Freebies At Harris Teeter

Harris Teeter Super Doubles started on Wednesday, April 27th and continues until May 3rd. Here are a few of the freebies I got this week.

==Sleeping Beauty==

Super Deals At Harris Teeter

Super doubles started Wednesday at Harris Teeter. Here are some of the deals:

These come up to being 12¢ each if you ring them up individually with 2¢ tax...so 14¢ each!

The Neosporin was on clearance for $3. I paid $2.42 ($1.99 plus 43¢ tax).

I paid $1.69 ($1.43 plus 26¢ tax) and got a $1 OYNO catalina from Jello...so it's like 43¢ for everything!

==Sleeping Beauty==

Super Doubles At Harris Teeter Starting 3/23

Get your coupons ready...Super Doubles starts Wednesday, March 23rd. I wonder if Sleeping Beauty is going to shop at my favorite store that's not her favorite store anymore??? I think we may have to find a new favorite HT.


**Pinch**

Coupons To The Military

We mailed expired coupons to our adopted military base in Schweinfurt, Germany. Our coupons totaled $7,133.76!

If you are interested in joining us in sending your expired coupons to the Army base in Germany, email us at qponswithclass@aol.com and we will give you more information. Our next mailing will be in May.

**Pinch**
==Sleeping Beauty==

Hitting The Target

Before I tell you about the Target freebies I scored last week, I want to tell you a story.

Earlier in the week, I was a little ticked off at Mr. Pinch. This one particular day, he couldn't turn off any light after he left the room, he placed an empty milk carton beside the trash can, and in general every little thing he did really annoyed me. When I went to the bathroom to take care of some biz-ness, I noticed the toilet seat was up. Yeah, Mr. Pinch couldn't even put the toilet seat down! I ever-so-gently placed the toilet lid down. (Actually, I slammed the tiolet lid down as I said a few choice words!) Anyway, the front part of the toilet seat split apart. Now I am even madder...look at what he made me do. After I finished my biz-ness, I went into the living room and announced that the toilet seat was broken and he needed to fix it. He asked me how it happened and I told him the truth...that I didn't know.

The next morning, I reminded him again that he needed to fix the toilet seat. I was gone when he returned from work. As I entered the door...actually I ran into the house because I needed to take care of some biz-ness...he announced that he had stopped at the store and he had fixed the toilet seat. Great, I said, as I ran passed him to the bathroom. As I am running to the bathroom, I am thinking to myself what a nice husband I have. He stopped at Lowe's Hardware or Home Depot and bought a new toilet seat. I hope he used a coupon, but even if he didn't, I am really proud of him...what a good man! Then I opened the bathroom door. Now I can't decide if I want to just pee in the floor or do bodily damage to that "good" man. Yeah, he stopped at the store. Yeah, he fixed the toilet seat...with...get this...duct tape. He has duct taped the toilet seat together!! Suddenly, Jeff Foxworthy and his "You Might Be A Red Neck" jokes flash through my brain.

Can you believe it?? Mr. Pinch used gray duct tape to fix the toilet seat. This is sooooo wrong on sooooo many levels. Nothing is gray in the bathroom except the hair on my head. He couldn't even manage to use a color that would match the bathroom decor. And a certain young Male Pinch in the house somehow manages to wet a toilet seat...that duct tape is going to be gross in just a matter of days. And who does Mr. Pinch think is going to clean THAT up??

Here's a thought, Mr. Pinch...if you are going to stop at Lowe's Hardware or Home Depot, why don't you just buy a toilet seat instead of duct tape?  Man, oh man, this MAN makes my head hurt!

Now, getting back to my Target shopping. This is what I bought.

I used two $5 Target gift cards and paid only 75¢ OOP. After I took this picture, I put the new toilet seat in the bathroom. Any guesses as to how long it will be before it replaces the Red Neck toilet seat?

I then bought these things.

With Target Qs and manufacturer Qs, these were all free. I only had to pay tax of 29¢. (This would have been less if I had remembered to bring my own bags.) I think I will open the package of Extra Strength Excedrin and take a few!!

**Pinch**

Stocking Up At Rite Aid

Paid $4.85
Got $2 in +UP
Equals $2.85 OOP for everything pictured

Air wick: B1G1 store sale plus B1G1 Q = FREE
Therma Care: $3.99 (my cost $3.59 after discount) minus in-ad Q $3.99 = FREE
Reese's mini pouch: $1.59, store sale B1G1, plus B1G1 Q = FREE

I used VV Qs on Cottonelle and Viva, and I used VV Qs to pay.

