Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[Pumpkin1172]

Just did my Blue Friday shop too...spent 113.00 got 347 miles. Then while I was there, the cashier said...did you see the frozen veggies... no I missed those. So I might go back and see if I can get another shop in for 100.00 the bonus 100 miles. Really want to get enough miles for another DW ticket...might have to see if I can squeeze it out of budget. We just spent 950 dollars on a vehicle fix...so the bank account is not too forgiving right now. I seen some other tips above that I might be le to squeeze out another shop ( and donate to the food bank )

 

[ottawamom]

Okay - the damage has been tallied!

First, I took one of my daughters with me so we could do two orders, and get double of some things, and also take advantage of the spend $100 get 100am.
Order #1 - spent $138.49, got 467 airmiles.
Order #2 - spent $124.43, got 506 airmiles.

THEN - my other daughter sent me a text with a copy of the Cadbury promo that must have been added on - Spend $20 on Cadbury Easter products, and get 100am!! So we went back, both forced ourselves to buy the large bag of Cadbury Mini Eggs and a little bag of Cadbury Easter Cream Eggs. 2 x 24.97 for 200am.

Grand total spent = $312.86
Grand total Airmiles = 1176!!

My second daughter and her husband will be going after work today (so they can do two orders as well), with her list alone she's looking at another 860 airmiles. So once these airmiles post that's just about another Universal pass!

Wow I thought I was having a good day collecting until I saw your totals. That's some impressive collecting! I managed to spend all of one of my gift cards (spent 150 got 593AM in return). I purchased 4 other gift cards as well. When all these AM post I will have made ONYX again for this year (with the STB miles not included).

 

[explorer1977]

I had a great Airmiles morning. First went to Shell and bought 2 Safeway $100 Gift Cards and received 140 AM. The went to Safeway and spent those and 4 dollars more. Donated 8 pancake mixes and 5 cans of chunky soup to the food bank which was 250AM and came home with:
3 Pancake & 1 Syrup 100AM (great deal as $0.12 per AM)
5 Cans of Chunky Soup 50AM
3 Hummus 50AM
2 Packages of Charmin TP 50AM
2 Loafs of Villaggio Bread 20AM
2 Tide Pods 100 AM
1 Finish DW Tabs 50AM
4 Packages of Naturals Hot Dogs 50AM
2 Boxes of Pinty's Chicken Strips 50AM
4 Green Giant Veg 50AM
2 x spend 100 get 100AM for 200AM (split the order to just over 100 each.

So total is 1,169 AM for a total of jut over $200 so $0.17 per AM and all this done before 7:30am. Just need 2000 more to get another Disney Ticket though I have gotten 4 tickets in the last 2 months. Since moving out West 4 years ago I get more airmiles in 1 month then I would get in a year in Ontario. This was a pretty good Blue Friday but not my best yet. Had one in the Spring of 2015 that I received almost 2000.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Wow, just WOW those are some pretty impressive hauls! @kerreyn which store did you hit up for those miles? I'm sure others would like to know which store has the cadbury products since i haven't seen it mentioned yet.

Here's to a wonderful weekend everyone, happy hunting, & bless all of you who are donating to the food bank.

 

[marchingstar]

y'all are putting my small little shop to shame! it's only DP and I right now (although maybe not for long!) and we only have our fridge freezer, so sometimes the blue friday offers just won't work. i would have gotten some
frozen veg, but i did a costco trip earlier this week so the freezer is just too full, and it will take us too long to get through something like the hummus.

i'm so excited for the people earning 1000+ miles today!

 

[kerreyn]

@kerreyn which store did you hit up for those miles? I'm sure others would like to know which store has the cadbury products since i haven't seen it mentioned yet.

Here's to a wonderful weekend everyone, happy hunting, & bless all of you who are donating to the food bank.

I did all my shopping at Safeway this morning, including the return back for the Cadbury Easter products - it's all a part of the Sobey's/Safeway Blue Friday event. It was nice, another Sobey's about 5 minutes away had their grand opening today, so the Safeway store I went to was quieter than normal for a Blue Friday, and I was able to get all the items on both of my lists!

 

[Sparrow78]

Thanks for the tip about going to shell for gift cards. I'm heading out in a bit to do my shop. I saw the deal on pancake mix but we just bought at Costco, but thanks to whomever posted I'll do it and donate!!

We've got a brownie camp coming up I need to shop for next weekend so I may just add that in today once I check the list again.

 

[kerreyn]

y'all are putting my small little shop to shame! it's only DP and I right now (although maybe not for long!) and we only have our fridge freezer, so sometimes the blue friday offers just won't work. i would have gotten some
frozen veg, but i did a costco trip earlier this week so the freezer is just too full, and it will take us too long to get through something like the hummus.

i'm so excited for the people earning 1000+ miles today!

I tried to stick as much as possible to non-perishables this time for the same reason. The Chunky soup is great for work or camping, so I got five on each order, the Lysol cleaning supplies I got double, same with the Glad Garbage bags and Charmin TP, so I can take some to our office. I did get double the Green giant veggies, we go through at least one bag per meal, sometimes two when I'm trying to hide from carbs, lol. I got the Tide Pods on both orders, as well as the Becel (I'll freeze it). I only got one bag of apples, but I did get two boxes of oranges, one to squeeze for juice, one to eat.

