Fall Clearance Shopping

I did a little bit of clearance shopping at Bed Bath & Beyond.  It is located right next to our Fred Meyer and I don't often shop there, mainly because I don't usually need to.  I love the store and what they have to offer, but for the most part I just don't need to go in there.  That is until they had a rack full of pumpkins sitting outside their door marked at 50% OFF.

I added a couple of the mini pumpkins to my kitchen windowsill

So I went over and took a look, but I didn't really see anything there to tempt me.  My oldest, however had gone inside and was soon beckoning me in.  There was more stuff on clearance inside.  Oh my goodness, yes there was.

It looks adorable on our couch

I'm a sucker for pumpkins, absolutely love them, and I think my oldest is too.  She glommed on to a sweater pumpkin right away and I knew we were at least going home with that one.  And at only $2.99, heck yeah!  It is stinking cute!

They had a barrel full of the little dollar pumpkins at only 50¢ each so I found three in there that are different than the ones we already have and my daughter found a beaded one that she really liked.

$4.99!

Then I came across this three piece set of ceramic pumpkins on clearance for only $4.99 and that came home with me too.  Along with a set of felt leaf coasters my daughter thought we should use on our Thanksgiving table.  She is right about that of course.

A dollar

$12 later we were out of there and headed over to Fred Meyer so she could get a key made and we ended up finding another clearance table.  Of all things, candy!  Sure didn't need that, but when I spotted full size Hershey bars for a buck a package I snapped up all they had.  We also got a bag of almond kisses for $1.89 and the girls found packages of mini candy bars for only 49¢ each.  They have friends with birthdays coming up and plan to stuff them inside coffee mugs to give as gifts.

I usually see these on sale 2/$6

I definitely said Whoohoo!

I figured I'd use the Hershey bars for Halloween on the off chance we did have a trick-or-treater and we could be "that house" that gives out the full size candy bars.  However, that didn't happen as we didn't get one single trick-or-treater and now I'm stuck with 18 Hershey bars, but no worries.  I've got plans for them and they will not go to waste.

I also found some peppermints that are on my list for the holidays at only 79¢ so I picked up 2 bags of those.  That should be plenty.  I may take some into work to share at Christmas time.

I put some of the kisses in a dish for guests to enjoy

I like to have a little sweet treat for people to enjoy when they visit
Makes our home more inviting I think

We came home with a bag of treasures from Bed Bath & Beyond as well as a bag of goodies from Fred Meyer.  Loads of gift ideas with that bag of goodies, let me tell you.  We're excited to get started.