June 13, 2008
No Need for Ebay Polymer Clay when Michaels has their $1 Sale
Premo, Fimo Classic, Fimo Soft and Sculpey III, all for a buck a block:
Yesterday was my lucky day… Michael's had their 2oz polymer clay blocks on sale for less than what you can usually find them for on eBay. And the ebay polymer clay is sold as is, often with open packages and missing clay. I'm so excited! I just had to take a picture. It may not look like it, but there are 100 brand new packages of michaels polymer clay all piled up in the photo (nicely sorted by color categories of course :-).
Up here in Canada, we can pay up to $5.99 per 2oz block for some of the special effects polymer clays and $4.65 for the regular Premo! Sculpey and Fimo brands. At those prices, it can really add up… like 5 times as much!
So when clay is a buck, you gotta buy lots! I got mostly Premo clay but also threw in a few blocks of Fimo Classic, Fimo Soft and a couple of Sculpey III translucent (gasp… sculpey iii is my least favorite of all the polymer clay brands) since most of the Premo Translucent was already gone.
How fun is that, filling up your basket with clay! Chucking it in their as fast as I could find the colors and brands I wanted. Some old guy came over, whistling away, pretending he was interested in clay. Probably just waiting for his wife and wanted to see what the heck I was filling my basket with!
At the till, I was as polite as I could be… letting three ladies ahead of me with their purchases, knowing that my order would take a while to ring up. But one lady did end up getting stuck behind me she got all annoyed. "What is that stuff any ways? Why do you need so much of it? I'll know next time, not to get behind you." (She must have forgotten she was Canadian and was supposed to be more polite than that :-)
How was I to know that the cashier would have to scan each and every package. Or that some of the UPC bar codes wouldn't scan properly because of squished packaging. Maybe the impatient lady would have preferred that I wait until the store was completely empty before I rang out. Hey I did let the first 3 ladies through and this 4th impatient one came well after the cashier got started on my purchase. So I didn't let her bring me down.
Any who… do you know why I need all this clay? It's because I'm putting together some new polymer clay cane tutorials and instructions. Any one have any specific design requests? Let me know if you do in the comments section below.
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BTW, if you did not read my June 12 blog post yet, you might want to check it out. In it I talk about the rose petal bead tutorial that I'll be sending out later today, free for everyone on my polymer clay tutor guest list.
I to love to $1.00 sale at michaels which meant I bought 2 of every fimo & sculpey premo. which means I'm stocked up for a little while but not long!
I know what you mean Abby… just when you think you'll have enough clay to last you for awhile… you start using it and poof!… it's gone!
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$1.00 days this week again starting tomorrow untill august the 2nd count me in again. what can I say, I'm a greedy polymer clay artist!LOL
Thank you Abby for the heads up!!
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Not fair, the UK dosn't have a Michaels,anyone over here know of the cheapest apart from ebay?
Hi Cindy … well its almost May 2009, and sadly I think that Michael's clay sale last summer was the last one!
My guild members and I have been faithfully watching and all that ever goes on sales is Sculpey III which is the bottom of the quality ratings for clay :( I'm starting to think that poly clayer from all over North America should write to Michael's and say "PRETTY PLEASE for a Fimo & Premo clay sale!"
I'm afraid you may be right Elsie! Makes me wish I had driven to every store in the Province to get every last block! I wonder if begging Michaels would help! ;-)
After almost a year, Michael's is having a 4 for $5 sale which includes Fimo and Premo Scuplpey. Follow the link by my name above for more info.
Yeah … I saw that too! So where do you live Cindy? Which half of BC do you want …. lol :)
The bottom half! ;-)
I was camping in Chilliwack since Thursday, so Saturday A.M. I made a bee-line for Michael's in Abbotsford. They had LOTS of clay, so I stocked up and went back to the campground a "happy camper" :)
Whaaaaaat, I am Canadian and never hear about 1$ clay sales at Michaels. I live in Toronto. I thought they only do the 1$ clay sales in the U.S!
OH! OH! OH! I took a look and it turns out that the Michaels in Mississauga, Etobicoke, and Markham, Ontario (the ones nearest to me) is having a 4 for 5$ sale with all their clay from May 23rd til May 29th! HOORAH!
Hi Kimberly … Canadian Michael's would have fairly regular polymer clay sales … approx every 6-8 weeks or so. Sale prices ranged from 99 cents or $1.29 or $1.49. For some reason last June they stopped, until just this week! Yay!
If I go into Michaels here in Ontario in the midst of their sale, should I get my hopes up? It's an hour drive from here and the sale started on the 23rd of May, and I am going tomorrow, the 26th of May… do they stock up on clay once for this sale, and than that's it? Or do they restock as the sale goes on? I've only been to Michaels once, and this one is really out of the way so it isn't THAT busy.
OH! And do you know if Michaels carries the 2oz Premo packs of FROST (their bleached Translucent) or do they just carry translucent?
Do you think they would be offended if I called ahead of time, before I go, and ask them how their stock of Premo is doing? Heh heh hehhhh…
You can always get a raincheck for colours that are sold out. No, they don't carry Premo Frost in 2 oz packages. I've always found Fimo translucent to be the most translucent out of all clays if you want to give that a try. Happy shopping.