Yesterday Katie and I did a little shopping as I had to find Kevin a mouth piece for his martial arts as he was going to start sparring that night.  While we were out I had found some really cute pirate plates and napkins on clearance at target and since Kevin is going to be a pirate for Halloween I thought for his birthday we could just keep with the pirate theme since in February he will be getting a pirate makeover at Disney world.

It’s then that I remembered someone on my disboard saying that Michaels was having a 70% off sale on all their pirate & princesses party stuff.  So Katie and I went there after target to see what kind of deals we might find there.  The sign said 70% off, but the “clearance” price on the item was no where near 70% off the original price.  I looked all over the store in hopes of finding one of those barcode scanners, but do you think I could find any?  NOPE!   I guess I never realized how often I use them until you need one and there isn’t one to be found.

I ended up getting a package of pirate cookie cutters (8 of them) and a package of princess cookie cutters (8 of them) with 2 packages of princess plates and 2 packages of princess napkins and a container of those glow sticks for $12!  I thought making and decorating cookies as favors for their birthday parties would be fun for the kids.

I just love being able to find things that I will need to buy later on in the year on clearance.  Some people may not like buying things way ahead of time, but if I’m going to be saving some money, I’ll do it!

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