I’m out of Bisquick! After Acme just spent a week giving it away, I have none. I had the coupons, I knew the deal (P&G/GM 15/30 deal) but I didn’t get any because I was certain I had a bunch. I don’t. I have about one cup left.

I make that mistake sometimes–I either buy waaaayyyyy too much of something, thinking I need it. Or then I convince myself that I am currently overstocked in that item, and I run out.

Gerber Graduates is on my Av enu right now. I have coupons for this as well. My plan is to spend $10, use coupons and Avenu to get my total down to about $5, then use my $5 baby cat, and still get $2 back as part of the Gerber deal. If I can get past Firefox that is. Firefox doesn’t want me printing the Gerber coupons, we just switched over.

I also have tons of South Beach stuff on there too, if anyone is interested. And P&G stuff, but who needs Bounty now? Not me!

Off to work, happy shopping!

Here’s a deal I almost missed–

At Acme, Eggos are bogo. The ad states save up to 3.59, but I’m pretty sure they’re 3.99 at my Acme. I have lots of the $0.75 off one coupons, which of course will double to $1.50. Assuming that they let me use 2 coupons for each pair that I buy, and usually Acme will let you use 2 coupons on a bogo, I’ll pay anywhere from $0.59-$0.99 for 2 boxes of Eggos. That’s a stock up price for me!

I was looking at hotcouponworld and see that the real superdoubles (up to $2) are coming back, Jan 11-17. Unfortunately, only to select locations. If you go to the Kmart website, and put in your zip code, it will bring up the stores closest to you. Then you can view the weekly ad and see if your store is doing it. Pike Creek is not. The next closest one I could find that is doing it is Thorndale. Too far for me, and I’ve never been there so not even exactly sure where it is.

But if your store is doing it, keep an eye on the Kmart board on hcw, and maybe you’ll see a deal that makes it worthwhile.

If you are not eligible for the superdoubles, though after Acme not like any of us needs General Mills cereal, there is a deal. Buy 5 boxes for $10, get a $5 Kmart gift card. If you have enough coupons, you could probably get your total down to $5, get your cereal and your gift card. Then if you have enough coupons, go roll the gift card to pay for more cereal and get another gift card. Lather, rinse, repeat until you are out of coupons. When I was at the Lantana Square Acme, at the courtesy desk they have a 2-fold brochure of GM coupons–most are $1 or $1.10 value, so they’ll work well with this deal. I did not see this brochure at Avondale or check Pike Creek.

I am totally addicted to this Acme deal. I went to Lantana Square this morning-it’s not far from my house, no sales tax, and the cashiers don’t know me there. Good news, bad news.

First transaction:
8 boxes of Cheerios–had to get 8 instead of 7, shelf price was 3.99.
After coupons, then card-paid $4.50 oop, got $15 back

#2:
3 packs of pampers, again! (Hey with one in diapers and one on the way, I never miss a diaper deal)
$30-$1 Q, that’s all I had left
$29 minus $25 in $5 cats, paid $4 oop.
Got back $15 + $5 again.

#3:
Bounty, Downy, 2 Cascades
Paid $3 oop after $5 cats, got $15 back

#4:
Bounty & Tide again
Paid $4 oop, got $15 back.

So the good news is that at least for me, in this area, the catalinas are rolling and shelf prices are working on aforementioned items.

Bad news: Lantana Square Acme has a piece of paper over the slot where you put coupons in self-checkout. A cashier/supervisor has to look over and approve (via keying in) all your coupons, including the $5 cats. I got a semi-grumpy older guy who was none too pleased with me. Mind you, he approved everything and didn’t say a word. At one point he said “Make sure you scan your Acme card first” which of course I didn’t do. I scanned it last. By the 4th transaction, I think he figured out I was rolling them, and as I was finishing up, he was on the phone with someone–maybe I’m paranoid, but I think he was talking about me. After all, it was 8 am Sunday morning, not many customers in the store. So I decided to call it a day and head to CVS & Wags. I still have $20 in $5 cats and a $5 baby cat left, I may stop tomorrow on my way home from work. Perhaps by then the Avondale Acme will have replenished their diaper supply. And my husband said “No more paper towels!” Ok, so I do have quite a few stacked up, probably at least 50 rolls (in multi-packs). But they are in the basement, not in our way, and in our household with 2 messy dogs and a toddler, we got through LOTS of paper towels.