Lego Shopping

Bentley has been asking for weeks to go to the store and check out the new Lego sets. We've told him it's better to go shopping when there is a sale. Why pay full price when usually you can get a better price by being a little patient or buying online. Bentley is a saver, so I thought this logic would appeal to him, but it's been a tough sell. After waiting weeks, we finally gave in and took him to the store. Fortunately there were some Legos on sale. Unfortunately, the sale was a buy-1-get-1-half-off sale. I hate those sales. What if you don't want two?

Bentley had Jake along and Jake was looking to buy, too, but to maximize the savings you need to buy two items priced the same. Lego sets come in every price: $6, $9, $10, $15, $20, $25, $30, $50, $70, $100+. The chances that both boys want a set priced the same are slim. And, of course, the sale only applied to three of Lego's many lines. The good news was that the boys liked the three lines that were on sale (City, Chima, Star Wars). The bad news was that Bentley was interested in a $50 Chima set and Jake wanted two $25 sets (one City, one Star Wars), so we needed a fourth set to get a sale price on Bentley's set. Opa has a $70 Star Wars set on his Lego Wish List, but that particular set was sold out at this store. So then Bentley started looking at the Lego Castle sets. 

Viva was along for the shopping trip, too. She wanted to check out the Lego Friends sets. They are shelved in the girls' section next to Barbie. They weren't on sale and the set she wanted to see wasn't stocked at this store. Viva wasn't really looking to buy, so she happily moved on from Legos to Barbies to Pet Shop toys. She had a great time just looking at everything. The children don't go to shopping with us very often and when they do we're usually in a hurry and they don't get to linger on the toy aisle. (Viva told me the best part of the trip was carrying the basket. Huh.)

Lincoln meanwhile was checking out the MegaBloks. This is probably because we have a big bin of toddler size MegaBloks in the downstairs family room. (Two big bins of Lego Duplos are in the upstairs family room.) Just like Viva, he was quite content to look and look, occasionally asking us to take something down from a higher shelf.

After much looking and discussing and two visits to the bathroom, opa and the boys decided they needed to visit another store or two to see what they had on their shelves. I had a date with a friend, so I needed to go home. Viva, Lincoln and I were dropped off at home and opa, Jake, and Bentley visited another Fred Meyer store and ToysRUs. 

They had no better luck at those two stores. The sets they wanted were out-of-stock or too high-priced. Later that day Bentley had his mom buy him a Star Wars set that was sale priced on amazon.com. Jake decided to forgo a purchase and save his money.