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50% off is always a good thing for Original Snow Village pieces

Dairy Land CreameryWell, we weren't going to spend any more on village buildings until the fall. After all, we have committed to buying a ton of stuff at our favorite shop in Willimantic, CT. Like always, we heard of a sale and could not resist checking it out. I visited a store in Wethersfield, CT on Thursday while killing some time waiting for a dinner meeting. They had a rack with select D56 items at 40% off. The selections were definitely looked over. Not much left. The helpful woman behind the counter told me their parent store in Portland, CT had many more sale pieces, running their clearance sale until the end of August. I couldn't resist.

We visited the store in Portland on Saturday. They had 50% off pieces under a large outdoor tent. Not the best environment to store ceramic buildings, but upon inspecting certain pieces, all looked well. There were more sale pieces outside along the front exterior of the shop. We were a bit dissapointed to see there were no Snow Village Halloween items on sale (Drat! Still no "Halloween Outhouse"!) but that's a testament to the popularity of that series.

We scanned the inventory for that familiar blue logo which indicates our Original Snow Village buildings. We found a few that we had to have:

"Dairy Land Creamery" - Mooooo...this piece is great, a tribute to a new england standby, the dairy store. We also were fortunate enough to grab the "Fresh Dairy Delivery" accessory.

"Stardust Refreshment Stand" - We were excited to find this, an accessory to our "Stardust Drive-In" theater, which we found for a decent price on Ebay last spring. The theater itself has a working movie screen. How can we have a movie theater and not a place to get refreshments?

"Uptown Motors Ford Billboard" - We picked up this accessory not because we had Uptown Motors (we don't) but because it also shares a sign for "Gus's Drive In", which we do have.

"Krispy Kreme Doughnut Deliveries" - I had forgotten to get this when I initially picked up the "Krispy Kreme" building.

All in all, total spend was about a hundred bucks. Not too bad.
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