==Sleeping Beauty==

BS From HT

Yes, it seems that Harris Teeter is cracking down on their coupon policy. I experienced it for myself on Monday. They have always had a per customer/per day policy on doubling 20 coupons, but they have always allowed me to use my daughter's or father's or SIL's phone number in a separate transaction. Don't go haywire on me. I am not one of those that clear the shelves of anything. Unless you want to count that I got the last three boxes of Betty Crocker potatoes as clearing the shelf. Hey, someone has to do it.

On the first day of Super Doubles, I did the GM deal one time and the Pillsbury deal one time on my card at the self-checkout. I then put those things in the car and went back in the store for just a few items. I have found it is just easier for me to do it that way sometimes. I must have attracted attention to myself. No, I had not reached my limit of 20 coupons on my VIC card. At this point who really cares what I am going to purchase or for whom? I have the answer to that question! There is a certain someone at a particular HT that wants to make it her business what I am doing. I got in line at a register to check out. My first transaction was for three items...one Simply OJ and two of the new Philadelphia cream cheeses. I didn't clear the shelf on those either. As a matter of fact, I could have purchased two more and they would have been free just like the first two, but alas I didn't. Here comes MS. KNOW IT ALL over to the register and is asking loudly how many times I have checked out at this register. Well, at that point it was once for the above mentioned three items. I had two more transactions to do. The cashier even told her that I shop for other people. There was no mention of not being able to use other people's VIC cards at that time. I purchased 13 items in one transaction and nine in the other one. I used 19 coupons total. Of the 13 items, five were the Old Orchard juice...22 items total. I spent $20.10 total. No problems other than THE LOUD MOUTH. Really, why does she care? I know she is just getting ready to enforce the rules for the next time she sees me at HT.

Fast forward to Monday...Ms. Pinch and I had planned a trip to our favorite HT to see what we may have missed from last week. We are shopping and everything is going well. I/we should have known that something would happen. Maybe I shouldn't include her in my problem. She had purchased her items and ran over to Walgreens while I finished up in the store. I was doing the GM deal again and the Pillsbury deal and purchasing some other items. I had 17 coupons for those two deals. Let's go to the register to check out...oh no, big problems. Not at the beginning mind you, but you will see. Keep in mind I had been in this store one time during Super Doubles. This is now five days later. I shopped at another HT on Friday with my father for just a few items.

I am at the register and tell the nice cashier I have three transactions. He rings up the first one which is the GM deal. I pay $10.92 and he (the cashier) says let's keep the coupons laying right here in case there is a problem. BIG RED FLAG, I should have known something was up. Oh, by the way, MS. KNOW IT ALL is there also! We proceed to ring up my second transaction...the Pillsbury deal. I pay $13.77 and I had other things with both of these transactions to get to my 20 coupon limit for my card. The cashier keeps those coupons in another stack right beside the ones from the first transaction, just in case there is a problem again! Really that is what he said. He also asked both times if were we using the same VIC card. The answer was yes. We get to the point where we are done and I have paid just like I said above for two transactions. TROUBLE ALERT now in full mode! I tell him I will be using a different number as these next items are for my daughter. Really, again, does it matter who they are for? He tells me I can't use her card if she isn't with me...it is corporate policy. I told him to show it to me. MS. KNOW IT ALL is lurking around the whole time but never comes near the register where I am. He shows me the policy that said "limit 20 coupons per customer/per day" to me that doesn't say my daughter has to be with me. She is another customer that happens to be at work and I happen to be getting whatever I am getting for whoever I am getting it for. She doesn't live with me and has a different address than me. Okay, now let's call the manager up to the register. He isn't going to let me purchase anything else with anyone else's VIC card. I told him he could even call her at work. But NOOOOeVIC coupons back to my card also. Lo and behold, they just can't do that. Okay, call Mr. Manager again...NO he just calls up to the customer service desk and tells the cashier to call the help desk. Well they can't put my 20 coupons back on my card either. Interesting...the longer I stood there the more I thought I will make money because they should refund the price of the items minus the VIC sales, of course. I didn't intend on making money off of HT, don't get me wrong but that is the way it works. It is not my fault that they choose to start enforcing rules all of a sudden. Mr. Manager has to be called again, the cashier just doesn't know what to do. A customer service rep comes out of the office and she said why don't we just ring up the items that she wants and be done with it...using my daughter's card. No Chit Sherlock! What they could have done in the first place and none of this would be happening. I have no problem with rules just a problem when they aren't enforced and all of a sudden they are. I feel that I was profiled by MS. BIG MOUTH from the time I went in the store. Why else would the cashier have just left my coupons to the side in case there was a problem? Not once but twice, remember that! They were just waiting for me to do what I have always done. I am not caught, don't even think that. This is something that I have always done as other people also do.

