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Hey, did you sign up for Kraft First Taste one of the last 50 times I mentioned it? If so, login to your account. Lots of people are getting an offer for free Philadelphia cream cheese minis in their account today, including yours truly. If not, set up an account now so you can get in on the next offer!

Tags: cream cheese, freebies, kraft first taste, philadelphia

You have seen ENOUGH of my shopping trips, so now it’s time to show off your own! Comment here or drop me a line and brag away. Tell me what you got, how you did it, and how much you spent. If you’d like to share a photo, even better — attach to email or send the link.

To get the ball rolling, here are two of Michelle’s transactions — awesome shopping she did today!

Transaction one

“8 kraft cheese 2 nesquik Used 4/$1 blinkies 1/$2 your buck cat from previous order Paid $16.30 got back $10 cat and $3 in your bucks!!” That’s a net cost of $5.30 for all that!

Transaction two

“Trans 2 8 smart pop 2 kraft 4 nuts Paid $22.10 got back $23 so all was free and I’m good with that!!! $10 for kraft and $10 for the smart pop and $2 for nesquik and $1 for kraft on each order as well!!!”

Yay

Thanks, Michelle! Now — how did you do?

Tags: readers, shopping trips

Don’t forget, today is the last day for both the ConAgra and the Kraft/P&G Catalina deals! (Made a quick stop this morning, got 8 more 100-calorie smart pop, used four $2.00/2 from the Save-A-Lot site, paid with a $5.00 Catalina and $.76, got back $10.00 in Catalinas. Whee! )

But anyway. Since there’s a new YourBucks offer on Kraft cheese, today only you can do the Kraft cheese deal and get an extra $1.00 back. So:

• Buy 7 bags of shredded Kraft cheese = $17.43.
• Use three $1.00/2 blinkies (found by the cheese in many stores) = $14.43.
• Get back $11.00 in Catalinas — $10.00 for Kraft and $1.00 YourBucks.
• Net cost = $3.43 for 7 cheese, or $.49/pack.

It’s not a lot extra, but it’s something! Also since people keep asking: The sale, or pre-preferred card price on the chunk cheese is much lower, so you’d need more packages to hit that magic $30 pre-card amount. Stick with the bags of shreds.

Tags: catalinas, jewel

So, most of you have probably received the following email from YourBucks about the changes in their offers:

Dear Valued YourBucks Member,

As the company proud to bring you high-valued savings, we want to express our appreciation for your participation in the YourBucks test pilot.

This test is designed to reveal the unexpected.  Meaning, if the YourBucks program is rolled out nationally, we want to deliver a flawless, exceptional experience for our members.

Unfortunately, during this period of learning, some offers are being abused by a very small group of shoppers which is forcing us to modify the following three offers:

From

- Buy any ONE Ragu Pasta sauce 26oz or larger – $2.00
- Buy any ONE Suave® product excluding trial or travel size – $2.00
- Buy any ONE Degree® Anti-perspirant/Deodorant item excluding trial or travel size – $2.00

To

- Buy any 1 (One) or more Ragu Pasta sauce 26oz or larger – $1.00
- Buy any 2 (Two) or more Suave® product excluding trial or travel size – $1.00
- Buy any 1 (One) or more Degree® Anti-perspirant/Deodorant item excluding trial or travel size – $1.00

Please know this is not a decision we take lightly.  And, we apologize that you are being impacted due to the questionable actions of so few.

Ultimately, our intention is to secure the long-term viability of the YourBucks program, and to continue to offer you and your families high-valued savings.  Again, thank you for your participation and patience as we work to build a solid, lasting YourBucks platform.

If you have any additional questions, please connect with us at http://tv.catalinamarketing.com

Sincerely,
YourBucks Customer Service.

There are several comments here about what people are writing back to YourBucks about their pushing the blame onto people “abusing” the program. While I do find their shifting of blame slightly offensive, I’m unsurprised. What are they really going to say?

Dear Valued YourBucks Member,

We’re marketing supergeniuses who decided to give $2.00 back on an $.89 product and then were very very surprised when people actually bought a lot of them. So we’re going to change the terms, cause we can. Ooh! And let’s blame people for buying too much, too. That way they’ll start fighting each other about being too greedy and messing it up for everyone else, rather than being mad at us for changing the deal in the middle.

