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right place, right time

Sometimes you’re just in the right place at the right time….

A couple of days ago, I went shopping at Target to finish up my Christmas shopping. The night before, I made a list of the items I still needed (stocking stuffers and things like that), perused the Sunday ads to see which store had the largest number of the items on my list on sale, and went through my coupons and found all of the relevant ones. I found more coupons on Target.com and printed them out. I found some really great deals ~ several of the items I needed were on sale at Target, and I had a manufacturer’s coupon as well as a Target coupon for most of those items. Triple up on the savings ~ that makes it worth the trip.

So, there I was at Target, checking items off my list and concentrating on getting the items I knew I needed to get ~ sticking to the list is usually the best way for me to get in and out of a store without spending more than I intend to spend. But on this day I think God just decided I needed a little extra gift. I was heading towards the electronics department when I passed the clearance rack at the back of the bedding section ~ and that’s where it caught me eye. On one of the clearance shelves was a boxed Simply Shabby Chic white decorative shelf. We’ve been slowly trying to redecorate a few rooms in the house, and one of the things I’ve been on the look-out for are good decorative items. This particular shelf was just the kind of item I had on that mental list. So even though I was on a mission to the electronics department, I stopped at that clearance shelf. And I’m glad I did!

I checked the box over, and there was no damage to it. So I looked at the price tag. Are you ready for this? The regular price was just under $56 ~ and the little red clearance tag read $6.84. WHAT?! There had to be something wrong with it. It had to be a return or something. But for $6.84, I was willing to snag it, take it home and check it out.

I finished my shopping, checked out (where the cashier commented on my adept combining of sale items and coupons, and my clearance shelf find), put everything into the trunk and headed home. I was still a little doubtful that the shelf would turn out to be as good of a deal as I was hoping it would be, but again I was willing to take the chance.

After I got home and put away all of my sale/coupon items, I carried into the house the box containing my “steal” of the day, the decorative shelf. I examined the box again, and still couldn’t find any damage to it. I opened the box, and noted that it did not appear to have been re-packed. You know when you buy something, get it home, take it out of the box, and realize there’s something wrong with it, and no matter how hard you try you absolutely cannot put it back into the packaging and make it look as good as it did coming out of the factory? Yeah, well, that didn’t appear to be the case here. So I carefully sliced the packing tape, opened in inner box, took out the directions, and found the package of hardware needed to put the shelf together. That hardware package contained 8 small packages of groups of hardware. I pulled out each small package and compared it to the individual package contents listed in the book of directions. None of the hardware packages appeared to have been opened, and every single piece of each of those 8 hardware packages appeared to be present in its package.

At this point I thought to myself, “Self, you may have just found the deal of the week!” I took a picture of the box just to show you (because I know how much you love when I share my big savings finds with you) ~ here it is:

I took a couple of pictures of the little red clearance tag that reads $6.84, but they didn’t turn out well. They’re too blurry to read. I’ll try to get a good pic with my better digital camera and post it ~ I need to put a picture of this box with the readable tag in a scrapbook or something! LOL

Despite my intention to be in and out of Target that day, buying only the items on my list, I’m thankful to have noticed this gem of a deal. Now, I haven’t put the whole thing together yet, so there’s still the possibility that the shelf (cabinet) may NOT turn out to be the deal of the week. But you know what? At this point I’ve had my $6.84-worth of pleasure from this item, so if something is wrong with it my heart won’t be broken!

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