I would be really surprised if it isnt Bristol... She is such a pretty sweet young thing.. But her dancing.. YIKES! Reminds me of Kate.
So did Bristol get kicked off?
OMG! I'm on dial up internet, this is freakin' hilarious!
Our internet card broke. I paid for insurance in case it broke. Now they want another $50 to send a new one, even with the insurance! We only have 3 months left on the contract & I can pay a $70 early termination fee if I want to get out of the 3 months.
I'm so freakin mad that they won't replace it without a new 2 year contract.
Makes ya wonder, huh?
That's ridiculous! I would call again and ask for their retentions dept, maybe with a different agent you will get a better response. People post on Slick deals all the time of how they hang up and call to get another agent to get the desired response.
Heck check on Slick Deals for any "get out of contract free" threads. If the company changes even a small fee you can call them and say how unhappy you are .. ta-da.. no fees, out of contract.
Slightly underhanded, borderline creepy? Possibly
Worth the money staying in your pocket? Heck YES!
Hopefully the other signal works for you, that's a killer price for high speed.
Did my doubling run. Sis went to the other location today, we are both so tired of dealing with staff restocking on a busy coupon morning.
What a change! I sped thru and they had everything I wanted.
The produce dept is lacking at this store.. but I tend to buy my produce at another chain or farmer's market anyway. It was nice to have the wider aisles and not as busy. It's in a low income neighborhood, sadly most people on food stamps don't use coupons.. which is just WRONG to me. You can stretch that dollar a lot further if you play the coupon game.
$68 in groceries before coupons
After coupons (store, 5 doubles, free, high value) it was $24
Real food too! Organic milk, organic sour cream, orange juice, eggs, 7 bags shredded cheese, 3 blocks of cheese, 2 sausage rolls, grapes, bananas, cream, brats, tortillas, TP ( I aim for 1¢ per sq foot, scored at less price this time) and freebie coupons for non food items.
mmmmm, can't wait to crack open that organic milk! They haven't had a good deal to match with coupons for a VERY long time.
And yeah, it costs more per gallon than the cheapie milk.. but we will actually DRINK all of the organic. The cheapie stuff is okay for a few days before it tastes gross and chemical residue slim. Ewwwwwww!
Yet the more expensive non organic bgh free does NOT taste bad.
I've read posts on slickdeals and other places that coupons end up costing them cash out of hand, cash they might not have to use. Maybe the key is to buy non taxed items only if using coupons and EBT. It would make my head spin to figure out why it costs more than I expected and wonder if the register screwed up charging me tax when it should not. (Most food is tax free in MN, pop/candy/chips are the exceptions of course. There is some weird one about 10% or less juice items and technically some candy is considered non tax if it has X amt of ingredients in certain categories... lost yet? yeah me too!)
The link you posted doesn't discuss gift card with purchase items. I read of someone using EBT in a Target GC with purchase deal on cereal.. Typically it's buy 3 of X , prompts cashier to scan a promo gift card. The $5 gift card is added and then subtracted from the order. However, EBT thinks of the GC as being a non food item, register charges the person $5 cash.
Another stretcher idea.. buy food items that generate a catalina ($ off on you next order coupon). Use the catalina to buy non food items.. Ta da! You get toilet paper, toothpaste, pet food, deli with no cost out of pocket to you.
When I tell them I want it baked, they always remind me that EBT is not accepted on baked pizzas. I usually ask if it's ok to pay with US currency...that always blows their mind for a minute.
Did you know Kit Kats are not candy? According to MN sales tax they are not taxable as they have flour as an ingredient. If it was soy flour or other substitute.. it would then be candy.
Potato chips are a non taxable food, chocolate covered potato chips would be candy.
Trail mix is not taxable, add M&M's .. it magically becomes taxable.
Dried fruit - no tax, add "sweetener" of any type.. magically it's candy and thus taxable.
Then there is the weird things like pre cut celery (processed by the seller -- not a manufacturer), no tax. Celery combined with other foods, taxed. It's the combination with other items that makes it taxable. Then there is the ready to eat category and something about utensils packaged with product or available at point of sale... but my head started to hurt.
Our's is almost identical. One of the political commercials trying to get rid of the tax has a local manufacturer of organic food bars saying that her product is taxed and some candy bar's aren't.
When they started taxing some food products a few months ago they even added a tax to bottled water.