Okay, back to the finish. The manager is at customer service and I tell him he has my coupons that the store will be reimbursed for so he needs to refund my money which will be the price of the item. He tells me he can't do that. He will refund what I paid cause he will not pay me to shop in that store. Not my problem. For example, if a can of biscuits cost $2 minus a 50¢ coupon doubled to $1.00 then you pay $1.00 for the biscuits. If you decide to bring the biscuits back for whatever reason, then the store should refund your $2 what the biscuits cost. Remember they have the coupon, they will be paid 50¢ plus the handling fee. It is Harris Teeter's fault if they lose money, not mine. He also told me they lose money every time there is a Super Doubles. Again, not my problem, you deal with it Mister. I told him the coupons were just like money, but he said they aren't because he can't deposit them in his checking account. Again, not my problem. Did I feel like I was a criminal? Not at all, I didn't reach across and take money from them and wouldn't. Mr. Manager & I exchanged more conversation. He decided he would refund what I paid and the amount of each coupon.

After coming home, I called corporate and of course HT is enforcing their own coupon policy now. You may or may not be able to shop like you are use to doing with other people's VIC cards at your HT. Supposedly HT is cracking down on their own policy. Oh, I even told Mr. Manager that maybe to benefit himself he should print up a statement and post it to the doors that they were enforcing their policy of 20 coupons per customer during Super Doubles. The really funny thing that Mr. Manager also told me was to make multiple trips in one day to the same store when there are different cashiers working and they wouldn't know I had already been there. Like I didn't know that already. Why enforce your rule and tell a customer how to get around it? OMG I am not that dumb!

Just for giggles the first lady at corporate that I talked to had a really bad attitude. She hung up on me! But that was okay also. It was after I just had to call her a not-so-nice name. I have no problem with HT enforcing their rules but just let me know in a polite way, like at the beginning of my transaction. I was set up (by Ms. Loud Mouth) and if it made someone's day, more power to them! I believe the cashier was in on it too. Why else would he have set my coupons aside in case there was a problem? He knew there was going to be a problem ahead of time. I was the one that didn't know.

The second lady at corporate was very nice. She told me they have had people with as many as 20 VIC cards in one name. She also said Harris Teeter loses money every time they have Super Doubles. Wonder how much longer that will last? If their deals aren't deals anymore for us coupon shoppers, then who will shop there? Are they going to start checking your license when you go in the store?

I can play the game well, but not when the rules get changed in the middle.

My rant is over and I would love to hear comments!

==Sleeping Beauty==

What Will A Buck Get You?

And I'm not talking about the four-legged ones with Antlers either. A buck at Harris Teeter will get you this!!

The Pillsbury Deal and Pampers

The Pampers were part of my eVIC for $5.99 with a limit of two. I forgot that I had to purchase two in one transaction probably due to the fact of my excitement over my negative balance on the Pillsbury items. I knew my amount due would be low but not negative $3 and something. That happened because some of my electronic coupons were taken off more than once. I have no clue why and didn't know until I got home.

Total OOP $1.24 (tax was 24¢)

==Sleeping Beauty==

Free Groceries At Harris Teeter

Well, almost free. I got caught up in the rice and didn't take the time to figure it all out. This deal cost me $4.21 with tax being 56¢. The Dean's Dip was 15¢ for two. The Edwards Singles, Gain and Butterfingers were freeeeeeeeeeeee!!

==Sleeping Beauty==

Simply Good!!

Total Paid: $1.65(Tax 15¢)

==Sleeping Beauty==

General Mills Deal At Harris Teeter

Total Paid:  $1.64

==Sleeping Beauty==

Harris Teeter Shock And Awe

I love Super Doubles at Harris Teeter. After two days of shopping, I am in shock that I took home $369.34 in groceries. I am in awe that I saved $276.40. I got lots of freebies along with some not-so-free things like dog food, beef stew, pork ribs, roast, coffee and eggs.

