would you do a big cereal deal to get the gas points?

[saversavory]

Just wondering, since no one has posted about this weeks ad and its almost over!!!

Im thinking about it. I wiped out my .20 gas points last week. i havent done a lot of shopping at tops lately but the 9th is the last day you can get the gas points! I was thinking of just doing up the cereal and a very few other things to get an almost free tank of gas. But the downside is that i dont have a large variety of coupons.


Ill probably just end up getting 50 boxes or less, even though the thought is nice, especially since i read you can only get 30 gallons and only use one car LOL

[kimandkathess]

I did this to get the rest of my points for free gas. I needed .70 more cents so I did the 12 boxes, used 10 coupons and got to $3.90 off a gallon.
My tops lets us split into 2 vehicles. My vehicle is only 18 gallons or so, so it would never fit. We were able to fill up my gas tank and 3/4 of my husbands truck.
We saved $115.

[saversavory]

great!! when i got there they had TWO boxes of raisin bran left. I ended up only getting 12 boxes! LOL!!!!! dh is really the only one who likes cheerios, and we got 2 boxes of frosted flakes too. they had NO corn flakes!

So i ended up getting 700 points, .70 off a gallon, i guess that had to be good enough. the woman promised the truckt hat came in had raisin bran, we went back the NEXT MORNING, the boy was stocking cereal, no raisin bran, we asked, he checked no freaking raisin bran, so we didnt purchase anything else... grr. oh well. the other tops half near me doesnt do gas, it prints out the catalinas, which would defeat my main purpose. but oh well, ill take .70 off per gallon over nothing!!

[kimandkathess]

I figure its a really (well was) good deal.

If you could have done 5 transactions of 12 boxes each. and 1 of 8. And have enough coupons that you could have them all double to make the boxes of cereal $1 each after doubles. You could have done this.

12 boxes cereal: 12 after doubles get .70c off a gallon x 5 = 60 boxes ceral for $60 and get $3.50 off
8 boxes cereal: $8 after doubles get .50 off a gallon = $4 off a gallon.

So for $68 you get 68 boxes of ceral and 30 gallons of free gas...BUT that is a lot of cereal lol!

[saversavory]

My qs were a buck off two unfortunately and they only double four of the same qs a day..if i had had some to double. Their stock of cereal was wiped out for what i had qs for except for cheerios. Its ok, i just wish they had raisin bran..lol