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The next giveaway is from Natalie Jost, uber-creative mama and designer. She owns Olive Manna, where she creates Photoshop brushes, fonts, and patterns, and uses them to create note cards, art work, and even envelopes.
Her shopping lists are so creative and unique, and just up the alley of a Simple Mom reader. The lists come in a handy 
booklet, and they provide a place to list your needed items, a spot to note the item’s cost, room to check things off, and space up top to bubble in the total dollar amount spent, so that you can see how much you spend in specific stores at-a-glance.
What a great tool for budgeting! I’m thoroughly enjoying mine.
Natalie is giving one Simple Mom reader the coolest gift basket! It includes:
- one shopping list booklet
- one set of four corner bookmarks
- three mini notebooks
- one note card set
- three CD envelopes, and
- four magnetic clips
Another reader will win two prints – “I’m a Green Mom” and “I’m a Simple Mom” (the latter created just for this contest!).
To win, here’s how to enter:
Leave a comment at this post, answering the following question: Which store is your favorite place to shop?
The giveaway is open worldwide, and it lasts until this Friday, May 29. I’ll draw the two winners this weekend.
I hope you win! Check back in a few hours for another giveaway.
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I’m cheating – I love shop etsy.com!!!
My favorite place to SHOP is Amazon but my favorite place to BUY is Etsy!
For groceries it’s Aldi’s – well worth the 40 minute drive for the amount I save.
Anything else? Thrift stores. I try to buy new/retail as little as possible
Goodwill. We have great Goodwills around here. I get a deal and there is always a variety of stuff to look at.
My favorite place to shop, bar none, is target! One stop shopping, affordable, convenient, decent quality.
Well, it’s not really a store, but I love our farmers market here. They have great fresh produce, meat, cheese, and they have tons of great handmade items for sale as well. Love it!
I would have to say Target and Ikea, only because I live in a small Canadian town and we don’t have either of those stores – so it seems like a big deal to go there. But really, my favorite place is hands down is our local farmer’s market – good food + community – you can’t beat it!
Mine would be Target! Walmart disappoints me everytime!
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Shopping? Who has time? just kidding — although with two under two it can be an adventure, for sure. We usually shop at Publix for groceries, Save-a-lot for meat bargains and I like the local kids consignment shops and goodwill for clothes and “stuff”
Trader Joes!! We just moved and I’m finding the grocery stores around here to be small and pricey while Trader Joe’s is still selling great products for even better prices. (I don’t work for them, but I should!)
Target, definitely, although it’s a little out of my price range these days. Shopping there always brings back happy memories of pawing through their makeup section in high school with my little sis.
I love Goodwill and Amazon! Of course, any bookstore, too. But Goodwill, I think, takes the cake!
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Wow! I love this stuff! I don’t know if I have a favorite place to shop…I enjoy yard sales and thrift stores. But for food I love the local farmer’s market! Yummy!
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Target in general. However, it really depends on what I am looking for.
Target. I usually go in with good intentions to use my coupons and get some good deals (which I do) but then I always get sucked into their cute things!
In Seal Beach, CA we have a sprouts farmers market and I love to shop there. They have my husband’s gluten free favorites and the best produce for a great price. My other favorite part about the store, is I can buy almost anything in bulk!!
How cool is this?! I love the lists and everything else on her site. My favorite place to shop I just shopped this morning: Your DeKalb Farmer’s Market. Not a “real” farmer’s market – more like a giant, more international, more spartan, less-expensive, with a great restaurant and pastry cafe Whole Foods – Simply the best shopping anywhere. Definitely a must if you are ever in Atlanta!
My favorite store to shop in is Target. It can be a dangerous place with all the wonderful things to look at!
Beautiful giveaway!
I’m not sure that I have a “favorite,” but my most frequent places to shop are HEB (local grocery store) and Target.
Target! Everything in one place!
my favorite place to shop for clothes is the fashion attic – a little consignment shop in our neighborhood. the owner has a great sense of style, prices items reasonably and regularly rotates inventory so there’s always something new to find!
Target is my absolute favorite place to shop. I love to walk around and look at everything!
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My favorite place to shop would be Target…there is always something new to see and the Dollar Spot has such fun stuff!
