Catching Up....To Weis for One Last Catalina Roll last Saturday Night

Ok, it's official.
Last week I was officially on a 'Bender'.....a Spending Bender!

I did 8 rolls of the Catalina Deals at Weis.

I had IPQs for the Classico Pasta Sauce($1/2), the Hidden Valley($1/1) & the Ore-Ida Steam & Mash($1/1).
Since my local Weis doesn't accept IPQs(BOO HISSSSSSSS!), I was forced to shop at 2 other Weis Markets to use these Qs.

I did the Heinz Catalina Deal 4 times...
4 Ketchup
20 Pasta Sauces
2 Steam & Mash Taters
1 Onion Rings

The Kellogg's Catalina Deal twice....
5 Corn Pops Cereal
2 Keebler Cookies
5 Fruit Snacks

The Clorox Cat Deal twice also.....
4 bottle of Clorox 2
5 bottles of Clorox
2 Hidden Valley Dressing
1 Glad Garbage Bags

I goofed bigtime tho, confusing Kellogg's Fruit Snacks with Betty Crocker ones.  I was thinking the nationwide Catalina was on the Kellogg's(which were part of the Cat Deal)but it was on the BC ones(which were NOT part of the Cat Deal). I bought 5 boxes thinking I'd reap an additional $3.50 Cat Q along with the $7 Cat Q that was part of the Weis/Kellogg's Cat Deal. 
I knew those Fruit Snacks were a bad idea.....why the heck did I even buy them?lol

NOPE!
So those Fruit Snacks will be going back to Weis this week.

While in Weis this week doing the Cat Deals I also took advantage of the IQF Fish for $3.99lb.(3 bags worth at approx. 2.5 lbs. per bag), the $1 a 1lb. bag frozen stir-fry veggies(4 bags), JollyTime Popcorn for $1 a box after sale and my $1/1 home mailer Qs and 1/2lb. of liverwurst at the deli per DH's request(not on sale-the horrors!llol).

I also hit a nice chicken clearance.  Remember that 40% off  'natural fresh' chicken sale Weis held last week.  Well, my local store had a TON of it leftover Saturday evening so they marked it all down and then put $1 or $2 Instant Discount stickers on the packages....
And then they waited for me to come to the store!

I picked up 14.27 lbs. of chicken(mostly breast and a couple packages of thighs)for an avg. price of less than .74¢ a lb!
Oh, yah.....

So to the Cat items above add....
14.27 lb. chicken
8 lb. frozen fish fillets
4 lb. frozen veggies
.43 lb. liverwurst

Total for all....$93.05(before I return the fruit snacks)...$81.40 after the return.  and I have a $7 Cat left.
$34.43 for the Cat items + $46.97 for everything else.

To offset things a bit, I'll be able to send for the Clorox 2 MIR I blogged about HERE for full price of $4.49 x 2(once for me, once for BIL), so that's $8.98 more off my OOP for a grand total spent of $72.42.

Even to me this sounds high for an OOP, but if you laid it all out for a photo it would be a great deal for the price.

Sluggy

My Beloved Printer Buddy is Gone

See this printer?
This is DH printer that just went to printer heaven last week.
I LOOOOOOOVED this printer!

I discovered a cool as heck thing about this particular model of HP printer about 6 months ago.
Ya see, if I printed coupons from it, I could hit the OFF button on the printer right before the print job was finished.

By doing that, the printer told itself that it hadn't printed the coupon yet.....even though it had.
And when you turned the printer back on, it would print the coupon again.


And if you follow me here.....you could in theory keep turning the printer off & on ad infinitum and you could print as many coupons as you wanted until you couldn't stand it anymore!

Ok, so I only printed coupons on it this way to get a few extra since we only have 2 printers here(and mine doesn't always work...it's a P.O.S. Canon Pixma).....
and I don't have access to other computers from family or friends to print coupons.....
or from work like lots of other people do.

It was just my little special way to get a few more prints on a coupon.

