Acme! The 15/30 catalina

And the winner is……..Acme. That’s where I’m shopping this week.

The 15/30 deal is good–much better than I originally thought. First, on this thread on hotcouponworld you’ll see some discussion on what items have been tried.

I can confirm that I have purchased the Bounty and the Tide, and that both items work on shelf price, not sale price. Tide is shelf price 15.69 and Bounty is 14.99. So I only had to purchase 1 of each to hit my $30 threshhold. Here’s what I did–go to self-checkout, scan the two items first. Then scan any coupons you have. Scan your Acme card last. My final total came to less than $20 for those two items–and I got the $15 back.

Better yet–you can double dip on the baby deal. Buy three Pampers at $10 each to hit your $30. Use any coupons you have, and you’ll get $15 back as part of the Proctor & Gamble deal, and you’ll get another $5 back for the 5/25 baby deal.

And………even better yet……..I rolled them! I bought 3 more Pampers, used my $15 from Tide/Bounty, used the $5 from previous Pampers purchase…….and still got another $20 back.

I did 5 or 6 transactions, and after all was said & done, I ended up spending $3-$5 oop for over $30 worth of Proctor & Gamble products, whether it was Tide, Bounty or Pampers. $1 for a pack of diapers–I’ll take it! And, look for the Pampers that have a Cheerios ad on the front of the pack, there’s a $1.50 Cheerios coupon inside.

Use that coupon for……..Buy 7 boxes of Cheerios. Shelf price-$4.69, sale price $2. Seven boxes will get you to your $30 threshhold, scan boxes first, coupons second, card last. You will actually get paid to walk out the door with the Cheerios.

Thank you Acme–this makes it all worth putting up with your grouchy cashiers.

still slow……..

Still no deals to get excited over.

CVS-new ad starts tomorrow. If you have ECBs that you need to roll over and cannot wait until next week, there are a few ‘free after ECB’ items. But they stink, nothing I’d really want.

Sunday & Monday only
Nova Max glucometer/monitor $9.99
EARinse $9.99
Sleep MD $7.99
All of the above are free after ECBs and limit 1

All Week
Contour Monitor $14.99 get a $5.00 ECB (limit 1)

Colgate Total Advanced $2.99 get a $2.00 ECB (limit 2)

ACME
Another dud of a week. I’m going to keep my trip small. The only decent deal is the Kellogg’s cereal. $1.67 a box, must buy 3. If you have any of the $1 off one coupons left, only $0.67 a box. These coupons were in the inserts a few weeks ago and I believe they expire 12/31, so I guess I’ll use up whatever I have.

Walgreen’s
Today is the last day for this week’s spend $25 get $5 RR. I’ve done this deal twice. Buy the Arm & Hammer detergent that is advertised with an in-store coupon on the back of the ad. The detergent is $6.99, but then with coupon, only $1.99 and there is a $1 off one coupon available on the A&H website. The best part is that $6.99 will count towards your $25 total. Then when you hand them the coupon, the register takes $5 off for each one. The site will let you print 2 coupons.

Acme, Walgreen’s and more……….

One more day left for the spend $25 get $5 deal at wags. The $5 you get back will roll, if you want to do another transaction. And, most couponers are reporting that the $25 is before coupons. So get a total up to $25, bring it as far down as you can with coupons, and get $5 back. Then you can turn around and do it all over again, this time using your newly-earned $5 RR too.

Back page of Acme ad–good deals on cookie mix and frosting, Betty Crocker. Both are 6 for 6, must buy 6. There were 0.50 coupons out recently for the frosting, so doubled coupon=free! The BC cookie mix has 0.40 coupons which doubled=0.20. Or, go to bettycrocker.com, boxtopsforeducation.com, smartsource or coupons.com–all have printables for these items.

The Chex deal, buy 3 boxes for 7.50, get 4 free 2 liters of Coke–not a bad deal. There are Chex coupons out there, printables too.

Herr’s is 3 for $6, must buy 3. Look for $0.35 peelies on some items. Peelies unfortunately do not double.

And don’t forget-tomorrow is last day for superdoubles at Kmart.

Progresso Soup-$0.50 a can!

Progresso Soups are on sale at Acme for 10 for $10. Use this link and print your $1 and $2 coupons. Buy 10 cans, use two of the $2 coupons, and 1 of the $1 coupons, pay only $5 for 10 cans. Or just get 12 cans, use all 4 of your coupons (lets you print 2 of each) and pay $6, still only $0.50 a can. I like to take this for lunches sometimes, or we add some free refrigerator rolls for a quick weeknight dinner.