I read about this earlier this week on CW, but the OP was in another state, so waited until I was certain Chicagoland area would get this. And we did! In this Sunday’s Trib (I’m not certain of other local papers) there is a separate one-page insert with a $5 off – no minimum – coupon for Fannie May. woot!
So even if you pick up multiples at a dollar store, you are still $4 ahead on free Easter chocolate bunnies (or fudge or toffee…)!
You know we’re talking flashlights here, right? …one of my weaknesses. Who do you think pushed Rachel to get those cool flashlights at Sears. Damn skippy, folks! I figure because I have flashlights in every room of the house that’s the reason we don’t get power failures. Denali Super Bright 9-LED Heavy-Duty Compact Aluminum Flashlight, 3-Pack 
See the pig flashlight? It’s one of my kitchen flashlights – it goes oink, oink, oink, snort, OINK? when you push the bar and the head swivels up to show the lens. Love it!
The above deal is now expired, so thought I’d check out the other Lightning Deals…Sonix Snap Slim Case for iPod touch 4G (Black)
More magazines?! Well, for five bucks a year for Harper’s BAZAAR, why not? Don’t forget to cancel the auto-renew after you start receiving any magazines – there will always be a cheap price down the road that you can use to add to your current subscription.
Hey, here’s another deal for Seventeen
the current one ends. But it’s so cheap…
And here’s Better Homes & Gardens
Read this on hip2save, so I decided to check it out. If you join the Häagen-Dazs Ice Cream Social on FB (grrr) you get a coupon for a free Midnight Dazzler (served at the Haagen-Dazs Shops). Well, I plugged in my zip and it said there was a store in Lisle. Oddly enough, the location shown was in the middle of the retirement center, so unless Haagen Dazs is PEOPLE, ahem, excuse me, there’s a mistake.
Okay, I registered and it’s given me a whole bunch of other locations; the closest in downtown Naperville. Well, since I’ve registered (used Hotmail – hah! that’ll learn ’em), we’ll see what I get. other than fatter, i mean
Doesn’t it seem lately that every other Groupon is some sort of massage package (with the other designed to rub you the wrong way? can we say FTD, Blue Dolphin…)
Today’s massage package is for a 55 minute massage for $39 at Elements Therapeutic Massage
Deets: New clients only; not valid for hot stone massage; limit two vouchers per person; may buy multiples as gifts; vouchers expire August 18, 2011. This must be a fantastic place, because they’ve sold a butt-load of these vouchers already.
Update: Coupondede has the Gain coupons for .50 handling fee. Note that these have a maximum limit of 5 per order due to extremely limited quantities.
Another email from coupondede, saying she just got another large shipment of the $3 Gain coupons in. If you haven’t yet ordered yours yet, jump on it. The prices on all the various sites are going up.
Just a short post to let everyone know that if they didn’t get any or the quantity they want/need, coupondede sent out an email that she currently has a large number of the $3 Gain coupons. Don’t forget that coupons purchased through her not only ship fast, but also earn points.
with Dominicks, that is….but first – – –
picked up some more wonderful (Fannie May) chocolate toffee from Hallmark, together with this great card. Not sure, but I think it’s too good to mail. Another pound or so of fudge from Fannie May and elastic waist pants, I’m a comin’.
Wasn’t going to drive to Butera for a couple of lousy pancake mixes (especially since I picked up the free cases at Meijer), but found myself driving past there, so stopped in. You have to understand that many, many years ago (pull up a chair, it’s going to be a while…), before I drifted over to the couponing darkside, I would hit Butera ever week or two because they used to have the most fantastic “deals” on almost-expired products. 