I opted for plan #2 which will cost $34 a month. If that is not enough speed, then I can step up in $10 increments. There most expensive plan is the same price as my current plan...crazy! Only time will tell!
Our new high speed internet will be installed next Thursday.
Their employee said the $34 plan should give me a bit better speed then what I have right now with AT&T internet card.
Can I survive one more week of Netzero?
I would be really surprised if it isnt Bristol... She is such a pretty sweet young thing.. But her dancing.. YIKES! Reminds me of Kate.
I don't watch regular TV, but from what I heard about Kate's dancing..
Is the show that desperate for stars that they pick someone who really isn't a "star"?
Did my doubling run. Sis went to the other location today, we are both so tired of dealing with staff restocking on a busy coupon morning.
What a change! I sped thru and they had everything I wanted.
The produce dept is lacking at this store.. but I tend to buy my produce at another chain or farmer's market anyway. It was nice to have the wider aisles and not as busy. It's in a low income neighborhood, sadly most people on food stamps don't use coupons.. which is just WRONG to me. You can stretch that dollar a lot further if you play the coupon game.
$68 in groceries before coupons
After coupons (store, 5 doubles, free, high value) it was $24
Real food too! Organic milk, organic sour cream, orange juice, eggs, 7 bags shredded cheese, 3 blocks of cheese, 2 sausage rolls, grapes, bananas, cream, brats, tortillas, TP ( I aim for 1¢ per sq foot, scored at less price this time) and freebie coupons for non food items.
mmmmm, can't wait to crack open that organic milk! They haven't had a good deal to match with coupons for a VERY long time.
And yeah, it costs more per gallon than the cheapie milk.. but we will actually DRINK all of the organic. The cheapie stuff is okay for a few days before it tastes gross and chemical residue slim. Ewwwwwww!
Yet the more expensive non organic bgh free does NOT taste bad.
Our two year contract ends in January, so not really a big deal. I would like to get away from AT&T if I can. Being able to have only 1 computer on the internet at a time is starting to suck. When it was just me, not a problem. But now that DD is in college she's using the internet for her school projects and has to turn in assignments. DS seems to be addicted to Farmville. And having to run thru the house and holler "where's the internet" is starting to sound stupid!
All of our phones are off contract and I will most likely switch them to Walmart's new family plan. I'm just tired of AT&T and their games!
Interesting, I know when my sister was using food stamps here in WA she was given information & encouraged to use mfg. coupons.
I was just reading the USDA's EBT rules on coupons and found something interesting. If you use a mfg. coupon where you have to buy two items to get the amount off...say buy 1 box of Wheaties (food stamp item) and 1 pair of Nike shoes (non food stamp item) and get $2 off...you can choose where to apply the $2. So you can have them apply the $2 off to your non-food stamp item (the shoes) so you pay less cash.
That doesn't happen very often, but brings up an interesting concept as more states try to restrict "junk food" items from food stamps. For instance, WA state allows EBT for take n bake pizzas. So if you have a coupon good for "Buy 2 Pizzas & 2 liters of Soda Pop & get $2 off" and your state considers soda pop a non-EBT item, you could use the coupon and pay for the pizzas and get the $2 taken off the soda pop. But what if the soda pop is only 99 cents a liter? They would then owe you 2 cents.
BTW, DD's BFF works at Papa Murphy's pizza. They only do take n bake and accept EBT for pizzas. She said that approximately 90% of their business is EBT and the manager said it had been every since the state started allowing EBT for take n bake pizzas. That explains why there seems to be a take n bake pizza shop on every corner around here. Not only that, she said that the majority of the people that clip their coupons are non-EBT customers.
so im screwed there...I have asked various people if they get sunday paper and none of them do...Im just not sure how else I can save money...HELP!!!!
ok I need some seriousl help you 2...I am trying to understand this coupon business but its not as easy as you guys make out..I think it is for you because you understand it but to someone like me who has NEVER done coupons before it is mindblowing...so here is my situation...even though we have 80k people in our town, we dont have grocery stores like Ralphs, Vons, Safeway etc...we have 3 stores Food 4 Less, a local chain called Save Mart and Raleys aka Nob Hill....I never go to Raleys because its so dang expensive and I dont get the paper so I cant get good coupons...I do clip from coupons.com, Redplum and places like that but last week when I was at F4L they said they aare being told not to accept printed out coupons because people are counterfeiting them even with the watermark
