Staples Sneak Preview 7/26-8/1/09

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Staples Weekly Ad

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[Ravin01]

I think I am going to use the $5/$30 on the Avery binders. Website has the 1" priced at $4.49 each (sale is buy 3, get one free) so a total of $13.47

Will still need some more things to bring it up to $30 though. Any ideas?

There is a Q on coupons.com for $1 on any 2 Bic Stationery products. Do you think that would work on the mechanical pencils?

[OsweetchildrenO]

Those $9.99 chairs are so uncomfortable - and very breakable..lol....Just sayin'

There is an Expo coupon out there somewhere as well

[cmricha2]

Originally Posted by OsweetchildrenO Those $9.99 chairs are so uncomfortable - and very breakable..lol....Just sayin' There is an Expo coupon out there somewhere as well

Thanks for the info. I have been looking for a new chair and thought these would be worth looking at, but if they are uncomfortable - forget it.

[Josiology]

I have tried printing that expo coupon on three different browsers now and it will not print. Grrr.....

[Josiology]

39.98 - (2) Chairs @ 19.99 ea
.50 - (2) packs of Bic mech. pencils @ .25 ea
.50 - (2) pencil cases @ .25 ea
.50 - (2) index cards @ .25 ea

TOTAL before q's = $41.48

minus:

$5/30 coupon from paper
$1/2 any bic stationery products
9.99 Rebate
9.99 Rebate

=15.50 for 2 chairs and some misc school supplies. They won't be used that often, so I'm not needing anything super comfortable or durable. These should be perfect for my needs.

If I can figure out how to print those stupid expo coupons this will be a better deal.

[Teens&Tots]

just bought 2 of those stupid chairs for $15 a piece wonder if they would fix it for me - grrr -they aren't the best, but perfect for the 6 and 5 yo for now....

[goatette]

Originally Posted by Ravin01 There is a Q on coupons.com for $1 on any 2 Bic Stationery products. Do you think that would work on the mechanical pencils?

Yep, it worked at my local Staples in S. Burlington, back in w/ 2 packs Bic Matic Grip Pencils
to Ravin01 & Free stuff times for heads up

[TSUalum93]

I love my Staples. It is a newer store and a small one (but not Express). The regular staff knows us (new group of in training young folks just hired and all super nice and helpful). This is a tough area to work in -- what I mean is they get very hard hit when they do these sales. We have a large population of immigrant families who bring in everyone in their family and each one of them including all of their children do an order. I have no problem with that but some (of course not all) are not as nice as they could be and the language barrier can make it challenging. I saw one young cashier trying very hard to explain to someone they had the wrong glue for the sale today and she never lost her cool.

My husband is a teacher and they let him get 25 of each item. The customer service lead (Nancy) sold us a laptop a year ago and is always so nice to us. She even told me today I no longer have to drag my husband out early on Sunday mornings for these deals. She will honor the 25 limit for me (I do work for a college but I am not a teacher so I have never asked because I want to play by the rules and I am not a teacher).

We did two orders. One of them was with the chair. With the $5/$30 and the rebate I consider it a $5 chair and we need it just for the desktop in our apartment so even if it is uncomfortable we really won't be using it a lot but it will be nice to have. We purchased 41 other $.25 items to get to $30. We did not come close to getting 25 of any one item which we could have but we don't want to be hogs and prefer to get what we need/can use. We had the $.50 and $1/2 printables for the mechanical pencils and had no problem using them combined with the in ad coupon.

My stepson has a netbook and forgot to tell us the McAfee trial was over and he says it is running slow. I talked to Nancy about it last week and was going to bring it in but had to wait for a package from work. It turned out to be a huge blessing. She said go with Norton 360 but they charge $29.99 to install it (net books do not have a drive to put in the disk). Well this week the software is on sale plus free installation. What would have cost $70 (software and installation plus tax) came out to $31.XX with tax! We were able to use the $5 in ad coupon (we had two) on the software (it would not have been good towards a service like the installation) bringing the cost down from the sale price of $34.99 to $29.99 plus the free install AND a free PC tune up. Plus the Norton disk is good for up to three computers so I can load it onto our desktop and my husbands laptop (I have a laptop from work with corporate loaded anti-virus software so I do NOT touch it).

It is only Sunday and I can't wait for the next sneak peak to be up :)

Maddy