P.S. I love the Olive Manna items, but if for some reason I’m chosen for the second giveaway (the prints), please select someone else. Although I am green and simple, I’m not a mom! Thanks!
For grocery shopping I love Aldi, but for fresh bread I love Publix. And I just took a special trip to Atlanta to shop Ikea for the first time and I felt like I was in shopping bliss.
I love shopping at Target. Lately though I go elsewhere so I can stick to my list and not be drawn into all their cute “must haves”.
My favorite is a little local shop, Box Turtle.
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My favorite store is probably Target.
value village thrift store and the farmers market
I love Nordstroms!
My new favorite place to shop is the thrift store two blocks from my home. Their clothing is 99 cents. Sometimes they have day-old bread from a local supermarket and it’s free!
very cool!
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I love Goodwill for housewares, clothing for everyone in the family, and especially books!
Cool gift basket! I enjoy shopping at Super Wal-Mart because I never get there. Otherwise cool little bookstores like Wild Rumpus.
My favorite place to shop is Super Target. I can get everything I need there–plus more! My boys love the red balls outside of the store and they have nicknamed Target “the red ball store.”
Fred Meyer for groceries, Target for everything else. And I love my farmers’ market during the summer.
I love our local thrift store, Red, White, and Blue. It is like a treasure hunt and the best part is striking it rich. Why pay $20 for a pair of shorts for the boys when I could get them in great condition for $2? I once found a giant tub of K’nex for $9 and a big “Super Set of Gears” for $5. I also bought my son a bike there for $6. On top of all of that, proceeds go to help the Veterans. I also like to shop at the market at our local Orchard (Soergel Orchards). You know the food is fresh and healthy and a great price. Plus, outside, they have animals for the kids to feed and pet. We can spend a whole morning there.
Thanks for the opportunity, Tsh. It looks like a great basket.
Target! It is like a miz of all of my other favorite stores rolled into one.
my favorite place to shop are garage sales!! I love the hunt, and bringing things home cheap to “fix up!” (and often sell them for way more than I bought them for!)
I love to shop at many of the previously posted places, but my all-time, hands-down favorite places to shop are the thrift stores back home in Michigan. Most of them benefit the local Christian schools or foreign missions so I feel really good about making purchases. The prices are really good compared to the thrift stores out East. There is one store that has really good clothing, another that has really good housewares/linens, and another that has really good books.
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hrm…I don’t necessarily buy much there, but I love going into small hardware shops (not like Home Depot or Lowes – the mom & pop kinds). Everything’s a little dusty, but you find the coolest things!
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I have lots of favorite stores, but I get just giddy when I go into Trader Joe’s. I love that place!
My favorite place to shop is Better World Books because every purchase makes a contribution to global literacy. I really believe in their mission and I love books, so everyone wins!
Etsy
For groceries, I like Aldi. We get our staples from there as often as possible, since it’s like paying sale prices without having to wait for sales!
I love the things I can find on etsy, but most often I end up at Target for all that practical stuff I need. My absolute favorites are antique stores and yard sales.
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My mother-in-law’s small-town flower and gift shop. I love the fun of finding unique gifts there, but more than that, the time to hang out with family. (They live several hundred miles away, so it is a treat!)
I have to say it’s TJMaxx for cheap pretties for my house decorating! this looks like a wonderful giveaway.
Awesome giveaway! My favorite store, while it’s not brick-and-mortar, is etsy. I live on that site!
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Any book store!!
I recently discovered HomeGoods and I love it! Also any thrift stores are favorites as well.
While it’s not a store, my favorite place to shop is a summer time antique show in Brimfield, MA. I love browsing through the stalls, imagining what life would have been like in the “olden days,” and haggling to get a new treasure for our home. It’s even better because my husband, mom and sisters join me, so we make a day of it!
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My favorite place to shop – bookstores. I could spend a whole slew of money in a bookstore on magazines, journals, books to learn a new skills, children’s books. I love just hanging out and browsing and the excitement of buying a new book to go home and read.
Ann Taylor Loft
Nordstrom.
I always return to Target for the essentials – diapers, socks, shampoo, etc. If I have money in my budget then I can always grab a Starbucks while I shop!
Sam’s club for the blackberries!
Ooh! I would love to win this! I most often shop at Target, but I have lots of favorites for window shopping!
