My Candy Deal That Turned Out To Be Not So Sweet...But Publix Came To My Rescue!

So, first of all, you'll forgive me for this horrific picture, right? ;) My camera is not cooperating with me at the moment. It has dead batteries, a jam-packed memory card (that needs to be unloaded and sifted through), and my hubby's programmed settings (from taking pics for his business)...so in short, I had to turn the camera on as quick as I could, in hopes that I would get a decent picture. I failed...miserably. Haha! Shame on me as a couponer to not have bags of backup batteries. (I promise I usually do! There just haven't been any great deals lately!!!)

I ventured out to CVS tonight (all the way across the street). I was in luck when I got there - ONE Glade reed diffuser left (I wanted the candle, but the diffuser is just dandy). That took about two seconds...

Then, I made my way to the Halloween candy aisle for that super awesome candy deal where I would be walking out of CVS with EIGHT bags of candy for $.44 each! Yep, you guessed it...didn't happen. A couple of different factors contributed to my giving up on the candy deal, and I wanted to pass them along just to give you a heads up:

• The prices were not as I expected. There were so many different sizes and varieties. I couldn't find exactly what I wanted to pay as little out of pocket as possible. Many of the prices were higher than expected.
  
• I wasn't sure which "select Halloween candy" the deal was for. I didn't want to buy all of the candy, and be disappointed at not getting my $5 ECB afterwards. The labels were on some candy, but not others. My CVS is horrible at putting the sale tags out. Most of the time, they're not there. So, I wasn't sure: Were some of the ones not labeled really included in the sale or not? I didn't want to mess with it.
• I started looking at the fine print on that hot new $2/1 Nestle coupon that I had in my hand, and I noticed it was for a 24 oz bag or larger. That's a HUGE bag! The prices on those babies were about $6! Not worth it.
  

I just wanted to mainly let you know about the $2 coupons. Those won't make for as great a deal as I thought. I'm sure you can still get a great deal on the candy, combining different coupons. If you are wanting to buy a lot of Halloween candy, it's definitely the best sale out there right now that I've seen yet. I just didn't need 8 bags of candy, so I didn't feel like paying too high of an out of pocket expense (especially since we're on our $20/week budget right now).

As I was driving by Publix, I thought to myself, "Wait a minute...Publix had those huge bags of Nestle candy BOGO free this sale week!" So I pulled a U-turn and went on in. I wanted to go ahead and get them, because the sale ends tomorrow. So I got the two huge bags of candy pictured above for only $1.99 plus tax! They would have normally been $11.98 plus tax! What a steal! And now I have some candy to give to the cute little ones that knock on my door next weekend. =) The end.