Last week I missed my Frugal Friday post due to company, but today I would like to share a comment from a friend, Kathy, who has some great money-saving ideas:
She says, "I love reading your blog and I have some solutions for your gift buying. Right now there is a fantastic sale on girls' clothes at J.C. Penney. Not much for boys, alas. I buy a lot of presents there. My other favorites are TJ Maxx, Ross and Marshalls. They have kids' toys and books for a fraction of full price. You have to check that they work and all pieces are present but they are usually good deals.
I never go to the toy stores. That would be way out of my league, especially when I buy for my grandchildren and the CASA kids I work with. If you plan a year ahead, you can get $40 little girl dresses for less than $10 at both Dillard's (best), Macys (OK) and Penneys (depends). So do your shopping a year ahead at the end of the seasons. In about 2 weeks, I predict the Easter dresses will be reasonable. For me, less than 75% off is not a sale, but a trap."
I agree with Kathy and went Easter shopping yesterday. At CVS I found two grocery baskets of Easter things marked 75% off. I bought several Easter egg-shaped note pads for next year's Easter baskets along with Easter grass, a couple of little stuffed bunnies and my bill was $1.63. The Easter grass was 20 cents a bag! That was quite a savings considering what it would have cost the day before Easter. I packed those things up in my Easter box to have next year when I begin preparing for Easter baskets here or gifts that I send to my grandchildren for Easter.
I also stopped in at Michael's (same shopping center as CVS) but their Easter sale was only 50% off and that was not quite low enough yet. By next week it will be 90% off and that will be more appealing to me.
Happy after-Easter shopping!
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Always love to hear about sales and savings ideas! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI tried looking for Cadbury Cream Eggs after Easter but couldn't find any. :(
ReplyDeleteNo Cadbury Eggs here either! Bummer! My favorite next to those peeps marshmallow rabbits.
ReplyDeleteGreat post! I wanted to get Easter stuff for next year and never thought about getting it now. I think I might need to visit Michaels this week:)) Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI love after holiday sales!! I got a cute felt "Easter" basket at Sam's today for 2.81 and Soph and I will be filling it to give as an end of the year teacher gift. They had some really cute candy stuffed eggs, but I don't think year old candy sounds appealing, but if they get reduced a little more I will buy them for the cute plastic egss:) And Dillard's does have really good sales on really nice dresses if you hit it just right!!
ReplyDeleteI keep seasonal boxes on shelves in my garage and put things like that in them—well marked. It is so much fun to get the seasonal boxes out about a month before the holiday and see all those things I bought the year before and had totally forgotten about!
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