kerryjo

I shopped at Old Navy yesterday, and got almost $400 worth of stuff for $76. It was at the Tanger Outlet in Terrel, TX, but they say that it is a "real" ON there, and not a clearance center. I printed up the coupon online for Tanger shoppers, and got an "extra !5% of $75 or more." Throws at $3, half zip fleece jacket for $5, tank tops for $2.48, many $15 Ts for <$6. They have a sale"60 Things for $6" or something. Just great! Then I took my receipt and Tanger Shooper card to Customer Service and got a free Chris Moose plush to donate.

I love BF and plan for weeks. Just that feeling of anticipation waiting in front of a black plastic-covered pallet at WM, wondering if I will "outplay, outwit, outlast" is all I need to get me through the shopping. I always seem to make a few friends in line, and we help each other out. This is my list: Online on Thursday: Best Buy PS 2 with Singstar set 149.99, guitar for Guitar Hero (brand?/price?), dustbuster cordless for 9.99, HannaMontana DVD game.9.99 3 SanDisk-2GB Secure Digital Memory Card for 19.99 each SingStar '80s-PlayStation 2 Geeks.com Wireless Guitar Mania Guitar for PS 2 $19.99 and some other stuff I thought I ordered stuff from ToysRUs, but I guess that I did not hit enough “Confirm Order” buttons, because the stuff is still in my cart today, and no longer at sale prices. It all was when I entered my CC number...Oh well... I went to work in the ER and finished my shift at 3am. I did a little more on the web, rechecking prices, ads, plans. I headed to WM at 4am. My husband was going to go to Harbor Freight anyway for a saw, so I thought he needed a real BF experience. I talked him into going to Target at 5:30am to wait in line to get the Kodak camera for my daughter because I would be a Staples closer to work, 25 miels away He took our 4 year old son, was successful, and is quite proud. Maybe I wil have a sidekick next year forhte first time ever! Online BF Morning: BestBuy.com Nintendo-DS Lite Nintendogs Best Friend Edition Bundle $149.99 , but they charged me for the free starter kit and the free Over the Hedge game. Then I got a “backordred” email. I called BB and they said as soon as it is shipped, I can call and they will see I ordered it on BF (directly by clicking on the photo in the ad on their site- should be the right price- ARGGGH) and will be credited the amount I was overcharged. I do not understand why they cannot credit me now. Walmart.com Cars Toddler PJs $5 Guitar Hero I & II Bundle (Game Only) PS2 $39.82 I got to WM solo at 4am or so. They were great this year, telling us which pallets had what we wanted. In the Stores WalMart Two 8i n DVD players 49.98 each and two cases with car chargers 9.97 each Diego ride on Jeep $79 Cars Slumber set sleeping bag, flashlight, and tent $15 Tonka dump truck $10 I checked out in the garden center where the jeeps were- no one thinks about this register! and was in my car at 5:08, heading to Staples. I first passed by a Starbucks looking for WiFi, to see if Staples had the Navigon 2100 available, I was in WM when the website reopened. SB WiFi would cost me $9.95 for a day pass, so I drove around hte corner to Staples. I learned they have free WiFi in their parking lot. The Navigons were sold out. So I got in line at Staples. Staples Navigon 2100 GPS with lifetime traffic reports $99 (See my post on the Navigon message board about this experience) I then called Radio Shack- see below. ToysRUs Got there at around 6:40 a.m. The line to check out was looped the length of the store 4 times, and was going to be over 2 hours long. One lady not even halfway through told me she had been in line over an hour already. I decided to forget the regular toys I wanted and to only get three Nintendo DS games. I could not even see the end of the line just to get into the video game area, so I walked out. Wolrd Market Place Izze Fizzy Juice (for me!) and free Ghiardelli super dark chocolate bar for being one of the first 100- yea chocolate and shoppin at at 7am! BOGO earrings Half price stuffed animals- they charged full price ($2 and $10), so I went back to the register and the manager, just gave me the $10 one for free because he said it was easier than to do the refund, price adjust, repurchase! Radio Shack Second Navigon 2100 GPS with lifetime traffic reports $149 by calling the store and paying for it by phone!,then in the store I got Two two-packs of walkie talkies with 5 mile radius $9.99 each VTech laptop $9.99 Baseball which tells speed thrown $9.99 40 AA batteries and 40 AAA batteries free for $19.99 Bakc to a different WM for the Tonka dump truck $10 and a DVD for $2.97 Home somewhere around 10am, miles driven: approx 60.

First off: There is a great review and message board about the Navigon 2100. at terrywhite.com/techblog/?p=377 After reading it, I am so pleased at my good fortune this morning. I live in Fort Worth, and I was able to get two this morning! I was at Wal-Mart for other things and arrived at Staples at 5:20 CST. I had my laptop, and Staples is a WiFi Hot Spot. I tried to order one online, and they were sold out. I immediately got into line, about number 15. “I bonded” with those strangers around me, and we decided to help each other out. When we entered the store, we were misdirected several times by several different employees. Finally one guy in our group found them and we all rushed to get in a new line.The units were in the back room and were brought out to us. All of our group managed to get one, despite the initial chaos in the store finding them and there only being 11. I then headed out to my next stop, disappointed that I could not order another one so both my husband and I could have one. I then tried the Radio Shack website- no sale price there, despite the $149 in-store sale as RS. I called the RS 800 number and the CS agent said the sale price was only good in stores. By then I was driving to my next destination, so I asked if she could tell me the nearest RS to me. By now it was probably close to 6:30 a.m., and RS had been open for a long time. I just guessed the closest Zip Code to me at the time and got the store phone number. I was luck enough to get a RS in a location close to downtown which no one every thinks about for BF shopping. The manager answered the phone. He had two and would hold one for me. (At that point, paying $50 more was not a big deal, because the price was still a great deal. The manager told me someone already came in with the Staples ad, but he would not price -match.) To prove to him I wanted it, I offered and did the purchase over the phone with my CC. The only thing he asked was that I “look around the store when ( I ) come in.” I did, and ended up with several more deals, including great stuff I had overlooked in the ad. Because of the low volume at this store, they had everything. The staff were even talking about how many thousands of dollars in sales another nearby RS had done, and how they were lagging. After my experience with this RS location, I will do ALL of my RS shopping there. We have a ton of RS stores here in FtW because it is RS headquarters. I am already thinking of ways to change my BF strategy for next year becuase of this success!