After Christmas sales

toomuchglass

15 years ago

I hear that one word that just makes me crazy .....

CLEARANCE

Do you hit those sales ? 60% off ? 75% off? 90% off !!!

I'm going to try and refrain this year

( Famous last words)

Can you resist ???

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amberscu
15 years ago
I act like I have never been shopping when I see the after Christmas clearance! It's almost embarrassing!! I try to get most of my gifts for the next year. That is about the only way I can afford things! A lot of times, I get gift cards to Walmart. I then go to the after Chrismtas sales and use my gift card. The gifts then cost me nothing. I couldn't buy for my hubby's family if I didn't do it this way.

Can you beat $20.00 gift sets for $2.00??? Then on top of that, all of the Chrsitmas crafts!!
kudzukween
15 years ago
TMG....!!! I LOVE the sales, in fact, when I pulled the Christmas storage bins down, I could see we didn't need to buy gift wrap or gift boxes, or wired/or any kind of ribbon..gift bags or tissue! I try to buy the white boxes for all occasions, and the solid color wrapping papers and tissues in any color that works all year! Plus I also check the yard sales after Christmas, so many military families moving, and I like to buy anything with beads, and all the leftover gift wrap stuff they have,and all the gifts they got for Christmas that they turn around and get rid of the week after Christmas! Now I'm rambling.....
Kudzu
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Thought I had started my above response with today's find, but see I didn't. It must have been on my other board. Today I went to a town about 20 minutes away with my sister. She was looking for a pair of winter boots that she had seen there. We stopped in a Walgreens to look. We don't have a Walgreens, but one is being built a few miles away in our sister city. Anyway today I found two 6 foot lighted trees in urns for $10 each at Walgreens. They were originally $39.99! I was really excited. They had three more and I really wish that I would have bought at least one more. The two I got are for the outside of the house in the front. We will be screening our covered back porch in soon and I should have gotten one for out there and I think that I might like the look of one in my entry. The size would be good for it. Oh well, at least I got the two.
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Judith, I saw those flowers, the big one was marked down from $49 and I think it came to like $12.50 or so. I so wanted to get it & then wondered where I'd put it, so I settled for one little one for on the end of my kitchen counter for now. This in between after xmas, after new year & not yet anything else, is perplexing, so I opted for the red flower just to have something on the counter for now. You did good if you got the big one, it was so pretty & I debated on it for sure. We'll probably see it used in a tablescape of yours & I'll be kicking myself for not buying it!!!! LOL
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I've tried gift certificates, they certainly have advantages such as time savings and making decisions so much easier. However, for me they weren't money savers. Not to give and sometimes not to receive either. I tend to buy presents on big discounts, thus the actual amount I spend per person looks rather small on paper, and when given to someone else with the limitation of being able to spend it in just one store, it doesn't actually go that far. For example I can hunt around the stores and buy my sister a really nice jumper for perhaps Â£12.99, but if I give her a Â£12.99 gift certificate limited to just one store she won't be able to get a really nice jumper without adding at least another Â£10 to it. The certificates are often issued only by major retailers and most of them are quite expensive places to shop. The lower range of certificates such as Â£10 or even Â£20 will not entirely buy anything in many stores now. On the receiving end I don't mind certificates as I get to choose for myself, but often they mean going to places I wouldn't normally shop. This can be a positive thing, but other times it reaffirms why I don't shop there. Either I don't like the items or I don't like the prices. Prices shouldn't matter when you have a certificate, but often you have to make up the total price for an item with more money. I've had a few smaller certificates for Â£5 or Â£10 for shops, which I've been to only to discover that with the certificate the cost to me of any items I could use/want are only just starting to become average price, and honestly I haven't bought anything at average price for years. I almost never buy outside of sales. I live in a big city and have the internet, every day is sale day somewhere! Why be shopping anywhere else? I feel bad not using a certificate, but when it means I have to shop somewhere I find excessively expensive and I have to find the extra money to afford something, then it seems to be a bad financial choice. I have savings to build for university, I can't afford bad financial choices. I'll just pass the certificate on to someone else and hope they find a better use for it.
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I shopped online. Yesterday I put a really cool table runner (50% off!) in my virtual cart at Pier One and then got distracted. Today I got back online, put a few more things in my cart and went to checkout. Guess what? The table runner was sold out! Somebody apparently snitched it right out of my cart overnight. Dadgum it!
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toomuchglass
Original Author
15 years ago
I was truly hoping the replies would discourage me from shopping the clearance sales ...... THEY DIDN'T !!!!
My willpower just went out the window ... I'll be out there with you scooping up the bargains !

