How I shop Black Friday sales

As mentioned before, I'm not really a Black Friday shopper. I've never gotten up early, stood in long times just to score a few BF items. No way am I depriving myself of sleep, pumpkin pie for breakfast and standing in long lines in below freezing temps. Other than drugstore freebies and the occassional Meijer trip (only if they have the best price on an electronic item for DS), I stay indoors.

I do have a love for online shopping. There's just way too many perks. So I like to save some gcs for BF shopping. My go to stores are Kohls, Macy's and occassionally Target (also depends on prices of electronics).

There's several reasons why I love to shop Kohls. The $15 Kohls cash for every $50 spent, Yes2You rewards, 15-20% coupon discount, rebates & Ebates. Two items I like to stock up on during Kohls BF shopping are bath towels and athletic shoes. I love their Sonoma towels and it's usually on sale then. They have select brands and styles athletic shoes for $29.99 every year. I buy several pairs. 4 for DS and 2 for myself. I mainly wear athletic shoes at home. Why indoors? I've slipped and fallen down the stairs so many times, I've lost count. Slippers won't work for me go up and down the stairs all day long, but athletic shoes work great. DS hates shoes, but he doesn't mind athletic shoes. I get him 4 pairs, so he can rotate his shoes. He normally uses 2 pairs to rotate and save the other 2 for when the first ones wear out.

Other than that, I don't really have a Kohls plan, but I check other sites to see what else is good. I've purchased vacuum cleaners from Kohls during BF before. Got myself a lovely Dyson (which we still have). I just don't care for the suction when I vacuum corners or edges. I always feel like my arms got a workout. So I purchased a Shark lift away vacuum one year, that I'm still using. I've also purchased other household items (that comes with rebates) this way.

So I pay with my earned gcs, then earn Kohls cash and Y2Y rewards. I also earn at least 6% cash back through Ebates. If I purchased a rebate item, I'll score a visa gc in the mail. Last year I got DH a Norelco electric razor for Christmas. Paid for with gcs, earned KC, Y2Y, Ebates and a $10 MIR. Score! Then I use the Kohls cash & Y2Y to stock up on clearance clothes for DS. Now his summer closet gets filled for free.

I don't buy much at Macy's either. Just a few gifts for family. It's usually high end beauty items. They often offer $5-10 Macy's cash when you opt for No Hurry Shipping. Beauty items ships free, so I usually do a few transactions to get the most bang for my buck. Then I use the Macy's cash (can be combined with other sales discounts) to treat myself.

My birthday is just before Thanksgiving and I always get cash (my guys know that I know how to stretch those dollars). I use the cash to buy discounted gcs at RA so I can splurge guilt free at a later stage (of course I splurge on clearance only, which stretches my cash even further).

The rest of BF is spent putting up the tree, eating leftovers and just chilling. It's rare that I have a day to just relax.