My Acme transactions & going back tomorrow

I was just gathering up my receipts to do the P&G rebate. Here is the link to the form if you need it. Hitting $50 in P&G products should be no problem now!

Here’s what I did–

Transaction 1:
3 packs of Pampers-shelf price 10.69
Sale price-10.00
Minus three $1 coupons
Paid $27.00, got back $15 for buying $30 worth of P&G, $5 for buying $25 worth of baby stuff
Final-$7 oop for 3 packs of Pampers

Transaction 2:
2 bottles of Tide, shelf price 15.69
Sale Price: 10.99
Scanned two $1 coupons, then my card.
Paid $21.18, got $15 back for buying $30 worth of P&G
OOP: $6.18 for 2 of the BIG bottles of Tide

Transaction 3:
3 packs of Pampers wipes, shelf price 7.99
Sale price: 5.00
1 pack of Pampers diapers, shelf price 10.69
Sale Price: 10.00
Minus: $1 coupon for diapers; three $0.50 coupons (which doubled to $1) for wipes
**Note**I had $1.50 off Pampers wipes on my Avenu savings. This did not show up on the register, but I went to customer service and she gave me $4.50 in cash.
Paid $21, got $20 back–$15 for buying $30 worth of P&G, $5 for buying $25 worth of baby stuff.
OOP: $1 for 3 big packs of wipes and 1 diaper pack.

I did those 3 transactions back to back at self-checkout, then ran the stuff out to my car and went back in.

Transaction 4:
My weekly shopping trip, so it was big. $187 before coupons, $90 after coupons. I did use the $45 I had earned on the previous 3 transactions, and I earned another $15 for buying $30 worth of General Mills products. I am positive there were no P&G products in this transaction, only GM, as I was afraid that if I bought P&G, it wouldn’t roll. I bought 5 Progresso soups ($10 minus Qs), 4 yoplait yogurts ($10 minus Qs) and then $10 worth of the baking products listed, minus coupons of course. Also, my hubby had requested lots of stuff I didn’t have coupons for, so it was a higher bill than usual.

Then I got home, unloaded and realized I forgot lasagne noodles, and that Acme owed me $4.50 for the wipes, so I went back.

Transaction 5:
Another Tide-15.69 shelf price, 10.99 sale price
Huge pack of Bounty-14.99 shelf price, 10.00 sale price
Had $1 off Bounty on my Avenu. Also used $1 Bounty coupon and $1 Tide coupon, and used my $15 from previous transaction.
Paid $3.10 OOP, got $15 back, again for $30 worth of P&G

Transaction 6:
3 more packs of Pampers
Only had one $1 coupon left. Used that, plus the $15 from previous transaction, plus $10 from the previous baby transactions I did. Paid $4 oop, got another $20 back. For P&G and for buying baby stuff.

Whew!

Tomorrow my plan is:
7 boxes of Cheerios, shelf price 4.69.
Sale Price: 2.00
Another shopper on hcw reports that Cheerios are working at shelf price. So the 7 boxes will get me to $30.
Sale Price: $14
Minus: Seven $1.50 coupons that I pulled out of the packs of Pampers.
I should be paying $3.50 and getting $15 back.
Then I’ll have another $15 to work with, for a total of $30 in cats, plus one baby $5 cat.

I think I will do Bounty/Tide again. From there I’m going to check the shelf prices on Cascade and Downy and see what I can do there. I also have many more kids’ Yoplait coupons and Kevin loves that stuff. Depending on the exp dates on it, I may get brave and see if shelf prices work for that as well.

Don’t forget all the GM websites–eatbetteramerica.com, pillsbury.com, bettycrocker.com to get your IPs for the deal too.

If you try something and it works, please report back!

Acme or Superfresh…..or Acme or Superfresh

I’m taking a day just to chill and do nothing–surfing the web, clipping my coupons, sorting my binder. And on hcw I see that tomorrow Superfresh is starting triples again. They also have a P&G deal, but their’s is buy 40, get 10. That’s only a 25% return as compared to Acme’s 50% return on the 30/15 deal. And most P&G coupons that I have are $1 off one, so they wouldn’t be tripling anyway.

Stinks that they’re running triples two days after I just tossed all my 12/31 expireds. I really didn’t want to add another store to my program, but I have pretty much all but dropped Giant and Rite Aid, so there’s room. I still think I will go thru my coupon holder and see what $0.75 coupons I have that might make it worth it.

Happy Shopping!

Walgreen’s moneymaker & Kellogg’s coupons

First, there are $1 off one Kellogg’s coupons at coupons.com. Good for the month of January. I know there is a Kellogg’s deal coming up at Walgreen’s, Kmart will be doing superdoubles again, so they may come in handy. Print them now before print limit is reached and they pull them.

Second, look at this thread on hotcouponworld about a moneymaker on Robitussin/Dimetapp.A great deal if you have gift card money, RRs to spend, or need cough/cold medicine and don’t mind shelling out $10 oop. There are too many details to list, that’s why I’m just posting the link to the thread. But basically, you pay $10 for 5 boxes of cold medicine, and walk out with $20 in RR. I have not tried this deal and do not plan to. I just gave away dozens of boxes of this stuff to a friend. Apparently the FDA or CDC or AAP or someone now recommends not giving any cough/cold medicine to children under age 4. So rather than hold on to it, I gave it to a friend with older children.

Lastly, when I was in the Avondale Walgreen’s the other day, the cashier commented on how well I did that day. Then she said that the Happy Harry’s on Route 7, I assume she means Lantana Square, has better deals. Not sure what that means, but if you’re in the area, you may want to check it out.

Walgreen’s holiday clearance

Run, don’t walk…………to Walgreen’s clearance, if you have coupons!

Hershey’s Bliss–buy the holiday ones for 75% off, use the $2.50 off 2 bags mfr coupon, and the $1 off 2 bags IVC coupon in the monthly booklet. I got lots of overage! After the 75% off, it’s $2.14 for 2 bags, then you have $2.50+ $1.00 in coupons! woo hoo!

Other Hershey’s–$2.50 a bag, or $0.63 after 75% off. Use the $1.50 off 3 bags mfr coupon that was out.

Fructis–clearanced to $2.19; use the $2 coupon in the wags monthly booklet, plus the $1 mfr coupon if you have it. More overage!

I got: 10 bags of Bliss, 3 bags of Hershey’s candy, 3 things of Fructis, 1 Revlon Matte blush, 4 gift totes….and a partridge in a pear tree. For $1.08. Plus I’m getting $11 back in rebates for the blush.