Yes, in hindsight that’s pathetic… Check the pancake aisle and see the small containers for 1.19 and the 1.99 size with an empty space. Grab two of the puny ones and head up to customer service, where I ask to scan for a price check – 1.19. hmmm. Tell the girl that I thought they were on sale for .99. She calls someone and then starts going through the paper, but doesn’t see it. I tell her that it’s on sale in the Piggly Wiggly ad and (she cuts me off here to saw that they’re not the Pig). I know, but someone purchased it and they’re on sale here. (Again interrupt…) Sometimes the online ads are (so I interrupted her to say that if she would stop interrupting me I could complete my sentences.) Well, she gets huffy and I know she’s about to say we don’t have it on sale when an older woman comes up behind us and says “That’s the small one. It’s the larger one on sale, but we don’t have any.” So I say thank you and hit the road. And go to my nice, clean, well-mannered Jewel, where I placed a special order for another two cases of the Manischewitz chicken broth and get some more free bakery bread and bananas. -insert happy dance here- cue Peanuts song
Dominicks, sigh. All I wanted from you was a few, a precious few, Reese’s cups and some Purina One puny little bags of dog and cat food and the free Pepsi Max. sadly, it was not to be…First they told me I couldn’t use the candy coupons without buying some first (even if it works on the register) and then they tried to mark down the $2 Purina coupons to .99. Now, I’m not going for overage here, I was using 1 coupon on 2 bags, but the day they mark down a coupon and then submit it for the reduced amount...well, I’ll eat my hat. So subtract the candy…subtract the dog and cat food….give me back my coupons and oh, yeah, thanks for the Pepsi Max. Dominicks should really start worrying about their next generation of customers: the current crop appears to be roughly 108.
So that’s it for my wonderful shopping. The sun’ll come up, tomorrow, bet your…
Target, Target, Target…what’s to become of you? What’s to become of us? They may have straightened out the coupon problems, but the gift card screw-ups continue. Especially with the way their registers assign arbitrary amounts to items for which you get a gift card. It’s exactly the same as Wags giving you a RR and then refusing your coupons because the $4 item is now only worth $1 because they handed you a $3 RR.
In the picture: are 3 Hungry Hippos games; 7 Pictureka games; 4 Vaseline (bonus size); 4 Ponds cleansing cloths (bonus size); 4 Suave deoderant. I was using 10 of the $5 game coupons; $1 mfr Vaseline stacked with $1.50 Target coupon times 4; $1.50 Ponds coupon stacked with $1.50 Target coupon and 4 .75 Suave mfr coupons stacked with $1/2 Target coupons. I guesstimated the amount would be about $20 plus high tax – actually ended up with a $23.86 total.
Unfortunately, it took forever to straighten out the mess from using so many coupons. First cashier was relieved and his supervisor came over and attempted to make sense of the register. Finally was who I belive was store manager and even he had difficulties. In the end, he played around and played around and finally got the numbers right, even if it required playing funny numbers with the prices. Target, get your damned act together! It’s not fair that your cashiers and store personnel have to take the flak from your screw-ups! End of speechifying…
Last week when Rachel did the Sears blog-thing (am I the official MUM videographer?), I saw these great rubber boots for $19.98. Though they are my size, they are intended as a Christmas present for a friend [wipes a tear from her eye as she speaks]. As I stated in the earlier post, I was not super impressed with Sears prices, finding them rather higher than other stores. One thing that did impress me, however, was the caliber of staff working there. In every department we were greeted by friendly sales people who were only too willing to answer our questions and make suggestions. Almost all had been working for Sears since Jesus bought his sandals in the shoe department and their experience plainly showed. That’s one positive comment I can gladly make.
Most of you are probably aware of the BzzAgent site. It’s word-of-mouth advertising where they offer deals, etc. to get the word out about various and sundry things. I’ve also read on other sites about the Ebates program where you get paid cash back for shopping online at places you’d normally shop – Land’s End, Target, Sears, Home Depot. Never bothered to sign up for this, but today I received an email with a bonus offer when you make your first purchase of $50. Since there’s no fee to sign up, whether I use this or not, I’ll still be OK. If I do order some holiday gifts, I get the extra $5 bonus (normal sign up is $10).
If you’re interested, click here and sign up.