Some of the highlights:

Buy 2 Get 3 Free 2-Liter Pepsi Products

The 2L drinks are $1.89 each...so you will spend $3.78 for five drinks. I had a 35¢ Q for Dr. Pepper and a $1 Q WYB a 2L drink and two assorted products. I bought two A1 Sauces...I had two $1 Qs for those. To make this long story short, I bought five drinks and two A1 Sauces for $3.06!

General Mills Deal - Save $6 instantly WYB 20 participating products. This is a moneymaker when you have the Qs plus the eVIC loadable Qs. The $6 DID NOT come off automatically and the manager had to wave her magic wand. Be sure to check your receipt. And some of the eVIC Qs also did not work. You should print your list and take it with you so you can get your money back.

Pillsbury - Save $4 instantly WYB 10 participating products. Again, this is a moneymaker...if your eVIC Qs work. As with the GM deal, most of these products may be out of stock.

Vaseline lotion is on clearance for $2.38

There is a $2 Q on any Vaseline product, making the lotion 38¢. Can you believe this stuff is regularly $6.99?

I want to give a big thank you to a fellow couponer that gave me a couple of coupons for cereal that she didn't need. Her cereal coupons were better than the ones I had. That was a very nice gesture from one coupon shopper to another coupon shopper.

Then there is this shopper...I was at the clearance basket looking at the lotion. I noticed this woman putting the Vaseline lotion on her hands. After she used the lotion, she put it back and got another lotion to put in her cart. How rude! This is probably the same lady that eats the grapes while she shops and then stuffs the empty bag in with the frozen foods.

Anyway, in two days I have spent $92.94 (I saved $276.40). I have a refrigerator that is full, two freezers that are full, a food closet that is overflowing, one dog that is happy that she has food, and three bags of food to give to the school Food Drive tomorrow. I love Harris Teeter Super Doubles!!

**Pinch**

Harris Teeter Super Doubles...

...Starts February 16th.

Harris Teeter Bits

Look what I found at HT Sunday night:

A display with Hormel bacon bits that had a tearpad for $1 off bacon bits WYB any bagged salad. I just happened to see the produce man marking down salads earlier while Mr. Beauty was waiting on the deli lady to mark down the chicken. I ran to the marked down salads...well, lo and behold, they are only 50¢ per bag. The bacon bits are 2/$3 ($1.50 for one).

We paid $1 plus tax for bacon bits and salad!

==Sleeping Beauty==

Decisions, Decisions

Do I purchase the Lysol soap system at Walgreens to get $7 in RR to use on Olay? Or do I just purchase the Olay and be done with it? I didn't take the time to figure it all out...

SO...

I went with purchasing the Lysol. I paid $9.92 OOP for it (without tax it is $8.99), get $7 in RR, so it is like paying $1.99. Agree or disagree? Not with the amount you silly, with whether to add the tax or not. Let's say add the tax so then it is $2.92 OOP to get $7 in RR ($9.92 minus the $7 in RR = $2.92).

The Olay is 3/$10. I had three $3 Qs and a get-Secret-deodorant-WYB-Olay Q. You know I need that Secret deodorant to go along with the Dove deodorant that I got at Rite Aid. No smelly people around here! You are wondering about the candy bar? Well, I made a mistake in handing over the Qs. A nice cashier at Walgreens told me once upon a time to give them the RRs before the Qs and I forgot to do that. Shame on me! That mistake cost me a dollar. But it is all good. Excuse me for a moment while I go find those Reese's that I forgot I had. Okay, I will get on with it. I paid $2.03 for three Olay's, one Secret, and one Reese's. Who pays for Secret deodorant these days? Not me, remember it was FREE! Oh, I got $3 in RR for buying the Olay. So I believe I am still ahead, ONLY if you think I was ahead before. My subtotal was $1, tax was $1.03, and that is where my mistake came into play. My subtotal should have been zero, but again it is OKAY.

Tomato soup and Skintimate shave gel sounds like a good combination. After all today is Valentine's day...who couldn't go for a nice bowl of soup while in the bathtub shaving your legs? Multitasking at its best! For the four cans of soup and the Skintimate, I paid 32¢ OOP and got $1 in RRs.

