Father’s Day is coming up, I guess, and Wal Mart is having a fire sale on gadgets and doodad’s to fill dad’s “man cave.” The savings start on June 14th and run till June 20th. Here are a few notable items that will be on sale during that time: $128 Blu-ray player, $697 42-inch LCD HDTV, $199 Palm Pre sans MIR, and a ton of other goods.
The Game Room/Living Room Cave: The hi-def or game experience with new savings:
· $128 Magnavox Blu-ray Disc player (NB500MGX)*
· Two for $20 Blu-ray movie bundles of dads’ favorites such as Shooter/ The Italian Job and Face Off / Next
· $59.96 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 All-Play Wii bundle with Wii Motion Plus Accessory and protective sleeve
· $399 PS3 (80GB) Bundle including Quantum of Solace on Blu-ray Disc and the MLB ’09: The Show
· Five for $20 select DVDs – More than 50 favorites including FlyBoys, iRobot, and We Are Marshall
· HDTV savings – $398 Sanyo 37-inch LCD (720p – model DP37649), $697 Vizio 42-inch LCD (1080p – model VO420E), and $1,788 Sony Bravia 52-inch (1080p- model KDL-52S5100)
The Home Office Cave: New products arrive and new savings inspire.
· $398 Dell Inspiron Black Notebook Computer* or $848 Dell Studio One 19 All-in-one Touch Desktop Computer – both exclusively at Walmart
· $69 Canon Pixma Ink Jet Photo Printer with Fax
· $69 Seagate Free Agent Go 250GB Portable Hard Drive
Mobile Man Cave: Popular GPS and cellular products for dads on-the-go, enjoying the drive.
· $199 Palm Pre smart phone (with qualifying contract, no mail-in rebate) – select stores
· $128 Garmin nuvi 250, 3.5 inch touch screen GPS – voice guidance and loaded with more than 5 million points of interest*
· $10 Glove Box Tool Kit (52-piece) for the car
· $46 iPod-Compatible FM Transmitter and Car Charger, available online only at Walmart.com
The “Deck” Cave: For grilling with the guys, playing chef for the family, or hanging out:
· $17 Grill Care Co. four-piece stainless steel barbecue tool set
· $20 Weber’s Way to Grill guide
· $149 Royal Oak 30-inch Deluxe Charcoal Grill or $198 Brinkman 4-Burner Gas Grill
· $50 Classic Cotton Rope Hammock, available online at Walmart.com
The Garage Cave: For escapes in the garage or making minor improvements
· $15 Black & Decker 75-piece drill accessory kit or $15 Black & Decker cordless screwdriver
· $15 Carrand Power Jet Wash Wand, $25 Torin Blackjack floor jack, $30 5-gallon ShopVac
· $100 Karcher 1,550 PSI Pressure Washer
I actually called Walmart, and when they say select stores got the Pre for $199, they aren’t lying. I believe it was only stores in like Kansas, Texas, Missouri, and Arkansas.
Go figure.
NOT at walmart
With fathers day and graduation parties approaching I found a coupon for a cool gift. Its called a TickleMe Plant and it is a real plant that you grow that will close its leaves and lower its branches when tickled. My students love it and 99% of the people that I give TickleMe Plants to have never had their own house plant that moves when tickled. You can get a TickleMe Plant Greenhouse to grow your own at http://www.ticklemeplant.com and use the coupon code Holiday to get two dollars off.
I bought the Wal-Mart soundbar 2.0, a version of the VIZIO soundbar with no subwoofer and priced at $149, for my father and am glad to see that it works very well. Cant wait to see his reaction when I surprise him.