THE FEBRUARY 2011 GROCERY CHALLENGE THREAD

[dancinmama]

ha ha ha, misspt - we must have been posting at the same time. This ought to make ya happy!!

Well, I printed my Hill's Science Diet Qs and off to Pet Smart I went. I had (4) $8/1s and (6) $3/1 for a grand total of $50 in Qs. I bought (10) bags and paid $4.63 in sales tax. I got (6) bags for The Rocket Man and (4) bags for Buddy the Beagle. I have a rain check for (10) bags of the Lite food which I will buy for Buddy even though he's in pretty good shape. I don't think a little light food mixed in with the regular will hurt.

I was going to burn some UPs on Purina Dog and Puppy Chow, but now I won't need to do that. I'm going to have to find a back up plan IF I have leftover UPs.

This deal was brought to me by misspt, constanz, and saveinla. Thanks you my houndfriends.

[misspt]

Yay! Dancin! Doncha love tax-only premium dog food???!!!!!!!!

[dancinmama]

Feb 20, 2011 19:31:56 GMT -5 misspt said:

Yay! Dancin! Doncha love tax-only premium dog food???!!!!!!!!

Gosh, what an awesome deal!! To tell you the truth, I have kind of been in a hounding funk , but this one brought me out of it. ;D

[misspt]

Dancin posted:
"To tell you the truth, I have kind of been in a hounding funk , but this one brought me out of it."



Me, too! I think this is exactly why I have just been so excited this weekend, b/c the deals have been very repetitive, not useful stuff, or not as good as I am used to. This deal, however, is "da bomb".

[jdnstl]

CVS Warning - the single cadbury eggs didn't ring up at $0.75 or gave the ECB this morning. the cashier said it was only the bags of mini eggs as part of the deal. i pointed out the fine print that did include the the single eggs. instead of trying to give me $ back & make the EB print she force printed an EB for $1. check your receipts if you buy this one to make sure it rings the right price & you get your EB.

GDA - the green bottle of Veet was clearanced at my CVS today. there is a $3/1 IP listed in iheartcvs's coupon database.

my transaction looked like this:
veet - 5.49 (50% off, $10.99 reg. price)
eos lip - 2.99
used $3/1 IP
used a $5 EB that expires next week. OOP $0.48+0.04 tax = 0.52, got back $2.99 EB for eos & $1 EB for bag tag. including the loss on the EB exchange true cost to me $1.53. since the eos was free after EB i'm gonna consider this the cost of the veet only. so i saved 86% off the retail price. BTW, this is one item i will use so i LOVE that i saved so much & don't mind that it wasn't absolutely free.

[jdnstl]

Miss pt - if you send me a pm with those q's you are looking for (dog food ones) i'll send you what i have. i know i won't use them since i don't have any dogs. ;D

[dancinmama]

ATTENTION RITE AID SHOPPERS (ever feel like you're at K-Mart?)

If you go to iheartriteaid and clink on the post for the 3/6 ad preview, Erica has a link to a $3/1 ANY Keri Lotion which will come in handy for the Keri SCR that week. If you wait to print it, it may run out of prints.

[dancinmama]

Feb 20, 2011 19:41:09 GMT -5 misspt said:

Dancin posted:
"To tell you the truth, I have kind of been in a hounding funk , but this one brought me out of it."



Me, too! I think this is exactly why I have just been so excited this weekend, b/c the deals have been very repetitive, not useful stuff, or not as good as I am used to. This deal, however, is "da bomb".

I know what you mean. Free toothpaste - ho hum.

[misspt]

We are so jaded!!!! But I do want to qualify your comment with:

Free COLGATE toothpaste - ho hum.

lol

[car-chick]

CVS Warning - the single cadbury eggs didn't ring up at $0.75 or gave the ECB this morning. the cashier said it was only the bags of mini eggs as part of the deal. i pointed out the fine print that did include the the single eggs. instead of trying to give me $ back & make the EB print she force printed an EB for $1. check your receipts if you buy this one to make sure it rings the right price & you get your EB.

I had a similar problem, but I bought the mini eggs. I think they have a programming error on this!!! I was a little suprised by the asst managers reaction. He looked at me and said - did you tell the cashier? I said no - I looked at the receipt after I was done with the transaction as I had about 6 EB's and didn't realize the problem. Weird - I thought he would have just taken care of it.