Let's see how we did:

My subtotals came to $10.08
Tax - $2.19
Total - $12.27

I still have $1 in RRs so do we say $11.27 OOP for everything?

==Sleeping Beauty==

Too Much To Do...

...Too tired to do it!

I was way behind in cutting and filing Qs so I have spent the better part of two days trying to get some organization in my notebook. It is done...except for Sunday's coupons. They are not even cut yet. I did manage to go shopping for a few things in the middle of cutting and filing so here are my bargains from Sunday!

First stop Rite Aid...they had only two of the Dove deodorants left (2/$4 with a $2 +UP). Regardless of the +UP, I had two $2 off Qs making them FREE. Well, almost free....my subtotal was ZERO and tax was 31¢. That was it...for two deodorants! I had plans for the $2 +UP reward.

The Colgate toothpaste was $3.50 with $3.50 in +UP rewards. I had a B1G1 Q and a 75¢ Q. I used my $2 +UP reward from the deodorant so my subtotal was 75¢ plus tax of 54¢ = $1.29 OOP for the two Colgate toothpastes. I got back $7 in +UP rewards (2 @ $3.50). There were plans for those also.

When do you not need diapers? When you don't have a baby, I know that but you can always be ahead of the game. I got the big box of Huggies and a Febreze Noticeables Warmer for a total of 63¢ OOP. I used my $7 in +UP rewards and my video value coupons, a Huggies Q and a Febreze Q to arrive where I did.

Really I didn't realize that I would get $3.50 twice on the toothpaste, so I had to do it again at another store. I wanted to get a couple more of the deodorants anyway and remember this store only had the two I purchased. Of course, the other store had no deodorants left so that didn't work out as I had planned. The manager at the second store told me a man came in this morning and bought all 22 of the deodorants that they had. The ad didn't have a limit so more power to him. I bet they will be sold at the flea market. Just how much deodorant can one person use, give away, etc? It doesn't bother me, maybe he will make it on Extreme Couponer!

Here is a quick run down:
I spent $4.52 OOP with $2.59 being tax. The rewards for the toothpaste didn't print at the second store on my Dad's card so the manager gave me $7.54 in cash for them. The way I figure it I came home with $3.02 more in cash than I left with and have four Colgates, two deodorants, one Febreze warmer, and 68 diapers!

Retail value of everything before sales is $48.22.

I love Rite Aid!

==Sleeping Beauty==

Happy Valentine's Day

From all of ours to all of yours!

Happy Birthday Sleeping Beauty

"Inside every older person is a younger person

wondering what the hell happened."

The Management and Staff at Q-pons With Class wish Sleeping Beauty a very Happy Birthday.

Free And Cheap At Harris Teeter

There were lots of good deals at Harris Teeter today. I'm sorry I don't have a picture...my camera batteries  bit the dust.

Saturday only eVIC specials:
HT Rancher Ground Chuck 2 Lb. (limit 2) - $2.97 each
HT 2-Liter Sodas (limit 4) - 47¢ each
Hillshire Farm Lit'l Smokies (limit 2) - 99¢ each (plus use a 75¢/2 Q)*

*This Q states "Do Not Double". If your HT doubles these, then two Lit'l Smokies will be 48¢ total. If your HT will not double this coupon, then two Lit'l Smokies will be $1.23 total.

Some other good deals:
Texas Toast Croutons $1.50 - use 50¢ Q (doubled) AND eVIC Q of 50¢...FREE.
Lays Potato Chips B2G3 Free. Near the chips, I found a tear pad $1/2 Q. I used two Qs...making five bags of chips $5.98 (or about $1.20 each bag). If you got an eVIC for Fritos at $1.47, you could use another $1/2 Q, making five bags of chips and one bag of Fritos $6.45 (or about $1.08 each).

I spent $53.68 and I saved...are you ready for it...$136.52!! I love Harris Teeter.

**Pinch**

"Post-It Love"

Free Post-Its at Staples...except the Staples brand is not called Post-Its, they are called Stickies (but they are just like Post-Its). And they are better than Post-Its because the Stickies are FREE today!!

Just go here and print two coupons. The limit is two per Rewards card and you need a coupon for each pack. Both packs will be absolutely, positively free with no tax added.

