Posts made by hbg1

Thanks for the heads up! I will try to go today.
I also have offers on amex and chase, but unfortunately both are online only.

@my4mainecoons said in $10 Rebate w/$30 General Mills Purchase thru Feb 28 (not store-specific):

Thanks for the list. I wonder why Raisin Nut Bran is included but not Raisin Bran.

Good question. But I think General Mills doesn’t have a plain raisin bran. Only Kelloggs and Post.

Trying to upload photo (about the 15th try, server is having issues, but thanks for the instructions @my4mainecoons - I was on my phone before and the upload icon is scrolled off the screen there so I didn’t see it.)

Note that the ground coffee rang up at $3.75, not $3.25 like the tag says in the photo. Not complaining.

@my4mainecoons said in Free BOTTLE of SB Frappuccino with J4u FreshPass, YMMV:

@MISTERCHEAP was the peppermint the only one 75% off?

A few kinds were in a display at the back of my store, both grounds and pods, all 75% off ($3.75 for ground coffee).
I have a photo but I’m not sure how to post it.

I received my $5 Freshpass coupon for my new membership, but not a Starbucks one. Is that available in December in general? I can contact support but wanted to confirm it’s actually missing first. Thanks.

@c3
I just signed up for FreshPass this morning. It took a few hours, but Rakuten is showing $10 as “pending” for me. If it’s still not there for you, I suggest reporting it as missing cash back (through Help). I’ve had a few incidences of missing cash back in the past week. For those, the system has automatically given me the credit after I requested the missing cash back. Worst case you have to talk to customer service, but in general they pay out even if the system doesn’t catch it originally.

I have a $5 maximum cash back amount on my Amazon Chase card for magazines.com. Just a heads up.

Refrigerated coffee (iced, cold brew, espresso, etc) in 30-32 oz bottles was on sale last week so I chipped in a couple bucks and got that. No added sugar if you get the unflavored versions.

@mistercheap said in TARGET (Red Card Holders?) Get a Target Circle 360 membership AND $50 in Target Rewards for $49 (ymmv):

FYI shipping is free no min with this even if you don’t have a target close by. Not sure if that helps you.

In my experience, I haven’t been able to get free shipping no minimum, I still get the $35 minimum requirement. But the monthly freebies are good. I probably wouldn’t pay for this, but I got it for free when I replaced my cellphone on a clearance deal last spring. On the other hand, if they give out $5 or $10 a month, depending on the yearly fee actually paid, it would probably pay for itself and be a MM at some point.

Thanks for the heads up! I also have a second $5 off $5, and I haven’t used the first one yet.

No Starbucks offer right now, I had the gift card one before but I don’t see it now.

Thank you! I rescued the email out of my trash to check if I had the $10.
The $10 is appearing in my account under my coupons instead of KC. I’m not sure if it was there the whole time, or appeared after I clicked on the email, since it wasn’t where I expected to see it originally.

Definitely pricey, but for what it’s worth, I see $2.50 back in Walmart cash (expires 8/16), which might make it a decent deal combined with the ibotta.

@mistercheap said in P&G Made to Save Rebate - get $15 wyb $50 or get $5 wyb $20 (3/30-6/15/25) limit 1 per HH:

@kimi said in P&G Made to Save Rebate - get $15 wyb $50 or get $5 wyb $20 (3/30-6/15/25) limit 1 per HH:

Rebate excludes trial/travel size. Rebate applies to the price paid after any coupon or discount has been applied. Offer valid for products purchased 3/30/2025 to 6/15/2025. Submission must be received by 6/29/2025. Limit one submission per household. Can use multiple receipts.

You can have your rebate paid via a Visa prepaid card, Instacart, Dollar General, Shoprite, or Walgreens.

P&G Made to Save Rebate

Note: Walgreens is running a promo where you get $15 in Walgreens rewards when you $45 of select P&G products. But eligible brands may differ between the promos, e.g. Olay products may be eligible for both, but Tide isn’t eligible for Walgreens.

Pretty sure the walgreens deal ended 3/31.

