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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 399417" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I now have the kids trained to go through the clearance sections each time we go to the store. If they are just with husband they often don't go because he can get grumpy with them (not with me <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/bigsmile.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":bigsmile:" title="big smile :bigsmile:" data-shortname=":bigsmile:" />). They don't even spend their own money unless they know that the price is good - they even check online and for used items of many things. I have found great items at garage and estate sales too. Last year I splurged for my mom's birthday and spent $25 on a porcelain cardinal from one of the big name companies like Lenox (not that brand but that high quality). My gma, her stepmom, adored cardinals. Almost every single Christmas card had a cardinal on it and she just loved to watch them. The bird was at an estate sale and I got it for 20% off - then looked it up online and it was worth 10 time the $$ I paid - literally! I thought about keeping it, but Capn Morgan is really hard on things - LOVES to knock stuff off of shelves and is obsessed with birds. My mom has display shelves that her cats cannot get to and she LOVED it. Esp with the note about Gma that I wrote.</p><p> </p><p>I keep an eye on woot.com and 1saleaday.com fairly regularly. Every day is something different and both of those companies have 3-4 other, linked sites that each sell 1 item. I got our flatware from 1saleaday.com - place setting for 12 for $19.99 plus $5 shipping. It is a line sold on QVC and is pretty and NICE. It feels solid in your hands, not like the flimsy stuff sold for that price at stores like Walmart. I just got a little speaker for Jessie (to put up) that is shaped like a little soccer player with a soccer ball for a head (she loves soccer). It was about $12 for 2 of them, so I can put one up for a gift. Woot.com not only has 4 other sites, one of them lists deals on other sites. I found wireless headphones for a total of $8 including shipping. These deals listed on woot (sellout.woot.com is the site with the other deals) have a discussion area where people put discount codes and often other companies give them special codes for people who watch the woot sites - I got $3 off the price of the headphones or they would have been $11. </p><p> </p><p>Biglots is a store with a lot of deals - esp if you find things in their clearance. This year they had bags of chocolate covered/dipped cookies (not always completely coated) that were a variety of different types of cookies. the brand is not well known in the US but I recognized it from an international food store we used in OH. 12 yrs ago I used to pay $5 or more for a bag of the milk chocolate kind, and $6 for the dark choc ones. I got a bag for Jess at Biglots for $2.60 for the dark choc ones! As a little kid I had to keep a close eye on Jess if we had the cookies in the house. The second time I bought them they disappeared - and so did she. I finally found her curled up asleep in her closet with a face covered with chocolate and a bag with just a few crumbs - we could see where she even licked the bag, lol!! her hair was pulled up into a tail on the top of her head and she looked like a little elf curled up on some blankets in the closet.</p><p> </p><p>If you want to do a neat gift for a guy, keep your eye out for inexpensive tools and hardware. You can use cable ties and stick-on velcro dots to attach them to a grapevine or styrofoam wreath to make a "guy" wreath that is also a gift. Flat washers can be painted with shiny or puffy paint or even acrylic paints to add colorful, cheap decorations. Dollar stores and the tool area of walmart and even of hardware stores often have screwdrivers, drill bits, hammers, wrenches, etc... for a dollar or two. They work really well on wreaths - or so the guys that I have given them to have said. Even if they have those tools, or have better quality ones, an extra one is often handy. If they don't want to use the tools they can keep them on the wreath for future years.</p><p> </p><p>Do you have Walgreens drugstores where you are? I don't know if they are in Canada. Here they have a LOT of sales and tons of coupons that they publish. If you buy certain items you get coupons at the register that are good for items or are good for $X off of future purchases. They usually expire in about 2 weeks but they are generally good for almost anything in the store. If you have this store it is a great place to watch for clearance stuff. I got fuzzy socks for Jess and a really neat ball for thank you for free using the register rewards to pay for clearance stuff. They have their weekly fliers and a monthly rebate book both available at the front of the store near the entrance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 399417, member: 1233"] I now have the kids trained to go through the clearance sections each time we go to the store. If they are just with husband they often don't go because he can get grumpy with them (not with me :bigsmile:). They don't even spend their own money unless they know that the price is good - they even check online and for used items of many things. I have found great items at garage and estate sales too. Last year I splurged for my mom's birthday and spent $25 on a porcelain cardinal from one of the big name companies like Lenox (not that brand but that high quality). My gma, her stepmom, adored cardinals. Almost every single Christmas card had a cardinal on it and she just loved to watch them. The bird was at an estate sale and I got it for 20% off - then looked it up online and it was worth 10 time the $$ I paid - literally! I thought about keeping it, but Capn Morgan is really hard on things - LOVES to knock stuff off of shelves and is obsessed with birds. My mom has display shelves that her cats cannot get to and she LOVED it. Esp with the note about Gma that I wrote. I keep an eye on woot.com and 1saleaday.com fairly regularly. Every day is something different and both of those companies have 3-4 other, linked sites that each sell 1 item. I got our flatware from 1saleaday.com - place setting for 12 for $19.99 plus $5 shipping. It is a line sold on QVC and is pretty and NICE. It feels solid in your hands, not like the flimsy stuff sold for that price at stores like Walmart. I just got a little speaker for Jessie (to put up) that is shaped like a little soccer player with a soccer ball for a head (she loves soccer). It was about $12 for 2 of them, so I can put one up for a gift. Woot.com not only has 4 other sites, one of them lists deals on other sites. I found wireless headphones for a total of $8 including shipping. These deals listed on woot (sellout.woot.com is the site with the other deals) have a discussion area where people put discount codes and often other companies give them special codes for people who watch the woot sites - I got $3 off the price of the headphones or they would have been $11. Biglots is a store with a lot of deals - esp if you find things in their clearance. This year they had bags of chocolate covered/dipped cookies (not always completely coated) that were a variety of different types of cookies. the brand is not well known in the US but I recognized it from an international food store we used in OH. 12 yrs ago I used to pay $5 or more for a bag of the milk chocolate kind, and $6 for the dark choc ones. I got a bag for Jess at Biglots for $2.60 for the dark choc ones! As a little kid I had to keep a close eye on Jess if we had the cookies in the house. The second time I bought them they disappeared - and so did she. I finally found her curled up asleep in her closet with a face covered with chocolate and a bag with just a few crumbs - we could see where she even licked the bag, lol!! her hair was pulled up into a tail on the top of her head and she looked like a little elf curled up on some blankets in the closet. If you want to do a neat gift for a guy, keep your eye out for inexpensive tools and hardware. You can use cable ties and stick-on velcro dots to attach them to a grapevine or styrofoam wreath to make a "guy" wreath that is also a gift. Flat washers can be painted with shiny or puffy paint or even acrylic paints to add colorful, cheap decorations. Dollar stores and the tool area of walmart and even of hardware stores often have screwdrivers, drill bits, hammers, wrenches, etc... for a dollar or two. They work really well on wreaths - or so the guys that I have given them to have said. Even if they have those tools, or have better quality ones, an extra one is often handy. If they don't want to use the tools they can keep them on the wreath for future years. Do you have Walgreens drugstores where you are? I don't know if they are in Canada. Here they have a LOT of sales and tons of coupons that they publish. If you buy certain items you get coupons at the register that are good for items or are good for $X off of future purchases. They usually expire in about 2 weeks but they are generally good for almost anything in the store. If you have this store it is a great place to watch for clearance stuff. I got fuzzy socks for Jess and a really neat ball for thank you for free using the register rewards to pay for clearance stuff. They have their weekly fliers and a monthly rebate book both available at the front of the store near the entrance. [/QUOTE]
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