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I just wanted to see what everyone bought this year during the Halloween sales.

I went looking for deals the day after halloween and I didn't get anything. Our Spirit of Halloween was just closed..... no sales.... no nothing...?? I went to the other halloween America... They were closed at 4 in the afternoon. So I didn't think I was going to be able to get anything this year. So a week goes by and I happen to stop in Big Lots and they had a bunch of cool stuff for 75% off. So I grabbed up a bunch of the really cool stuff. I talked to the Manager and he said the stuff was going to go to 90% in a couple of days. So I stopped by another Big Lots by my work and low and behold everything was 90%. So I pretty much cleaned out that one and also went over to the one by my house and cleaned them out too. Wow, I ended up with a ton of stuff. It was soooo cool, I couldn't believe it. Here are the pics of everything.






4 grave yard kits
3 ceramic grim reapers with light up eyes
2 ceramic gargoyals





3 4ft tall light up trees
2 big bag of bones
1 big rubber vulture
3 small gravestone with skeleton wrap around guy
1 rubber skeleton kid thing..




1 4ft witch wall hanger
1 2ft skeleton guy with hangy feet
1 2ft scary clown wall hanger
3 mummified cats
6 skeleton voodoo dolls
The two boxes are featured below





1 leg kicker
1 5ft skeleton doctor with self supporting stand





4 lighted signs
2 more small gravestones with skeleton wrap around guy
1 screaming face
4 small ceremic pirate heads (one was missed in the photos)
1 triple skeleton head hanging thing
2 table center pieces





1 complete zombie doctor costume (probably just stuff him or something)
1 zombie mask
1 spider
4 wall thatch covering
1 more skeleton voodoo doll
10 little plastic buckets (be used for something?) I think I paid 10 cents
1 small bag of moss




3 orange and yellow string lights
19 orange sting lights
2 bigger orange lights
11 small lighted pumpkin heads
7 small lighted skeleton heads


Here is the coolest part I only paid around $150 for all of it!!!! Went from finding nothing to hitting the jackpot.

Hopefully other people found good stuff too. Let me know what you think.

You did hit the jackpot!!!you got some great stuff.
I ordered some costumes and the gothic farmer from spirit.
Got the costumes but no farmer yet so i figure I won't get him
I have emailed them twice.They haven't charged my card for him which is great.
The only other things I got was paper products for next years party.And 2 resin tombstones from grandin road.

our big lots never went down to 90%. and any animated stuff was NOT on sale!!

this is the first year Big Lots has been up here though so im hoping next year, once the manager sees that they still ahve a storeroom of stuff from this year, things will drop like rocks in the water.

one thing i did pick up super cheap were the skelly garlands. a buck a peice regular price at the dollar store, 4 bucks at the regular stores, and NINE DOLLARS online!!! I paid less than a dollar for two packs. wish i had bought them out now.

Nice haul and great pics !!! Yeah same story here none of my big stores and seasonal Halloween stores had anything on the first but Big lots made my month in Nov., never had so much fun. I went to 8 BL's but only 2 had good merchandise left. And at Krogers grocery store I scored 6 Bubble foggers for 85% off. I got $ 550 dollars worth for $93 bucks. more pics below

Thats awesome you got a great haul too!! I really like the pirate and 24 piece bone yard set. Very very cool.


LadyAlthea
That is weird that they didn't put anything on sale. They get an email from corporate to mark the stuff down. They don't even know when it is going to happen but it does happen. It was nearly two weeks before it went to 75% if I remember correctly.

Ohhh I didn't even see the smoke bubblier. How does it work, is it cool? I was wanting to get one.

Oh the bubble foggers are very cool, I wasn't expecting much from them but I was pleasantly surprised, they really crank out the fog bubbles. I'm gonna use them in the garage and my trail entrance. Yeah I want to wrap all my loot up and put it under the tree.....ha ! I was really looking for larger props so I was very happy to score the 5' glow up zombies and the 5' skelly Doc's. The kicking legs I have wanted for a few years now. And the blow up was just icing on the cake. Hard to beat a large blow up for good front yard advertising so I was just tickle to score it. I just can't build one that big and store as easy. They were all 90% off. Your wonderful pics reminded me again what fun shopping it was. I had to hunt hard but once I hit the mother load I was like kid in a candy store, this was the first year I had really look for Nov. sales and I was striking out so bad the first week I was ready to give up. Musta went to 10 Kroger stores trying to score a bubble fogger and wouldn't you know the last one had 14 of them at 85 % off......I wanted them all.....lol !! If you do a search here there are a couple good vids showing them in action. Again one of the coolest little foggers I have ever gotten....dang I would have paid full price if I had not so under estimated them.....ha.

you guys scored some sweet stuff. we used to have a big lots in a town 30 mins away but it closed down. now the closest one is 2 1/2 hours away. i have always wanted those kicking legs but never had the luck. those pirate and dr characters look like a go as well. i do have 3 blow ups but am not big into them. however there are a few i think are cool and wouldn't mind having. i just added yours to the list. overall everything you guys got is pretty sweet. i got a few good deals as well, from target, walmart, kmart, shopko, and walgreens. but have packed it away so sorry, no pics. this year the stores didn't really put out the full size animated stuff. well, with your hauls, happy haunting next year.

You guys hit the jackpot. This year due to financial problems, I stayed away from the sales. so now bargains for me.

Thanks H.S.,.....Yeah most the stores were lacking life size stuff and blow ups. I wish I could score more blow-ups, would love to find the Horse drawn Herse some where. Oh well hopefully there is a better selection for next year. Wally's was really bad with nothing bigger than 3' tall...they use to have some cool life size Gemmy props and blow ups but all they had was mostly costumes they couldn't even give away......poor buying decisions on their part (I'm afraid they will only rely on on-line shopping only in the future.....bummer because I don't like buying on-line). K-mart and Target were much better.