Earn $15 W Cash rewards on $45+ spent on select P&G products
myW exclusive
Expires: 04/05/25
Online only offer valid on each qualifying transaction
Must be a myWalgreens™ member and clip offer to your myWalgreens™ account.

(Possibly YMMV whether you have the coupon available or not.)

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Anova-Precision-Sous-vide-Cooker-Bluetooth-800W-Anova-App-Included/5536199409
Free shipping with Walmart+.

About this item

• Results: Sous Vide offers the most precise cook times and temperatures to produce the most tender and perfectly cooked steak possible.
• Easy: Three easy steps: 1) Attach your cooker to a water filled pot. 2) Set the time and temperature 3) Seal the food, add it to the pot, and press start on the app.
• Value: Our most affordable cooker ever. This machine costs the same, if not less than, 1 night out at a steakhouse.
• Cook: Once you’ve conquered Sous Vide steak, you have plenty of power to cook perfect sous vide meals, big or small. Cook meat, seafood, eggs, vegetables, and more.
• Vacuum sealed bags, silicone bags, and zip locked bags are all compatible with Sous Vide
• Anova App (free/bluetooth connectivity only): Control your time and temp directly on the Anova app.

Hmm, my plan went up by $5 a few months ago. I wonder if this is another increase or a continuation.

Got mine today as well!

@pakle
I submitted on Wednesday 2/19, and today it says “Your submission is currently being processed. Please check back later for your rebate status.” Oddly, the submit date is showing as 2/21/25 (today).
This is my first time submitting for the rebate.

My recent Safeway receipt has the $5/$5 as “Additional Discounts” before the tax, and the balance line says $0. I probably wouldn’t risk it.

I forgot about this yesterday and spent $5.30 or so at a supermarket. Would have added something else, but I guess I have time before it expires.

I had to go to the Missing Cashback screen on the Help page and submit my confirmation email details. It was theoretically approved and is currently Pending. This happens to me much more often with Rakuten than it used to, I just try and watch to make sure the cashback is registered and I request it if not. As far as I can recall, I haven’t had anything rejected when I make the manual request.

@mrvietnam said in Prior FRESH PASS Members (Acme/Alb/Safeway, etc) email offer for 50% off for a year, $10mm with 12x$5 credits ex 12/10:

Anyone get the $10 cash backl from Rakuten, 15 hours later I am not seeing anything tracking. I guess if I don’t see the $10 tracking in the next two weeks I can just cancel for a full refund as long as I don’t use the $5 off $5 for this month.

Nothing yet, but I"m going to give it a few days, and then if it doesn’t show up I’ll contact support.

@my4mainecoons
Thanks for the information about the clearance sections in Shaw’s. I have Safeway here, and I haven’t noticed a clearance section per department but I’ll take a closer look.

I have a stash of butter in my freezer as well, but I haven’t seen any decent sales/free butter in a while and I’m always looking to stock up on things like that. Thanks again for all the detail.

@my4mainecoons said in Prior FRESH PASS Members (Acme/Alb/Safeway, etc) email offer for 50% off for a year, $10mm with 12x$5 credits ex 12/10:

I’m paying with $200 prepaid Visa from Staples (no activation fee, 5% Chase Ink) which will be empty when it comes time to renew in a year. I liked having staggered expiration dates so I’m getting one a week.

Interesting. I tried that, with both a Visa and MC from Staples, and both were rejected, saying it only takes credit or debit cards (despite these being supposedly debit cards). Had to use a regular credit card. I’ll just have to make sure I cancel in time next year.

I haven’t ever seen dairy clearanced at my store. Is it just tagged in the usual space, or do they move it elsewhere?

I signed up for FreshPass today, and Rakuten said they give $10 cash back for FreshPass yearly membership. Hopefully that will come through, it didn’t say a minimum cost.

The stores near me always have some flower bouquets for $5, so last year I was getting those once a month (they can last a few weeks). So just for that this is worth it for me, even if I don’t get any other benefit. I was hoping the Amex offer would work on this to make it better, but unfortunately it’s on the full price.

I found it in my account under coupons, not KC (also in the banner in the email I deleted this morning).
Thanks for the heads up!

