Shopping After Christmas Sales

Shopping after Christmas is incredibly chaotic but it can be worth the savings. You can find great deals on Christmas items as well as items you can use for future gifts. This is a guide about shopping after-Christmas sales.

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After Christmas Shopping Tips and Ideas

Today is Christmas and in 24 hours or less the sales begin. Several of these tips, I have seen from others, but since my mother used them quite effectively, I want to add them to my list.

Save all Christmas wrapping paper (ragged edges can be trimmed to fit a smaller size gift!).
Start thinking a year ahead (exp: if a little girl receives a Barbie, look for clothes and accessories throughout the year, to give NEXT Christmas).
During the next week of sales, get as much of your shopping out of the way as possible (you can't be much more exhausted) and everything you will need next year is now on sale!).
When those groups you belong to start planning monthly meetings, ALWAYS request the Dec meeting (mother's reasoning: house is already clean and decorated, party supplies bought on sale already, meetings end on time or early due to other obligations, plus good time to try new recipe before inflicting on family).
Before heading out to the sales, have a list of all gift giving events during the upcoming year (birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, etc.). Even if the event won't happen for the next 11 month,s you will feel good that you neither have to pay full price or go on a frantic last minute search.
Children WILL forget exactly WHAT gifts, games, etc. you buy, if you tell them it is for their cousin, friend, neighbor.
Get a few extra things for unexpected giving (the last minute birthday party, shower gift, etc.) Sorry this post is so long--guess I'm thinking too much about being a child again

Source: My mother's advice given over many years

By Patty from Galveston Island, TX

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Getting The Most Of Your Post-Christmas Shopping

The Christmas frenzy and day after frenzy is over and retailers are still trying to move merchandise from their shelves. Now is the time to shop if you can think ahead some. I gather up my discount bucks I got from buying before Christmas. While I was out before Christmas, I gave out my email address and got more online coupons. Any special day passes I may have gotten, I get that too. Just to make it a little bit better, I can shop on senior citizen day and take my mother or sister.

A recent trip to a popular department store had me buying Christmas and Thanksgiving items at 95% off. Seasonal items will be the heaviest discounted. Avoid food items because they will not save well. Wrap scented candles in cellophane and store in a cool place to extend their scent.

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Bring a List to After Christmas Sales

Have a list of items that you really need before you shop sales. No point in having a lot of multiples of Christmas supplies that you won't use, no matter how cheap they are! They take up storage space.

By Syd

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Shop After Holiday Sales for Hostess Gifts

To save on hostess gifts, I purchase hand towels, kitchen towels, and cloth napkins all year long when they go on sale after any holiday. I always have a good selection on hand and they are wonderful hostess gifts or stocking gifts at Christmas. I do not know of anyone who does not use these items.

I wrap them in inexpensive white tissue paper with a single ribbon wrapped around the package. I also watch for ribbon and tissue paper on sale a Michaels or other craft stores. Garage and estate sales are also great places I have found these wrapping items.

By Bobbie from Rockwall, TX

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Shopping After Holiday Sales

Shop the 'After Christmas' sales (or any other holiday), to buy inexpensive treats or other items that have been marked down for friends or people that you might have forgotten to pick up a gift for (or stock up for your next gift giving event). I sometimes purchase marked down holiday tins of popcorn and take the the local post office for all the workers to share. Or to the garage workers that repairs my vehicles. Or to my hair stylist. No one says you have to buy your gift before the actual holiday, unless you just want to & no one will know that you'd purchased it post holiday, unless you tell them. I keep a 'stash' of possible gifts at all times, gift bags, and all occasion cards.

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After Christmas Shopping Tips and Ideas

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RE: After Christmas Shopping Tips and Ideas

Check the ads in the paper so that you have a general idea of what you're going to buy. Because of crowded conditions, I like to try and make a list to shop as quickly as possible. Use those coupons!!! Most stores have great sales on even general merchandise after Christmas. So, take coupons for your regular products, as well. It may be a good time to stock up! (12/29/2004)

By Erin814

Shopping Holiday Clearance Sales

Shop the clearances after each holiday and keep an open mind - Christmas sets can be split into gifts for Valentine's and St. Patrick's Day. Some stocking stuffer candy sets that don't have a Christmas theme can be given as part of a birthday gift. By Angel (01/10/2005)

By ThriftyFun

RE: After Christmas Shopping Tips and Ideas

My idea of shopping after Christmas, is to lay low, cause I'm broke! LOL! (4 kids) I believe in coupons, but don't come across them very often. I stood in line behind a lady at the drug store for 20 minutes while she exercised her thrifty coupon adventure and I didn't mind, was amazed at the money that she saved. She was totally organized! Really put that store clerk through her paces on the till! LOL! (01/11/2005)

RE: After Christmas Shopping Tips and Ideas

Mom had a thing about Hallmark tree ornaments (some are really nice) and Hallmark wrapping paper (I did most of the gift wrapping and I think that's the best there is). After Christmas she'd buy this stuff, and some bows and cards and such for half price. The Hallmark vendors here run half-price sales every year after Christmas. And of course there are many good specials on gifts for next Christmas too. Also anything you might use in a fruitcake, etc. I would avoid buying any high-tec or electronic stuff for next year though, because the price will probably have come down by then. (01/17/2005)

By Alphtoo

Mark Downs After Christmas

Watch those stores for super duper mark downs on Christmas wrapping, tags, cards, etc. Did I ever get bargains. I purchased 50 foot rolls of Christmas wrappings (and it was the classy stuff) for $ .25 per roll. Tags were 100 for $ .17. The cards, I passed on as I have enough for the next 5 years. In the event that you, like me, purchase enough cards to take you through many years just make sure that you keep them in a nice dry spot and in an area that no odor will affect them (like a musty cellar or an overheated attic) and also make sure that there is no greeting inside of the card that mentions the year. How embarrassing that would be to see for example, MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY 2004, when indeed 2004 has come and gone.

By joesgirl (01/18/2005)