I just bought 3.25 meters of fine wool suiting in a subtle dark-red-pinstripe-on-charcoal on clearance for $5/m. And they rounded down when they wrote the invoice, so I only paid for 3m.
I should be able to sew up a nice dress AND matching jacket for a whopping $15. Well, fine, $20 once I buy buttons and a zipper (I have lining already kicking around).
Yay me. 
A 14th century replica plackart, spalders, & arms. Fits like a dream and all for under $300! and the seller really needed the money, and he threw in an Irish mantle as well, woo-hoo!
A couple weeks ago I went to Home Depot to get a replacement Knob and Bolt that connects the bottom part of my snowblower handle to the upper part of the handle.
I couldn’t find them, so I asked the guy there. He said, “sure, they’re at the end of this aisle”. But when we got there, they were gone. He said, “I know another place I can look” and climbed up a ladder and start rooting around in some brown box containing miscellaneous stuff. He said “you don’t mind if it’s orange do you?” and he handed me the knob and bolt. It didn’t seem used, but it was not in any kind of packaging at all. I guess it came off of a display model at some time. He said “just go ahead and take it… no charge”.
I’m sure someone will come along to tell me this wasn’t a good deal, but I got a brand new Toshiba laptop with a 15" monitor, 1.8ghz processor, 1gb RAM, a 120gb harddrive, wireless, and a CD/DVD writer for $399 ($419 after tax). It works fine for word processing, surfing the internet, and watching movies/listening to music, which is all I wanted it for.
Been taking some Bob Ross painting classes here at a craft store, and decided after a few I’d try my hand at 'em home. So…
Bob Ross Master paint set for $50 that’s normally $100. Gotta love when craft stores have those nifty little coupons. 
That at least paid for all the brushes that came in the kit!
The impulse rack at a checkout line in Target had 125mb USB flash drives for $5! I didn’t even need one but couldn’t pass that up. The technological world is passing me the hell by.
This Sony DSC T20 digital camera for $ 89.95 open box at Circuit City (negotiated down from $ 109.95 which still wasn’t a bad deal. Even the best net prices are in the mid 200s.
I got these three Citizen Ecodrives from a major department store’s jewelry counter (NOT deal central in most cases even if stuff is on sale) for 150 00 each, new in the box with warranty as a result of stacking discounts on an introductory credit card deal. At full retail these three would be approx 500 each. I might dump the Blue Angels Pilot computer watch on eBay to help pay for the other two. It’s way too complicated for me.
I’m getting close to $7,000 worth of repairs to my car (top out of a maple tree fell on it during the very windy day on Sunday) and a $750 worth of car rentals for a $50 comprehensive insurance deductible. My yearly premium on this vehicle is around $600, so that’s about 12 years worth of insurance premiums worth of value. I guess insurance doesn’t suck so much after all.
Last spring, my mechanic gave me an estimate on a repair of $1,500.
I agreed to the repair and paid a $500 deposit.
When he called to tell me he was finished, he said the problem was something other that what he thought it was and, instead of $1,000, I only owed him $400 more.
Yes, I found an honest mechanic and, yes, I’m keeping him.
A guy up the road gave me 2 cars.
I recently picked up the first three seasons of Futurama for about forty bucks, thanks to a confluence of sales and coupons at the local Barnes and Noble.
I got a new TV (37" LCD HDTV) for $600. It replaced my 10-year-old 25" bubble-tube number and I’m very very happy with it. I had planned to spend around $700 for a 32, but this was sitting next to the one I was looking at at an unadvertised sale price.
