Heineken and Energy Drink MIR

Stopped at CVS to check on the summer stuff and found a wonderful MIR (and NBPN in ME!).
Get up to $5 by mail with the purchase of $5.01 worth of any energy drink and one 12pack (or equivalent) or one draughtkeg of Heineken or Heineken light.
NBPN in AL, AR, CT, HI, IN, KY, MA, ME, MO, NC, NJ, NY, OK, UT, or WV
Runs from 5/1/2010 to 9/30/2010.

Guess its time to dig out those free after ecb energy drink RCs I tucked away for later…lol.

Lunchables FREE After Coupon AGAIN!

Lunchables are in the Shaws add for .99 each again next week. Which means free not only with the .75/1 tearpad coupon, but also with the $1/1 insert coupon from the other week. They are the more basic ones without a drink, etc but not a bag deal if you only have to buy a drink…

Lunchables Coupon at Gas Stations

There is a coveted Lunchables .75/1 tearpad at select gas stations. I found mine at a local Irving station.

Why is this important?

Well for one thing they are on sale for .99 at Shaws this week. Shelf price is over $2 so you might be able to double them for overage. At bare minimum you can get them free.

At a second glance they are a dollar at Target. So .25 each there. Not a bad deal, especially if you have kiddos that eat them daily.

So forgo paying at the pump or head inside to check out the cooler cases and see if you can dig up this gold mine.

Lysol No Touch Starter Kit for Under $1 2/14-2/20

Have you seen this hanging around endcaps at your favorite retailer? Wondering how to snag one for under the $10-15 you’ve seen it selling for? Were you lucky enough to get the $3 coupon in your 1/24/2010 RP but didn’t think that was enticing enough.

Worry no more. I’ve got the answer for you. Well Rite Aid does but I’m gonna give you my personal scenario to snag it for under $1 (or slightly over depending on your stores). Even if you can’t use the new Wellness program coupons you will be able to cut the price down 50-75%.

The kit is 12.99 at Rite Aid. This week there is a $5 in-ad coupon for it. We are going to pair this with the 20ct Motrin PM and 36ct Bayer Aspirin and a Vaseline Lotion to use a $5/20.

Lysol kit 12.99
Motrin PM 2.99
Bayer Aspirin 2.49
Vaseline Lotion 2.99
-$5/20
-$5 lysol in-ad
-$3 lysol insert
-$1 motrin insert
-$1 wellness pain
-$1 bayer tearpad
-$2 video value bayer
-$1 vaseline lotion insert
-$2 wellness skin care
total oop: .46 or .97 if they adjust the Bayer $1 down to .49
Plus you will get a $2 SCR on the Motrin and $1 on the Lysol kit.

Wellness is a new program so your store may not let you use these coupons (even if you signed up for a card). If so this would add another $3 back. So then we come to 3.46 or 3.97, which is still a tiny bit less than the 3.99 refill price I’ve seen around.

So get your coupons ready and stock up. At $1 a refill you can’t lose. Plus these things normally come with name brand batteries included.

Need vs. Want

In today’s still crumbling economy, it is a rat race to get to the good deals. Many people seem to think that they are entitled to buy thirty of something since there are thirty on the shelf, even if its the last thirty in the store. Still others think they can judge you for taking ten of those thirty items, since as a single adult you can’t possibly use ten, even if there are twenty left for the next shopper and more out back beside.

It seems everywhere I turn there are rude ignorant people out to make me feel bad for shopping and finding and using coupons. Which only goes about creating hard feelings and showing new couponers that they cannot trust anyone because you never know when someone might go from friendly to jealous and stab you in the back.

A popular forum listed in the glossary here has banned me for being “rude” without any prior warning. Which leads me to believe they just don’t like me. I’ve been a mod and an admin on enough large forums to know you don’t EVER deviate from your own rules unless someone tries to hack your forum. Which I clearly did not.And since no clear example of me being mean could be furnished it smelled of simple favoritism. Just because you run a forum/blog/website doesn’t mean you are above the law. It just means you have to continually ban people who see you for the greedy, self serving brats you are. Obviously you do this only for monetary gain and the better chance to get the coupons you want, since people are too blind to realize that people trade with mods/admins hoping to gain favoritism. Sickening.

Another forum has a member with a signature line about how it must be Smash&grabbing if you have more winetag than you can possibly use instead of leaving enough for others. When I contacted her to mention I make one to two dozen or more trips to almost a dozen different stores and thus have alot more coupons than some people, she still said obviously since I was hoarding winetags I was greedy. Now if I was hoarding peanut butter I was not. Contradictory or what? My mention that several members wouldn’t find me greedy as I sent them large envelopes of winetags, without asking a thing in return, was ignored since clearly it did not support her theory.

Something in the chase, the adrenaline rush, the missed deal seems to bring out the rabid fangs of jealousy. That most couponers are women and thus more emotional and hormonal doesn’t seem to help. We tend to get so caught up in trying to find the good deal we forget to not turn on each other without provocation. Instead we start calling each other greedy and slamming people for asking that they get what they are supposed to and tell them they should “fly under the radar” at all costs. Which is just another euphemism for bending over and taking it and praying you can fix it other ways. Which makes you feel victimized and weak, not empowered for taking your finances into your own hands.

My own feelings are that you have to look at yourself in the mirror and sleep with yourself at night. If you take every winetag and tearpad you see and sell them on Ebay, I can’t say I agree with you, but you aren’t going to stop because I tell you to. Calling you greedy isn’t going to make it different either, and a newbie is going to see right through to the jealous rage causing the issue.

I have always been blessed to find plenty of coupons and deals. I do go out of my way at times to do so, and thus work hard to get what I have. Yes winetags are hard to find in some areas of Maine, but I drive 30mins out of my way to search in York, another 30mins to search in Wells. If I find what I want I’ve earned it. If you don’t want to search in new places you probably won’t find them. Thats the trade off. I trade my winetags with others, and find more often than not the person whining about not finding any also wants every last winetag I have but not to trade their own winetags in return. Which tells me they are very much greedy and jealous and just mean spirited. Karma clearly isn’t going to reward such behavior.

So go forth, search and be frugal. But remember to use your own discretion so that you don’t have doubts as to whether you’ve been greedy and mean about it.