Christmas time

I have been shopping the past few weeks but haven't really done anything really great. I am very busy this time of year with my ebay sales-though this is the last year of that. After this Christmas I am going to try and get rid of all my inventory and stop with this ebay thing. Sales have not been good this year (though I still made a profit) so enough is enough. Plus with my $26 listing program, $16 stamps.com program and my $25 Ebay store, that certainly isn't helping.

We have sold some of our Disney DVDs that we bought around 2000 some of them brought a pretty penny too (Disney DVDs usually do). Also I found one of the hot items this year "The Office Clue" and managed to find 4 of them. I kept one (paid $24.99 at JC Penney's) and sold the other 3 first one for $46.99 second one for $48.99 and the last one for $54.99 all within 12 hours. I also was smart and went to BiLo first and bought $600 worth of Gift cards
$450 in Kohls
$100 for Penneys
$50 Old Navy

I paid off my Kohls card with the gift cards, used the Penney's to buy the Clue games and the Old Navy to buy my kids some "fluff" under the tree (I have boys they don't care about clothes!). For each $200 I got a $10 Bilo Gift card...so I have $30 to spend at BiLo just for buying my gift cards there first.

Also this week at Lowes Foods there is a good deal going on with the McCormick Spices. Buy 3 get a $5 FRC and if you buy 4 you get a $3 OYNO catalina. They are also 30% off too. It ends up being a money maker even without coupons in hand. I haven't done it yet, I was waiting for coupons but they aren't here yet and by the time they come IF THEY COME in Monday's mail I only have until Tuesday evening to use them. Also you can only get $20 in FRC (a rule they just came up with imposed by the registers)... am sure there will be another deal in the future anyway and my coupons are good until April 2010.

I have also decided I will make my formal dining room into a huge pantry. We are going to buy Metro shelves (which are commerical type shelving that restaurants use) and put them in that room and move in both freezers. It would be better for the freezers in there during the summer anyway. Both Freezers are full and my shelves that I currently have are full too.

In past weeks I have gotten
40+ bags of Science Diet Naturals Cat food
6 boxes Marcal Kleenex
30+lbs of boneless skinless chicken
4 whole chickens
4 Marcal Napkins
20+ bags of Nestle chocolate chips
20lbs of sugar
30+ 2ltrs of soda
10+lbs of ground beef
15 cartons Breyers Ice Cream
plus lots more that is not coming to mind this second. Also if HT has triple coupons again (which there is rumor at the end of this month) then I need more room. I have found the shelves on Craigs list for $50 each...and at Lowes they are $75 for the same size. I have a bunch of the kind on the walls that needs to be removed now that I won't be doing ebay, hopefully we can sell that and use that money to pay for some of the shelves.