Kids Activity at Silver Spring Whole Foods
I saw a sign about this at the Silver Spring Whole Foods yesterday. It sounds like fun for the kids (and free).
- Half Pints Club: No-Bake Peanut Butter Balls
- Thursday, August 31st
- 3:00–4:00 p.m. Free
Opposite register 10 (by our Catering desk)
This healthy no-bake snack is easy to make with ingredients like peanut butter and honey. Things might get a little messy, so please bring an old shirt. Drinks will be provided. If interested, you must register in person at our customer service desk. No age limit. Space is limited.
Borders Coupon
If you receive Borders emails, you will often find a coupon for 20-30% off of one item each week. This week, the coupon is for 10% a total purchase. Here’s the link: http://f.chtah.com/i/9/276579820/coupon0824.htm
Source for Books
For our family, the fall leading into winter is jam packed with birthdays followed by the holidays. I am trying to get a head start on gift buying this year. One internet source I have found particularly great for kids books is Bookcloseouts.com. I just bought a stash of great kids book for some of the upcoming birthdays. For instance, my son loves the book, “Little Quack’s Hide and Seek”. A nice hardcover version is $5.99 marked down from a list price of $14.95 (and $10.17 at Amazon). They also have a good selection of softcover books, board books, and coloring/activity books for even less. I bought a box of various books for gifts and got 17 great kids books for $74.83 plus $6.95 shipping. You can also pick up inexpensive books or coloring books here to use in lieu of goody bags at kids parties.
Any other great gift resources in the local area or on-line? I could really use some new suggestions!
Two Deals at Target
I was in Target (in Cherry Hill) today and saw two deals I thought
worth mentioning. First they have swim diapers on clearance. They
were a couple of dollars off the regular prices. If you still have
swim classes into the fall, they might be worth checking out. They
seemed to have a variety of sizes and brands. They were on an end cap
by the pharmacy.
The other deal was a cartridge for the Leapster, if you have a child
into such things. They had the Letter Factory cartridge, regularly
$24.95 on sale for $6.22 in another clearance aisle just past the toy
section toward the back of the store. I picked one up for my son for
his birthday. He loves the Leapster.
If you spot any good deals out there, please share.
Amazon.com Grocery
From Katie on the Yahoo Group:
For those who like to buy in bulk (and don’t like to go to the
store!), Amazon.com is beta-testing their new grocery site now & you
can get $10 off any purchase of $49 or more through Aug 31st. All
items in their grocery store include free shipping, too, which is
good. What I like about the site is it has some products that are
sometimes hard to find and/or rarely go on sale and/or are difficult
to find in bulk (e.g., McCann’s Irish Oatmeal and Glide floss tape!).
I’ve seen that the level of discounts vary depending on the product,
so pay attention to the % off and make sure you know your prices.What I haven’t figured out yet is whether you can use this promotion
more than once (I haven’t figured out that you can’t, but I haven’t
tested it yet).
Thanks, Katie!
Unique Thrift
Another suggestion from Lindsay:
Have you been to Unique Thrift in Wheatonville (is it Wheaton? is it Rockville? I don’t know!)? It’s on the east side of Veirs Mill Road just NORTH of Randolph. Across Veirs Mill from Rodman’s, if you know where that is. (We call it the Crack House because we are so addicted.)
http://local.yahoo.com/details?id=29016888It’s very similar to Value Village inside; huge and full of everything, but I think it’s much more organized (their staff is always straightening, putting stuff away, putting stuff back where it goes, etc.), and generally not as crazy. Plus they take credit cards (last time I went to Value Village, they did not). They restock constantly, every Monday everything is 25% off, and twice a year (Memorial Day and some other Monday, maybe Labor Day?) everything is 50% off. Kids clothes are typically $1.99-3.99 per piece, and only slightly more ($2.49-4.99 average) for grownup clothes. They do charge more for stuff that has still has tags on it, and occasionally something will be priced above what similar stuff is going for for no apparent reason.
They sell Little Tikes and Step 2 sandboxes, houses, furniture, etc., stuff that costs $50 and up, from about $4. And it’s a great place to get kids books (.69 & .99 mostly, paper & hardback). It’s a great place to look for anything you need but not enough to pay full price (paper shredder, baby carrying backpack thing, small auxiliary stroller, suitcase). They sell yarn! They sell hair bobbles (barrettes and stuff)! They sell backpacks and sun hats and VHS tapes and humidifiers and rugs and exercise equipment. It’s a total bizarre bazaar.
Great stuff! Thanks, Lindsay!
Community
Morning everyone. I am proud to report that Stone Soup DC now gets around 150-200 hits a day. Very cool.
I am glad people are finding the information useful, at least I hope you are. I believe one of the best resources anywhere and anytime, is community. We can make this resource so much more powerful if we pull together our information and ideas. Anything from what’s on sale this week, to a great store you’ve found, to free/cheap community events, to how to make something yourself that you would have previously purchased. That’s what we all want to hear. I am sure each one of you has ideas to add. Please consider joining the Yahoo discussion group, posting a comment on the blog, or even sending me an email at stonesoupdc@gmail.com. I want to hear from you!
Have you all heard the story of Stone Soup? I’ve added some stones. Anyone out there have some cabbage or carrots or an onion?
Back to School Tax Free Shopping in VA
Virginia is having a sales tax holiday coming up August 4-6, 2006. The exemption is only for school supplies costing $20 or less per item, and clothing and footwear costing less than $100 per item/pair. Get shopping for back to school early.
Update: See also info about upcoming DC and MD tax free shopping
Weschler’s Auctions
Most of of us probably need less stuff rather than more, but I couldn’t help posting a link to the story in today’s WP about Weschler’s Auctions in DC. Keep me away from there. I could spend a fortune on “bargains”. Sounds like sooo much fun though, and if you really *need* a new victorian lamp, a box of old LPs, or some more furniture for your place, you’ll find bargains at Weschler’s. My weakness is for old postcards. I have several thousand already, at least they’re small.
Though, this week they almost sucked me in with the Heywood-Wakefield furniture. I am an Atomic Ranch junkie.
