Black Friday 2010 and Cricut News

Regular Sales This Week

• Walgreens has 50 (or more) 4x6 prints for $5 through 11/27/10. The code is TOUCHDOWN.

Black Friday Sales

Walmart (Cricut items are on sale starting at 12:01am on Friday)

• Cricut Lite Cartridges $20 - In the picture, only new Cricut Lite Cartridges are shown: Cupcake (font), Inspired Heart (religious), Zoo Day (font), Four Legged Friends (pets), Twinkle Toes (kiddie dance), Jolly Holidays (Christmas/Winter).
• Cricut Expression with cartridges (includes Playtime and Cricut Classic font, no Plantin Schoolbook) in colors (Aqua, Plum, Canary, Green) $185

 Michaels (Open Thursday from 5pm-9pm, Friday from 5am-10pm, Saturday 8am-10pm).

• Cricut Cartridges $27.99 and $35.99 (Thursday-Saturday)
• Disney Cricut Cartridges $24.99 (Saturday only)
• Cricut v1 machine $69.99 (Friday only)
• Yudu machine $169.99 (Thursday-Saturday)
• Gypsy $99.99 (Thursday-Saturday)

 Big Lots (open 6am Friday)

• Cricut Cartridges $20 (regularly $39.99) (Friday only)

 Costco

• Cricut Cake bundle for $279.99

 JoAnns (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

• $199.99 Expression, $99.99 Cricut Cake Mini machine, $27.99 Cricut Cartridges (Friday at 6am)
• $249.99 Cricut Cake machine, $449.99 Imagine machine, $59.99 Imagine Cartridges (All 3 days)
• $69.99 Cricut Personal Cutter (starting Saturday 7am)

 Black Friday Tips

• Plan - research all the sales and make your plan of attack. Plan out what time you need to be at each store.
• Prepare - If you are going to any of the 5am sales, prepare before you go to bed (take your shower, choose your clothes, do everything you can possibly do the night before because 5am comes early).
• Go! - When the alarm goes off, get up and go! I find that it is best to get any Black Friday shopping done by lunch. Most people don't start until then.

Cricut News

• New Cricut Cake Mini Cake machine was launched in November. It is the size of the original Cricut Machine. Right now you can only buy it at JoAnns.
• Limited Edition cartridges for the quarter are: Winter lace, Trim the Tree and Gingerbread.
• New cartridges for November are: Car Decals (only available from www.cricutmachine.com), Ornamental Iron, Paper Lace, Quarter Note, Sesame Street Seasons, Wrap It Up, Smiley Cards (only for Gypsy owners).
• Retiring Cartridges are Beyond Birthdays, Teardrop, Basecamp and Fabulous Finds.
• Walmart will have new Cricut Lite cartridges for Black Friday: Playtime, Cupcake (font), Inspired Heart (religious), Zoo Day (font), Four Legged Friends (pets), Twinkle Toes (kiddie dance), Jolly Holidays (Christmas/Winter).
• The Cricut Expression on sale at Walmart for Black Friday includes a new cartridge called Class Font instead of Plantin Schoolbook.
• Starting in January, there will be a Cricut magazine, published by the same company as Card Trends and Scrapbook Trends. The cost is $39.95 for a 6 month subscription and $74.95 for 12 months.
• New items will be added to Cricut Rewards weekly. You can now get a Gypsy for 4000 points.