Are you ready for your guide to May savings? This is my guide to what to buy, what’s on clearance, and what’s in season in the month of May. Its helps you to understand the monthly grocery sale cycle as well as other promotional cycles Planning ahead is the best way to save.
Items you’ll find on clearance in May:
- Graduation party supplies (end of month)
- Gifts for mothers after Mother’s Day (plants, flowers, fragrance gift sets)
- Spring planting, flower bulbs
- Winter clearance deep discounts now on linens, shoes, boots, jackets, coats, clothing etc
A good time to buy in May:
- Graduation supplies (signs, napkins, party goods etc) buy toward end of month into June and tuck away for next year (if applies)
- Cookout-barbecue supplies Hot dogs, hamburger meat, rolls & buns, cheese, charcoal
- Watermelon (Memorial Day)
- Condiments (ketchup, mustard, relish etc)
- Popsicles & ice cream toward month’s end
- Gift for mom’s B-day
- Mexican food(Cinco de Mayo)
- cherries, okra, zucchini
- rhubarb, artichokes
- Asparagus, peas
- Broccoli, lettuce, apricot
- Pineapples, watermelon (toward months end) avocado, artichokes cauliflower, celery
- radish, garlic, onions
- leeks, beets, turnips, carrots, onions potatoes, spinach
- Lemon, red grapefruit
- orange, apricots, kiwi
- mango papaya, d’anjou pear, strawberries
- Look for free events in your area; May 4th free comic book day
- May 10th National public gardens day
- Remember to schedule your little ones for free events like the Lowes Build and Grow or Home Depot
- Harvest buttons and shoe laces off of shirts and shoes that are unusable and can’t be donated (save for another use, pair of shoes etc)
- Hit yard sales for things you need and schedule a yard sale to get rid of unwanted stuff
- Challenge your family to a weekend of “no spending”
- 1 May Day
- 4 Star Wars Day
- 5 Cinco de Mayo
- 6 National Teacher’s Day
- 8 VE Day, WW II
- 12 Mother’s Day – second Sunday
- 18 Armed Forces Day -third Saturday
- 24 Victoria Day (Canada)
- 27 Memorial Day
- Tuesday May 7th FREE Lego Mini Build at select stores all over the U.S.
- Saturday May 11th Lowes Build and Grow workshop for kids
- Saturday May 11th Lakeshore FREE workshop for kids
- Saturday May 11th Michaels FREE workshops
- Wednesday May 15th FREE Entrance into the Philadelphia Franklin Institute (Science center)
- Weekends in May, various FREE workshops with Lowes
- The Kennedy Center (Washington, DC) FREE shows every day at 6pm
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