Target After Christmas Clearance: 50% Off Holiday Items (+ Great Deals on Winter Oreos, Air Wick + More)

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Target shoppers! Most stores across the country have marked down all Christmas items to 50% off (note that clearance availability and mark downs will vary and keep in mind that holiday grocery items appear to be at 30% off) – that means you can save big on ornaments, home decor, wrapping paper, cards and lots more!

Here are a few of the nice deals that I spotted at my local Target in Boise (remember to price check if holiday-themed items are not marked on sale)…

Winter Oreos 15.35 oz $2.09 – regularly $2.99
Use the $0.50/1 coupon found here (use zip code 68130)
Final Cost $1.59!

Kleenex Perfect Fit 3 pack $3.14 – regularly $6.29
Use the $1/2 Target coupon found here
Plus, use two $0.50/1 Kleenex Tissue Bundle Pack coupons found in the 12/7 SS
Final Cost as low as $2.14 each!

Kleenex Holiday Hand Towels $1.49 – regularly $2.99
Use the $0.50/1 coupon found in the 12/7 SS
Final Cost $0.99!

Air Wick Enchanted Holiday Scented Oil Refills $3.48 – regularly $4.99
Buy 2 = $6.96
Use the 25% Off Target Cartwheel offer found here (expires 12/27) – will deduct $1.74
Plus, use the $2/2 Air Wick Enchanted Holiday products coupon found here
Final Cost $3.22 – just $1.61 each!

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Comments 84

  1. Matina

    In your experience, how many days does it usually take for target christmas stuff to go on 70% clearance and then 90%?

    • Elissa

      They’re estimating it’ll be 70 on the 29th

      • Kristen

        Yeah, I read that too! I’m having surgery that day so I’ll guess i have to take the 50% Haha

      • Matina

        great thanks! and the 70% usually lasts 1-2 days?

    • Ally Janes

      still not 70 today. Asked the sales person when I went..might be tomorrow. this is in Atlanta GA… food has been marked from 30% to 50% today…

      • Laura

        I saw on another site that the 70% clearance will start on Jan 1st

  2. Suzieq

    I was told that no coupons are allowed on clearance items. Has anyone else had a problem using them?

    • Me

      That’s crazy.. No!!

      • Suzieq

        I even showed them the coupon policy. They would not budge.

        • Megan Michele

          i use coupons on clearance items all the time… unless coupon excludes clearance you should be able to.

    • Kayla

      Mobile coupons can’t be used on clearance items. The coupons sent to your phone are programmed to only work on full price items. Certain cartwheel offers exclude clearance too. But manufacturer and some cartwheel coupons can be used on clearance.

  3. maddison

    This place was a zoo this morning some lady almost ran me over with her shopping cart. Woman where running to the bag and aluminum foil area. They completely cleared the shelves with in min of the store being opened. I left the store almost shaking it was crazy so crazy. The way some people act you would think they where giving out free diamonds or something. I think its crazy that some of the ladies had their entire cart full of freezer bags and aluminum foil.

    • Heather

      Witnessed similar crazy behavior at local walmart…I actually avoided the Christmas area in fear of losing my cool. ;).

    • Katie

      Wow that sounds nuts!! I’m so shopped out from Christmas I don’t want to even set foot in a store until after New Years!!;) it baffles me how the day after Christmas people are still going crazy buying things!

      • Me

        Same!! Let’s be happy with what we have! The next day there’s no need to be out shopping.. For anything!

        • Heather

          Well….baby formula….was super low and thus the reason I was out and about!

    • ana

      I seen the same thing this morning. She literally filled up the cart, the basket and the bottom with zip lock products and up&up.

      • maddison

        One of the ladies that had cleared most of the shelve dropped a box of foil another customer picked it up and she was like no that is mine. It was crazy to me I just can’t stop thinking how nuts it was. I was just crowded out of the area with all those ladies as if I wasn’t standing there. I am not a push shove kind of person so to me this was really insane.

        • April

          Wow thats rude and there is no way I would have given it to her if she had talked me to that way. People are too much.

          • Steph

            I always wait until a few days after the holiday. Not worth a headache and rude people. If I find some good deals great and if not oh well. Just cannot justify the madness.

            • Laura

              Same here!! Let all the crazies have their space. I go when it’s calm and quieted down. Not worth a deal if you leave a store upset for any reason.

    • Carla

      What’s going on with freezer bags and foil??? Are you referring to a holiday print or something?

      • April

        I know all this craziness over freezer bags and foil I’m shaking my head lol.

    • Cassandra White

      Everyone was nice and civil at my store.

    • sk

      Ok, so I wasnt the only one who thought people acted as LUNATICS this morning in Target! Granted I was there to find good deals too, but nothing worth running people over or filling up my cart like we are expecting an end of the world situation. I needed some diapers for sure which is mainly why I was out and about at 8:00 in the morning day after Christmas and that is all I bought and came back home, too disturbed by how people behaved.

  4. alicia

    I had an issue with the mobile target clearance code today. The salesperson said it wouldn’t work on the toddler jacket I was buying. It came up clearance when I scanned it at the price checker though. Not sure what that was about? Anyone have the same problem?

