Family Game Night!

If you like board games like Mike and I do, hurry to Target and Toys R Us!  That is actually a gross understatement.  Mike and I LOVE board games and Game Night.  We can't wait until Vera gets old enough to play games.  Heck, we'll have another one just to make four at the table...just kidding...kind of :)  

Tonight, I got:

Candyland for $1.99 (reg. $8.99)

Hungry Hungry Hippos for $11.99 (reg. $19.99)

Operation for $9.99 (reg. $16.99)

Mrs. Potato Head for $1.99 (reg. $6.99)

Connect 4x4 for $9.99 (reg. $19.99)

Cranium Family Edition for $11.99 (reg. $24.99)

Family Game Night Trophy for FREE (reg. $9.99)

$10 Toys R Us Gift Card for FREE


Here's how to get the deals:
At Toys R Us, Hasbro games are on sale (avg. $5 off each).  Some of the games, like Operation, Battleship etc. offer a FREE Family Game Trophy along with purchase.  When you spent $25 or more on Hasbro board games, you get a FREE $10 Toys R Us gift card.  Don't forget to take a Toys R Us Family Game Night Rebate sheet available at the board game display (or Google it and print it out).  You can mail it in for an additional $2 to $3 dollars back on each game.  NOTE: for the best deal, select games that are on the rebate sheet, on sale, offer a Family Night Trophy, and buy more than $25 worth of them.  After sale, rebates and $10 gift card, I spent $16.77 on four games!

At Target, you will need to use coupons.  Many of the games are on sale.  Use the $5 coupons available in the Target Toy Book from the Sunday paper OR here.  The website says you can stack the store coupon and the manufacturer coupon to get $10 off per game, but my Target location didn't allow me to stack bec/ the store coupon had an exclusivity clause on it.  Doesn't hurt to try it though, right?  NOTE: for best deal, purchase games which are on sale and have a coupon associated with it.   For the Mr./Mrs. Potato Head or Spud Bud, use the $5 here (click on the Toys and Games link on the left to help you find it).  Final price on Spud Buds will end up being $0.99 and Mr. or Mrs. Potato Heads will be $1.99.  

Other good deals at Target include $0.57 on a tub of 72 alcohol-free Up&Up baby wipes with this coupon (NOTE: limit one per customer).  A full size Spray & Wash for $0.79 with a $1.25 off coupon (sorry, forgot where I got it).  


The Target deals expire on 11/25.  I'm not sure when the Toys R Us deals end.

Take some time with your family and/or friends this season and spend it around a fun board game!  My memories of playing Monopoly with my parents and grandmother on Sunday afternoons were some of the fondest and most carefree of my life.  Favorite memories of college?  Playing 500 (it's an Australian card game) through the night 'til 6am and then dragging ourselves to class; fifteen Yalies gathered around a tiny Boggle square -- now that is cutthroat competition; Risk, Stratego, Four on a Couch during down times on spring tour with our Christian cappella group.  I think God wants to restore us to that original state of "play" for which we were created: engaged, interested, stimulated, challenged, in fellowship.  That can become so lost in our daily routines and arbitrary ambitions.  Let's play!