Thread: First Halloween sighting in stores...

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ghost of spooky
Shopko
it's in mason city iowa - a town of 50,000.
they have Target, Wal-mart, K-mart, and Shopko
Walgreens
Mernards and Farm Fleet
Hobby Lobby
Dollar Tree and Dollar General
all the other stores you guys talk about, i pretty much only heard of from you guys.
shopko has a cool witch i have been debating getting. she's just the upper 1/2 with gown hanging down.
she was $39.99, last i checked she is $19.99.

The Michaels by me is selling all their halloween merchandise at 40% off and they replaced all the isles with Christmas merchandise. The only remaining Halloween props are in a cart in an isle. Very depressing.
Every family dollar I've been to has very little Halloween props out, all preparing for Christmas. The dollar tree is my only friend right now. :c

Originally Posted by kUITSUKU

The Michaels by me is selling all their halloween merchandise at 40% off and they replaced all the isles with Christmas merchandise. The only remaining Halloween props are in a cart in an isle. Very depressing.
Every family dollar I've been to has very little Halloween props out, all preparing for Christmas. The dollar tree is my only friend right now. :c

I was in MICHAELS this afternoon to pick up a few faux pumpkins for my singing pumpkin display (50% off I believe). They still had a nice selection left. I like Joann Fabric's Funkin pumpkins the best to carve (Joann's are on sale too), however Michaels has some nicer shapes to choose from (although they aren't Funkin).

My Michaels had one long aisle of Halloween--signs, webs, Spookytown, bottles, eyeballs, foam skulls, bag o bones, tombstones, etc. still there. They also had a few short shelves of other halloween items. Most 40% off. Crafts, props (still a good variety), lights, Martha Stewart, Wilton...still quite a bit actually but limited numbers of the items. I picked up the halloween wall sconces they had (2 varieties lion-looking one and a vampire-looking one) which were on sale--something like $5 or $6--I thought they were pretty nice.

Here's the sconces that I picked up from Michaels (see previous post). Paid $5.39 a piece. They need creeping up, but a good deal for wood I think and the detail of the images.




Had to run to DOLLAR TREE today for some pumpkin light plugs and cords for my singing pumpkins and saw a few new things to my store. The bottle labels came in liter size and wine bottle size. 4 to a pack (although only 3 versions are pictured)

hey, i like the labels, i have really vamped up a lot of bottles since i got some cool ones from my reaper. and those shelves are really, really cool

Dropped into Joann Fabrics last night once I heard about the 60% off clearance from here. Most things were wiped out, but I got a good deal. I wanted to get a thank you present for my aunt because she is helping out a lot with my daughter's party. She has a farm called "Black Cat Valley"so as you guessed, she is nuts about black cats. I found her a giant tin black cat that was originally $24.99 knocked down to 9.99! She will flip!

I also found a very nice metal lantern with a witch at Big Lots for $7 that you can put a tealight in. I bought a fake one at the grocery store and it looks very nice. I'll have to post pics up. Any members who have a Big Lots by them, does yours happen to have the Munsters 2-pack on DVD for $4? I am DYING to track this down.

Originally Posted by Darkpumpkin

Dropped into Joann Fabrics last night once I heard about the 60% off clearance from here. Most things were wiped out, but I got a good deal..

I have also found Jo Ann's & Michaels to have good deals & nice little nick-nacks.

I purchased some great Halloween silhouette votives from them last year. Michael's had them again this year and I purchased more of them for 50% off.
I will have to post a pic of them....they are really cute!

I have'nt purchased much this year, mainly because I have collected alot already and the stores, in my area, selection this year was a little slim. My guess is because the present condition of the economy. I usually get a few props, or a tombstone or two every year at Walmart, but they did not carry any of the yard decor this year......no tombstones, mainly costumes.

I have two of the Target EXTRA Large Jack 'O 'Lanterns from last year. I went to get another this year, and I found it is about 1/3 smaller in size. I thought maybe I had misread, but the tag did say EXTRA-Large $29.99. That's what I paid for them before..... I am not sure why they did that?

Anyway, overall, I am happy with what I have.... H1

Just ordered five 2-ft. tarantulas over on Walmart.com for $5 each. They weren't offering the $.97 shipping on them so did the site-to-site shipping (won't come until after halloween but that's okay) so I didn't incur any shipping costs. I figured at $5 with a plastic body and poseable legs I couldn't afford to make it as nice and cheap as just buying it for this price. Guess you know what's going to be part of my theme next year!

Here's the link:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=12335918


A number of their props have sold out already online. I just picked up my Baseball Vendor today (came in site-to-site at the $30 clearance price). The shaking spider victim is sold out online $20, and I really wish I would have seen the life-size animated hunch back with tray (over 5 feet tall) on clearance for $20 before it sold out. Darn.

I just got back from the Dollar Store and I bought some more spider web to put around the bush and tree, purchased some pumpking stake lights, purchased a lawn sign and went to Walmart and got a good deal on some candy..