Tuesday, December 29, 2009

After Christmas Deals: Belk, Gymboree, Gap, B&B Works, Barnes and Noble!

My mom and I went shopping the whole afternoon today and found some really good bargains.  While a lot of stores weren't quite to the rock-bottom clearance level where I usually do my stocking up, many stores had at least some sections of holiday items up to 75% off.  Here's a quick rundown of the deals we found:

Belk (regional department store):
- pretty Christmas earrings, bracelets, and brooches 70% off (good stocking stuffers or teacher gifts for next year!)
- Christmas home decor from 50-70% off, including ornaments, stockings, accent rugs and throw pillows, and food gifts (including Godiva).  They also had Lenox Winter Greetings and Pfaltzgraff Winterberry china for 60% off.
- Children's holiday clothing was mostly 50% off, with some baby items as low as 70% off.

Gap:
- Our baby and kid Gap had few sale items and were pretty cleaned out.

- At regular Gap, however, we found huge sale racks, including a rack with some great deals on pajamas.  We got a set of cute flannel ladies pajamas for $13.99, originally $39.50!

Gymboree:
- Gymboree is having their semi-annual sale right now, and most of our store was made up of sale racks.  We found rock-bottom prices on some summer collections, although selection was very limited.  Holiday outfits were not at their lowest prices, but most were still over 50% off.

- Our best finds were gymmies (pajamas), both summer and winter, for $6.99, an adorable heart-printed baby dress for $6.99, and a different heart knit dress for $7.99.

- Also, you can earn Gymbucks right now with a $50 order.

Bath and Body Works:
 - The "Yellow Sale" is going on right now, with many items 50% and one rack of 75% off items.  In our experience, the items change quickly at B & B Work's big sales, so it's worth checking out several times over the next week or so.

- On the 75% off rack, we found a True Blue Spa "Naked" lotion, Christmas body lotion for kids, adorable lamb slippers, and travel-sized shower gels and lotions.

- We also found good stocking stuffers for next year at 50% off, including Christmas foaming handsoaps and shea-buter infused socks.

Barnes and Noble:
- I was a little disappointed that the holiday items were only 50% off, but the advantage is there was still a wide selection.

- The best items we found were a couple of large Christmas board books (one with a CD), that were pretty reasonable at 50% off, especially for a new book.  These would make good gifts for next year.

- I also saw a small table of really nice toys for 50%, including Haba, Plan toys, and Playmobil!  There were just a few of each, but these are excellent deals on these brands.

Hope these deals are of interest!  Anyone else find any great after-Christmas deals so far?

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