This article popped up on my yahoo feed today and I just found it interesting. Best selling item at Walmart–bananas. Most popular/best selling breakfast cereal: Honey Nut Cheerios. Looking over the list of various items, I feel much less guilty walking out of stores with tons of free boxes (like Cheerios). They’re selling billions of boxes, they can afford for a few supercouponers to figure out how to get them for free.
Serves me right….
July 30, 2010 by · 2 Comments
I didn’t blog yesterday, but did post on my new bargain alert facebook page about the Target toy clearance. I also said that I wanted to have the will power to stay home and not go, as I did not really need anything.
This morning I caved and went. I had to head out that way anyway, and last night I remembered about the Venus gift sets. Back in the Health and Beauty area, they have these really nice Venus gift sets–a razor, a body wash and a lotion, for $4.98. The 7/6 inserts had a $2 coupon and this weekend’s paper will probably have one too. I was hoping they would be marked down further. They weren’t, but I purchased eight anyway. I’m going to use them for teacher/therapist gifts. I think we have eight to buy for, maybe more, so cost is an issue.
But since I was in Target anyway……..might as well check out the toy clearance, right? Right. Got another basket of fake food, since the puppies have destroyed most of the first basket. All the way down to $1.24. And, Brian spotted this Yo Gabba Gabba slide guitar thing. Originally $25, now $6.24. He is being exceptionally cute and well-behaved today, so I caved and purchased it. It has now been in our possession all of about 90 minutes, and it is single-handedly the most annoying toy we own. The noises coming out of it don’t sound anything like a guitar or a piano, and the stupid phrases from the characters, oh boy. So that’s what I get, serves me right, should have stayed away. I went to the store in Concordville and the toys are pretty wiped out. I also read that Brandywine was already picked over too.
On the way home, popped into the Kennett Walmart again to look for two freebies. In case you’ve read about them on other sites–the Scrubbing Bubbles and the Hydro. The Scrubbing Bubbles should have produced a $0.50 overage if it rang at 4.50 and you had the $5 coupon. I had about 20 of them, so planned to use the overage for juice. No go, ringing up $6.xx. Hydro reported to be ringing up at $5, free if you have the $5 coupons. I also have about 20 of those, planned to use them as xmas gifts for garbage men. Still ringing up $9.xx. I should go back & get three anyway, for the garbage men. But I still have a few months to find gifts for them. Yes, I get xmas gifts for my garbage men. And mail carrier, all teachers, therapists, ladies who work at the newsstand (ack! I should go get more Venus sets).
toy clearance!
July 20, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
I’ve read on several coupon boards that Target, Kmart and Walmart have all begun to clearance their toys. Retailers typically do this at the end of every summer in order to make room for Christmas merchandise. It seems to vary from store to store and city to city. I was at Target about two weeks ago and many items were marked down about 30-50% off. You may want to check it out and start getting ready for Christmas or buy for upcoming birthdays, even baby showers. It’s also a great time to pick up a few items if you usually donate to any toy drives around the holidays or do adopt-a-family.
If you see something and it’s not a great price yet, usually things get marked down weekly until they disappear. Don’t be afraid to ask a sales clerk when their next round of markdowns is.
And remember the rule of clearance shopping–Know the difference between a great price and a great deal. No matter how cheap an item is, if you never use it, it’s not a great deal.
Great Gillette gift for $1 at Walmart, if you can find it
October 10, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
Walmart had these Gillette gift packs reduced to $5. If you had the $4 coupon from the Proctor & Gamble insert a few weeks ago, a really good deal for $1. It had a Fusion razor, shave cream, Gillette men’s shampoo and I think body wash too–all full size. I can confirm that the Kennett Walmart no longer has these–the clerk said to me “Oh no, those got reduced to $5 and they flew out of here.” Can’t catch every deal. If I had been able to find them, I was going to give them to my garbagemen and mailman for Christmas. I have not checked Parkesburg or Centreville Rd, DE stores and don’t really plan to. So I just thought I’d put the word out.
