Over the Weekend we were in Rhode Island and I was able to check out a few stores.
I found one of these 4 in one Smoke-Fire-Carbon Monoxide-Natural Gas Detectors for a penny. It had fallen on the floor behind a Clearance endcap. The next store however, just 5 miles away had plenty of stock at full price,
Here is one I missed! That same first store had put this 349 piece tool set on clearance. Regular price was $299, here they are for $75.03! But they’er gone. #1000-029-980
Boy, was I bummed. I didn’t even know that set was on clearance.
Here are some other deals I saw, but did not buy,
BTW, NOW is a good time to look for clearance items in garden.
That 50 lb bag of fertilizer is a good deal at $24, but I’m holding out for last years score, $18.00 It’s a gamble, I may miss out
Then at the 2nd store, just 5 miles away, I came upon this.
Hot Dog! The 349 piece tool set. Had I not seen that $75.03 price at the previous store, I probably wouldn’t have given this a second look. There is a VERY good chance these will ring up for $75.03!
So I walked, I did not run, to get a cart and grabbed all 3. Sure enough they rang up for $75.03
I scored a couple of more penny items, this towel bar was a penny and I found 1 - 2 foot florescent black light tube for a penny.
Speaking of lights, earlier this week I picked up some rotating multi colored Halloween lights for $2.49 each. They were regularly $15-20. These stake outside and project a swirling pattern on the house. Cheap enough to play around with.
This is the same type of light as above except it is a screw in bulb. It also had a rotating motor inside that spins the LED’s. These were $1.61. They also had “flicker lights” for $1.24. It turned out they are not so interesting.
Those 2 stores in Rhode Island also had clearance out 16oz and 20oz Plumb Branded hammers. Both stores were sold out.
The next day at my home town HD I found 4 of the 20oz ones.
I also checked for that 349 piece tool set. Their price was also $75.03 but ALL stores in the area were sold out. Once again, the ONLY reason I found those 3 was because they failed to update the sticker price.
In Rhode Island, That second store also had some car batteries on clearance at the “3” price, 75% off.
The newer 1500 Lumen worklights that replaced the older 800 or 1000 lumen lights are now on clearance. I have seen these in all the stores. My prediction is that in the future they will go to $24.06, then eventually $7.53. That would be a few months away though.
Lastly, I found 1 more of the 1000 watt inverters. It was an open box with the UPC code cut out. Still marked at $68.06, I knew they were going for $23.03. Without a UPC code I wouldn’t be able to check out so I brought it up to the service desk and talked them into selling it to me for $15.00.
Stuff is still out there.
The Black Friday stuff is being put out on the floor. Some of it will be reduced in price for that day.
I was just about to post that tool set, I found out they were at the 3 price yesterday morning. I haven’t been able to find a set yet. I am going to look this evening at another store. The in store computer showed none in stock around me! That CAT inverter still hasn’t went on clearance around here nor the b&d, just “new lower price” :cry:
I just spent a while looking and hauling prospects up to the self checkout lane. Cat inverter still at regular price.
I asked at the service desk if they had any of the tool kits and got a No. Even for the surrounding stores. Then one of the ladies said “they have been on clearance for a while, they just went to a penny this morning.” I replied - “you aren’t supposed to know about that!”
I’ll check some other stores but I’m guessing they have all been picked up.
Boy, I was wrong in my prediction on this one! Just yesterday I posted
And I predicted, and I quote myself :person_facepalming:
The newer 1500 Lumen worklights that replaced the older 800 or 1000 lumen lights are now on clearance. I have seen these in all the stores. My prediction is that in the future they will go to $24.06, then eventually $7.53. That would be a few months away though.
Well one day later, I come across this!!!
Home Depot is not fooling around, they want these out of the store. $15.04 is 50% off and after a few weeks it will go to $7.52
Home Depot more than any other retailer seems to be protective of their upcoming Black Friday deals. Can’t get them early at blackfriday.com or anywhere else as far as I know. But I may have stumbled across one upcoming deal. Yesterday I was in a store that had 2 displays with different prices in separate locations in the store.
This display was in a hardware isle and I am assuming it is the older, legitimate display because it is partially depleted and diplays the price these 2 tools actuall ring up for.
This second display with the same 2 items was found near a clearance endcap in the middle of the store. It being completely full of stock, I am thinking this is a Black Friday deal that was mistakenly unpacked and put out on the floor early.
$59 vs $49.
Those same 2 tools can be had right now for an even $99 in a special promotion set.
That set does come with a carry bag, but buying the 2 separate deals at $49 each is $1 cheaper and you would get a second charger.
Bort
I found an electric lopper!!!
And they still had one left in the overhead. Here is the HD worker getting it for me :) :)
Of course I took it thru self checkout just in case it rang up for a penny. It didn’t, but I was never so happy to pay the “3” price.
Right now is a good time to consider buying fertilizer. This 50lb bag regularly $37.98, is now $23.06. Any store that I have been in that still had stock did NOT have them marked as such, You just have to know
I am hoping some survive to the “3” price which should be around $9.53. When I shop for fertilizer, I consider about a $1 a pound to be a fair list price.
Here is a pic of last years 35 piece drill bit set and this years. Last years HDX set has the same exact bits as this years, the Ryobi. Pretty decent set for $4.88, and last year they went to $3.
Went by my hd and saw some cool stuff in a cart ready to be put on the shelves. They had a cobra 2-way radio and ever ready 6v lantern and lots of combination wrench sets.
This will sound like sacrilege but for rolling tool storage, check out Harbor Freight. The US General Pro tool storage (the red ones) are extremely good quality and still considered the best value under around $1000 or so out there. The guys over at Garage Journal are mostly big fans of the Harbor Freight offerings. Husky and Kobalt have had to raise their game significantly to compete but they still haven’t matched the HF offerings yet (which they don’t have to because they do still have their name). Craftsman tool storage has proceeded to shit the bed on quality and their cheap stuff just blows. Keep in mind this is only the US General Pro red colored stuff, the black harbor freight stuff is pretty much crap, about on par with the worst Craftsman tool storage.
Problem is I can’t always afford the “very best” If I can get a good enough deal on something else I will go for it. Otherwise it will be the U.S. General/ Harbor Freight.
Did you know that Harbor Freight bought and now owns U.S. General?
Also there is also a Harbor Freight Deal Alerts thread
And in this post I tried to tell everyone how good those HF rollaways really are
I have to wait to catch the deals on the tool boxes. Sometimes they have really good deals at HD but we don’t have harbor freight up here in Alaska. (I really wish they did, it would save me a ton of money… LOL).
Well damn, couldn’t find em. Had staff look for me, they have 12 in stock but there not on the floor. They’re stuck in the overhead somewhere. But on the bright side, by the time I find em they’ll be at the “2” price. There’s so much merchandise in the store the employees are overwhelmed. They have every isle jam packed with Black Friday stuff, hell even the garden center is crammed with tool boxes and power tools! To bad we can’t see the Black Friday ads yet…
I saw some drain decloggerizer stuff for 10¢ (originally bout $5)
Also did anyone mention those ryobi drill and drive kits for $4.88? similar to the HDX ones that were the gold last year; same price but this time it’s branded ryobi and the kits are smaller
Yeah, I got a bunch of that kind of stuff at 10 cents. I think instead of throwing them away (bacteria and enzymes) they decided to throw them away with their customers. Marked down to 10 cents
