Originally posted by Msloke@Oct 24 2005, 09:05 PM
Hi Janet. I know what you mean about Sam's club. Did yours have that gardening shed/greenhouse thing? I had to stay away from Sam's for a while, it was too tempting ($1800 bucks was a lot too!
) I really was trying to figure out where I could put it
But I finally decided I didn't need it nor had the room, let alone right location to put it.
It kept calling me every time I was there.
I guess we don't have grocery cards cause two of our three chains are local family owned (Schnucks and Dierbergs, think they're only in eastern MO and western IL) and the other is a Shop N' Save, which is discounted anyway.
But hey, lately they've been putting a coupon in paper, spend 50 bucks on certain Thursdays and get 10 bucks off, not bad.
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Jewel's send us bonus cards in the mail once a month because we have a card with them. If we spend 50 we get 5 off and if we spend 100 we get 7 off and we can use these coupons for a week, they send us enough to shop for the month twice a week so if we spend 150 in any week we get 15 off, and also we can use our grocery card as well so that is an extra saving. We also get coupons in the Sunday paper which enables us yet another saving on items if we buy the item on the coupon.
I don't think I have seen the greenhouse, but then we rarely go into the gardening section at Sam's. My main purchase there is their frozen vegies. I buy the big bags of broccoli, stir fry, mixed veg etc and the quality is fantastic. We also stock up on items that we use a lot like shower gels, shampoos, vitamins, breakfast foods, washing liquid and fabric softeners etc. Buying these items at Sam's saves us huge bucks because they are in larger containers and last us at least 6 months, and I am sure if we sat down a figured it all up the saving is great.
I did buy something different last time we were there though. Well hubby bought it for me, it was the Roomba robot vac. They had it out for 199 with all the accessories and I saw that for 399 elsewhere so that was a good saving, and I have to say I love it too, so does Scooby, he follows it everywhere, so cute and really funny when it goes under the bed because he can't get under there, so he sits there and waits for it to come out then off he goes walking around behind it again.