Filed under Holidays on December 12th, 2008:
Enormous After Christmas Sales
You have Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but you haven’t seen anything if you haven’t shopped the day after Christmas! After Christmas sales are a bargain shopper’s dream. Retailers are competing for your dollars. Really! By the time you get 50% off, the additional 25% off and the $10 off coupon, some items could be 90% off.
Photo by: David Muir
Now this is not for the weary. As you leave your apartment in Cincinnati, it will be hectic with crowds and lines. But, if you want to get a head start on next years Christmas shopping and save lots of money, check out the following tips to give you a productive, after Christmas shopping experience.
1. Purchase the Cincinnati Enquirer Newspaper on December 25th and take a few minutes to check out the sales, store times, and coupons.
2. Make a list of items you want to buy and put them in the order of importance. Keep this within your budget. If you over buy, it’s not going to save you any money. Here are a few suggestions:
- Christmas cards, wrapping paper, tags, and tissue.
- Christmas tree, decorations, lights, ribbon, candles, linens and even candy.
- Items that you may want that you received a gift card for.
- Generic gift items for teachers, coworkers, mailman, and angel tree gifts, so you will have your gift closet ready for next year.
- Christmas sweaters, shirts and socks that you may want for yourself or for gifts.
- If it is within your budget, electronics will be “dirt-cheap!”
- Fragrance gift sets will be on sale, so think about Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and birthdays.
3. Check online to see if some of the sales are available there. It will save having to battle the crowds.
4 Don’t forget drug stores and grocery stores. They will mark down their Christmas items too.
5. Have a plan. Take your list and the newspaper flyers and decide what store you want to go to first and what items you want there.
6. Get a good nights sleep, get up early and purchase what you need online, wear comfortable shoes and clothes, and take your list and flyers with you.
Just think how wonderful it will be next year to already have a lot of the Christmas essentials and gifts you need, and remember the money you saved. Now be careful, don’t get so excited about the cheap prices that you over spend! So after you have made a list of the items you will be looking for, have fun getting some great deals and a head start on Christmas 2009.