Gator Pam

Would you believe the nearest Wal-Mart SuperCenter is 45 miles away in Ocala??? At least I have a SuperCenter just 'down the street' 20 miles from FIL's in Lake Wales...

I was in the local Sears here by FIL's today (Eagle Ridge Mall, Lake Wales, FL) and was handed a black and white flyer promoting a sale tomorrow morning. None of the listed items interested me, but the first 50 customers in the store will be given a $10 Sears gift card. Doors open at 5:00 am tomorrow, so there may be some unadvertised door busters... I have no idea if this is only this one store, select stores, or all Sears stores. It's not mentioned on the web site or in any emails I've received.

:::still wishing we had a Super Target with grocery in Gator Town:::

Agreed, except for what we used for Beorn as a newborn through toddler. They're still made and I still think they are one of the mot innovative things I've ever seen. Sit 'n Stroll We used it from birth until he hit 40 lbs. I see they now have a new system specifically for infants, but IMO it's not necessary.

Sounds similar to the DVDs Target carries in the See Spot Save department a couple of times a year. They have some now I'm waiting to go 75% off clearance. I always stock up on them when they're a quarter each to give out for Trick or Treat on Halloween.

KC-Traderbear, thanks! That sounds pretty accurate. So, unless we hear something definite, we should start stalking the Chr-stmas seasonal items on New Year's Eve for 75% off, and make sure to post it if e see it.

I don't believe a stroller will go to 90% off. The lowest it will hit is 75% off. Unless some inventory is found a year or so after it went salvage, the only items I see reach 90% off are holiday/seasonal items.

If you could find out if "pretty quickly" means the traditional 3 day seasonal mark down periods that the other seasonal mark downs follow, you would make posters all over the internet quite happy. Past experience has shown that the Chr-stmas mark downs are usually more drawn out though. However, many Targets have introduced a more rapid mark down schedule for seasonal items this year than has been traditionally followed, so perhaps Chr-stmas will go quicker.

Does anyone have a record of the Chr-stmas markdown schedule from the past previous years? I know it's the one seasonal mark down that really differs for the usual 3/3/2 markdown. I haven't seen a schedule posted for this year yet, and would like to see if I can guess at one based on previous years markdowns. I know 50% off will start on the 26th, although I think last year some stores actually started 50% off on the 24th. And I think it held at 50% for a good week, maybe two weeks, in previous years. But I really want to have an idea when 75% and 90% off will be.

Paul (dh) shopped at CVS this morning. I hardly ever get the CVS email, and have not received this one. Paul lost his card, but uses our telephone number that is registered on the card. He received the $5 ECBs this morning.

{{{Paula}}}

Welcome to the GottaDeal forums, Ms. Mack! I'm in Fort Lauderdale at least twice a year. I usually shop the Hollyood Mall Target when I'm down that way, but have gone to Aventura, Pembroke Pines, Broward Mall, Coral Ridge, and the Greatland at Sawgrass Mills. Do you find any of those have better clearance then the others?

I love chocolate cherry cordials!

For future reference, Kimberely, it's in the ~*~*~Newbie Guide~*~*~, what I call the vey first post of this thread.

How cool, Mollannie! So the word is pronounced the same as the Italian fish feast? It sounds scrumptious.

Oh yes, it was shared on another board I frequent.

Yesterday Santa came and visited all of the Villages. I had spent Friday night wrapping 80 small gifts, and dividing them by age groups and gender. That was just for my Village, the other CAs did the gifts for their own Village. For Gator Town, it was cold yesterday morning (woke up to lows of 27º), so instead of the sodas and ice I usually set out I brewed a 25 cup urn of coffee and another urn of hot water. I had boxes of four different Swiss Miss cocoa mixes, various black, green, herbal, and fruit tea bags, and a box of instant hot apple cider. Small bowls of sugar and Splenda (labled for those who couldn't tell the difference by looking), and a half gallon of milk in a pot of ice. I also put out three bottles of differrent flavored Juicy Juice for the littles. I made a platter of five varieties of store bought cookies, and called the food part done. I had decorated two trees, one on either side of the fireplace in the Commons Room, the weekend after Thanksgiving. I had requested permission to have a fire going if it was a cold day when Santa visited back in October and was told I needed to wait for the chimney to be inspected. It never happened, so no fire yesterday. I put the padded chair for Santa in front of the fireplace between the two trees, and suspended a wreath with garland wrapped around it from above the mantle so it was seen behind Santa. I was not the one taking pictures, but I do hope they come out well. I'll post a link to them when they go up on the website for anyone who wants to see them. I had several residents tell me this was a really nice program. It put a really bittersweet ending to the whole day for me, as it was my last official program before I have to resign due to us moving out of the Village...

