Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[kerreyn]

Back from Safeway.

As usual, I deviated from my list and ended up getting an extra 10 pkgs of the Franks Fiesta Bean mix (for the food bank, along with the Quaker Oatmeal for the food bank) and an extra 5 pkgs of the Johnsonville smokies (making perogies and polish smokies to take to my daughter's place for superbowl Sunday).

Spent $180.47 (exlud. tax) and earned 798 AM and .07 cents off gas as well.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Once again, no Blue Friday shopping for the Duck, eventually we'll manage to make this work! Hubby had a couple of fires crop up that he has to deal with and he can't afford to take the 2 - 3 hours out of his day for what would only net us MAYBE 100 miles. I told him that we HAVE to hit up a Rexall then, we could probably put together 2 $50 transactions and snag at least 200 AM

 

[marchingstar]

Once again, no Blue Friday shopping for the Duck, eventually we'll manage to make this work! Hubby had a couple of fires crop up that he has to deal with and he can't afford to take the 2 - 3 hours out of his day for what would only net us MAYBE 100 miles. I told him that we HAVE to hit up a Rexall then, we could probably put together 2 $50 transactions and snag at least 200 AM

it stinks, but it sounds like it wouldn't really be worth it anyways. I don't think I'm going to bother with Blue Friday either. There just aren't offers on things we use very often, so I would either be donating stuff or letting it sit in my cupboard. Maybe next time.

Instead, I'm going to stay home and bake a cake! I want to end up with a funky looking bundt cake, so this morning I made blueberry sauce. I'm going to try and make a fruit juice-based cake with a lemon cream cheese frosting. No air miles, but it should be fun!

 

[Donald - my hero]

it stinks, but it sounds like it wouldn't really be worth it anyways. I don't think I'm going to bother with Blue Friday either. There just aren't offers on things we use very often, so I would either be donating stuff or letting it sit in my cupboard. Maybe next time.

Instead, I'm going to stay home and bake a cake! I want to end up with a funky looking bundt cake, so this morning I made blueberry sauce. I'm going to try and make a fruit juice-based cake with a lemon cream cheese frosting. No air miles, but it should be fun!

Unfortunately for us, all of the things we would have been buying ARE on our list for this week 2 of the items are on my perpetual "wait for a sale and stock up" list as well.

Your time will be better spent making a cake! Yesterday was sammich bread baking for me and I was thinking about making cheese bread today but ran out of steam before i pulled Max out of the cupboard. BUT a cake?? huhm, maybe we need one too ....

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Anyone get an offer like this today?

 

[Donald - my hero]

YUP! Just came now but slightly different threshold for the Duck who rarely shops at Sobey's!

 

[tinkerone]

One year ago I started doing Rewarding Your Opinion to collect AM's. Since this is the one year mark I thought I would report in. To date I have collected 2254 AM's doing surveys. I will say that there was a 6 week or so time period where they had my account locked for some reason and I have only done a few surveys since the end of November. Over all I could have done better but it was a fairly easy 2254.
If anyone is thinking about doing this I would say go for it. Might want to wait and see if its one of the items for the Mega Miles or Shop the Block offers as it has been in the past but for sure, sign up.

 

[Pumpkin1172]

I did stop for a quick shop at Safeway today...only picked up perogies and laundry detergent. Spent 23.45 and got 100 AM. I might swing by and pick up more laundry detergent again. Not many other things that we would use...and we are trying to cut back on extra spending. So I'll take by 100 AM for 23 bucks

 

[Pumpkin1172]

One year ago I started doing Rewarding Your Opinion to collect AM's. Since this is the one year mark I thought I would report in. To date I have collected 2254 AM's doing surveys. I will say that there was a 6 week or so time period where they had my account locked for some reason and I have only done a few surveys since the end of November. Over all I could have done better but it was a fairly easy 2254.
If anyone is thinking about doing this I would say go for it. Might want to wait and see if its one of the items for the Mega Miles or Shop the Block offers as it has been in the past but for sure, sign up.