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IKEA all the way!!!
my favorite place to shop is at target!
My current favorite place to shop is Wal-Mart Supercentre.
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What a beautiful (and useful) giveaway! I love to shop at Target. I can find all that I need there- even groceries. It seems that their produce is always fresh and delicious and it is a one-stop shop.
my favorite place to shop is target!
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I am all about the lists!! Love them.
one of my favourites is IKEA and we are lucky to live only 15-20 minutes from the only one in our state so it is an easy hop just to pick up a few things and take the kids for ice cream LOL
These are so cute! My favorite place to shop is, hands down, ETSY! So many amazingly creative people out there sharing their gifts. I love it.
I like etsy for gifts. Trader Joe’s for groceries. And New York and Company for clothes.
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My favorite place to shop is T.J. Maxx!
I love to shop at Meijers, lol! We don’t have one near us, so when I go on a road trip to the nearest ‘big city’, I have to hit Archivers, JoAnn’s, Hobby Lobby, and MEIJERS!
I’m not sure I can limit myself to ONE favorite place to shop! But since I am on vacation in Moab, UT this week, I’ll give you my favorite place to shop here… Earth Studio. In fact, I think I’ll run over there in a little bit.
I love Target, but lately my absolute favorite place to browse and shop is Etsy.com. I love seeing such amazing talent all over the place!
I like to shop at Walgreens!
My favorite place to shop is Etsy! I can spend hours there.
Lately I love to go to Target! I used to have one 5 minutes away, but now I have to drive an hour so I miss it!
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Target would be my favorite place to shop.
I have to say, my favorite place to shop is at the flea market! It is always so inspiring and I never leave empty handed!
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I do not like to buy new unless I absolutely have to, so my favorite place to shop in Portland is a little thrift shop called The Village Merchant. They always seem to have exactly what I’m looking for, funky wonderful finds, and cute clothes that fit perfectly…It’s like a magic thrift store!
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IKEA!
For online shopping I’ll have to say Etsy. Offline I like Trader Joe’s although I don’t live close enough. I also like Target. What an awesome giveaway!
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I have to echo those before me and say I also love Target. I also love a little store in our little town called Compost It! The Mom who owns it tries to stock as many locally made (or made in USA), green items as she can. I could spend many dollars there!
Marshall’s
My favorite place to shop is yard sales. I love finding unbelievable bargains. It has spoiled me so much I laugh in the face of retail. ha ha
Oooh, it’s a tough choice, but I’d have to say our local farmer’s market. I love reconnecting with all the farmers, who love to chat–whether or not you’re buying anything!
I’m an Etsy junkie…love all the stuff on there!
I totally do Market Mondays at Trader Joes!!
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my favorite place to shop is my local farmer’s market. They have great local fruits and veggies and lovely crafts and baked goods.
I’m a book addict. I love amazon.com.
Definitely Target! Love finding clearance steals and browsing the aisles. Thanks for the neat giveaway!
I love to browse Etsy online. I love J Jill for clothes shopping- the only things I buy come from the clearance rack though!
target. fast, pretty cheap and way convenient.
I absolutely LOVE Target!
Wow! I have to pick just one place?!? Most of my clothing comes from Kohls. For groceries, I hit the farmer’s market and H-E-B. I also spend too much money on amazon.com!
Half Price books and garage sales are my favorite! That giveaway looks amazing…what a gorgeous basket of goodies!
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My favourite shop at the moment is Target. They seems to have everything I want at the moment at a really great price too.
love, love, love Anthropologie!! I can window shop there for hours. Clothes, shoes, home goods…it’s all so luxurious and hip and makes me smile.
Favorite Store?! Man this is a hard one!!! Probably Target since it has most everything in one store AND a Starbucks to boot!
I love to browse etsy, and my favorite place to shop is JCrew.
Depends on what for! For the kids I love buying clothes at Forget Me Not Kids (on sale!) or ebay, for me Territory Ahead, for household stuff Target, for furniture Pottery Barn…… Oh, and just about any scrapbook store in existence I can find something I need!
When I’m in Poland – my favorites are small local shops – a nice paper goods/ stationery/ craft store or a cute bookstore/ cafe. And when I’m in the USA – Target:)
I love shopping with Ballards Home Design catalog – I love the patterns and the fun and whimsy items they have!
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