And just because I am feeling the Valentine love today, I will give you a hint about printing the coupon. On your screen, show just the Stickies coupon and the one beside it. Hit Control-P to print. On the print screen, highlight "Current View" and only the Stickies coupon and the one beside it should print. This will save you some ink from printing all those other colored coupons (unless you want those coupons, then just disregard what I have just written).

Also, don't forget to turn in your used printer ink cartridges for $2 in Staples Rewards.

**Pinch**

Good Bye Food Lion

I am done! I am finally finished with Food Lion. I dislike Food Lion so bad that I have only shopped there three times in the past six months. I hardly ever check out their sales ad or read any of the "good deal alerts" posted by others. But the Mueller's pasta deal was really too good to pass up. And today's less than pleasant experience refreshes my memory about my self-imposed Food Lion boycott.

Attention to any Food Lion representative that might read this...you need to do SOMETHING about the hideous attitudes of your cashiers and managers. You could offer all your groceries for free for all I care, but I am NOT stepping foot back in your stores until you understand what good customer service is all about. I, and the other customers in your store, DO NOT deserve to be treated like we are second-class citizens.

But I am done with Food Lion. I am throwing my MVP card in the trash can right now.

GOOD BYE FOOD LION!!

**Pinch**

Mueller's Pasta at Food Lion

Mueller's Pasta is on sale at Food Lion for $1 per box and the egg noodles are $1.59. There is an internet printable coupon here for $1 off...makes for free pasta! You might want to print multiple copies. Just remember, Food Lion has a limit of 10 coupons per item per customer.

I paid 78¢ for everything pictured. Thanks to AC for telling me and her friend Missy for telling her!

==Sleeping Beauty==

Harris Teeter Meal Deal and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

I went to my favorite Harris Teeter tonight just to get Krispy Kreme doughnuts that are usually marked down to $1.99. It seems that Krispy Kreme will no longer let Harris Teeter mark the doughnuts below $2.99, still a good deal to me so I had to have them.

Mr. Beauty was with me and went to checkout the pork loin meal deal. I have heard that you could go later in the day and get the meat at marked down prices. No pork loin was left but the very nice deli-lady was helping another customer and she said she would substitute meat loaf or lasagna or chicken for the pork. We got meat loaf, mashed potatoes, bread and Coke for $7.99. The potatoes had a $1 off sticker and so did the meat loaf. Yummy! There was also the two loaf cheesy bread for $1. Mr. Beauty also had to have some chicken that was originally $3.99 with $1 off.

We spent just over $15 for everything pictured.

I think I will go have a doughnut!

==Sleeping Beauty==

Simply Amazing Update

Remember the good deal at Harris Teeter on Pillsbury Simply Buttermilk Biscuits I told you about a few days ago? Well...I found a 50¢ Q which makes the biscuits FREE even without the eVIC on-line Qs. That's just simply amazing!!

I made these biscuits this morning. They aren't bad...just not as big as the Grands biscuits.

==Sleeping Beauty==

Got Milk?

Milk on clearance at Food Lion for $2.72....expiration date is January 27th.

==Sleeping Beauty==

Simply Amazing

There is a good deal on Pillsbury Simply Buttermilk Biscuits at Harris Teeter this week.

$1.00 each x 3 = $3
minus 35¢/1 Q doubled = 70¢ x 3 = $2.10
minus 30¢ eVIC on-line Q (this worked twice) = 60¢

Total for three cans of Pillsbury biscuits = 30¢

Ten cents per can!

==Sleeping Beauty==

"The Good, The Bad And The Ugly"

The Good: Buy 11 select HT items...you pay for 10 and get the 11th one free.
The Bad: I got 10...and only 10. Apparently I can't count to 11.

The Good: Biltmore Salad Dressing and Biltmore Marinade...both free with $1 Qs.
The Bad: These items went fast.

The Good: Coffee Mate Liquid Creamer...free with an IP Q.
The Bad: I got my Friday morning email from Harris Teeter with my eVIC deals...B1G1 Coffee Mate. If I had waited until today to buy Coffee Mate, I could have gotten TWO free.

The Good: Hunt's tomatoes...B2G1 Free ($1.39 each).
The Bad: Darn that eVIC email...Hunt's tomatoes are 79¢ each.

