On Thursday morning, hubby and I have the tradition of going to Village Inn for breakfast (it's the only thing open). We first buy a newspaper, then go to the restaurant and go through the ads during breakfast. I make a list.
This year was a bit different. A lot of the stores are starting their Black Friday ads deals online. So...on a few items, you can order online starting at a certain time on Thursday. This is good and bad. Good, if you're aware of the process. Bad, if you expect to go the store and find a hot ticket item in the ad and it's no there because the store's stock has been sold out online.
This year, there was an exceptional deal on Playstation 4's. It came with a Spiderman game and was more than $100 off the original price. It was at Target and Walmart and I believe Best Buy. I KNEW this would be an item I would have to get in line for. So I read the fine print on the ad, and saw that it was available for order online. I checked Target...sold out (both online AND in stores). So (while we were sitting there at Village Inn), I ordered it online at Walmart for store pick-up. I had to wait about a week before I was able to pick it up, but I got the exact unit that was advertised for the exact price. And I didn't have to stand in line.
While I was at Target, I overheard a few people asking about the PS4 in the ad and the employee said they had sold out of those before the store even opened. Which is really not fair. I mean...they should reserve SOME to keep in stock. But oh well. I was just glad I didn't have to wait in line for it, ESPECIALLY at Walmart. Ugh.
And my husband's PS4 broke down like 3 years ago and we haven't replaced it until now. I'm glad it all worked out.
Then, I noticed a great deal on Dyson vacuums in the Target ad. I LOVE LOVE LOVE my cordless Dyson stick vac. LOVE it. But, it's a few years old and is temperamental sometimes. It still works great, but I just have to clean it a lot more (like, take it apart, wash the filter, etc.) than usual. So when I saw Target was having a sale on Dyson stick vacs, I ordered one of those online as well. It was delivered a few days later. Of course, husband checked Consumer Reports on all cordless stick vacs first. And guess who won....Dyson!
We're going to keep the new one for upstairs use. The current one is mounted on the wall in the laundry room. The plan for the new one is to mount it in the small storage room located in our library. But there's no electricity in that little room at the moment. So for now, it's hanging out in my closet. (and yes, we have a mini fridge in my closet):
So around 5:00 I headed out to the actual stores. First I went to Gamestop and got husband two video games he's been wanting.
Then I went to Target (my biggest haul).
Pyrex! Couldn't pass this up, especially since I hate plastic storage. $18 for this boxed set.
A few movies/TV on DVD. I haven't seen the 3 movies, but I HAVE seen the 2 TV series. :) The TV seasons were $10 and the movies were $6 and $4. Not too shabby! They are all movies I've been wanting to see too.
Usually I get sheets each year at Walmart, but this year, Target had them. 1200 thread count sheet sets for $25 (any size). We got a King size bed earlier this year and I only have 2 sets of sheets for it, one of which is not in great shape. Animals are HARD on sheets!! Anyways...I got 2 new sets of sheets for our bed and one full-size set for the guest room (Amy's Room).
Some little lotions. They were BOGO. I like the little ones for my gym shower bag.
One sweater. They had loads of sweaters for $10!
A throw. $10! It's super soft.
Then I moved on to Walmart.
Slippers for hubby. I get him new slippers almost every year. These were $7, marked down from $20.
An oil diffuser set for the man cave. It came with 6 little bottles of oils.
And some fun little slipper socks. :)
And that's it! It was fun, and it was nice to be home at 8:30. It put my husband and mother-in-law's mind at ease, especially because I was by myself amongst the crazies.
Now to start putting away a little bit of money each month for next year!
