http://www.austinmomblog.com An Austin Area Mom's Blog Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:29:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://www.austinmomblog.com/halloween-clearance-at-target/ http://www.austinmomblog.com/halloween-clearance-at-target/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:56:38 +0000 Dianna http://www.austinmomblog.com/?p=73 I love a good sale. Target has their Halloween merchandise 75% off right now. I got a lot of cute items for the kids next year. I enjoy making treat bags for the boys’ classmates so I stocked up for next year. There was a lot of people grabbing the candy. I glanced over to see what was left, but passed it up. We already have so much candy and with more candy around I would be forced to eat it. The sale is focused on Halloween items, but there were a lot of items I bought that you could use any day. I bought a package of pencils and erasers that were Transformers. I could use these items for when we play bingo. I enjoy having company and sometimes we play bingo. I like to have little prizes for the kids to win. I also bought 16 packages of crayons for a dollar. They were the small packages that held 4 crayons in each bag. They had some good bargains. I want to check out another Target tomorrow to see if I passed anything up. Like I said, I love a good sale!

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