Now for the Ugly: I shopped at Harris Teeter on Thursday...and I was given the SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT! I am NOT a senior citizen...not that I have anything against senior citizens. My mother is one. But I am not a senior citizen. It must be the hair...she must think I have gray hair. My hair is not gray...it is very, very, very light brown OR a very pale blonde. It is NOT gray. Besides that, the overhead lights in that store are really bad. Who am I kidding? My hair IS gray. I guess anyone with gray hair looks like a senior citizen to that 12-year-old cashier.

I'm off to buy hair dye. And I think I'll watch Sesame Street today...maybe I can learn how to count to 11!

**Pinch**

Colorful Ziploc Containers At Harris Teeter

I did a few transactions Wednesday at three Harris Teeter stores for the big Super Doubles event. I got everything I went for the first time and I should have stayed home the rest of the time!

My total OOP was $57.55. Before any sales or coupons, my total would have been $275.29.

There was a really good deal on the Ziploc containers, which were put out while I was still at store #1. They were on a back-to-school display with no price but a tearpad of coupons was with them. I had the cashier scan the Ziploc containers and they were $3.49 and B1G1. WOOHOO! I was so excited and the lids are pretty colors which sucked me right in. The coupons with them were $1/2 so for $1.49 you could get two sets. The excitement had me so I didn't even look in my coupon binder to see if I had any coupons in there for them until I got home. That is okay...I had two Qs for $1.50/2 so I had to go back and get more. With the $1.50, two Ziploc containers are 49¢.

There are no pictures of my other great deals but among them I got several of the Electrasol dishwasher detergents, 10 Old Orchard juices, Campbell's soups, Hunt's puddings, Lysol wipes, Manwich, some Glade candles (marked down to $1.88), some Airwick (marked down to $1.99), Quaker oatmeal, mustard, hot sauce, Smuckers waffles (used the Penguin Qs), butter, some TGIF and pepper. And the list goes on.

I may go back to the HT near me for some marked down dish liquid and washing machine detergent. They had buggies full of it...Gain, Tide, All, Palmolive, etc.

==Sleeping Beauty==

Year-End Harris Teeter Deals

After coupons, markdowns and VIC sales, my OOP was $1.56 with 42¢ of that being tax!

This trip was on December 30th. I just wanted to show you that you can still get good deals at Harris Teeter without Super Doubles or Triples. I will be reporting about this week's Super Doubles trip in a few days.

==Sleeping Beauty==

Walmart After Christmas Sales

I know I am sick but I just can't help myself! A friend called and told me Walmart had marked their Christmas stuff down and they had tons. We just had to go. The Saran Wrap and Glad Wrap were 38¢ each after the markdown. I had $1/2 Qs for the Glad Wrap. I also had Qs for the Febreze, Palmolive dish liquid and the Kleenex. I didn't clear the shelves. The dish liquid was $1.24 before Qs, and the Kleenex was 50¢ before Qs.

I just had to have the candy canes...15 of them! The red and white candy canes were 25¢ each and the green one was 62¢. (The green one lights up.) I can't wait till next Christmas to use them.

Total OOP: $20.36

==Sleeping Beauty==

After Christmas Sales

I stopped by Walmart on Monday and their Christmas merchandise was still at 75% off. Since I don't plan on going back to Walmart anytime soon, I went ahead and got a few things. In my opinion, there is not going to be very much left when Walmart decides to up the sale to 90% off. The Christmas cards were $1.25 per box. I guess this means I will be sending Christmas cards next year! The napkins were 37¢ per pack. I also got some red plastic platters for 25¢.

I got some Disney Princess wrapping paper (not pictured) for 75¢ a roll. The wrapping paper will be great to wrap little girl gifts this year, since it doesn't look like Christmas wrapping paper. I was excited about that find...I should have got more rolls.

I went to Target this morning and Target has their Christmas merchandise at 90% off. There isn't very much left, so you better hurry if you want ANYTHING!

The napkins were 20¢ per pack, the ornaments were 40¢ each, and each snowman coffee mug was 39¢.

But I am sooooo excited about this...

This stocking was only $1.30 (originally $13...I would never pay $13!) My son and his family are planning on visiting from Phoenix in March and we will be having Christmas with them then. And my 3-year-old grandson is a HUGE Toy Story fan. I can't wait for the little guy to see this!

**Pinch**

Super Doubles Starting Wednesday 1/5

Super Doubles starts Wednesday, January 5th at Harris Teeter. Coupons valued at $1.98 or less will be doubled.

**Pinch**