Chad, Ben and I joined the rest of the family at Kurt and Melissa's for a wonderful Thanksgiving feast. After eating just the right amount of everything, we scoured the ads. Office Depot was advertising an HP Laptop for an amazing price of $349 after an instant savings of $200 and an additional $50 mail in rebate. Who could pass that up???
Well, Melissa and I went into Asbury to see what Michael's had on special Thanksgiving night. On our way back home we were coming up with an idea of how the guys could sit outside Office Depot to make sure that we got the laptops. Well, after we made a few comments to the boys about how they could do it and stay warm we realized they weren't going to sit outside all night. That meant that if we really wanted the laptops that we were given the green light to get then we would have to brave the cold and crowds.
After the boys went to bed, the two of us took a couple hour nap and woke up around 11:40 pm to leave the house by midnight. When we arrived at the store there were already 6 people in line(the add said minimum of 6). Thankfully you could see in the window that there were 11 waiting to be purchased at 6am on Friday. So, armed with sleeping bags and a couple chairs we joined those already there. The wait was oh so worth it. We got our computers that we braved the cold for. The only items that were really cold was our feet.
We got a few other good bargains as well. Some memory cards for the cameras at $14.99 each and a laser color printer that Chad wanted but didn't want to sit outside for. There were only 3 of these printers at the store and no tickets for that. He is so spoiled. hehe
We were able to watch all of the crazy people flock into Kohl's at 4 am, some of them running like they were going to miss out on something only to wait in a line to check out that went all the way to the back of the store. We only know how long the lines were because the nice coffee shop came by with cups of coffee for a dollar so after drinking that at 3:30 we needed to use the restroom.
We finally made it back home after a nice hot breakfast at Perkins and a few other stops. I was so tired when we go back but just like any other kid, we had to open our new toys.
2 comments:
You girls ARE mad!! Awesome price on a new laptop! We went to Walmart around 10 and they still had everything we wanted, in and out in 20 minutes and still spent too much money! I got a kick out of the people that were obviously there on a MISSION, some with 2 carts!
You girls are crazy! Sounds like you had an adventure, anyway. ;) Fun.
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