 

[kerreyn]

Donated 8 pancake mixes and 5 cans of chunky soup to the food bank..."

What a great idea! I wish I had thought to do the same. Next month, I'll definitely donate to the food bank - win/win.

 

[explorer1977]

Thanks Jacqueline. When we lived in Ontario we lived in Guelph

 

[Donald - my hero]

Thanks Jacqueline. When we lived in Ontario we lived in Guelph

I grew up in the "area-ish" and we've lived in Guelph proper for almost 20 years , seriously can't believe it's been that long!

 

[marchingstar]

I tried to stick as much as possible to non-perishables this time for the same reason. The Chunky soup is great for work or camping, so I got five on each order, the Lysol cleaning supplies I got double, same with the Glad Garbage bags and Charmin TP, so I can take some to our office. I did get double the Green giant veggies, we go through at least one bag per meal, sometimes two when I'm trying to hide from carbs, lol. I got the Tide Pods on both orders, as well as the Becel (I'll freeze it). I only got one bag of apples, but I did get two boxes of oranges, one to squeeze for juice, one to eat.

It sounds like you cleaned up! I definitely won't complain, because I know we're lucky to have the Blue Friday deals over here in the West, this just wasn't the best set of offers for me. Garbage bags, TP, and laundry soap were all good miles, but I just stocked up on all 3 on Tuesday at Costco. I've had much better Blue Friday's in the past, I was just badly prepared (because I'd already filled our pantry!) for this one.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Blech...Maritimers could only dream of deals like these *sigh*

 

[buyerbrad]

Just returned from Foodland:

5 x $150 giftcards = 750 miles
All purchased with my Airmiles Amex

Then spent $50 off those giftcards on the following for another 187 miles

Bought 4 Prime Chicken = 150 miles
Bought 2 Goldfish crackers = 5 miles
Bought 3 Heinz pastas = 25 miles
Spent $40 = 2 miles

937 Total Miles

 

[hdrolfe]

Just got an email to sign up for April shopping, get 10 AM when you spend $30 at each of 3 places (mine are Sobeys, Shell and Staples). I will get some for Sobeys and Shell, but i don't really shop at Staples. You can use it once a day for the month, so up to 900 bonus AM.

Shop: Spend: Get:
SOBEYS $30 10 Bonus Miles
SHELL $30 10 Bonus Miles
STAPLES $30 10 Bonus Miles
Total
per day: Up to
30 Bonus Miles!

Get up to 900 Bonus Miles if you shop at all three
Partners every day in April!

 

[mernin]

You guys are really the air miles masters!! I was pretty happy with my Blue Friday deals - spent $150 for 373 AM. Much better than the typical 100 AM for $100 spent I would get.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Sobeys for me is buy $200 GC and get 95 miles. BUT, PC Plus sent me an offer of for every $50, get 10,000 points. I didn't receive any targeted food offers though, which is odd. I think I'll just buy the Sobeys card and keep it for next week, and jump on the PC plus points this week. And, they have some in-store egg hunt game where you can earn points.

 

[momof2gr8kids]

Thanks for the tip about going to shell for gift cards. I'm heading out in a bit to do my shop. I saw the deal on pancake mix but we just bought at Costco, but thanks to whomever posted I'll do it and donate!!

We've got a brownie camp coming up I need to shop for next weekend so I may just add that in today once I check the list again.

FYI you can only get the bonus on $100 at a time. Max of 5 transactions in a day. I totally forgot about that today when I bought $200 in Safeway GC's. Only got the 70 bonus.

 

[momof2gr8kids]

Wow - some of you guys did great with over 1,000 AM!

So I spent $221 (but will be reimbursed $55 by hockey team, so spent $162 of my money) and got 710 AM today. This included the 70 bonus at Shell -which could have been another 70 had I remembered the fine print about $100 max per transaction at Shell and 25 for my load and go offers.

I was happy that I had volunteered to pick up granola bars and oranges for our 3 on 3 hockey tourney this weekend and saw the bonus 40 am per case!! lucked out there. Considering going back for more dish detergent and vegetables.

My moms a huge shoppers drug mart customer, so I'm going to buy her gcs every couple of weeks from shell to use there, that she will reimburse me for, then I can get some extra am there as well.

 

[Sparrow78]

So the shell stations here don't have Safeway cards! So lol instead I bought the MasterCard and paid the stupid activation fee. But still 70 Airmiles! Apparently some in Calgary do, so next time I go there I'll try.

Then I went to Safeway and spent $132 and got 412 Airmiles. Diapers x100 pancake mix to food bank x100 pinteys, and I do t remember what else. I skipped veggies because I just stocked up a few weeks ago. Ours was out of syrup. Might try Sobeys later and grab more diapers,,, 2 kids in diapers I go through them fast lol and the pa is were bigger than I thought so at superstore I normally pay 33.72 for 156 in this case it's 184 for 40.00 so I'm not complaining!