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‘m in the process of weaning my family from satellite. We don’t have U-verse available, which may not be so bad, since some big-name channels were just dropped.
Read this Trib breaking article and see what I mean. In other words, if Food TV is one of your faves, you’re screwed.
Whew! Talk about whirlwind shopping. First I hit Jewel for 16 of the Fuze drinks; this is high tax peeps, so plan on spending at least a few pennies. Nobody needs to see a picture of 16 bottles!
Then off to Meijer, where even a peripatetic Meijer shopper like me knows to stop at the cs desk first to see what’s out of stock. First day of a sale and they’re already out of the Smart Balance milk (got rain check for 6 – the limit) and the free w/ purchase Mrs. Ts spinach and feta Pierogies (got a rain check for 2 free). I was able to get 8 of the Maxwell House coffees for .27 each, after the $1 cat. Note that, like the previous sale, not all coffees are the same price. The breakfast blend is the only one for $1.79, so get 2, use two coupons and a $1 MFR cat spits out, which I then used on the next transaction. Obviously I ran this in multiple transactions, to get the $1 coffee cat each time, which leads into my next comment – I’m missing some receipts! Guessing on the total for Meijers…$7.50? Bananas are heavy, so maybe a quarter more.
Off to DG next. Took 54 cans of Libby’s vegetables (mostly kernel corn), 2 Gain (all they had) and 5 Franks hot sauce for a total of $ 7.36. PITA is busily clipping more Libby coupons even as we speak; I’m going back with another 55 coupons (165 cans) for $19.25 plus low tax, so less than twenty bucks. Note: DG’s registers won’t take off the entire $1/3, probably the same glitch as the Target ones. However, DG is not out to cheat you and will break up the coupon value into .40/.40/.20 for each one. Yes, a royal pain in the ass for both parties, but what else can you do?
Finally, an oddity: you’ll be relieved to learn that this was not found in the grocery section…
Yes, I braved the cash registers of Target and lived to post about it…Wanted to run a few of the Olay Spend $50 get back $20. Target has this deal where you get a $5 Target gc for every 2 Olay items you purchase. So the obvious way to work this is to buy as many of the cheap products as you can, in pairs, to reach $50.
I ran this deal twice; the picture includes both transactions, 8 toners and 8 foaming face wash in each. A total of $51.52 ($3.60 x 8 =28.80 and $2.84 x 8 = 22.72) spent and I got back $40 in Target gift cards for each transaction. I was able to use $8 in Olay mfr coupons from the two latest P&G inserts at CS, however, I would not recommend using coupons because 1) Target cash registers will not accept the coupon because the registers reduce the price of the item by the value of the gift card (and how fucked up is that?!) and 2) the new P&G coupons all read that only four of a like coupon can be used in the same transaction. The second transaction should be paid using the prior transaction’s gift cards to reduce your OOP.
When I do this deal again, I will not attempt coupons since it’s too much hassle (yes, I’m turning down money). Unless, of course, one of the television stations wants to pay me to show how Target screws this part up, too.
So what kind of cash are we talking about? $51.52 – $40 in Target gc = $12.52 (plus tax), and get back $20 from Olay. I, of course, am ahead an extra $8 on each transaction, due to coupons. And, I was paying for the first transaction with a bunch of Target gift cards from the Trib and various razor deals. So ymmv – well, hell’s bells, it surely will!
Honestly, I just don’t know who or what to believe any more! One magazine claims that Scott and Kourtney have eloped, while another claims they’ve broken up and she’s seeing a runway model. Not that I really give a flying fig about what happens with these two pseudo-celebs, but if you can’t believe what you see in print, how will you ever decide on a candidate? Not so easy, is it? Seems like each candidate for every office can prove (through 3 second sound bites) that the other candidate is a giant steaming 
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Oh, and just so you know…I’m talking about your candidate.
Hoping to win myself some free stuff…here’s a link to a Free Groceries for a Year contest, sponsored by It Pays to Eat Pasta, ending Saturday, October 30. Hmmmmm, how in the world could I spend a hundred bucks a week? My stockpile would rival Jewel’s warehouse!
Felt like I was coming down with something yesterday and so naturally didn’t stop running around…suffered for it all last night. I am woman hear me roar and all that rubbish. So went for a lie down (see how reading Brit lit has improved my vocabulary?), making sure the moosies were napping in their cage. PITA comes home, lets them out of the cage and sits down to read something. Naturally puppies will do what they have to do, whether it be in the dining room or the great outdoors, so which do you think I got? Now I’m on my hands and knees washing the floors, while my PITA gets a sudden urge to go rake leaves after getting “The Look.”
