of Huggies wipes I’ve been buying.  No kids, but wipes are a glorious thing for cleaning dashboards, tables, hardwood floors (yes, I have cleaned entire rooms with free wipes – why not?).  So… easy giveaway time.

One reader will receive an email with a minimum of 10 codes; by the time of the drawing that number should be considerably higher.  I’m not certain of the value of these; I do know that some people collect them and do well.

Mexican Jewel has WTs!

¡hola! from Little Mexico aka Woodridge.  I had no idea that 75th Street divided the US and Mexico.  Well, you certainly can learn something new every day… I used to shop here because they had the best selection of pierogies – I had just assumed they were Polish.

Ran the deal two times, only difference was the bottle of bleach.  Found a $10.62 ham!  Not as good as Rachel’s $10.57, but I’m trying.  The 200 ct Kleenex was .20 cheaper here and the 110 ct was .10 cheaper – rest was the same.  Make sure you check each box to see that you are not only getting the 110 and the 200 ct boxes (since we know these UPCs work), but check the shelf tags for prices so that your total before tax will still reach $25.

Stopped off at Wags and picked up the almonds using the Jingle store cat.  Their Similac was $4.79(!), and couldn’t see any of the $4.99 games.

Freebies update – Jewel

For those of you who have been unable to find either the Ronzoni free pasta or the hummus (which I am eating as I type – yum), the Jewel in Lisle on Rte 53 put in huge orders for both.  The pasta is already in and more hummus comes in tonight (all 3 flavors).  The asst mgr plans to have the hummus in both a special display and the regular spot.  Go on over, they’re super friendly and lubs us extreme couponers…

Jewel Gift Cards 2 and 3

This picture combines both deals, ’cause frankly, they’re pretty much the same and I’m lazy.  Get over it.  Total OOP on both deals was $62.07.  I  received $6 in cats and will get $50 in gift cards.  Actual price paid for all this stuff?  $6.07…

For the spend $25 on Kimberly-Clark Jewel gift card, I purchased the Kleenex in either the 110 or 200 size boxes.  (Either of the upcs works – the shrink-wrapped 3-packs did not)  Get up to $10 or go slightly over, then grab a few more items to get you over the $25 threshold.  In this case I used the Scott paper towels and a large box of Huggies wipes.  Total was between $25 and $26 dollars each time, so I’m good.  Make certain you scan all the K-C items together so it’s easy to calculate.  I also threw in a small ham and used the store coupon on it.  One transaction included five hummus with coupon.  I used no K-C manufacturer coupons. OOP was $31.57 and $30.50.  Note that each transaction rewarded me with a $3 OYNO for the Kleenex, which will not come out until I’ve completed all these deals.

On the first rebate I submitted I circled the entire K-C section and wrote the total on top, using Preferred Card prices.  Make sure to black out the part that contains your pc number and/or payment info.  And I would strongly urge you to follow the rebate instructions exactly as written:  if it says hand-written name and address, that’s what you give ’em, not an address label.

Good luck.

Jewel — gimme my gift card! (#1)

OK, I ran the deal without any coupons at all!  I can understand why P&G doesn’t want to give us $25 when, after coupons, we’ve only paid out $15 or $20, but I was afraid that using any coupons would screw up the total, so cleared it with store mgr and CS mgr and ran up $62.82 for everything in the picture; Kimberly-Clark stuff was $26.  I rang through SCOT and when I finished the CS guy came over (probably force of habit) and when I said I wasn’t using coupons, he tottered a little.

Took my receipt over to CS and had them take off my various coupons and RRs – total OOP was $.82.  Want to know what I got?  A ham (well, of course), 12 boxes of Kleenex, 2 Scott paper towels, one box of Huggies, 2 boxes of Clementines, 2 bunches of bananas, 1 cheese bakery bread, 2 yogurts (for my home yogurt-making) and 1 MM juice.   I’ll complete my rebate form and put it in tomorrow’s mail.

$25 Jewel GC – READ! – Update


Just read on CW that apparently Kimberly Clark’s definition of “while supplies last” means that 600 gift cards would be sufficient for a promotion heavily advertised in the Jewel Spotlight and scheduled to run from December 16, 2010 through January 15, 2011. The 900+ LOSERS who did not receive a gift card will be getting a booklet with $15 worth of coupons.  I am thoroughly pissed off about this.  It does not even appear that the cards were issued in the order received (FIFO), because I know of one person who got hers but another person, whose rebate was submitted two weeks prior, did not get one.  Most of these purchases were made on some very expensive Kimberly-Clark products without the benefit of sales or coupons. This is a very big no-no: Could they possibly be using Dominicks’ marketing agency?  If you did not receive a gift card and want to pitch a hissy fit, the Kimberly-Clark number is  888-525-8388go for it…

Saw this on CW (thanks to OP), so thought I’d post for those of you who want to try it.  It appeared in Spanish ads and is targeted to Hispanic families.  ¡Pero me gusta todo el dinero!

