Sales and guestbooks!

I must say, the plus to this recession is that it's a buyers' market, and that means sales! I read on P&E, I think, that Joann Fabrics was having a big sale. I did not receive bad information. There's a Joann's right near my house, so I dropped by after work yesterday. I saved more than 50%! I got a scrapbook, 15 sheets of cardstock, elastic, some fabric for my garter (I ended up going an entirely different route than I talked about below, but that's a later post!) and 2 photo frames (1 4x6 and 1 5x7) for under $19. According to my receipt, I saved $25.85.

I also had really good luck over the holidays in hunting for bridesmaids gifts. I found $35 purses marked down to $12, $20 earrings down to $12, $12 hand scrubs for $6, and $7 lipglosses for $1.75.

Anyway, back to Joann. The sale convinced me that we wanted to actually use one of the cutesy ideas you see on the knot... Polaroid guest books. On Sunday, we met with our videographer to see her latest work (she's pretty new to videography, so we wanted to see the new work before we committed). One of the weddings she shot had a Polaroid guest book, and John loved it. He normally tells me if he likes my ideas or not, but he rarely jumps on board with an idea that quickly.

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When I went to Joann's and saw that scrapbooks were 40% off, and cardstock was 6 sheets for $0.96, I couldn't pass up the opportunity. I bought a white photo album style scrapbook, 9 smaller sheets of cardstock in pink, and 6 larger ones in turquoise. We're going to get a nice silver pen for signing. Lucky for me, it turns out we actually do have a Polaroid camera, and I wasn't totally jumping the gun. We just have to buy some more film for it.

Have you hit any really great sales in the last few months?