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Cheap, cheap Enfamil Next Step at Acme

January 15, 2009 by · Leave a Comment

If you’ve recently purchased any baby items at Acme recently, chances are you got a catalina for bogo Enfamil. It’s showing up on my Avenu for $9 off, sooooo…

21.99 Enfamil Next Step
21.99 Enfamil Next Step
43.98
-9.00 Avenu
-9.00 Avenu
-13.85 (max value of catalina)
$12.13
Use any $5 baby catalinas if you have them, get another $5 baby catalina back.

This is not a fraudulent use of the catalina if you read the wording on it, as well as the “Lipil” wording on the Next Step. Unfortunately my Avenu says it’s a limit of 4 cans per household, and I must have 8 or 9 of the catalinas.

And lest you think I’m totally insane and wondering what I am going to do with toddler formula. I checked the cans, good til May of 2010. So it’s going in the stockpile for the new baby.

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Huggies at Rite Aid

January 15, 2009 by · Leave a Comment

Found this deal on Huggies. It’s posted on several blogs and boards, so I don’t take credit for thinking of it.

(2) Huggies diapers $9.99 each
(2) Huggies wipes $3.69 each
Use $5/25, available thru email if you sign up on their website
Use two $1.50 Huggies diaper coupons from 1/11 inserts
Use two $0.50/1 Huggies wipes coupons from 1/11 insert
Pay $18.36 + tax out of pocket

Submit your receipt for the following Single Check Rebates; it’s Rite Aid’s rebate program, look at the website or pick up booklet in store.
Rebate #29 $2 back on 1 Huggies Jumbo, Goodnights or Pull Ups
Rebate #30 $2 back on 2 Huggies Wipes
Rebate#48 $10 back for purchasing $25 in Kimberly Clark Items

After rebates and coupons you spend $4.36 for the two packs of diapers and wipes. You can also work this with the Huggies bath products & the 1/1 coupons from this week’s inserts if you don’t want wipes.

Don’t forget you can also submit your receipts to Caregiver’s Marketplace. I’ve mentioned CGM before, it’s a decent rebate program if you use the products they offer rebates on. You’ll get $1 back for each pack of Huggies. Program is free and easy.

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Picking a cashier

January 15, 2009 by · 3 Comments

Here’s my $0.02 on picking a cashier. If it’s a grocery store you go to all the time and know the faces, know who is going to hassle you, you just do the best you can. But if I can, I always choose the teenage boy/young adult guy cashiers. For 2 reasons. One is that they don’t give a flip what coupons you hand them, they just start scanning away. They don’t scrutinize each one, read all the fine print, go through your bags before scanning it or roll their eyes at you when you hand them a stack of coupons. The other is that young guys are very computer and tech savvy nowadays. If a coupon beeps at them or stops, they usually have the technical skills to push it in without calling a manager over. Mind you, I don’t do anything illegal.

But we’ve all been there. They scan a coupon, it beeps. Cashier looks at you & says “Did you buy this?” or “Did you get two of these?” and then you have to go through all your parcels and show them that yes, you did in fact purchase those items. Then they check the weight/size/ounces/variety/flavor to make sure that you have exactly the item specified on the coupon. Then they scan again and it beeps again. They scrutinize the expiration date. They tell you that you can’t use it because the item is on sale or some other new rule they pull out of their arse. You win the argument and convince them that yes you can use that coupon. They try to key in a few things and nothing. So now they have to call over a manager/supervisor, all the while my 2-year-old has taken everything within his reach and tossed it on the floor, now he’s face down on the cart bar with his mouth on the handle. I find that while most middle-aged women are very pleasant (I love the ones at my wags!) they are the least computer-savvy. They hear a beep and you think their heads might actually explode.

But seriously, you have a 17-year-old kid just trying to earn some gas money by cashiering–he hears a beep and inside of 3 seconds he has the coupon entered in.

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Lots of OYNO deals coming next week

January 13, 2009 by · 3 Comments

My ads came early (yay!) so here’s what I see at first glance:

Giant and Superfresh both doing OYNO deals. Giant’s is Unilever stuff (Ragu, Lipton, Skippy) and Superfresh’s is General Mills. I’m not doing any of those but just putting it out there for you non-Acme shoppers. There are always GM and Unilever coupons out there for you to match up. Superfresh starts Friday, Giant Sunday.

Pepsi/Gatorade: Both CVS and Wags are doing a deal. Spend $20, get $10 back in either ECBs or RRs. The Walgreen’s deal has better prices on the Gatorade, CVS has better prices on the Pepsi. I’m still going to CVS for Gatorade as I have a ton of ECBs to burn and at Wags I’d have to spend actual money. Doritos is also owned by Pepsi and included in both deals. Unless you happen to come across a tearpad at a store, coupons for these items are usually hard to find. Starts Sunday.

Makeup at CVS: Cover Girl and Maybelline both have decent ECB deals that should be almost break even/free deals if you have coupons. I never get Cover Girl coupons in my inserts, but some people do. Some Maybelline is also bogo and CVS usually lets you use 2 coupons on a bogo deal. And don’t forget to see what is on clearance and match it up with your coupons for great deals.

CVS also has a 24 hour allergy relief free after ECB. Roll those bucks if you need to.

Clairol Natural Instincts is $3.99 after ECBs and I think there are $2 coupons out for this. This is the kind I use and I haven’t seen it for much cheaper than this.

Walgreen’s also has a Spend 20, get 10 deal on dayquil, nyquil, vicks. Coupons coming out this weekend. Not free, but cheap if you need it. Ricola cough drops are $1.29 and I have $1 coupons for this–they look like insert coupons. Also running a Unilever deal on the Unilever HBA items-Dove, Caress, Sunsilk. Starts Sunday.

Other items I’ll be looking at at Acme when I do my weekly trip, ad starts on Friday:
Chicken breasts for $1 per lb.
The baby deal I mentioned in a previous blog post.
The Ragu & Skippy bogo deals on back page of ad. There MUST be Unilever coupons coming out this Sunday, with practically every store doing a Unilever deal. So if you don’t currently have any and can wait to grocery shop, I would. Remember Acme will take 2 coupons on a bogo, and double them too, and the Skippy and the Ragu are bogo.
Acme also running a $5/20 General Mills deal. I do not need anything, except maybe Bisquick and Progresso soups. Might be interesting if shelf prices work.
Fresh Express bagged salads are bogo but I think those mfr coupons expired.
Arnold bread on sale for 1.99 and there are $0.55 coupons out. $0.80 is cheap bread and they don’t put any HFCS in theirs, which I like.

I’ll hit Acme for my weekly trip and CVS for the Gatorade, browse the makeup, but that’s about it.

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