Love,
YourBucks Customer Service

I’ve tilted at enough windmills with Target this week. This is a smart way for them to shift the focus, and they’re unlikely to say, hey, we didn’t think this through, sorry guys.

Tags: catalinas, jewel, yourbucks

If you still have some of those money-making glucose meters from Walgreens or CVS lying around, here’s a great cause! Jennifer emailed a request:

I am a couponer and nurse at Northwestern.  A few of my Nurse friends are going to Haiti to volunteer.  They have been there before and are looking for Glucometers.  They said they are desperate for them there!!  I have a few coming my way ,but I had already donated my last ones to an outreach clinic.  If anyone has some laying around and are looking for a good place to donate them I will give them to take to Haiti.  The only thing is I need them by Monday!  I was trying to get them a few more- I live in Deerfield so if you know any couponers who live near bye I will take them off there hands.

If you’re in the Deerfield area and have some meters you’re willing to donate, please email Jennifer directly at jgassman38@gmail.com.

Tags: donating, haiti, meters, reader requests

Here are the deals that you found over the last 24 hours! Please take a moment to share the deals you find with other Mashup Mom readers by emailing me, commenting on the blog, posting to the forum, or posting on the Facebook Wall.

Ace

• Jen emails: “The GE CFL bulbs were still $1 at my Ace and there was a coupon for those in the 3/7 Tribune.” That’s in the 3/7 SS. Jen also found a $1.00/2 coupon here, if you need more, more, more energy efficient light bulbs!

CVS

• Kitty found a nice CVS store coupon by the refrigerated drinks: “Free Reese’s Standard size product when you purchase 1 20oz any Coca Cola product.” Also near the pharmacy she found: “a sheet, actually 2 pages, of coupons: CVS Pharmacy Store Coupons/Big Savings! There are  12 coupons;  7 of them are CVS, the other 5 are manufacturer coupons.  Two of the latter 5 says CVS on them, but in the text it says it’s good at other stores that accept coupons.”

Jewel

• Jen comments: “I found Febreeze flameless luminaries on clearance at Jewel yesterday.  They were originally $11.99, marked down to $6.99 and used a $4 coupon (don’t remember from which insert!), making it $2.99.” The $4.00 coupon was from the 3/7 PG. There’s also a buy one get a free refill in the 2/7 PG.

Menards

• Ellen says: “The small Glade soy candles are 2.49 at Menards. You can buy up to 6 and submit for a 1.50 rebate (Menards certificate) on each one. I had some printables for $3/2 from coupons.com and was able to use the 2/7 S before it expired. You could also submit the receipt for the SC Johnson B3 get $5 rebate. Since Menards automatically prints a recipt for their rebate, you’d still have the “real” receipt to use for the SCJohnson rebate.”

Walgreens

• Janet says: “Went to Walgreen’s tonight and they had the Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner on sale for $12.99 and you got $3rr…..SO I still had my $7 off coupon for it which made it out to be $2.99 plus tax!” (The $7.00 is a printable that is no longer available.)
• Kitty found a coupon by the refrigerated drinks: “Buy one  20 oz Pepsi Max Cease Fire get a free up to 2.875 oz bag of Doritos Burn.”

Whole Foods

• Michelle emails that Clif Quench sports drinks are on sale for $1.00, and there’s a $1.00/1 in the Whole Deals flier — get it free.

Tags: jewel, menards, reader deals, walgreens, whole foods

The Huggies diaper coupons on Coupons.com have reset — and you know we can never have enough of those! Use ZIP 63303 to access:

• $2.00/1 Huggies diapers.
• $2.00/1 Pull-Ups MEGA PACK OR LARGER.
• $2.00/1 Huggies overnights.
• $2.00/1 Goodnites.
• $.75/1 Kleenex bundle pack (OK, not diapers, but it looks new).
• $5.00/1 KY Intense or Yours+Mine.
• $2.00/4 So Delicious yogurt.
• $2.00/6 cans Purina mighty dog.
• $1.00/1 Nut Clusters (print and hold onto for an upcoming Dominick’s deal).
• $1.00/1 6-pack big roll Viva.
• $1.00/1 12-pack+ Cottonelle.

