What did we learn today?
It's generally not worth shopping at Kohl's. Yes, you can get fabulous deals there - if you can time your purchase of home goods so that they're on sale, you have a coupon, and you have either Kohl's cash or the occasional $10 gift card they randomly send my boyfriend's mother, which she usually kindly mails to me.
Otherwise, even if you have only a few of these things? It's not worth the trouble.
The kitchen in the house is quite small and unless I can find a solution to the massive blind cabinet tucked into the corner, through which my contractor ran the water line for the fridge (Eep! Will this be functional? Will it flood?), we're not going to have very much in the way of storage space. As a result, I've been thinking about putting open shelves on the large section of blank wall where we couldn't fit cabinets, as the window narrowed the space to a point that even standard 12" upper cabinets wouldn't fit. The issue with open shelving is that whatever is on it is readily seen, so it'd best be attractive. Otherwise, you're going to be looking at an unattractive hodge-podge of items every day.
My imagined solution to this, aside from putting cookbooks and my spice rack there, is using these proposed homemade shelves to store pantry staples stored in pretty glass containers. As I happened to be in the same shopping center as the local Bed, Bath, and Beyond to deposit some checks today, I decided to stop in. I found a lovely shower curtain I may go back to get, but that's besides the point. I also found a set of Oxo Good Grips food storage containers! They're plastic as opposed to glass, but given the cats' tendency to climb and how boisterous the dog is, that's probably for the best. They're priced at $99.99 for a set of ten, which was a much better deal than buying them individually, save for the fact that the box set contains a lot of little ones I wouldn't really know what to do with. Being as I have a 20% off coupon that would bring the price down to $79.99 but had thoughtlessly left it at home? I decided to wait and continue running my errands.
Those errands also included swinging by Kohl's, as I had a $10 coupon that I had't realized had expired, a 15% off coupon, and they were having a sale. The exact same set of containers was there, regularly priced at $129.99 and on sale for $110.49. With an additional 15% off, that would've brought the price down to $93.91. If my $10 coupon hadn't been two days past its expiration, meaning that it had expired the day before the sale started, the price would've dropped to $83.91 - still not as low as the BBB price, which would've involved far less coupon-clipping and careful timing on my part.
This wasn't the only item where that was the case. I checked a number of other items, too. They were mostly food prep accessories, which were either overpriced or not carried by Kohl's at all. In short, the way Kohl's manages to make their sales look so awesome is by artificially inflating them in the first place.
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