    • EricaW

      Same here! I bought 5 hello kitty socks and they are on clearance 30% off and when the cashier scanned my coupon nothing came up and she’s like those are no clearance!!!! Well…… Then she said the sale no on the hello kitty stuff… Ok ….

  5. heather

    up & up Santa diapers are on clearance for $3.49. Size 3 has 32 diapers in the package. Just a heads up!

    • angela

      Yup! My store didn’t have them marked but rang up on clearance. I bought 6 packs for $20 instead of the regular big box of up and up diapers. 222 diapers total. Just the kind of savings i needed cause christmas hit our budget hard.

    • julie

      was just going to say that. got 4 packs and left some for others 🙂

      • Happymama

        So nice of you! 🙂 I was just going to point out Huggies diapers and wipes have coupons at Costco right now. I think it’s $5 and $6 off.

        • Happymama

          I said that weird, lol, but you know what I meant. It’s been a long day…

  6. Lisa

    I bought an Elf on the Shelf for $15 – 50% off! 🙂

  7. RMK

    I scored Elf on the Shelf for half off!

  8. b.thorn

    The best deal I found was $3.89 for a 20lb jug of Tidy Cats litter! It’s a limited edition Christmas scent, so it’s 50% off too. 🙂

    • Megan Michele

      Thanks for the tip. Im going to look for that today when i go!

  9. anz

    Please let me know when are the candy clearance goes upto 70% ?

  10. lauren

    Hey everyone, discounting wont happen again till the Monday. I was amazed to see the amount of rudeness today while working, people were arguing over ziploc bags and paper towels “/

    • Katherine

      Hi Lauren… Thank you for the heads up and thank YOU for your hard work as a Target Employee!! 🙂 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

    • Jill Pearson

      I never find things like ziplock bags that stinks. find kleenex. Are target was crazy today but no rudeness that i know of. I plan to go monday weekdays less busy

  11. Melissa

    They also had the Christmas blend archer farms Keurig coffee pods as part of the Christmas clearance. They rang up 6.00 and then there was a cartwheel for an additional 10% off.

  12. tam

    I didnt see anything crazy and there was lots of stuff left at 1pm. I guess it just depends where you live……no worries if you coupon you will get deals all year anyway!

  13. Katie

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    ANYONE HAVE COKE CODES THEY WANNA SHARE?
    I’m desperately trying to get my son something special! Plz email if u have any! Thanks guys

  14. Arielle

    The holiday baby wipes were 74 cents at my store! I stocked up!

  15. SD

    the target near me was wiped out by the time i got there (9am). There was hardly anything left on the shelves. What a bummer 🙁

  16. Karen

    What’s the big deal on foil and ziploc? Just half off? Or is there some q that makes them really cheap??

    • rosana

      I wantbto know too lol, was the deal?

    • Carla

      Ditto! What in the world is going on with ziploc bags and foil?

      • debbie

        The Ziploc bags are half off and there is a Target q and manufacturer’s q to go with them which makes them .50 a box

    • Linda

      Ziploc freezer bag were free with target qpon and manufacture qpon. The shelves were empty at my target at 8:30 when I got there…

    • maddison

      There are coupons making the Ziploc items free because they where half off. There is a 75 cents off coupon for foil so making those 75 cents each. So it was a good deal I didn’t realize the coupon deal when I went. I now know why people where clearing the shelves some had full carts with the stuff.

      • DianeNC

        Target’s coupon policy only allows four manufacturer coupons per transaction, so can’t understand how these shoppers were allowed to clear shelves and fill up their entire carts with these deals. (Their register actually beeps when you try to use a fifth coupon.)

  17. Jennifer

    Thanks for all the great information.

  18. Sarah

    The ziplocs…besides the Qs if you have saving star they’re also on there. Ended up a money maker.

  19. Leslie

    But about all those people buying cartloads of the same item….Target doesn’t allow you to use more than 4 of the same coupon per transaction…unless those people were splitting each transaction up, I don’t think that those people with all those boxes of foil and Ziploc bags would be able to use coupons on all those items?!

    I don’t mind people buying a lot of the same item…they did get there first apparently, but I do try to share, and you certainly shouldn’t be rude like it sounds like some of these people were. I was at my Target this morning by 7:15, and a man and a woman had all that Reynolds/Ziploc stuff. The way I figure it, I save much more on the other non-Reynolds/Ziploc items…like getting toothbrushes for 2.49 (or cheaper!!) or an Elf on the shelf for 2.99 each last year–that alone saved me $27…and I got several for gifts/donations that I used this year.

  20. Jessica

    Scored a girl elf on the shelf, 2 pairs of elf on the shelf pjs and the elf on the shelf movie all 50% off even though they were only marked 30%. 😄

  21. Tarri

    Went this afternoon, most of the good stuff was gone. I did find one lonely Up and Up tissue box for .69, had a .50 off and used the cartwheel, got it for .18.

