Plenty of After Christmas Sales Today

Get out those gift cards and the Christmas money you got as a gift. The stores are ready to offer you plenty of after Christmas sales starting today. The strategy for this year for many families is to go out shopping today, the day after Christmas to pick up those gifts that they really wanted at bargain prices. Because they know that many people are heading to work today, the stores will be trying to do everything they can to get people to take an extra day off and go shopping. They want to get that last bit of sales … Continue reading

Extended Cyber Monday Sales

Cyber Monday is the online version of Black Friday. This is when many stores will have special deals on their websites that you cannot get if you shop at their stores. Technically, Cyber Monday is supposed to be just one day. However, some stores are extending their sales for a longer span of time. Target will be having Cyber Monday special offers all week long. Cyber Week sale prices are valid through Saturday, December 1, 2012. You can get free shipping on select items through December 1, 2012. You can also get free shipping on “The Top Toys” through December … Continue reading

Why Smart Shopping Strategies Can Ruin Your Holiday Budget

It is usually the early bird that gets the worm, but when it comes to holiday shopping, the early bird may also get the bigger bills. People who shop the sales may also spend more than those who plan on buying items at full price. It sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But according to the American Research Group studying holiday spending, the average family who shopped early spent 14 percent more on gifts on average, and those who shopped the sales spent a whopping 53 percent more on average. what about online Yikes. Want another strange statistic? Those of us who … Continue reading

Helpful Information for Black Friday – 2012

Are you looking forward to Black Friday shopping? Will you be leaving the Thanksgiving celebrations with your family early in order to catch the Thanksgiving Day “doorbusters”? Are you reading this blog while camping out in line in front of a store right now? This blog is for you! Here’s a quick round up of when the stores will open their doors and the some of the deals they will offer. Every year, I do a series of blogs that list the days and times that the stores will open their doors to shoppers. They are a quick way to … Continue reading

Even More Black Friday Store Hours – 2012

The most important information about the Black Friday sales is when the stores will open. If you don’t know when the doors open you might end arriving at the store after it has sold out of the item you wanted to buy. All the other shoppers will have gotten there first! Here are some more store hours for Black Friday, 2012. This is the third blog I’ve put together about store hours for Black Friday 2012. The first blog has store hours for Staples, Walmart, Kmart, and Target. The second blog has store hours for JC Penney, Sears, Lowe’s, Home … Continue reading

More Store Hours for Black Friday – 2012

Where will you head to first on Black Friday? The best way to make the most out of the biggest sales of the year is to have a plan. It helps to know when the stores will open their doors. Here are some more store opening hours for Black Friday of 2012. Yesterday, I wrote a blog about the Black Friday store hours for Staples, Walmart, Kmart, and Target. If you missed it, you might want to click over and read that blog, too. I’ve found more store hours since then, so here they are. JC Penney will open its … Continue reading

Store Hours for Black Friday – 2012

It’s time to make your plan of attack for Black Friday. Several stores have released information about when they will open their doors and what some of their big deals will be. Here’s what I’ve been able to discover so far. Use this information to help plan out where you will go to first on Black Friday. Staples is opening it’s doors at 5:00 in the morning on Friday, November 23, 2012. Their Early Bird Specials will last until noon (or while supplies last). Walmart will start it’s Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving Day, and will open its doors at … Continue reading

2012 Black Friday Opening Times Released!

Although the kids haven’t gone back to school in my part of the country, yet, we can already look forward to Christmas shopping. That is because many stores have already released the 2012 Black Friday shopping times, that is the hours that the stores will be open on Black Friday. Black Friday is known as the busiest shopping day of the year. While we have traditionally seen stores opening with Black Friday deals at 6am, and some at midnight, it looks like a few will even be open on Thanksgiving itself. So if you really want to snag the best … Continue reading

Don’t Miss These Sales! – Weekend of December 17, 2011

This holiday season season seems to have more sales packed into it than I remember there being in previous years. Black Friday came early, and then stretched out all week long. There have already been sales on Christmas decorations, that didn’t used to happen until after Christmas. Here are some sales that are going on this weekend. Target has a sale that started on Friday, December 16, 2011, and that will continue through Saturday, December 17, 2011 at noon. There are “thousands” of deals, and you can get up to 40% off on things included in the sale. If you … Continue reading

More Black Friday Store Hours for 2011

Ready to fight the crowds and get your hands on the best Black Friday deals? It is helpful to make a plan about which store to shop first. One good way to make that decision is to find out when the stores will be opening their doors. Yesterday, I posted a list that gave details about exactly when many of the big department stores will be starting their Black Friday Sales. However, there are plenty of stores that will be having big Black Friday sales that I didn’t have enough room to put into that first list. Toys R Us … Continue reading