Tags: coupons, coupons.com, huggies

Get a free movie download from DivX “while supplies last.” How do you run out of digital copies? Be that as it may, you can currently pick from:

• Batman Begins
• The Green Lantern: First Flight
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Use coupon code: DXWB2000

(Thanks, Deal Seeking Mom!)

Tags: divx, freebies, movies

Here’s a nice little deal at Overstock.com for you –

• Get 5% off home decor (max discount $125) — 3/9-3/16.

Tags: overstock.com

I was just on the YourBucks site and got the following popup:

In accordance with the Terms & Conditions Section 4(c), Store is making an adjustment to the YourBucks offers of Video 2 for Ragu, Suave, and Degree , which will now be the following:

• Buy any 1 (One) or more Ragu Pasta sauce 26oz or larger – $1.00
• Buy any 2 (Two) or more Suave® product excluding trial or travel size – $1.00
• Buy any 1 (One) or more Degree® Anti-perspirant/Deodorant item excluding trial or travel size – $1.00

Now, I don’t know if this has already changed or if it will actually update tonight when Catalina does their updates so go live in the early AM hours — but the all-you-can-eat Suave and Ragufest appears to be over! It was fun while it lasted.

New offers

They’ve also added the list of new offers good through 4/20 — but UNDER some of the current ones, so scroll down to see them. These aren’t supposed to be live until tomorrow (and last time didn’t actually activate until sometime on the Thursday morning), so don’t try them yet. This is very similar to the list released earlier, with a couple minor changes.

Again, if you’re new, you’ll have to register your card on the YourBucks site and then wait 36 hours for the offers to load.

• Any 4 or more Campbell’s condensed Soups, $1.00 YB
• Any 2 or more pks of Oscar Mayer lunchmeat, bacon, or hot dogs, $1.00 YB. This overlaps with the national OM Bacon Catalina deal through 3/21: Purchase two (2) Oscar Mayer Bacon, Receive $1 OYNO, Purchase three (3) Oscar Mayer Bacon, Receive $2 OYNO, Purchase four or more (4+) Oscar Mayer Bacon, Receive $3 OYNO.
  
• Any 2 or more pks of Kraft natural cheese, $1.00 YB. Note that if this does activate on Wed. it’s a slight overlap with the Kraft Catalina deal.
• Any 2 or more pks of Nestle toll house morsels, $1.50 YB
• Any 3 or more pks of Lunchables lunch combos, $1.00 YB
• Any 2 or more Digiorno pizzas, $2.00 YB. This overlaps with Just Chill.
• Any 2 or more packages of refrigerated Jello mousse, pudding, or gelatin snacks, $1.00 YB
• Any 2 or more jewel butter 1 lb., $1.00 YB
• Any 1 or more Splenda 200 or 400 ct packets, $1.00 YB
• Any 2 or more packages of Nestle fun sized or miniatures, $2.00 YB.
• Any 3 or more home life awesome decorated reg. rolls paper towels 1ct, $1.00 YB
• Any 2 or more crystal light drink mix canister or on-the-go boxes, $1.00 YB. This overlaps with the national CL promo (3/1-3/21): Purchase three (3) Crystal Light, Receive $2 OYNO, Purchase four (4) Crystal Light, Receive $3 OYNO, Purchase five or more (5+) Crystal Light, Receive $4 OYNO.
• Any 6 (Six) or more 2-packs Gerber® 2nd Foods® Purees, $2.00
• Any 2 or more equaline mouth rinse 33.8 oz or anticavity 16 oz, $1.00 YB
• Any 2 or more Gerber Yogurt Blends $2.00 YB
• Any 1 or more 3-pk Gerber smart sips $2.00 YB
• Any 1 or more Boost 6-pk $1.50 YB
• Any 1 or more Softsoap Bodywash 15 oz or larger $1.00 YB
• Any 2 or more Carnation inst. Breakfast essentials, powder or ready to drink multi packs $1.50 YB
• Any 1 or more irish spring bodywash 15oz or larger $1.00 YB
• Any 1 or more Osteo Bi Flex Joint care $6.00 YB
• Any 1 or more Tasters Choice 7oz and up cans or 20ct+ sticks, $2.00 YB

Tags: catalinas, jewel, ragu, suave, yourbucks