Get a $25 gift card with a $25 purchase of any combination of these product brands:

1. Purchase $25. or more of any combination Kimberly-Clark product brands (ALL packages and sizes eligible)
2. Hand print your first & last name, complete address and phone number on a piece of paper.
3. Send original dated cash register receipt(s) with the Kimberly-Clark products & purchase prices circled and the paper in a properly stamped envelope to the address below. Total net price (excluding taxes, coupons or any other discounts) of purchased Kimberly Clark products must be $25.00 or more.
4. You will receiver your $25.00 Jewel-Osco gift card via mail while supplies last. Limit one gift card per request.

valid & legible mailing address required.

Mail to Jewel-Osco 2010 Offer
8250 NW 27th Street
Suite 301
Miami, FL 33122

Items that are pictured are:
Scott TP
Scott Paper Towels
Huggies Wipes
Huggies Diapers
Kleenex Tissue
Kotex
Poise
Depends
Cottonelle TP
Cottonelle Wipes
Viva Paper Towels
Pull-ups
Goodnites

THE FINE PRINT:

Terms:
Purchases must be made between 12/16/2010 and 1/15/2011. Request must be postmarked by 1/15/2011 and received no later than 1/30/2011. Limit one (1) per individual, family or valid street address. Group requests void. Only U.S. street addresses accepted, no PO boxes. Please allow 6-8 weeks for processing. Requests for fulfillment to PO boxes will not be accepted. Requests that in Kimberly-Clarks sole discretion do not comply with terms & conditions of offer, including mechanically reproduced requests, fraudulent, illegible, incomplete or inaccurate requests are invalid.  Void where prohibited.

Wording is rather odd…$25 after coupons, etc.?  My suggestion is to buy your stuff separately from the rest of your order, then walk back to customer service desk and hand over your coupons and RRs.  Your receipt will still be an original and any marks made by CS shouldn’t affect your rebate (make sure your circle your items and prices with a marker so it stands out).

There are very few coupons out there (except for Kleenex and Cottonelle – so you know what I’m loading up on), but 100% return on your investment isn’t too shabby.  Don’t wait too long, because it’s while supplies last…

Meijer online and Freebies

If you are doing any of your holiday shopping at Meijer, place your order(s) the 17, 18th or 19th and get free standard shipping and free returns.  Actually, it’s the latter part that makes me post it here, ’cause rightly or wrongly, I hate the idea of paying for shipping.  Use code NTLSHIP.

Order by December 19th using free standard shipping and they guarantee Christmas delivery.

If you’re shopping at their stores, the only thing I see is free cat treats ($1.00 Friskies Party Mix or Indoor Crunchy 2.1 oz or Whisker Lickins Tender Moments 3 oz 1/$1 Friskies Treats coupon ( 9-12 r) or 2/$2 Friskies or Whisker Lickins treats (11-14 r)

The other FREEBIE is Pompeian olive oil,  stacking mfr and Mealbox coupons.  Click here for Mealbox (you know the drill over there) and here for mfr.  It’s a smartsource coupon, so print, hit back and print again.  (Note:  coupon has not reset from prior sale, so if you printed before, you’re SOL)  Unless you have access to lots of computers, I just can’t see  driving over to pick up one or two oils or cat treats.  Of course, this might be because the last time this sale ran I picked up about 20 oils…

Check out the travel editions of Hasbro games ($5/1 12-5 s) because some of the prices have dropped to under $5, so FREE.  Smart Balance milk is once again on sale for $1.99, but we got screwed in Chicago because the $2 coupon expired on the 15th!  grrr


Ronzoni Garden Delight Update

When I picked up the Ronzoni pasta from my small Jewel, I had no idea that I was doing anything unusual – then I started checking out other forums and reading emails from people who have been unable to locate any at their Jewels.  I called a large 24 hr store (certain that they would have it), also nothing.  This picture is of the two types on the 10/$10 deal.

So, please take a moment to post where you have found or didn’t find the Garden Delight.  If you can’t find it you have two options:  1) place a special order, since it’s available in the Jewel warehouse or 2) go to the Lisle Jewel on Rte 53, where they stock it and love  couponers.

Frolicking detour

Yes, I finally got dressed and left the house – call the newspapers…  Picked up 3 boxes of Fannie May – lots of people, some even buying without coupons!  yes, i was in shock the first time i heard that, but after a while i adjusted.  Some people buying chocolate bars to get to $10 and then out the door.  That’s fine, but since free candy bars aren’t that hard to come by, I’d rather spend a couple of extra bucks and get a few 1/2 pound boxes of favs:  pixies, sugar-free meltaways (for MIL) and a pound of chocolate walnut fudge (what…where did that come from?).   So I pay a couple of bucks for each separate transaction; to me it’s worth it.

Headed over to PetSmart and picked up four of the Greenies.  Used two BOGOs and two PetSmart FREE coupons for 4 free ones.   Then back home to put together 3 pizzas using the free CC pizza crust (in the freezer from that wonderful Jewel bakery pdf coupon) using free Kraft cheese.  Pizza and good chocolate – does life get any better than this?