I held on to my POTS phone line for a long time, mainly because I didn’t like the idea of having no phone during a power outage. I’ve had rare occasions when the power was out for days at a time, so cellphones would also go out in that situation. They charged me an arm and a leg to keep that going, and when I moved, I finally gave in since I was able to get much better internet service and the phone for a pretty small add-on fee. I don’t love that it will go out when there’s no power, but I put it on a UPS battery backup (along with my internet, so that shouldn’t go out immediately either). I really don’t know how long that will last in an outage, although I supposed there are ways to figure that out.

Ugh this was how I’ve been getting rid of the last amounts on my prepaid gift cards, by loading them to my balance. It was a great way to zero them out, whatever small amount that was left.
Thanks for the heads up.

@c3 said in Staples rewards changing in February, 2024-Changes unknown.:

@hbg1 said in Staples rewards changing in February, 2024-Changes unknown.:

I recycled last week but it sounds like it’s definitely worth trying again since the offer is still showing in my app.

It’s not “still showing”. It’s a new offer that started this week.
Oh right, I forgot that. But it’s still unusual that they are allowing multiple recycling in one month. Not that I’m complaining.

@my4mainecoons said in Staples rewards changing in February, 2024-Changes unknown.:

I recycled 2 tech items one at a time in back to back transactions. Received a $10/$30 q on both receipts (unique numbers) and 2@1000 points. The offer is no longer listed in the account.

Thanks for the info. Looks like I should drop off a dead alkaline battery or two today when I pass by Staples! I recycled last week but it sounds like it’s definitely worth trying again since the offer is still showing in my app.

@my4mainecoons said in Staples rewards changing in February, 2024-Changes unknown.:

Today I checked an account and was surprised to find 1000 points for recycling exp. 5/19. When did the offer appear?

Thanks for the heads up about the expiring recycling coupon.

Today I brought in a (probably FAR) CompUSA USB Wifi adapter stick. I had to explain to the young associate what it was. Ahh memories.

Went to Walgreen’s today to find a couple Mother’s Day cards and got severe sticker shock. The cards were all around $6 each!! There was one section of cards for $2.50 but that did not have any Mother’s Day cards.

I’ve been buying my cards at Dollar Tree, where they haven’t even inflated the prices to $1.25, they are still $1 each (or 2/$1 from the cheap section). I gave up on Walgreen’s and went to Dollar Tree, where I found two very nice cards.

Did anyone have better luck than I did at Walgreen’s?

I’ve heard the formulations are not quite the same. I’m actually not that picky about mayo, but I was just a bit curious to see for myself, given the opportunity.

@marvomatic
I put this in my subscriptions last week. I’m curious to find out if Best Foods mayo really is the same as Hellmann’s.

@dangeruss
I don’t understand what they are doing at all, either. I posted earlier in this thread that the amount of ink recycling they were offering me changed from the original 10 for 100 points each to 15 for 400 points. And now they are offering me 30 for 400. I am not in the recycling game in general (maybe their motivation?) and only recycled some this month because I happened to run out of toner recently, and someone passed a few more on to me. I don’t have Plus. I used to shop at Staples a lot more, mostly clearance deals when they were real deals in the old days (luckily I didn’t give away all my free cases of paper and kept a few), but only shop occasionally now, mostly when I can stack coupons and tech recycling rewards to buy things like paper towels and toilet paper.

It would definitely be better if they were clear about the program and not offering so many different permutations to different people.

I recycled alkaline batteries a few hours ago and got the 1000 points already.

The people in the store, this time and last week when I recycled ink/toner, insisted that the tech recycling program never ended and will keep going (regardless of my telling them that it was clearly no longer on the website last week). So hopefully despite their apparent misinformation regarding what is being told to customers, it will continue beyond 4/20.

Isn’t April Earth month (or at least contains Earth Day). Seems a strange time to cancel a recycling program. Hopefully they’ll restart it soon in some form.

I used whichever one is available on the Ninite.com software page. If you’re not aware, Ninite is a great, safe way to load many kinds of free software all at once. I use it every time I get a new computer or need to load something on someone else’s.

Edit: looks like Ninite has open shell.