[mommy2twoal]

I may have missed this, but who has the best price on the Gain fabric softner? I would really like free to less than a $1 each. TIA.

[mommy2twoal]

Feb 20, 2011 20:17:56 GMT -5 misspt said:

We are so jaded!!!! But I do want to qualify your comment with:

Free COLGATE toothpaste - ho hum.



I hate to say this but I was down to my last free tube of free TP so I was ready to free. I was even considering having to buy some, hopefully cheap but when you are used to free it is hard to part with real money.

[constanz22]

Feb 20, 2011 20:27:51 GMT -5 @mommy2twoal said:

I may have missed this, but who has the best price on the Gain fabric softner? I would really like free to less than a $1 each. TIA.

Rite Aid has a really small bottle that is 2.99 regular price. Dollar General has it for 3.24-3.74 for a good size bottle.

[misspt]

mommy2twoal: if you have family dollar they have sheets and bottles (tiny ones like 21 or 24 loads) for 2.65 each (this was in Pensacola, aslo known as lower AL), but I don't know how they handle coupon overage there, I imagine if you have more product value than coupon value you would come out ok. RA had the tiny bottles on sale for 2.99, I don't know if they are that price this week, Walmart had some for right at the coupon value, and I think somebody reported 40 ct sheets at the 99 cent store for less than coupon value. HTH

[misspt]

I went with DG and the commissary for the lesser price per load.

[misspt]

TOTALLY TARGET reports that those of you who have the $5 GC WYB these frozen items deal in your ad, can get the $5 GC with ANY frozen item including single serve burritos, vegetable cups, etc..... This = free food. I am so jealous we got the freezer bag WYB deal. :-(

[dancinmama]

Feb 20, 2011 20:36:05 GMT -5 misspt said:

I went with DG and the commissary for the lesser price per load.

I don't have a DG so the best deal for me so far is Rite Aid's small bottle, but I still haven't bought any yet. If I can't find a better deal by mid March, I'll start working them into my Rite Aid scenarios.

[momof2]

HOUND ALERT!!!

If anyone has the $6/2 Motrin coupon from 1/9SS they aren't using would you mind passing it my way? I can trade for something if you need! TIA.... PM me if you need my address.

THANKS!!

[frugalsuz]

Feb 20, 2011 7:24:32 GMT -5 momof2 said:

FRUGALSUZ - Sorry I can't figure out how to make it bold (hitting ctrl B brings up my favorites window for some reason), but I wanted to thank you a gagillion times over for the Infant care book and the deal with the WAGs diapers. I was able to get 9 or 10each of diapers and wipes for $16. I really appreciate all you do!!

momof2 - Awesome! ;D I'm glad they got to you in time, I was getting a little worried!

[frugalsuz]

Feb 19, 2011 23:27:53 GMT -5 misspt said:

For those of you who receive MadCoupons check your emails, no inserts this week..... :-(

misspt - do you have the monthly subscription from them? I'm only asking b/c I didn't get any emails from Mad Coupons saying they'd be out. I checked the email they sent at the start of the month and they said there would be three week's worth of inserts (not including 2/13) and I was billed for three week's worth.

[frugalsuz]

Some freebies at Staples - good today (2/20) and tomorrow (2/21) only. This is great timing for me, I have a bunch of Staples Rewards certificates to use up:

Sun/Mon Only: Avery 8160 Inkjet Mailing Labels (750 pk) $11.99, $2 instant savings (sale price), use $3 coupon (http://www.avery.com/avery/en_us/Avery-Special-Offers-Page.htm) and get back $9.99 Easy Rebate (Limit 2) = $3 profit
Sun/Mon Only: Staples 96 Bright Multipurpose Paper (500 sheets/ream) $5.99, get back $5.99 Easy Rebate (Limit 2) = FREE
Sun/Mon Only: Staples Stickies 1 1/2" x 2" Notes (Yellow, 12 pk) $5.29, $1.29 instant savings (sale price) and get back $4 Easy Rebate (Limit 1) = FREE
Sun/Mon Only: Staples Photo Plus 4" x 6" Paper (Gloss, 60 pk) $9.99, get back $9.99 Easy Rebate (Limit 2) = FREE
Sun/Mon Only: Pentel RSVP Ballpoint Pens (Fine, Black, 5 pk) $3.79, get back $3.79 Easy Rebate (Limit 1) = FREE

[misspt]

Frugalsuz: I got an emergency email Friday night, gimme a sec and I will post it. Yes, I have a monthly subscription.