But now my beloved HP All-in-One is swimming with the fishies.....**sigh**

DH brought home a new HP All in One printer.
Ok....you can hear the wheels turning in my head, right?  
Is it possible.....that this one will be "friendly" too??
 
I was crushed to find out that the new printer does NOT hold the magical power of the old model.
So I am back to being "Two Print Sluggy" again.
No more stockpiling that awesome deal with internet printed coupons.
I have to rely on the crappy local inserts.
And when I say crappy, I do mean crappy.  I have documented such on the blog,  HERE and HERE.

I'm guessing I'll be spending a lot more time on eBay or buying through a clipping service again.

**double sigh**

 R.I.P. my beloved coupon loving HP printer.....
I miss you already!


Sluggy

Rite-Aid SCR #24 Scenario for the J&J Spend $50/Get $25 Deal

Here's a nice low OOP way to do the J&J SCR #24(Get $25 WYB $50 worth of select J&J products)at Rite-Aid this week.

And it's an especially good scenario if you suffer from allergies and/or sinus issues. ;-)

I came into this week with purchases already toward this SCR, so I didn't do it quite this way but did buy some of the items in it for my low OOP.

Here it is....

2 Identical Transactions

Buy....
1 Visine for $4.99 ($4.49)
1 Sudafed for $6.49 ($5.84)
2 Benadryl for $5.49=$10.98($4.94=$9.88)
2 Band-Aids or 1st Aid Tape on sale $1.99=$3.98

SubTotal.....$26.44 ($24.19-you'll need to add another Band-Aid or something)

Coupons Used
1 $5/$20 AdPerks IPQ=$5
1 $3/1 Visine In-Ad Q=$3
1 $2/1 Visine ManuQ(1/3RP insert)**seems to have been a regional value**=$2
1 $2/1 Sudafed ManuQ(3/14RP insert)=$2
1 $2/1 Sudafed In-Ad Q=$2
2 $2/1 Benadryl In-Ad Q=$4
1 $4/2 Benadryl IPQ HERE=$4
2 $1/1 Band-Aids ManuQ(1/3RP insert)=$2
Coupon Total....$24.00

$26.44-$24.00=$2.44 OOP

Total OOP after 2 transactions is $4.88 and receive a $25 SCR making this a $20.12 Moneymaker.
**If you only received the $1/1 ManuQ for the Visine, your OOP will increase by $2, for a $6.88 OOP.

Of course if you can use the Wellness card AND have enough points to get a discount on regular priced items at Rite-Aid, you can do this scenario for even less OOP.   You will have to buy 1 additional box of Band-Aids or 1st Aid Tape.

Variation for Wellness Discount
Wellness Transaction #1

Buy....
1 Visine for $4.49
1 Sudafed for $5.84
2 Benadryl for $4.94=$9.88
2 Band-Aids or 1st Aid Tape on sale $1.99=$3.98

SubTotal.....$24.19


Coupons Used
1 $5/$25 or $5/$20 AdPerks IPQ=$5
1 $3/1 Visine In-Ad Q=$3
1 $2/1 Visine ManuQ=$2
1 $2/1 Sudafed ManuQ=$2
1 $2/1 Sudafed In-Ad Q=$2
2 $2/1 Benadryl In-Ad Q=$4
1 $4/2 Benadryl IPQ=$4
2 $1/1 Band-Aids ManuQ=$2
Coupon Total....$24.00


$24.19-$24.00=$.19 OOP


Wellness Transaction #2

Buy....
1 Visine for $4.49
1 Sudafed for $5.84
2 Benadryl for $4.94=$9.88
3 Band-Aids or 1st Aid Tape on sale $1.99=$5.97

SubTotal.....$26.18


Coupons Used
1 $5/$25 or $5/$20 AdPerks IPQ=$5
1 $3/1 Visine In-Ad Q=$3
1 $2/1 Visine ManuQ=$2
1 $2/1 Sudafed ManuQ=$2
1 $2/1 Sudafed In-Ad Q=$2
2 $2/1 Benadryl In-Ad Q=$4
1 $4/2 Benadryl IPQ=$4
3 $1/1 Band-Aids or 1st Aid Tape ManuQ=$3
Coupon Total....$25.00


$26.18-$25.00=$1.18 OOP

$.19+$1.18=$1.37 OOP
Qualified for SCR #24=$25 making this a $23.63 Moneymaker!

