I love getting the Sunday paper. In the winter time I curl up on the couch with my coffee, in the summer I go out on my patio in the morning with my coffee. I love Pennsylvania summers.
This morning I had time to look over most of the ads, overall a dull week. Lots of good deals to be had, but I certainly didn’t see anything that was “must do” in terms of a great freebie or moneymaker.
If I had to buy household essentials this week, I’d go to Kmart. They are offering several catalina deals, including a get $10 when you buy $35 Procter & Gamble. I would try stacking that, if you need the stuff, with the Hanes/Tide/Downy deal inside the flyer. Purchase what you need for that deal, and add to your P&G stack to get to $35, hopefully you’d get the $10 and the $5 back. I haven’t seen any reports yet of it working that way.
Hubby is brand loyal to Right Guard. So I’m going to do the Buy $20 get $5 for that, will only cost me $10 after coupons, get $5 back. Then I plan to get $35 worth of Natural Instincts, which I am brand loyal to. Use my $5 catalina from Right Guard, coupons–hopefully pay about $10, get $10 and $5 back. If that works, will turn around and do a diapers/wipes deal with Pampers stuff. They also have a good GM cereal deal. Purchase 4 boxes for $10, get another $4 off, or $6. $1.50 a box–and if you have coupons for it, even better. Lots of GM coupons in last week’s paper. Lots of P&G coupons in this week’s paper. Put together transactions of what you need, and after coupons and the $10 catalina, should be able to do well. Cashiers often get annoyed with me because I may do 2 or 3 back to back transactions when I get in line, but oh well. If it means I can roll my catalinas and get free or cheap stuff, too bad!
For groceries, I’d go to Superfresh. As I posted last week, they have several catalina deals going. Remember, at Superfresh (but not Kmart) you only need to get to your spending threshhold using shelf prices, not sale prices.
School/office supply deals galore this week–whatever you need, you should be able to find a good price on it at any of the big stores.
CVS and Walgreen’s leave me flat this week, which makes me regret even more not getting into CVS last week for diapers and photo books.
If you go to Acme, I have read online of shoppers being able to purchase an Acme gift card with the P&G catalina. Remember, works on shelf prices.
