I wasn’t going to go, after what my friends Katy and Chris had said, I wasn’t going to try. Then I saw a deal around 3:00. One of tomorrow’s deals is working today. Fiber One cereal, Honey variety-buy 4 and it spits out a free gallon of milk catalina, value $4.50. The Fiber One also has a shelf price of 4.99, sale price of 2.00, works in the 15/30 deal, and I had several $1.10 off one coupons. My inner miser couldn’t resist–I love double-dip deals. Plus coupons, plus $$ back…..I just had to go.

I ended up doing 3 transactions. I wanted to get 8 boxes of Fiber One, 7 would cover my $30 and give me cats for milk and the $15, but the 8th one, at $0.90 cost, would hopefully generate another milk cat. No luck–Acme only had 5 boxes, so I got 4 and yet more Cheerios. Anyway, after three transactions, here are my totals.

4 boxes of Gogurt
4 of the DHA Yoplait Kids yogurt
3 packs of Pampers
4 boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios
4 boxes of the Fiber One Honey Cereal
1 gallon of skim milk
2 half gals of Tropicana Pure Premium
4 bags of mini mint Three Musketeers

Before coupons & catalinas:
$122.55

After sales, coupons, catalinas, my final cash oop:
$6.40

And I still have a $5 baby catalina and three more $5 catalinas from the promo.

The Three Musketeers are on clearance for $0.75 a bag. Use your $1 off 2 coupon from this past Sunday’s paper, and you pay $0.25 a bag. I’ve never tried them but I will take them to school and use them as small incentive prizes when we review for exams and tests.

The milk catalina, it scans at full value of $4.50. I got overage, as my gallon of milk was only $3.37.

The moms on HCW tell me that the Gogurt freezes just fine, let’s hope so because that’s where it is. And at the price of free, I had to try it. The other yogurts luckily have February exp dates, so we’re good for a while.

I’m sooooooo tempted to go back this evening and do some more, it’s so addicting. But I’m already in my jammies and am ready for bed. Good Night.

Tomorrow brings us a Quaker and Ocean Spray deal, so there will be plenty to do.

Today’s the last day of the Acme deal. I think I will stop in after work and hopefully do a few more transactions. I’m going to quote one of my hcw friends from yesterday:

Bad news, I just got back from Acme in Middlesex NJ. I did a double order, and when my total was only $37 on sale prices, the cashier tore up my second set of catalinas. I went all the way up to the store manager, who said that they “know” the machine is calculating on regular prices, and they think it should be on sale prices, so they are doing their own calculation and tearing up those that “misprint”. They have “called it in to Catalina”.

Ugh. First of all, Katy, if you’re reading this, my hubby thinks you should have called the police on them for stealing your coupons. Or contact an attorney.

But seriously, I could totally see the Avondale Acme trying to do this to me. But I’m going to give it a go anyway. Hopefully I’ll luck out with some decent cashiers.

Another problem, posted by my friend Chris:
I give up…. I went to Acme again this evening – bought 4 Dasani waters & some other stuff I needed…. went to pay with cats & was told that Dasani is Coke product but that P&G owns the Coca Cola company & couldnt use the cats on it.
I told them about the go-round with customer service yesterday, and that store mgr “Al” said it was fine. I will be calling CS and Al in the morning.
I have a headache – I will play by the rules, but just gimme the right rules!!!!!!!

This is not the first time she’s had this problem–her Acme is trying to tell her that Coke & GM products are P&G, which they are not.

So if you’re going to try this one more time today, good luck and buyer beware!