because everyone needs their dan miller
For awhile now, some friends of mine have been planning a trip to try and visit all 88 Ohio Counties in 24 hours or less. This trip is code-named EFC (Every Freakin’ County). In any case, I would just like to report to all my loyal readers that I have come up with a route that can do it in 27 hours, 49 minutes (31 minutes faster than the previous best route). Still not 24 hours, but I have confidence it CAN be done.
Went out for a lunch time excursion. I bought:
8 packages of diapers (2 each for sizes 3, 4, 5 and 6)
30 bottles of ketchup
Grand total: $13.90
About $100 savings – not bad for an hour or so.
If I were to remake the movie Dr. Strangelove, I would sub-title it “How I learned that Oliver Perez sucks”
I had a really nice experience at a USCAN at the Tylersville Meijer at lunch today. Then hit the Fields Ertel store on my way home and wooo did I have some problems. I have a lot of gift cards left over from super doubles, so at lunch I just used my GCs to pay and saved my Catalinas. So on my way home I tried to buy 5 ketchups and a $25 GC and use 6 $5 Catalinas. They wouldn’t scan so the cashier gets her manager. She comes back (with attitude) and says limit of 2 identical coupons and shoves the other 4 back at me. I say there’s a limit of 2 that will double, but no limit. she’s like “my manager is right there – she just said so”. So I tell her to get the manager. Manager comes over with the same spiel. I couldn’t find an ad, which clearly says “Limit of 2 will double; additional coupons redeemable at face value”. She calls the store manager, who tells her over the phone to scan them all. mwawhahahahaa
Total on the day:
60 bottles of ketchup
2 packages of diapers
1 dozen eggs
$2.49
Well I went into Sunday Night needing a good performance out of Brett Myers and Bobby Abreu to go 0-fer. I go to an EQ meeting and get back and whaddaya know, Abreu is 0-3 and Myers has pitched 8 shutout innings.
Tragically, not enough. Even before Abreu got a hit in the 9th, Myers 4 H in 8 IP left me just shy in WHIP, and since the game was 0-0 due to Mike Hampton also rockin the leather, he didn’t get a win (which might also have given me the win)
Die.
Okay – just finished my final trip to Meijer. I decided to get very anal-retentive about the record keeping this time 
Here is what I got.
56 Pasta Roni World Flavors
48 Pop Tarts 12 ct
40 Martha White Pizza Crust
26 Chi-Chi Fiesta Dips
23 Purell Hand Sanitizer 1 oz
20 Cheese Nips
20 Mrs. Butterworth syrup
18 Open Pit BBQ Sauce
16 Eggo Waffles 10-ct
15 Suave Conditioner
15 Suave Shampoo
14 Betty Crocker Cookie Mix
12 Huggies Wipes 72-ct
12 Crest Sensitivity Toothpaste
10 Sara Lee Pies
10 Ban Deodorant
9 Dannon Yogurt 4-packs
9 Crest Toothbrush
8 Scotch Tape 3-packs
8 Gum Toothbrush
8 Suave Detangler
8 Super Pretzel
5 Milk Gallon
4 Smuckers Low Sugar Jam
4 Cinnamon Toast Crunch
4 Sargento Cheese
4 White Rain Shampoo
4 Special K with Red Berries
4 Froot Loops
2 Bisquick
2 Crest Extreme Whitening Toothpaste
2 Scotch Tape Magic Tape
2 Kraft Mayonnaise 32 oz
2 Raisin Bran Crunch
1 Fiber Choice
1 Prenatal Vitamins
1 Pillsbury Toaster Strudel
1 Mccain French Fries
1 Colgate Toothbrush
That was $949.07 of groceries (including $7.96 total in tax)
$309.63 in coupons
$283.31 in doublage
$335.18 in store savings (rainchecks!)
$42.00 in Catalinas / Meijer fuel rewards
Final total:
-$21.05!!!!
Yes, negative. I found a good trick where I would always buy a $10 GC (gift card) with each order. That allowed me to get all of my overage. So on a typical trip, I’d buy a $10 GC, but after all my food and coupons were scanned, my total would only be like $8.24. So, out of pocket I probably went about $50 and have about $75 in GCs to use in the future.
Looking questionable for the RHD in Game 6.
I’m up 6-2 as I write this, but he has Colon going tonight and my pitcher, Oliver Perez, got his world rocked (ps thank you mr. my first pick).
Unless Colon gets rocked, I’ll need to hang on to the categories I have and then it will go to extras
Percival and Cordero both looking in line for saves, which is nice. Of course with my luck, they’ll screw it up
So last night I was putting the kids to bed. I was upstairs reading books and then went to put them to bed. Scott had pooped, so after I took Amy to bed, Scott and I went downstairs and I changed his diaper, then took him back upstairs. All good, right?
Except for this morning about 7 when I’m laying in bed and he starts crying pretty hard. I go up there and he’s all wet. So I took him downstairs – I figured his diaper had leaked or something. But then I took his pants off and he didn’t have a diaper on. My first thought was that he had somehow taken off his diaper in the night (he’s been known to do that). But it did seem odd that he would then put his pants back ON. Confirming the theory that I had just forgotten to put a diaper back on him – there was no diaper to be found in his crib.
So…. oops?
Browsing around on some coupon message boards as I frequently do, I came across this link to an article called When to play the rebate game.
Moderately interesting, but what was more interesting was this quote:
According to our resident Shopper.com shopping expert, Dan Miller,
THE PEOPLE MUST HAVE THEIR DAN MILLER!!!