Those rewards add up. I average around 50 - 75 AM a month just doing those. I tend to do them later in the evening while watching mindless tv. They add up over the year. It makes me want to go back and see how many I collected over the year.

 

[juniorbugman]

I did a Blue Friday shop today at Sobeys and for my $133 shop I netted 479 airmiles. 6 reg miles, 30 bonus threshold spend, 2 loaded offers of 13 and the rest were my Blue Friday bonus miles. Of my 50 items bought only 7 were not blue Friday deals but they were items needed so I think that I did good. I was going to buy the 8 bags of Old Dutch chips and get 100 air miles but I figured I didn't need all that salty junk food but I did buy one of the braided strudels that I plan to enjoy.

 

[osully]

On my way to Sobeys now... wish me luck!

 

[Spotthecat]

We leave for our disney cruise in 6 days...trying not to go nuts buying groceries. The lure of Blue Friday isn't as great when it's accompanied by a 30 minute drive to get there...

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

I did the Folgers k-cups and Tostitos (80 miles total) for $27. I had to get a raincheck for the Frank's dips. I don't even know if our local Sobeys' carries these.

 

[Glynis4]

I did Blue Friday at IGA today. Not my usual grocery store, but I was in the area. It was awesome! They had everything I wanted - franks dip mix, perogies, oatmeal (I can not buy ANY more oatmeal now lol), & Tostitos (I bought 4 bags, wish I would have bought some salsa instead of so many bags, not sure what I was thinking....) This was mid afternoon. Spent $49 (got a couple random other things I needed while there), and 252AM.

 

[osully]

So by the time I got to Sobeys there were exactly 2 packets left of the Frank's Buffalo Ranch seasoning mix at $0.99 ea, picked up those. There were 2 or 3 each of the dry spice mix bottles at $3.99 ea so I got one of each flavour like I wanted to (hello Buffalo Ranch Popcorn!), and then I remembered I needed 5 items so I picked up the smallest possible bottle of Frank's Red Hot which was like 150ml and only $2.49. I had a targeted offer for that one actually!

For the first time in a long time, they had enough of everything I wanted to pick up! Woohoo! Sausages, Franks', Tostitos, Folgers, mayo... everything!

Spent $101.07 and got 323AM. Plus I got a free 12 pack of the Bubly sparkling water with my Tostitos so thanks for the tip

 

[osully]

Guys... the avocado oil mayo from Hellmann's is GOOD! It's not 100% avocado oil unfortunately, it's made with canola too.

Anyone else pick some of that up yesterday?

 

[momof2gr8kids]

I didn't get to Safeway until 8 pm. I wasn't planning a big BF shop really so I wasn't too disappointed that they were out of a lot of things. I got chips and tortillas/salsa for superbowl. I forgot to get a rain check for the Franks package dips. Those were cleaned right out. But, I'm in use up stuff in my cupboard mode so I didn't need so buy large quantities of stuff I don't need for a while. Managed 290 AM with a $133 spend. Today (or tomorrow seeing as it's late for me already! lol) I'm making some Italian Sausage soup with the sausages from there!

I also got the MC Bonus for Safeway - up to 220 if I spend $440. Not sure I'll be able to do that in a month there. Depends on their specials. I've been shopping for my mom too so hopefully they'll have a big sale on Campbells soup or toilet paper and she'll want to stock up for 6 months!! Ha.

 

[tinkerone]

I received an offer I haven't seen posted yet (but I may have missed it). From Shell

Get 50 AIR MILES® Bonus Miles
when you complete 4 eligible in-store purchases of $5 or more
This offer is valid from February 1 – February 28, 2019. It’s exclusively for your AIR MILES Collector Number ending in XXXX.

Simply swipe your Card – no coupon required!

 

[sechelt]

I got 417 am and spent $136. I don't usually go to Blue Friday but have been reading everyone's posts and feel so motivated to get enough points for my trip to Australia. Today I'm heading to Rexall to see if there's anything there for me to reach the $50 mark. I won't buy just to get points unless it's something I'll truly use.

Thanks for all the tips everyone!!

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

I earned 21,600 PC Optimum points today on $149. Not too bad.