| Good morning all!!
Blondie, I love shopping, and shopping with coupons even more.
I went to Bath and Body Works to take advantage of a coupon for "buy any item, receive a Signature Collection item up to $12.00 free". I usually buy a gift bag. But I picked up 2 regularly priced candles for about 1/2 off ($5 instead of $9.50), and got a body creme free. The candles will be gifts, and this is how I keep up my stock of the body creme.The body creme is regularly priced at $12.00.
The craft show was nice. It was at the same firehouse I go to in the spring for the yard sale they throw. I asked how they were making out (started at 9 and I got there around 1), and the woman said wonderfully. She said that last year there were too many "flea market" people with their junk, and that the craftes complained. It was only crafters, everyone from soap makers (like our Anna) to doll makers, to crocheters, to lamp makers, and jewelry makers. I bought several pins and lace angel ornaments for gifts.
At the hospital thrift shop I always stop in at, I found a pair of earrings to add to my sisters gifts for $3.00. It was 1/2 price jewelry day, so they cost me $1.50. And she will really like them. I also found a gift basket with tea lights and punched tin holder already wrapped with Christmas ribbon for the daughter of friends I usually have Christmas brunch with.
As I thought, Big Lots already had the first "wave" of Christmas stuff in. I was looking more for stocking stuffers and I found some really nice stuff. I am impressed with the quality too. And, I got to it before it had been "handled" too many times - you know, cardboard packages that are bent, finger prints on stuff, ribbons and bows that are pulled ascew, that kind of thing.
Then I hit Pier One Imports. We all usually think of them as being overpirced, but they aren't. I found ornaments (penguin for my nephew, polar bear for my supervisor, a Christmas pickle for one friend, and a lovely skate for my shoe-fiend friend), and I found "paper" soap for the women I work closely with, and even those gel pearl fragrance containers really reasonable.
I then walked over to the discounted book store and picked up a crochet-a-day calendar for next year for myself. This is something that if you don't get it when they first come out, you lose. Last year, I lost.
Well ladies, better go for now.
Take care - and Happy Clipping!!
Norma
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