Tag Archives: I Can’t Believe It!

Free Pet Food

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Just saw this on CW:  a free bag of dog, cat or ferret food from Natura Advantage.  Click here, give ’em your vitals and they’ll mail out a coupon.  Their pet food is not sold in grocery stores (sorry, no pot stamps), only pet stores and a few vets.  I’ve used the dog food in the past and my dogs loved it.

Need to know basis: While this company claims natural and holistic pet foods, in point of fact they were acquired by P&G this past May.  Yes, that’s right, P&G, our coupon friend.  So who knows what better coupons will be made available and in what stores?  After all, Jewel sells Iams and Eukanuba, don’t they?   I clicked on the box to get updates, etc. on their products.  Free pet food is good pet food.

Lose It or Lose It – gamble on your weight site

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This is a really weird one, a website where you gamble on your own weight loss online.  You start by setting a target weight, which you have 10 weeks to reach.  To motivate you, you make a wager of your own cash (from $100 to $5,000).  Make your weekly goal, and the money stays in your account.  Don’t make it and the website takes a cut.

Is there something seriously wrong with my thinking?  Why would I hand over a large chunk of change if there’s even an off-chance I’d lose it?  They’re betting on our need for immediate gratification (pie on the plate) against the desire to lose weight (pie in the sky).  Let’s not forget, people, we’re talking dieting before the holidays.  Now this is what I’d call a sucker bet…

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…

Mrs. Fields freebies

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Restaurant.com Weekly Promo Banner 120x60Now through October 31, get a $20 certificate to Mrs. Fields when you buy an 80% off certificate from Restaurant.com.  This includes all their packages, the dinner of the month club (which I use) as well as their regular $25 certificates.  Not a bad extra.  I used to love stopping by to pick up oatmeal cookies…

Mrs. Fields gift code can only be used online and you must have at least a $50 order, excluding taxes; offer expires December 5, 2010.  so there goes my one cookie dream…

Save those receipts!

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A reminder to always save your grocery receipts  – especially when you’ve got a bunch of them from cat deals.  Since Jewel takes coupons after the fact, you never know when there will be a new coupon out there or a friend will give you an insert.

There is another Con Agra rebate form out there for purchases made between 10/12 and 1/02/11, which happens to include the last Jewel Con Agra cat deal!  Click here to print out the rebate form.  I’ve used these in the past, where they say receipts from a supercenter (Wal Mart), but have gotten the booklets using Jewel receipts.  In this case, a $5 Wal Mart gc will come in handy for paying high tax on all your free stuff!   credit to OP on CW (which linked from another site…)

Meijer sale preview

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I’ve told you how much I like the Meijer Madness site ’cause of the great deals she posts, even if I have no use for them!  Remember how I always tell you to print out high value coupons in advance of sales?  Yeah, let’s all wait until the last minute so we can see that “print limit reached” message appear on our screens…Oh, right, you’ve never had that happen to you?!  and your check is in the mail..

Anywho, click here to print out two $3 coupons for Similac; there’s a sale acomin’ next week where you’ll be able to bring down the cost of a can of ready-mix to less than a buck.  Get as many computers as you can and print, print, print…  If you want to just click the coupons.com button on the right sidebar you can do that, too.  Sometimes it’s more profitable to scroll through all the pages, just to see what new coupons have appeared.

Buyzooka gets arty

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Sorry for the bad pun…today’s Buyzooka is a BOGO for the Hyde Park Arts Back Alley Party on 10/29.  I live no where near here, so I’m just throwing it out for those of you:  1) live/work closer and 2) are into this sort of thing.  My appreciation of the arts leans more toward the Broadway musicals camp and that picture of the dogs playing poker (not to be confused with that one of the bulldogs playing pool – rip off!), but for those of you with higher aspirations, I say go for it.

1/2 Off Body Shop

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Finally a Groupon for everybody:  $20 for a $40 voucher.  Valid at all US locations.  Limited number available (quite a number sold already, so the deal is ON).  Click and save on personal or holiday shopping.  There’s a limit of two per person, can be combined with their “Love your body club” discount, only used at B&Ms and can be used on sale items (which can really boost your buying power!).

Target today $2.61

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45 cans of Chef Michael’s dog food and more friggin’ bananas!  Used 45 Target coupons, credit for 3 “bring your own” bags and used a gift card from razor deals to pay the total.

As an aside:  there were about 6 food demonstrators for Quaker products – not all had coupons.  but of the ones who did… exp. dates 1/31 and 3/31/11  woot!

Popeye’s fried mushrooms

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Well, I saw the coupon stuck on the front page of the Sunday Tribune at Jewel last night, so I know it exists, but none were on the papers delivered this morning.  Leads me to believe that Popeye’s marketing department feels that people who order home delivery tend to be less impulsive when it comes to dining out at fast food joints.  Well, I hope that’s the reason, anyway!

First thought, of course, was that someone at the delivery service had taken them.  Second thought was that they had never previously expressed a death wish!

We can live without Popeye’s greasy mushrooms – last two times we ordered from the nearest location (a franchise, not corporate, store) the chicken had a slightly off taste, as if the oil were not being changed frequently enough  (Figured owner was trying to save money in a down economy.).  Tried calling about it, but way too many phone numbers to slog through before reaching the right one.   In this case, it’s just easier to drop Popeye’s than to voice a complaint.

So, no mushrooms, just coupons for that disgusting-looking KFC sandwich.  Sorry, but if a professionally-staged picture of food doesn’t make you drool, there’s something wrong with that food item.