    • linda

      Hey guys, If scanning is wrong, always ask for a manager. They will over ride it

  22. Carla

    Hmm Target only let’s you print 2-3 of their store coupons. So I wonder how those people planned on using double stacked coupons on a cart full if stuff.

    • Karen

      I know. That is was I was thinking. In order to get to the $22 needed for the savingstar rebate you needed to buy like 15 if they are 1.49 so how would that work out?? I don’t know. I just stayed home lol!

  23. Sarah

    Scored a doc mc stuffins stethoscope in the stocking stuffers for $2.50, baby lips Chapstick for &1.74, frozen wrapping paper for 50% off (it’s not holiday themed either!), and tissue paper 🙂

  24. liz

    i was the first person at my target by the paper products this morning and just as i was pulling up a store employee had 2 carts full of all the paper product clearance stuff i was going to buy..not fair since i got up at 6 am and stood outside waiting for it to open..wont be going there again

    • lauren

      Hey Liz im sorry to hear that. If the employee was clocked in thats a big no no, I would mention something to the store manager.

    • DianeNC

      I agree with Lauren. Even if this employee wasn’t clocked in, they clearly had an unfair advantage being able to be in the store and in that department before the store was even open to customers.

    • jackie

      Target employees are not suppose to buy the items before the store opens. Talk to the store manage.

    • Melissa

      They probably were not buying them. They were probably being moved to the Christmas section with the other clearance.

      • ana

        Wow what jealously.

  25. Glenda

    When I was looking for reduced gift sets before Christmas a Target employee told me one lady had bought a basket full. He said she would sell the sets at the flea market. I have been told this several times especially when items are marked down 90%. People that own thrift stores buy and resale. Maybe there should be a limit set on clearance items so we could all enjoy the benefits.

  26. Carrie

    Yes at our local target hemet Ca the couponers where rude. There where 4 women that literally cleared everything on clearance. It’s so ridiculous. I don’t get it. Sure take some for your family but leave some for others. Then what makes me mad is when they go and sell it for more. So ridiculous how savings and couponers can be. Gives some of us a BAD name.

  27. Koren

    Costco ziplock is cheaper than the 50 off at target. Unless you have the q

  28. Koren

    People think because it is 50 off, it will be a deal, not necessarily if they shop at costco

    • S

      Some people don’t do the math per bag…(oz, etc.). They just see it as the percentage off. When in all actuality if they did the math.. it’s typically(not always) cheaper to buying bags in bulk!

  29. ee

    2 couponers at my store were whining about clearance shelf clearing. Clearance is fair game, imo, nothing wrong with clearing as that’s the whole point of it being on clearance! They were so busy whining while everyone else was enjoying the clearance and finding stuff for each other “oh here’s another pony for you” and “here is that bat man ornament!” It was fun!

  30. Elaine

    Mu target didn’t have much I was interested in but I did score a Barbie for $2.50. Going to put it away for Easter basket.

  31. Erica

    Targets clearance is great at 70% nonfood and 50% off food but 50% & 30%? Nah, I’ll pass… but I went to Walmart tonight and scored large bags of candy 50% off and body care sets 50% off… why wait on Target’s prices to drop lol & fight all those shoppers who are “hard core” I’ll hit them up Monday! And YES its fair game to clear shelves but REALLY? Why do that? Tis the season for sharing!!!!

    • ee

      I figure everyone has their reasons for doing so and try to think outside of my own circumstances

    • jay

      Exactly! 50/30% isn’t even great! with sales and coupons you can get that all year round and not look like a greedy freak with the others!

  32. Jennifer

    I got a good deal on Christmas goldfish crackers. Located in the cracker isle.

  33. Jen

    I scored on those 12 count Starbucks K-cups (Blonde flavor) were $3.88, so a crazy good deal with that $2.00 off 2 coupon noted on the blog!!!!! Also, scored the Digiorno pizza deal. Bought 6 pizzas and used 2 B2GO free coupons and my store surprisingly took off $12.02 ($6.01 suggested retail amount on each coupon)…so that ended up making each glorious pizza a whopping $2.99 each!!!!! WOOT WOOT!!!!!

    I’ll be at Target tomorrow as the employees were quickly condensing candy on a whole aisle. But, then will be heading to Walmart for the air freshener items! Forgot coupons when I was there earlier but, noted 2 pack Airwick plug ins for $2.44, so with that $2/2 coupon that will make each one .72!!!!! Happy shopping everyone!

  34. eve

    Last year I was able to shop for Christmas decorations online. Does anyone know why they didn’t sell Christmas stuff for discount online this year and only in the stores?

    • Aj

      It just takes longer before they mark down the online stuff and even then it’s select items. But usually I get Christmas items in January/ February online.

  35. Jen

    candy was 50% off today! I got M&Ms and Hershey kisses 50% off with $1/2 coupon. Otherwise, nothing else….GRRRRRRR!

  36. Sarah

    The only thing I want is a decorative pillow and a snow globe that both have a scooter on them but trying to wait for the best clearance. The boyfriend collects scooter stuff.

  37. 1luv

    Archer farms Christmas blend and candy cane kcups were $5.50 today for a pack of 18! I bought two of each flavor.

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