my shopping strategy paid off!

I’m pretty excited. I chose to go to Staples at 8 am. They had the 2-hour HD Flip for $99. If I had waited until tomorrow to use my 10% off coupon, it would have been $129. The $99 price was for today only. And no lines, no waiting–and to think I was considering going to Walmart! The Flip at Walmart is only the 1-hour recorder for $99, mine is the 2-hour recorder for the same price. And, I’ll get 15% back in Staples rewards, which I usually end up using on printer ink.

Had some extra time so I popped in to Peebles. I had looked at the Discovery aquarium thing, Kohl’s had it for $9 and I thought “No way I’m fighting those crowds for one $9 item.” Well, Peebles had it for $10. So just an extra dollar, and no lines, no crowds. Kevin liked the one we got him last year that he literally wore it out, so I’m happy to replace it. Plus, I got the jellyfish one for $10 too, so Brian will have one as well.

Now….I am officially done xmas shopping! Oh, except ordering photo gifts for family. Which I’m paying for with Pampers points. But other than that, totally done! Yay!

Walmart price matching for Black Friday

I’ve read in several places that Walmart is price matching on Black Friday. Even other stores’ Black Friday doorbuster/loss leader deals. I wouldn’t expect it to be without hassle in some cases, but if you don’t want to run all over town, it’s worth a shot!

gift card deals at grocery stores

Make sure when you get your weekly grocery ads, that you’re looking over them thoroughly. I found a deal, waaayyy down at the bottom of the last page of the Acme ad, in very small print! It’s spend $100 on select gift cards, get $20 back. They list several retailers including Best Buy, Kohl’s and a few others. Last year I got Kohl’s gift cards for the women at day care and had planned to do the same this year. I might as well get $20 towards my groceries this week, if I’m buying the cards anyway. Or if you know that you’re probably going to spend $100 at Best Buy or Kohl’s anyway this season, buy the gift card!

eat, drink & be merry….

There are so many good grocery deals this week, I don’t know where to begin. All the retailers are trying to lure you to their store with their low prices.

TONS of freebies at Acme this week. And don’t forget to load your Avenu card before you go.

Giant is offering dollar doublers and many other low prices. Including very cheap Birds Eye veggies. No one has posted an ad yet with matchups. I’ll try to do some later, but right now I’m more focused on Acme & SF since their ad started yesterday and Giant’s doesn’t start till tomorrow.

Here is the Superfresh ad with some matchups, including cheap diapers.