[misspt]

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Urgent Message Regarding 2-20-11 Monthly Coupon Sevice‏

2/19/11





Sarah Carbary
From: Sarah Carbary

There was a large mix up at our supplier this weekend. Our regular contact was on vacation and her replacement must have made a mistake and gave our supply to someone else, We ARE NOT able to supply you with the 2-20-11 coupon inserts. We will be issuing a credit of $10.50 for you towards the March 2011 Coupon Service. Refunds are also available upon request. If you have further questions please feel free to contact us. We're truly sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you and your family.

Mad Coupons thanks you for your business,
Sarah Carbary

[misspt]

I have to say that she really screwed up after last week's inserts were just offered to first come first serve, instead of regular subscribers then this week she doesn't have anything? That's no gain coupons, no purex coupons, no kibble coupons, I'm just a little underwhelmed with her service this year, especially after the beginning of this year I have waited over a week for coupons from her three times. Once *I think* was the mailman's fault, but the other two were her.

[p8nt]

Feb 20, 2011 7:15:02 GMT -5 @mawmawandlovingit said:

Feb 20, 2011 2:43:08 GMT -5 p8nt said:

I have a question about Crest 3D Whitestrips

I think there was a $10 off Q in one of the inserts last week, this week there is a $10 off Q in the Wags add - are these both manufacturer coupons or can I use them together to get $20 off?

You can use both of these coupons....one is a Manufacturer coupon and one is a Wags coupon. Walgreen's policy is to take one of each on a product.

Thank you Mamaw

[dancinmama]

Well, I am underwhelmed by my coupon inserts today too. Several of the Qs listed in the preview are missing including the Purex. They were in the major metro paper, but I am REALLY LUCKY if I get any of those.

Oh well. I'm so happy with the Hill's dog food deal that I don't really care!!

[4hatsandfrugal]

Thanks to all hounds that posted about the Hill Science diet coupons!

I read about them on here from my phone while at the parents's house. Immediately went upstairs to print them off from their computer and ran up the street to Pet Smart. My grandfather has 3 dogs, and my mom was going to see him tomorrow so I figured I could run and do a quick deal for him. I only printed 2 of each coupon, but I think that's more than enough of cheap, but good, doggie chow lol!

Now I'm REALLY glad to be back

[dancinmama]

Feb 20, 2011 21:37:12 GMT -5 misspt said:

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Urgent Message Regarding 2-20-11 Monthly Coupon Sevice‏

2/19/11





Sarah Carbary
From: Sarah Carbary

There was a large mix up at our supplier this weekend. Our regular contact was on vacation and her replacement must have made a mistake and gave our supply to someone else, We ARE NOT able to supply you with the 2-20-11 coupon inserts. We will be issuing a credit of $10.50 for you towards the March 2011 Coupon Service. Refunds are also available upon request. If you have further questions please feel free to contact us. We're truly sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you and your family.

Mad Coupons thanks you for your business,
Sarah Carbary

So do you get the impression that she gets them from a newspaper carrier who has access to a ton of unsold papers? I wonder how many she sends out each week.

I called the major metro paper to see if I could somehow get extra inserts from any unsold papers and they said that it was illegal for them to give them to anyone. I'm not sure that I believe that, but sometimes it bums me out to know that there are tens of thousands of lonely coupons that never even get in the hands of anyone each and every week.

[misspt]

Dancin: the weird thing is, is that she sends the coupons out (usually) on the Saturday before the Sunday paper?? Which means she must have them Friday or sooner.

[debinwa]

Feb 20, 2011 14:06:27 GMT -5 dancinmama said:

Feb 20, 2011 13:35:33 GMT -5 misspt said:

Now, a WAGs question for you ladies: is there another itme w/ RR this week that I can purchase and use to roll back and forth w/ the fusion RR?? TIA!!

misspt: The Refresh Tampons are $5.99 and giving a $5RR. Here is a link for a $1/1 MC; you have to register.

www.brilliantcoupon.com/

HTH!!

I have a .pdf of the $1 Brilliant Rephresh coupon, if anybody wants it. Expires June of this year.