April 30-May 2, 2010 is the Midtown Sidewalk Sale.  Over 20 stores participating with up to 80% OFF! All weekend long, All over Midtown.

Bordered by B Street on the north, W Street on the south, 15th Street on the west, and Alhambra on the east, Midtown is a friendly neighborhood with a variety of unique stores, restaurants, and businesses that are not found anywhere else.  Midtown Business Association is dedicated to cultivating this neighborhood as an exciting community in which to work, shop and live.

The Friends of the Sacramento Public Library, Pocket-Greenhaven Branch book sale will be held next Saturday, April 24, 2010 from 8 am – 2 pm in the front parking lot of Elks Lodge #6 at 6446 Riverside Boulevard.

With a great selection of books, CDs, and DVDs at sale prices ranging from 50 cents to 2 dollars, you can stock up on summer reading for just a few dollars. A great selection of books will be available to complement your leisure or summer reading including paperbacks, biography, science fiction, mystery/suspense, children’s, big print, cooking, travel, gardening and more.

Farmer's Market has everything, even UGLY APPLES

I don’t know why, but spring makes me want to turn over a new leaf.  I don’t mean just spring cleaning or the first real weekend of working in the yard.  No, I mean getting back to the earth, thoughts of growing my own vegetables, maybe I’ll even get some chickens and have fresh eggs and get a cow and make my own butter.  Okay, those are visions of grandeur, maybe even hallucinations, but those thoughts did inspire me to visit the Farmer’s Market at 8^{t h} and W Street (the one under the freeway that’s open all year long every Sunday morning from 8:00AM to noon). Continue Reading »

If you want a little something extra with your morning cup of java without spending a lot of dough on March 23, 2010, Starbucks is having FREE Pastry Day.  FREE Pastry Day ends at 10:30AM or whenever the pastries are gone so you better get an early start or you will be left out.  The early bird gets the worm and some pastry to go with it too so it seems. Continue Reading »

Saturday, February 13, 2010, from 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM the Whole Foods Market in Roseville is having a chocolate festival.

Chocolates from around the world, gift ideas, Zumba Dancing demonstrations and instruction, henna tattoos and what festival would be complete without a Chocolate Fountain with fresh berries for your dipping pleasure!  Check it out!  Might be a good place to find something sweet for your sweetie for Valentine’s Day.

January 21 – January 24, 2010, California’s largest gathering for fishing, hunting and outdoor enthusiasts comes to Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95815.  The International Sportsmen’s Expo (ISE) features nearly 500 exhibiting companies, more than 175 seminars, hands-on-features, contests and numerous demonstration areas.  Don’t miss your once-a year chance to celebrate the outdoors, capture show-priced bargains, and meet face-to-face with guides and lodge owners from nearby and around the world.  For 2010, ISE will host Adventure Base 100, a huge interactive display celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America.

 Tickets for adult (16+) are $15 and youths 15 & under are FREE with paid adult. (*ID may be checked onsite.)  For more information click on this link to Sacramento International Sportsmen’s Expo.

The California State Home & Garden Show is January 8-January 10, 2010, at the Sacramento Convention Center, 1400 J Street Sacramento, CA 95814 3900 (916) 264-5181.

• Friday, Noon – 7:00PM
• Saturday, 10:00AM – 7:00PM
• Sunday, 10:00PM – 5:00PM

Admission is FREE for the first time ever, compliments of CBS News.  Continue Reading »

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Courtesy of YouTube here is Charlie Brown and the gang to inspire you in your Christmas Tree hunt.

It’s decision time again…..paper or plastic…..regular or decaf…..no not those trivial daily choices, it’s time for the most important decision of the year….. fake tree or real tree.  Everyone knows the best time to buy a fake tree is after Christmas when everything is at least half off.  So with that in mind, I am scouting out places to buy a real Christmas tree. Continue Reading »

Black Friday, sounds like a terrible day, something like “the day the music died” or the stock market crashed, or maybe the end of the world.  But quite the opposite of all these dire possibilities, Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving, the busiest shopping day of the year.  Retail businesses dubbed this day “Black Friday” because this busy shopping day helps them move from being “in the red” to being “in the black”, in other words, from being unprofitable to profitable. 

There are people who view shopping as a sport and Black Friday is the championship round.  Who doesn’t want to win the championship?  Keeping in mind it’s good to prepare if you want to win, I have compiled a few websites to help you find Black Friday Deals or find coupons and there’s even a couple of  websites that notifies you if the price of an item you want drops.  So do your homework, get prepared, and go out there and WIN!  WIN!  WIN!   

Websites for Black Friday Deals: Continue Reading »

Downtown and midtown shoppers are once again being treated to free parking, and new this year, the City will expand the program to include Old Sacramento and offer free parking in a midtown parking garage. Continue Reading »