Spotted a new booklet at Jewel today, “Fall into good things.”  Make sure you look around your Jewel for these; mine were on a display near the entrance.  I took a few (few, henceforth shall be defined as more than one).  While they aren’t what I’d call high value, there are a couple of $1 Tyson coupons that made my heart flutter.  Don’t forget, even if you can’t use them by the 11/30/10 exp. date (for the Tyson qs), you can always trot them over to Dominicks sometime during the coming year.  By the way, these coupons all have varied expiration dates.  which is really stupid.

Do we know how to party or what?  Seriously, used five of my hot dog coupons and then ran the Cool Whip in separate transactions of five each.  Total OOP was $.45, damn taxes!

I read about using Cool Whip as a coffee creamer, so I’m going to let the containers sit on the counter until they melt and then pour them into  bottles.  At that point I can load some into the fridge for immediate use and put the extras in the freezer.  Since there’s lots of volume due to air, melting them should use up lots less space for my freezer tetris.  Well, that’s the game plan anyway.  Let you know how it tastes, but honestly, who can claim that Coffeemate is a health beverage…

Remember to check your receipts and make sure you get your stamps.  People have commented that they didn’t get a stamp “because they were using coupons.”  Today my hot dogs receipt didn’t show I was eligible, but CS checked over the receipt and gave me one.

If you want to pick up some free hot dogs, listen up:  Go to coupons.com and enter a 33310 zip code.  Now check for the $1/1 Oscar Meyer any package of hot dogs coupon.  Be careful, there is a $1/2 hot dog coupon that comes up on the first page – ignore and continue to the second or third page.  Print it out, go back to the coupons and print out another one.  THEN, head over to couponbug.com and enter the same 33310 zip code and look for the same coupon.  Again, it may be on the second or third page.  Print, go back to the coupons and find it again and print.  Now you have four coupons (if you have only one computer).   Mashupmom has a link to Kraft for another two coupons.  Same routine, print, back, print.  The more computers, the more free hot dogs.  How does this work you may ask?  Well, I’ll explain…

Get your mitts on more computers.  With five coupons, you buy 5 packages of hot dogs, pay $10.  Give ’em the $5 coupons and five dollars and get back a $5 catalina.  If you have a cat from a prior cheese or Cool Whip purchase, use that.  Free hot dogs are good hot dogs.  Especially since it’s Labor Day Grilling Time.

Don’t forget to get as many of the Culinary Circle pizzas as you can cram into your freezer by tomorrow 9/1.  Buying 7 will cost you about $13.50, which is dirt cheap for great tasting pizzas.  Taking them out of their boxes frees up lots of space; it’s easy to tell which is which.

Try to get rain checks for the Ice Mountain Aquapods which are currently on sale for $1 an 8 pk.  There are $1.50/2 coupons out there, which brings down the cost to .50/2.  BUT, if you can get a rain check on the last day or so of the sale (shelf tag says 9/5),  starting September 6th there is a OYNO cat.  Best scenario to play after 9/6:  buy 4 for $4, use two coupons and pay $1, then get a $3 cat!  Deal does not stack, so you have to run it in sets of 4.   I love it when they pay me to drink their product.  Last time Ice Mountain ran a cat was earlier this summer at Dominicks.  I ended up with 126 bottles of the 1L sparkling water for which they paid me about $20.  Goes well with cheap pizza.  Hell, everything goes well with cheap pizza!