What has been your best bargin this Christmas?

Mine came yesterday. At JCPenney. I went for $200 coats advertised for 59.99... I wanted a red pea coat (jacket)... they had one left in my size (well they had black and they has fushia... but I wanted red). It's a wool/cashmere blend.

Bottom line: $42.48... had a discount coupon plus a $10 in-store coupon ... Merrry Christmas to me

I don't think I got any extreme bargains this year, but...

Had DS in Macy's trying on "dressy" coats. The one he liked was $125 but the sign said it was on sale for $99. When I bought it, it rang up $55...surprising the heck out of me in a good way for once!

Was picking up some chocolates online at Fannie May and when I went to check out I was offered a 1.5 pound Deck the Halls tin for under $10. I put three in my cart and then discarded a couple of full-price items. They are really nice gifts and a real bargain.
http://www.fanniemay.com/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=488&DEPARTMENT_ID=145

Sweet!
Mine would would also have to be JC Penney, I have gotten some great deals with those coupons... the last was a sweater for me, sweatshirt for my dad, pj pants for me and pj's for both the kids for a little over $19. I love JC Penney!

Awesome Lori!

I should start sending you guys my $10 JC Penney coupons when I get them. I just don't have a JC Penney within an hours drive so rarely get there. Sounds like you got some great deals there.

Oh and the staples batteries this month. They are a hell of a deal. 2 per customer per week. 20 packs $12.99 get it all back in rewards. I've been buying them every week and will use them for free ink next month.

There is a smaller Penney's a few towns over. They don't have as big of a selection but they have really awesome clearance prices (my PJ bottoms were $.99- the kids were $1.60 each) but you have to search for it. When I go to the bigger one at the mall- I can spend days searching their clearance racks walk out with arm loads of stuff for pennies. I find good deals there to be way better than even garage sales or the salvation army.

I got 13 shirts, and 5 pants for Xander and a pair of boots for Bayley at Old navy for less than $50. Used a code online, and had a coupon from their webite for 25% off. Thats the only shopping I have done, and it's not even for Christmas, just stuff was on sale.

Lori wrote:I don't think I got any extreme bargains this year, but...

Had DS in Macy's trying on "dressy" coats. The one he liked was $125 but the sign said it was on sale for $99. When I bought it, it rang up $55...surprising the heck out of me in a good way for once!

Was picking up some chocolates online at Fannie May and when I went to check out I was offered a 1.5 pound Deck the Halls tin for under $10. I put three in my cart and then discarded a couple of full-price items. They are really nice gifts and a real bargain.
http://www.fanniemay.com/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=488&DEPARTMENT_ID=145

Well maybe not extreme... but definitely some great bargins!

tara wrote:Sweet!
Mine would would also have to be JC Penney, I have gotten some great deals with those coupons... the last was a sweater for me, sweatshirt for my dad, pj pants for me and pj's for both the kids for a little over $19. I love JC Penney!

I <3 JPC too, especially it's only 1 of 2 department stores in my town... and they're always having better deals that "Peebles"

Lori wrote:I should start sending you guys my $10 JC Penney coupons when I get them. I just don't have a JC Penney within an hours drive so rarely get there. Sounds like you got some great deals there.

If you're talking about the total $10 off any purchase of $10 or more, I'm sure you could use them online... if you're talking, spend $50, get $10 coupon, well those are in every other print ad from JCP.

Lori, I'd love a few extra $10 JCP coupons! Thanks for the offer.

I keep meaning to do the staples battery deal. But I'm so broke this month from buying our new TV. I don't have the extra cash to buy the batteries, even if I will get all the money back.

I've gotten a few really sweet deals:

--The sally hanson nail polish RR deal from last month provided some of Caly's present, as well as some for my neice.
--I found audiobooks for Zaven marked down from $50-$60 each to $9.95 each.
--I got several of the $5 Hallmark coupons and bought $5 toys so I only had to pay tax.
--I used the rewards from my credit card to get Toys R Us gift cards and get presents for Quinn.
--I returned a few books to the bookstore that I'd received as gifts. They were duplicates of ones I already owned. I used the store credit to buy sale books for the kids and got 3 or 4 books for each one I returned.

but by far the best deal was snagged by Caly:
--She found 6 large sized magnetic close journals at Hastings that had been $17.99 each marked down to 2 cents each. There were six so she bought them all for a grand total of 13 cents including tax. We spent more on paper to wrap them with!

I just ordered this for my nephew (it's a MP3/SD card video player) originally priced at $99. on sale for $19.99 with Free shipping. Toys R Us has the SD Nikelodeon video cards to go with it and I bought an Avatar Air Bender one (2 episodes of the cartoon) for $7.98..

http://www.buy.com/prod/spongebob-square-pants-npower-fusion-tm-1gb-digital-media-player-w-2-2/q/loc/111/211418723.html

There aren't too many deals to be had around here this year. I did buy some jeans for Devon at sears.ca for under $10, but that was back in October. Dh did get a pretty good price on the camera he got me for Christmas. It usually sells for around $250, but he got it for $199. I was lucky that he gave it to me early so that I could figure out how to use it before Christmas!

I think my best deal was my new tv,no longer will i use the 7 inch portable one in my living room lol.I went to best buy after looking around on their website,took my brother with me to lift .I bought a 32 inch Dynex for 299.It is beautiful.I saw a 40 inch one and said to me brother,wow that is nice too.Nick tells me,yeah but would you pay double for 8 more inches??? I said honey for 8 more inches I'd pay triple .hihihihihihihi
But serisously,the tv is veeeeeery nice,bought an 11 dollar digital antenna and I'm finally good to go.

Great deals everyone!

I forgot about my shopping trip to Kohl's after I had collected the Kohl's Cash I earned ($60) to spend in-store. Everything I bought was on sale, some as much as 2/3 off. When she rang me up, my subtotal was $128. Then she took off an additional 15% (I had a coupon), took off my $60 Kohl's Cash, and took off $5 from a coupon they had emailed me to use in-store or online. My total came to $51.40...and I paid with a $55 prepaid Visa card that I had received from a survey project. No dollars out of my pocket or on my credit card.

amazing deal lori!

agaphmou wrote:I think my best deal was my new tv,no longer will i use the 7 inch portable one in my living room lol.I went to best buy after looking around on their website,took my brother with me to lift .I bought a 32 inch Dynex for 299.It is beautiful.I saw a 40 inch one and said to me brother,wow that is nice too.Nick tells me,yeah but would you pay double for 8 more inches??? I said honey for 8 more inches I'd pay triple .hihihihihihihi
But serisously,the tv is veeeeeery nice,bought an 11 dollar digital antenna and I'm finally good to go.

Glad you're enjoying it.
Sweet Lori!

OMG Lori, that was better than Chirstmas!