Sluggy

Weis Catalina Shoppers.....Get Your Money Back for Clorox 2

If you did the Clorox Catalina Deal at Weis Markets last week and bought a bottle of Clorox 2 as a part of your transaction, you can get the purchase price of that item back from the manufacturer.

Just go HERE.
Print the form and send in the supporting documentation(receipt, etc.).
Get back what you paid.

Nice!

Ok, so even if you didn't buy Clorox 2 last week at Weis, save the link to your computer and the next time you buy the product (from any store, not just Weis), you can send for the refund.

Sluggy 

My Personal Stockpiling Pittfalls....Only Because I Have Children

Stockpiling is a beautiful thing....once you get a system down.
My first year of extreme couponing was full of experimentation.
Figuring out WHAT to stockpile and HOW MUCH to stockpile was the most important and the most difficult mission.
I stockpiled primarily real food....still do.
You know....the stuff you use to make meals.
But I did also start stockpiling snack type foods and drinks but on a smaller scale.

Once I started getting a handle on the "how much to buy" aspect of stockpiling the savings started piling up.

Then my kids torpedoed my plan.

Oh, they loved that mom was now going to have tons of "bad-for-you" snacks at their disposal.
You know, the stuff that your kids always want you to buy.....Pop-Tarts, Crackers, Chips, Soda, Juice bags(that are mostly sugar), Cookies, Cake Mix and Frosting, Fruit Roll-Ups, etc.  The stuff that goes on sale and there always seem to be coupons available so you can buy it really really cheaply?

This was the kind of stuff I hardly ever use to keep in the house.
I'd buy it now and again, but only 1 or 2 boxes or bags at a time.
And it would get devoured before I would even finish putting away all the groceries from the shopping trip!lol

Well once I began stockpiling snack/junk foods for them, I noticed most of the items piling up.
Piling up not in a "good stockpiling and rotating your stock" way. 
Piling up meaning, that no one was eating the stuff anymore and it was sitting and inching closer to the dark side of the expiration/use by dates!

They complained and begged for years for me to buy snack/junk food for them and whatever food I start bringing it into the house in large quantities, they STOP eating it!
W.
T.
F?

#2 son loves Fruit Roll-Ups.  So I hit a killer sale w/Qs and load up on dozens of boxes for almost free.
Suddenly he stops eating them and I am now considering using them to wallpaper the downstairs powder room.

Daughter pleads for a certain brand of sugared cereal.  I head the plea and gather many many boxes to quench her hunger for it.  Like clockwork, the very day I bring in a dozen boxes, she announces that she no longer will eat this cereal. 
I begin to contemplate using this cereal as packing material for shipping my eBay goods.

The only exception to this trend was the 180 cans of Amp.

I was able to 'buy' that many over the course of 4 months due to some great Qs I found and KMart having those awesome Double Coupon Sales last spring/summer.  2 of the 3 teens begged for this stuff!  It's full of caffeine and sugar....how could they NOT want it!?

I sat them both down after I had acquired about half of the stash and told them, "Look, this is NOT something I am going to continue to buy for you once the sales/coupons run out.  Whatever I get will be IT!  So you had better not plow through them all.  If I were you, I'd make it last a good long while."

I guess they just didn't believe or hear me.....

I bought the last can in late August of '09.
The Amp stock was gone by that October.
3 months.
2 teens drank 180 cans.

I guess they each figured they had to drink them as fast as possible so that the other teen wouldn't get as many.
Have I mentioned these two don't like each other very much and do this sort of competitive/passive aggressive thing on a regular basis now that they are teenagers?

Wanna bet if only one of them wanted these Amps, most of those cans would still be sitting in my garage?!

I guess the lesson here is to KNOW the audience you are buying all your stockpiled goods for and tailor your spending to those needs.
And don't believe ANYTHING your kids tell you.

Sluggy