The Nocturnal Period Preceding Yuletide T'was the nocturnal segment of the diurnal period preceding the annual yuletide celebration, and throughout our place of residence, kinetic activity was not in evidence among the possessors of this potential, including that species of domestic rodent known as Mus musculus. Hosiery was meticulously suspended from the forward edge of the woodburning caloric apparatus, pursuant to our anticipatory pleasure regarding an imminent visitation from an eccentric philanthropist among whose folkloric appellations is the honorific St. Nicholas. The prepubescent siblings, comfortably ensconced in their respective accommodations of repose, were experiencing sub-conscious visual hallucinations of variegated fruit confections moving rhythmically through their cerebrums. My conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal head coverings, were about to take slumberous advantage of the hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the grounds there ascended such a cacophony of dissonance that I felt compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose of ascertaining the precise source thereof. Hastening to the casement, I forthwith opened the barriers sealing this fenestration, noting thereupon that the lunar brilliance without, reflected as it was on the surface of a recent crystalline precipitation, might be said to rival that of the solar meridian itself - thus permitting my incredulous optical sensory organs to behold a miniature airborne runnered conveyance drawn by eight diminutive specimens of the genus Rangifer, piloted by a minuscule, aged chauffeur so ebullient and nimble that it became instantly apparent to me that he was indeed our anticipated caller. 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He was, in short, neither more nor less than an obese, jocund, multi-genarian gnome, the optical perception of whom rendered me risibly frolicsome despite every effort to refrain from so being. By rapidly lowering and then elevating one eyelid and rotating his head slightly to one side, he indicated that trepidation on my part was groundless. Without utterance and with dispatch, he commenced emptying the aforementioned previously dorsally transported cloth receptacle. Upon completion of this task, he executed an abrupt about face, placed a single manual digit in lateral juxtaposition to his olfactory organ, inclined his cranium forward in a gesture of leave taking and forthwith effected his egress by renegotiating (in reverse) the smoke passage. He then propelled himself in a short vector onto his conveyance, directed a musical expulsion of air through his contracted oral sphincter to the antlered quadrupeds of burden, and proceeded to soar aloft in a movement hitherto observable chiefly among the seed bearing portions of a common weed. But I overheard his vehiculation beyond the limits of visibility: "Ecstatic yuletide to the planetary constituency, and to the selfsame assemblage my sincerest wishes for a salubriously beneficial and gratifyingly pleasurable period between sunset and dawn."

I usually wait for Target's 90% off Chr-stmas cleaance, and am happy with whatever I find. I don't really need any additional Chr-stmas items, since e go to FIL's to celebrate.

Eve, at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, I think the doors opened 90 minutes before showtime, but I would say except for possible parking issues, that an hour to 30 minutes before showtime should be plenty of time. Also at that concert, we saw people dressed in all types of ways. From ratty t-shirts & jeans to holiday wear. At the concert the year before at Madison Square Garden, people were more dressed up than dressed down.

We all do presents and stockings on Chr-stmas. But instead of signifying the three kings gifts to the Chr-st child, they're mostly Santa and gifts to one another. But, we also give Beorn one gift for each night of Hanukkah. We love our standing rib roast and yorkshire pudding. Or, you could alays try a Chr-stmas goose instead of turkey.

My sister's sending one to Beorn, so I need to read up on them. I don't think they can cheat with it for two reasons: 1) I'm pretty sure it only works with a special type of paper. I may be wrong though. 2) Aren't the answers given verbally through a small speaker? Unless the proctor was hard of hearing, I am sure anyone trying to cheat with the FLY pen would be instantly caught.

There's a Hebrew phrase for that. Shalom = Peace Babayit = Home Shalom Babayit = Peace in the Home

Aww...thanks all. Yes, we celebrate FIL's holiday, and we only celebrate it at his home. If he came to our home that day would pretty much go by without recognition. We would probably try to find a nice restaurant to eat dinner at or something. But, I also blatantly admit that I live a life of contradiction. I don't keep kosher, or even attempt to keep kosher. Yet I prefer going to the most observant shul in town (the Lubavitch Center) for worship. So, leaving out a vowel in a name for HaShem for me is more important than any censure I might receive for celebrating the holiday of another's belief. However, celebrating the holoday the way we do, in a totally secular way with Santa, gifts, stockings, tree, but no prayers that invoke JC does not go against Judaism in anyway that I know of. It's a celebration of winter more than a religious holiday for us, yet keeps FIL happy.

Welcome, welcome. How nice that this thread is the reason you joined the forums. :) I pretty much am usually only interested in clearance when it goes 75% off or higher, but I do like to know what items hit 50% off so I can start watching them for the 75% off. My main interests are small appliances and domestics, with the occasional bar-be-cue grill or garden item thrown into the mix. May I ask what Target related blog mentions GottaDeal?