I hope you didn't think my comments were disparaging; they weren't meant that way at all. I'm quite impressed with how well you and some others on this thread have been able to make use of the offers available to you.
I'll use whatever air miles I have to buy WDW tickets, because it seems a pretty good value for the miles. But our trip is not contingent on saving air miles for the tickets, so there's no real time pressure on accumulating them. Actually the tickets I pick up aren't even necessarily for a particular trip - we'll go again sometime, and when we do, it's one less thing I'll have to pay for. Yay!
I've been doing a lot more shopping at Sobeys and collecting a lot more miles as a result of this thread, but I do find I have to be careful. I don't buy anything we won't use, but I do occasionally buy stuff I might not have bought otherwise, and I'm also sometimes tempted to pay a bit more for something I could find cheaper elsewhere. For example, last week I bought a couple of the strawberry/blackberry/mango deals at Sobeys. They are all things I regularly (or at least occasionally) buy, and we will use all of it, but I could definitely buy the strawberries (and probably the blackberries) cheaper at Costco. And it's not even like I'd have to make a special trip to Costco to do it - I was there half an hour before the Sobeys trip! So I'm trying to avoid letting myself fall into a habit of "chasing" air miles - I'll pick them up when it's convenient and cost effective, but it's hard for me to justify a 100km round-trip journey just for Air Miles. Even for a
really good Air Miles offer!
Happy collecting, and thanks for all the ongoing tips!