Whew.. it's been a busy couple of days for me on the shopping front!
Had a bit of a fiasco when Mattell.com shipped the Barbie Malibu Mall to my front porch in a box labeled "DOLLS TOYS Barbie Malibu Mall"... :O I tried to play it off like it was delivered to the wrong house when my DS11 yells "No mom, there's your name on it right there!" UGHHH. I told my daughter when we looked at it online it must have been ordered by mistake and I'd have to send it back. Of course she was eager to keep it but I said it wasn't in our budget, so it had to go, she can still put it on her list for Santa and see what happens!
Also "not within our budget" is that crazy expensive LOL big surprise ball. I kept hoping she would lose interest, but she actually prioritized it over the ipod touch she was wanting. I normally wouldn't even consider it, it's basically throwing away $75! However...
My DH and I needed to upgrade our phones badly and were planning to anyway, so we took advantage of the $200 Target gc offer and ended up with $400! All of the LOL toys in the store were sold out, also all sold out online
I'm guessing it's one of the hot toys this year. While there, I grabbed 3 games on the B2G1 free for the boys. Didn't notice until I got home that they overcharged me for the 2 more expensive games, so went back first thing this morning and received $30 credit. While there I thought I would just peek over to see and they had 1 and only 1 of those LOL big surprise on the shelf! I used the 25% off toy coupon and applied the $10 off %50 toy purchase and a $10 gc I had from another promo, so before tax, I paid $33! Not too shabby!!!
She was also wanting one of the Our Generation dolls that has the same name as her and we have not been able to find it in store or online since last year. I was in the store 2 weeks ago and noticed one was in stock so I went ahead and paid full price (which I NEVER do!). Well, now the dolls are on sale for $22 so I went in and got a price adjustment, plus applied the 25% off coupon from my husband's text so ended up paying $17, down from $29.99. I feel pretty good about that!
Also got the 2 youngest some union suit jammies. Unicorn and deer for DD8, Minecraft and Dog for DS5
So far for the girl child:
Monster High dollhouse ($23)
Monster High styling head(s) ($5)
Barbie Malibu Mall with 2 dolls and accessories ($39)
Our Generation doll ($17)
LOL Big Surprise ($33)
Hoodie jammies (2) ($25)
Last thing left to get is the refurb ipod touch ($129) from Gamestop, a book or box set of books and stocking stuffers. I'm hoping GS has a special on BF or we can trade some things for credit to help bring that price down.
My youngest DS5 will be easy. They have a Pirates of the Caribbean toy set at Costco I think he'll like. He needs a new bigger bike and we'll probably get him a Nintendo 2DS and a Lego set. Some small filler gifts will round him out.
DS5 so far has:
Lego Ninjago The Movie Game for PS4 ($30)
Hoodie Jammies ($25)
DS11 still has me stumped. All I have for him so far is 1 video game and Gift cards to the Main Event. Hopefully Barnes and Noble will have their 40% coupon on BF and I can get him a box set. He's mentioned being bored with what he has and needing some more. He has a kindle fire, but the boy likes his books! He's been wanting some more Pokémon cards and that's it. I got nothing else....