@marvomatic said in (New Offer) BJ's: Join for $20 Get a $20 Reward after spending $60 in one order Expires May 6:

@hbg1 There will be other BJ’s deals, in the future.

For sure. I actually had tried to do this deal in December, but waited until the last minute and then the code didn’t work. Customer service wasn’t helpful so I gave up. A few days later the same deal appeared from Groupon, with an additional discount code on the Groupon end, so I wound up making a bit of money off the deal. Anyone who missed this one, just wait a bit and another version will likely turn up.

@marvomatic said in BJ's: Join for $20 Get a $20 Reward after spending $60 in one order Expires March 5:

@hbg1 The link is cancelled today! It’s a regular site now!

Thanks for letting me know. I didn’t need it but a friend was thinking about joining with this deal.

The fine print at the link says it expires 5/6/24.

I did this in January from the Groupon and had no issues getting and using the $20 rewards.

My ink recycling reward changed this month. Previously it was showing 10 for 100 points each, now it’s 15 for 400. I actually have a few around to recycle, so I guess now is a good time, along with my monthly tech recycling.

Nothing at Safeway this week.

@my4mainecoons said in Staples.com Online Savings Codes. See last posts for most current codes.:

“We made a mistake - here’s your $30 off coupon.”
$30/$60 with code arrived.

They didn’t resend me a version that included the code, on the two accounts that got the original. Wondering if it still might come in.

@my4mainecoons said in BEWARE of Rakuten cashback. I had one of their Big Fat quarterly cashback checks returned today for insufficient funds. Luckily I only lost $5:

I’ve never used Rakuten because for some reason I associate them with the loss of FW. Now I can’t even recall where that idea came from.

According to my recollection, Rakuten/Ebates bought FW and then shut it down. (Or maybe you were being sarcastic?)

I hesitated to continue to use ebates (now Rakuten) after that but I’m a long-time user, I’ve had good experiences with them in general, and didn’t feel like starting over somewhere else, even for more cash back. I get my checks via Paypal and (so far) have not had any issues. I do find I have to watch the cash back that is credited more closely than before, and have to request the credit via the help screens. They usually credit it after that, and often right away.

I actually have both the Coke and the cough drops today. Haven’t had any at all for a few weeks. Thanks for the reminder to check.

@fulltimedad said in Staples rewards changing in February, 2024-Changes unknown.:

@hbg1 said in Staples rewards changing in February, 2024-Changes unknown.:

@fulltimedad said in Staples rewards changing in February, 2024-Changes unknown.:

Uggh, I had a rewards certificate I forgot to print, and now that is gone from my rewards. Also a Plus member, and I am at 400 pts per 20 carts per month.

This is a mess. They sent me an email yesterday saying that my rewards number is being used by another account and that I should sign up again. The website showed no activity. Today I checked in the connect app to see if my tech recycling reward was still there. After going through a few changeover screens and clicking around a lot, I finally found my reward.

If I recall, when they forced us to the connect app, I had to sign up again. My guess is that that created a second account.

I don’t recycle ink, but I wonder if you all have a similar situation. Maybe your second account gets the better recycle deal and has your old statuses. Just a thought.

Did you sign up again? I was worried about doing so because it might assign a new rewards number.

I didn’t sign up again like the email they sent me suggested (same text posted above), but I wondered afterwards if going through the new screens on the Connect app might have done something.

I think I’ll need to try and contact support to see if they can merge my accounts, if that’s what the problem is.

@fulltimedad said in Staples rewards changing in February, 2024-Changes unknown.:

Uggh, I had a rewards certificate I forgot to print, and now that is gone from my rewards. Also a Plus member, and I am at 400 pts per 20 carts per month.

This is a mess. They sent me an email yesterday saying that my rewards number is being used by another account and that I should sign up again. The website showed no activity. Today I checked in the connect app to see if my tech recycling reward was still there. After going through a few changeover screens and clicking around a lot, I finally found my reward.

If I recall, when they forced us to the connect app, I had to sign up again. My guess is that that created a second account.

I don’t recycle ink, but I wonder if you all have a similar situation. Maybe your second account gets the better recycle deal and has your old statuses. Just a thought.