SHOPPING FOR YOUR AMERICAN GIRL 18 INCH DOLL-PART ONE

It would be great to walk into your local retailer and purchase clothing and accessories for your American Girl doll.  However, Mattel has chosen not to flood local stores with American Girl products like it does with Barbie, so you do not have the option of having this shopping experience.  Unless you live in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, or one of the other 12 major cities, you do not have the option of visiting one of their special stores.  Yes, American Girl has its very own store.  I hear it is quite the shopping experience.  The stores schedule events that you can share with your child and the events are posted in advance on their website.  Since you cannot shop at your local retailer, you can go online to American Girl.com to shop.  I have purchased quite a few products from them.  I can order on Sunday and I have my merchandise by Wednesday.
American Girl Pet Pepper

But, lets face the facts, their products are so expensive.  Too expensive for some shoppers.  You can check their website each Monday for sale deals, because they add new sale products on Sunday.  But, sometimes they go for weeks and weeks without offering sale deals, or listing new sale products.  It just depends on how well their sales are doing for the year.  The year McKenna was so popular and stayed sold out the whole year, they offered very few sale items.  Cyber Monday (the Monday after Thanksgiving) is another great day to shop the website.  But, you have to be there very early.  Last year I was up at two in the morning and decided to go ahead and do some shopping.  Glade I did, because by 10 that morning, some of the items I had purchased were no longer available.

Thank you for visiting my blog.  If you have had a unique shopping experience at one of their stores, please take the time to share your thoughts.  Comments are always welcome.