LOL
luvstocraft
15 years ago
Toomuch, maybe I shouldn't tell you this but some places like Big Lots and Michael's are already having 50% to 70% off sales now! I stopped at Big Lots yesterday and bought garlands that had been $7.99 for half price, wide wired ribbon for $2.00, and some darling dishtowels with recipes and cookie cutters on them for only $1.25 each--they're being stashed away for neighbor gifts next year. I thought Michael's was pretty picked over and the more expensive things were still too high, will check back later for bigger reductions. Hard to pass up those kinds of savings, better than waiting until next year and paying full price. Luvs
sunnyca_gw
15 years ago
I stopped going to after xmas sales. It is so crowded out here that before xmas you spend 10 minutes driving around the parking lot trying to find a place to park & then inside it is a mad house. I can go shopping in my own house. I keep coming across stuff I didn't know I had. I need to put up a sign out front & open for business.LOL Jan
maximavswife
15 years ago
In my head I am saying I will be good...but...I am at the same time emailing a girlfriend our "must go there" itinerary for Friday.....

Kath
"I will be good"
melvalena
15 years ago
I've never been to after Christmas sales.
su333
15 years ago
I would love to go, but I can't drive so I have
to wait until my husband takes me, he has to work
so I just wait. I wouldn't mind going with any of
you. Ha Ha
Su
grandma_bonnie
15 years ago
I'm going to a Mervyns to check out their displays - it will be closing in a week and I can always use more displays...
leveta
15 years ago
I hit Menards and Michaels yesterday...And boy did I buy...Fill my BIL's car trunk up....
lynnencfan
15 years ago
I have been to them all - Micheals, 2 Walmarts, BigLots, Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Family Dollar. I was looking mostly for Cookie type containers and dishes - also picked up those big 4" Christmas balls from Walmart - 6 in a package for $2.50. I have also been doing some online clearance shopping - mostly for rustic ornaments for my back porch woodsy/nature tree. As an extended family my sisters and I have decided to do all homemade gifts next year - kids are crafty also so I am getting some supplies in for all that stuff. Since I don't work and have the space I am setting up a craft room so anyone can come over and work on projects through-out the year - especially the children. Looking forward to getting back into crafting full time again. I have missed it due to some family deaths and illnesses and adjusting to a new life but it is time. I see some familiar faces from the Holiday forum so hopefully will fit in here also. Hope I haven't bored you with my rambling - but let me introduce myself - my name is Lynne and I am a craftaholic :) .....

Lynne
Adella Bedella
15 years ago
I went to Hobby Lobby yesterday. Thei stuff is still only 50% off. I'm going to have to have abetter sale than that to buy stuff that has set out all season.

I went to a different store and hit the 75% off sale. I bought 30 fabric tablecloths for a banquet for only $1.25 each. Then I also bought four in the same color, but different style for $.61 each. I bought 48 vanilla voltives for only $.07 each. The spools of curly ribbon for the balloons were a quarter each. Fall and Christmas florals were also on clearance. I got some $5 things marked down to a quarter.

I bought a few things for myself too. I found a 3' Santa that must have been a display for only $5. I bought a few flowers for dd's room and also some of the $1.25 and $.61 tablecloths in different colors so I can switch out after meals.
leveta
15 years ago
Our HL was 66% off and boy did I grab....lol
luvstocraft
15 years ago
Adellabedella, what fantastic bargains. You didn't mention what store had such great prices. I need some colored tablecloths, wonder if that store is in my area?

Luvs
kudzukween
15 years ago
Today I hit Dollar General and bought some Christmas decor marked 50%-75% off. I bought silver, and red tinsel-y garlands, and some metallic red bead garlands, to use in some Valentine crafts. While I was there I checked out the Valentine decor section, and bought a pack of red heart shaped paper doilies and white heart shaped paper doilies,20 per pack, for $1 a pack. I haven't gone anywhere else since Christmas!
I'll be making some cute St. Valentine's Day projects and posting them.

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