You’re all familiar with The Look, aren’t you? It starts to develop once you’re in a relationship (the first time he asks “what’s the matter” and you look up and say “nothing“). You work, hone and refine it until you have more kids (other than the one you married) and by then it becomes The Look. rather like Alice’s Fist of Death (Dilbert). You can all guess just what level I’m operating on…
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.
Just back from Meijer with a warning to always check your receipt! Case in point: Today there was an old guy in front of me buying just a few items, among them a loaf of bread. When he sees the total he comments that the hamburger buns are supposed to be free when you buy a loaf of bread. Cashier points out that he has the deluxe buns and not the hamburger buns. He trots off to get the right one…again the cashier scans them and it doesn’t come off. Wrong ones. He says that these are the buns in the cardboard display with the bread! I say get a manager to make them free because you have to pay more attention to what you’re putting in the display. Now my turn. Total comes to $6.34 for the items show here. I knew it was a couple of bucks off, so asked and cashier said that the mPerks $2 had come off. Took the receipt off to the side and scanned it. Sure enough, the Purina cheez treats, marked on the shelf as $1.09, were actually ringing as $1.39. Now, an ordinary shopper (certainly not us) would have purchased one or two of these and would never have noticed an extra .30 or so… In my case, though, with eight it was apparent that an overcharge had been made. So off to customer service and a return of my $2.60 ($2.40 + high tax). Also, mPerks takes the place of a mfr coupon, so the post that talked about using paper and mPerks was incorrect. This is why I always like to run the deals before posting…
Crappy weather out today, certainly not the day to grocery shop, but….I’ve seen this on a couple of boards, but haven’t yet checked it out: the Taco Bell seasoning packets are on sale for .34 and coincidentally there is a Mealbox coupon for $1/3! There is also a mPerks coupon for Milkbone Essentials which may tie in to their $2.50 sale price, don’t know yet, will check it out. Combine that with the $1/1 from the 9/26 rp and should be more free dog stuff. I’ve run out of computers to print the olive oil coupons, so right now I’m stuck with only 10 – not too many when you figure out I want them to last a year. Remember, I like to stock up, not do the weekly stuff…
Lately, Land’s End has been having some tremendous sales, many with free shipping included. My husband loves to shop online and at the Lombard outlet store. I must admit, though, that we’ve noticed a deterioration in quality over the past few years, coincidentally just about the time they were acquired by Sears. Little things, like of the two identical winter jackets (model/size/color) bought some years apart, the more recent purchase had a shorter body length.
Still, if you ever feel the product is defective they’ll take it back with no questions asked, so you might want to check them out. They have been running a $20 down vest sale (ends today), which is a great price and up to 75% off on their other clearance stuff. If you get free shipping and 75% off for some last-minute cold weather stuff, it beats the hell out of the last couple of years of garage sales. I admit to being a sucker for the bright colors and patterns on the small children/infant clothing. Maybe a few pairs of capri leggings for the PITA so she can layer under her skirts and skorts?
UPDATE: Just ordered 4 pairs of leggings for the PITA. Total came to $20.36 and included free shipping (4-7 days). Very good deal.
The above order came in yesterday and I forced the PITA to try on one pair (else they would have disappeared into the bedroom black hole until spring). She came downstairs with the crotch midway to her knees; when she pulled them up the top came up almost to her armpits and the bottom barely reached her knees. And honestly? The top was so baggy it looked like they were sized for one of those alcoholic big-gut people. In summation: Unless you’re dressing a drunken troll, these are not the leggings for you. and i am now off to the outlet store to return them…
Oh, Meijers, I am so over you now. You lure customers in with promises of low prices and huge savings, all in a huge store. Well, I decided to drive over to check out the Gain freebie, Purina dog freebie and the Friskies freebies.
Still out of the Purina, they did have quite a supply of the Bestlife spread – back up to the $2.19 price – got 11 of the Friskies treats. On to the Gain debacle…ran the deal three times: 3 gain each transaction. First one went smoothly, but it was a damned STORE cat that printed out; I hadn’t read last night’s post clarifying this. So used the cat to pay for the second transaction – which then didn’t produce a cat (rather like Wags). Third transaction didn’t produce a cat, didn’t give me my mperks $2 coupon and the damned bananas were .10/lb more than at Ultra. I did not realize until setting up the bottles for the photo that two of them are just slightly smaller (really slightly smaller), so even though they were all mixed in on the same shelf and marked as part of the same sale, their UPC must not produce the cat; also the mPerks needed to be added to my “shopping list” and then saved on my account. Having it on my phone alone does no good. Again, I don’t shop there often enough to know the little idiosyncrasies involved.
Bottom line? Had I known, I would never have driven there for cat treats; next time I’ll just get the small bottle for free at Wal Mart. OOP ended up at $13.65. On a positive note, however, I used my Discover card and got cash back (to use at Jewel and garage sales), so let them eat the service charge! yes, i am petty and take my revenge where i can
