I had a pretty good 2 days at the CVS sale. I increased my ECBs and got lots of stuff too. Yesterday I stopped in at the Landenberg location on my way home from work, to pick up a few more moneymaker items. They were out of most everything at that point, so I asked for rainchecks. I was told they will no longer be issuing rainchecks for 2-day sale items. That’s a bummer.
no inserts today; P&G rebate offer
December 21, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
There are no coupons in today’s paper. This is very common on holiday weekends. There may or may not be inserts next Sunday. Some of the coupon boards are saying “no” there won’t be, but I think there will be another P&G insert.
Speaking of Proctor & Gamble, last week they included a rebate offer in their coupon booklet. Spend $5o on any P&G items, send your receipts in with rebate form, get a $120 value coupon booklet. Eh. I’m not so excited about it. I’ve seen special discussion threads dedicated to this on HCW and other coupon boards.
If there are freebie deals out there, throughout the month of January, that I can hit my $50 threshhold, great. I’ll do it and send it in. But I’m not going to go out of my way (or out of my pocket) to spend $50 on Proctor & Gamble items when for the most part, those are very expensive items and I don’t really need anything. But maybe CVS or Walgreen’s will do a Pampers deal in January which will allow me to get to $50 pretty easily.
Kellogg’s deal-warning
December 20, 2008 by · 2 Comments
The other day I posted about the Kellogg’s deal at Acme. $1.50 a box, must buy 6 boxes. The ad states “greater or lesser quantities $2.50 each.” I was excited because this time the deal includes Crispix and Frosted Mini Wheats, which are two of Dan’s favorite cereals. I picked up my coupon inserts on Monday and had 36 Kellogg’s $1 off one coupons–so I was thrilled!
In order to try to make sure I got the price of $0.50 a box, I rang up my 6 boxes separately. Yesterday I did two transactions back to back, at self checkout, and both times paid $3 for 6 boxes of cereal. Great!
This morning my plan was to do that again, then do my regular weekly trip. It was 6 am, so self checkout was closed. Boo. I ended up getting Sue, my least favorite cashier. I don’t even mind mentioning her by name, because she treats me with a great deal of contempt. You’d think my coupons are deducted from her paycheck.
Anyway, after she putzed around with newspapers for 10 minutes and pretended not to see me waiting to check out, she checked me out. First 6 went through just fine, $3 after coupons. Second set of 6–$9 after coupons! Yikes, I didn’t get the deal this time. I asked about it and Sue said that “you’re only allowed to get 6 at that price.” I didn’t bother telling her that I had in fact purchased another 12 boxes at that price just the day before.
Anyway, at the end of it all, I got 12 boxes of Crispix and 12 boxes of FMW for $18, or $0.75 a box. Not bad, but not $0.50 a box either–actually one-third higher than what I had planned on paying. I have to pass the Avondale Acme twice a day anyway, I may try again on my way home from work on Monday, just to see what happens, and void the transaction if I don’t get the cheaper price. I have 12 coupons left!
So just a warning–either use self-checkout, or be prepared that the limit on this deal is 3.
new CVS ad-good news, bad news
December 18, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
When it rains good deals, it pours. After a few slow weeks, this one looks good. First, the good news. Get your ad and check out pages 3 and 17 for tons of “free after ECB” items. Great stuff and high limits, like 5! And if you check your coupon holders, I’m sure you have lots of corresponding coupons like I do–for Listerine, Arm & Hammer, L’oreal and more.
Now the bad news. They are all only Sunday/Monday deals which doesn’t give us much time and frankly stresses me out a bit. I want to roll all of the ECBs I got on Black Friday weekend, and this is the perfect opportunity to do it. Except that I have 1000 other things to do because it’s the last weekend before Christmas. And the weather people are calling for some type of ice/sleet/snow messy mix on Sunday.
I hope to cash in on these deals and walk away with lots of free stuff and hopefully enough moneymakers that I will actually increase my ECBs. It’s just finding the time to do it. I don’t even have my tree up yet! Or have any presents wrapped, or have my cards sent…….
