So here I am, on the same block as a Best Buy, a block away from a Target, two blocks from an Office Depot. Seems like I’m ideally situated to exploit all the day-after-Thanksgiving earlybird sales this year, right?
Well, no. Not only is there nothing I’m really looking for – my TV setup works fine, I don’t see the need for HD or Blu-Ray. I’ve got the portable MP3 thing working fine. My computer isn’t about to give up the ghost. There’s really not much I need. But more significantly, I’m on the other side of the country from where I live. Shipping anything sizable back to California would raise the effort and kill the savings, particularly given the charge for all luggage on the airline I’m flying. I may still get in the lines for the heck of it and to get a few DVDs, but I may just sleep in (particularly since if the doors open at 5 AM, that’s 2 AM my mental time. And I’m stuffed with turkey and turked with stuffing, so I’m apt to sleep late.) So if I’m looking for bargains tomorrow (probably today by the time you’re reading it), online may be the best way.
Now, there are the Amazon Black Friday deals, a new one every hour. May be great. Odds are, there won’t be Peanuts stuff there, though. So, what Peanuts bargains can I point you to?
Amazon does have some good deals, some usual good deals and some a-little-better-than-usual deals on Peanutsy stuff. Let’s see, there’s:
- The Peanuts Holiday DVD set, three DVDs, for $29.99.
- Some Men’s Snoopy “lounge pants” — I say they’re pajama bottoms, sez I! — for $7.99.
- The latest Complete Peanuts boxed set – two hardcover books covering four years worth of Peanuts strips — for a under $32.
But what about elsewhere? Bookcloseouts has a few cheap Peanuts books (may have remainder markings on the edges):
- Schulz and Peanuts audiobook – 75% off cover price
- Baby Snoopy Santa board book – 50% off cover price
- Oh Friend of Friends, a little stocking stuffer of a book – 72% off
- Waking Up Just In Time and When Do the Good Things Start (self-help books with Peanuts strips illustrating concepts) – 67% off
- unseasonal Halloween books: Baby Snoopy’s Pumpkin board book, It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and The Great Pumpkin Strikes Again, at 50% off, plus that making of The Great Pumpkin book for 65% off.
- unseasonal Easter books: Baby Woodstock’s Easter Eggs boardbook at 67% off, The Easter Beagle Returns at 50% off.
Plus, if you order at least $35 worth of stuff, you can get free shipping:
- Coupon Number: freeshipping
- Coupon Password: bookcloseouts.com
And while you’re there, click on their fiction category, and you’ll find that they’ve cut their usual cheap remaindered fiction prices in half for today… and the next few days. Lots of savings, free shipping.
Ach, and with that, I see from the clock on my wrist that Thanksgiving Day has ended and the sales day has begun. So I best get some sleep. May you all be blessed with the true gifts of the season: happiness, joy, and those little Butterfinger bells full of chocolaty, peanut buttery goodness.
