Saturday, July 26, 2008

Toys-R-Us

**I just realized, I totally fibbed....we actually got 16 toys for that price...that makes each toy less then $10 a piece....I'm still amazed!**

Ethan has really been struggling to understand that he has to save his "store" money in order to be able to buy "cool" things.  In an effort to give him a visual image of something he could save for we ventured out to Toys R Us.  Did you know that right now they have all of their Clearance items marked down an additional 20%?!  We spent a grand total of $157.59 and basically completed our Christmas shopping!  We still need one last "wow" gift for Ethan and Gabe and haven't purchased anything for Joel, so we aren't completely done, but we are pretty DARN close!!  We bought 13 gifts for $157.59....amazing!!!!  We are ecstatic.  I think the most exciting thing is that since we have been saving ahead for Christmas we had this money in our "sinking funds" so we didn't think twice about dropping some dough and didn't even have to consider putting it on our credit card.  Guess who's going to be shopping at Toys-R-Us every July from now until eternity!?!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

No kidding! That really is a great deal. I thought you did find some stuff for Joelster? No? I mentioned it to Ryan and he said, "Why on earth would Jillian need more toys?!" Apparently she is stuck with board books and musical toys from now until she starts Kindergarten.

Hmm......

Karen said...

You're so organized! I think about buying Christmas presents around the 20th of December!

Liz said...

Huge deal!! Congrats!!

Nancy said...

I can't believe you lied to us Heather.

;) N

Karen said...

When do we get pics of Joel's birthday? Your loyal readers await!