I don’t see anything to get excited about this week.

CVS-I’ll do the Huggies deal. But it stinks. $5 back on a $20 purchase. I have $1.50 coupons to use, but still not great. They’re re-running the Pepsi deal if you need/want Pepsi. Gillette & Pantene is a good deal (back page) if you have the right coupons. Lots of talk on the boards about the Fusion razor but I’m not thrilled about it.

The CVS brand tissues are $0.50 a box, good deal and I like these tissues. Lots of decent make-up deals if you haven’t used up your make-up coupons yet.

Walgreen’s-Yuk, I see nothing. Nothing. Some bogo makeup deals like CVS if you still have Qs. Listerine an ok deal if you have coupons and are brand loyal to Listerine. (and are not overloaded with it from when CVS did it last month!)

There is a bogo Hershey’s candy coupon on back page of wags ad. May want to try it with the bogo Hershey’s coupon in today’s paper, possible free candy.

Acme-Eh. The Kraft/Coke deals are good if you like those products. We don’t eat Wheat Thins or Triscuits. Coupons in today’s paper. Didn’t have the frozen pizza when I went on Friday.

$1 coupons in today’s paper for Simply Orange juice, so $2. Not bad. Kellogg’s deal with free milk a good deal if you still have the $1 coupons that expire today and need cereal.

The Hatfield ham lunchmeat was on sale for $5.99/lb which I thought was good for around here.

Beware the Herr’s chips–they have the small bags on sale 3 for $5 and the big bags for 2 for $5. If you compare weights, bigger bags a much better deal.

I also found the 9-packs of Mott’s for Tots juices for $2.50. $1 off one coupons expire 1/31.

Beef tenderloin on sale buy you have to buy the whole thing.

I am really starting to dislike Acme’s sale schedule. Retailers and manufacturers are not original nor creative. Chances are, if a manufacturer chooses to do a promo week, it will be everywhere-the stores, the coupon inserts, etc.

But since Acme’s sales start on a Friday and coupons don’t come out until Saturday or Sunday, this just isn’t working for me. Especially if it’s something I want to stock up on. Then I have to wait until Monday to pick up my inserts, hurriedly clip them Monday night, then I only have Tue/Wed/Thurs to go do the deals if I want to. Add to this scenario the fact that I work FT and am very fat and pregnant (read:tired!), it’s just really getting on my nerves lately.

I prefer to do my grocery shopping on Friday or Saturday. I went last night and there are several Kraft and Hatfield deals–how much do you wanna bet that there will be coupons in this week’s paper to match?

I wish they would do their deals starting on Sunday, like Giant. Then I would have the following Fri & Sat to get what I need. I haven’t really had stock issues at grocery stores like I do at CVS or Walgreen’s, so I don’t mind waiting.

Early morning vent over.

On the back page of the new Acme ad, the one that starts today, there is a $5 Pepsi products coupon. It is a manufacturer’s coupon, not a store coupon. You should be able to use it anywhere. Both CVS and wags have good Pepsi deals going on right now, CVS has a new one starting Sunday.