They Drew First Blood...

Today was our holiday party at work and we had our Secret Santa exchange. My person loved the holiday decorations I bought at CVS - excellent! A couple folks within my department also exchanged presents. Along with a couple other goodies, I got my department some scratch off lotto tickets and one woman won $24! My coworker bought me this beautiful ornament from HSN. Part of the proceeds go to benefit St. Jude Childrens' Hospital and each ornament was designed by a celebrity. Guess who designed the one she bought me?
RAMBO!!! Isn't it adorable? I turned it around, expecting a grenade or machine gun to be on the back but no dice.
Rite Aid - UPDATE - the third $5 UP is limit 1 only. I bought four more today (12/24) and wasn't sure why I didn't get the UP but that's the reason.

• Motrin PM (20 ct.) $4.79 (reg price $5.99, got 20% discount), used $2 circular coupon, $2 coupon (11/22 SS or Sept. All You magazine) and got back $3 UP = $2.21 profit
• 4 L'oreal Go Clean 360 Facial Cleansers $6.69 each, BOGO 50% off so $20.07, used two $3 off 2 coupons (10/24 RP) and got back three $5 UP's ($5 WYB 2, third $5 UP is a mystery one) = $0.93 profit - another deal I stole from A Super Savvy Saver :)
  
• 2 Tugaboos $0.79 each ($0.99 reg price, 20% Wellness discount), used two $1 coupons (found inside package) = $0.42 profit
• 4 Reeses Big Cups $0.50 each, used two BOGO coupons (12/12 SS) and got back $1 UP (WYB 4) = FREE
  
• Acne Free Terminator $4.49 ($5.99 reg. price, 25% sale), used $1 coupon (10/17 RP) and got back $3 UP = $0.49 each
• Used $5 off $25 coupon (this scanned as a penny again! they manually put in $5), two $5 UP's and $3 UP, total was $2.11, overall profit $6.89
  

At another store, I bought:

• Motrin PM (20 ct.) $4.79 (reg price $5.99, got 20% discount), used $2 circular coupon, $2 coupon (11/22 SS or Sept. All You magazine) and got back $3 UP = $2.21 profit
• 4 L'oreal Go Clean 360 Facial Cleansers $6.69 each, BOGO 50% off so $20.07, used two $3 off 2 coupons (10/24 RP) and got back three $5 UP's ($5 WYB 2, third $5 UP is a mystery one) = $0.93 profit
• Rose Pick Up Sticks $1.94 ($2.59 reg price, 25% sale), got back $2 UP = $0.06 profit
  
• 4 Reeses Big Cups $0.50 each, used two BOGO coupons (12/12 SS) and got back $1 UP (WYB 4) = FREE
• Used three $5 UP's and two $1 UP's, total was $2.47, overall profit $1.53
  

The $5/$25 coupon I had with me in this store expired in November! I was pretty ticked at myself for not bringing a newer one with me, but I still made a profit so that's cool.

ShopRite

• 3 Rayovac Batteries $1.49 each
• 3 Hillshire Farms Hearty Slices Ham $3.99, used three $0.55 peelie coupons and will submit for $6 Budweiser NBPR rebate on $10 of turkey, ham or deli platters = $2.67 for all three
  
• Used three $2.50 catalinas (WYB toys, batteries or appliances), total was $5.91

I knew the third cat wouldn't scan because it printed really lightly. The self-checkout cashier attempted to put it in manually and it was giving her some error message. So she tells me that the store changed their policy to only allow two $2.50 cats per order. When I told her that I'd successfully used four of the same cats last night without a problem, she said that the policy changed mid-week just with the cats "that have a newer expiration date." Umm, yeah no, that's a load of you-know-what. She said I could void one of my items off my order and purchase it separately and started to pull things out of my bag. I said "no thank you, I'd like to use all three cats at once since your own coupon policy states you can use four of the same coupons per order." She said she needed to help another customer "real quick" and walked away! I was left standing there (with my mouth open in surprise) until she finally called over a manager who promptly scanned the cat in properly. So irritating. I cannot stand it when cashiers make up rules for why things aren't working. I'd respect them a hell of a lot more if they just said "hmm, that's weird, I don't know why that's not working." Is that so hard?