{"id":7094,"date":"2015-09-04T15:38:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T20:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=7094"},"modified":"2015-09-07T17:26:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T22:26:05","slug":"7094","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=7094","title":{"rendered":"Fall Decor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got autumn fever! As soon as September hits I&#8217;m ready for the fall decorations and festivals. This morning I hauled my butt out of bed after enduring three crazy-ass dreams, each more progressively bizarre and scary than the last, to do some shopping. In two and a half hours I hit these stores, in this order:<\/p>\n<p>Hobby Lobby<br \/>\nMichael&#8217;s<br \/>\nJo-Ann Fabrics<br \/>\nHome Goods<br \/>\nFive Below<br \/>\nDollar Tree<br \/>\nTarget<\/p>\n<p>And this was the end result of my &#8220;haul&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/20522989124\/in\/datetaken\/\" title=\"Fall Decor\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5721\/20522989124_3e4b72ab35.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Fall Decor\" class=\"entry\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Hobby Lobby had the best fall selection by far, but they were also the most expensive. And just because they had the most doesn&#8217;t mean it was the best. I was rather unimpressed, but check out the quantity of just one aisle (I believe they had three total, although that was between both fall and Halloween).<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150904_143913990_iOS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150904_143913990_iOS.jpg\" alt=\"20150904_143913990_iOS\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"entry\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Michael&#8217;s is where I dropped the bulk of my money, which isn&#8217;t saying much because &#8211; spoiler alert &#8211; I only spent $20.05 total on my shopping &#8220;spree&#8221;. Anyway, I got the wall clings, which were 50% off, for $2.50 and each orange mum bunch was $4.14 before my 20% off coupon. I also spotted a cute Harvest sign at Michael&#8217;s that I was tempted to get but it was $12 which would be $7.20 with my 40% off coupon, but I wasn&#8217;t sure what else I might find so I took a picture so I can go back if I don&#8217;t find a cute sign elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Jo-Ann Fabric&#8217;s selection was pathetic so I left empty-handed, and I only went inside Home Goods to score 150 walk-in points from my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shopkick.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shopkick app<\/a>. They did have some cute Halloween metal houses at Home Goods but there was no way I was dropping $30 on one! Five Below had absolutely no holiday decor at all. I guess it&#8217;s too early for them.<\/p>\n<p>I spent almost all of the rest of my money at Dollar Tree &#8211; basically all the stuff on the left of the photo except the two Halloween pumpkin tins which were $1 each at Target in their One Spot section. I hadn&#8217;t planned on getting any Halloween stuff today because I really don&#8217;t <strong>need<\/strong> any (but I sure do love it) and I&#8217;d like to focus on fall decor first, but I figured I&#8217;d better grab them now before the selection was picked over. Target doesn&#8217;t seem to sell any fall decor, at least not in their seasonal section, although they are already stocking Halloween candy and treats. I&#8217;m sure at some point they will add Halloween decor where the current back to school stuff resides, but I have a feeling it will be pretty disappointing like most years. They used to do whole themes which I loved. In 2008 it was <a href=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1916\" target=\"_blank\">Domo<\/a> and in 2009 it was <a href=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=2859\" target=\"_blank\">Skelanimals<\/a>, but they haven&#8217;t done anything exciting in years.<\/p>\n<p>I still want to check Old Time Pottery to see what they have but that will be on Monday when we *gasp* go test-driving cars. I&#8217;m not quite ready to buy yet, but I want to see what my options are since I&#8217;m not 100% sold on getting the Ford Focus 5-door, which was the car I liked the most out of my extensive test-driving back in 2012. This time around I&#8217;m looking at Mazda and Subaru. They&#8217;re a little pricier than the Ford but there&#8217;s a good chance I&#8217;ll have my next car at least ten years, if not fifteen like my Jetta, so I might as well get something I love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got autumn fever! As soon as September hits I&#8217;m ready for the fall decorations and festivals. This morning I hauled my butt out of bed after enduring three crazy-ass dreams, each more progressively bizarre and scary than the last, to do some shopping. In two and a half hours I hit these stores, in this order: Hobby Lobby Michael&#8217;s Jo-Ann Fabrics Home Goods Five Below Dollar Tree Target And this was the end result of my &#8220;haul&#8221;: Hobby Lobby had the best fall selection by far, but they were also the most expensive. And just because they had the most doesn&#8217;t mean it was the best. I was rather unimpressed, but check out the quantity of just one aisle (I believe they had three total, although that was between both fall and Halloween). Michael&#8217;s is where I dropped the bulk of my money, which isn&#8217;t saying much because &#8211; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=7094\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-photos","category-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7094"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7108,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094\/revisions\/7108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}