Take advantage of free classes and services at the following stores:
- A.C. Moore
- Free and low-cost knitting, scrap booking, and cake decorating classes
- Auto Zone
- Free testing of starters, alternators and batteries. Free battery charging.
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- Babies-R-Us
- Parenting & grand parenting classes from baby-proofing to child safety.
- Babies-R-Us
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- Barnes & Noble
- Author signings, book groups, how-to-clinics and online courses
- Barnes & Noble
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- Bass Pro Shops
- Workshops for dutch oven cooking, nature photography, and fly-fishing basics
- Bass Pro Shops
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- Destination Maternity
- Prenatal yoga, parenting and financial planning seminars.
- Destination Maternity
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- Home Depot
- Do It Yourself Classes including painting, wood-working, and deck-building
- Home Depot
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- Lowe’s
- How-to clinics on cleaning your garage, sealing concrete, and installing hardwood flooring
- Lowe’s
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- Staples
- Small business seminars and technology clinics
- Staples
- Whole Foods Market
- Wine & cooking classes, healthy eating programs, and author signings
Beware of the ‘free’ classes some stores offer. They can just be a way to get you involved in some activity which they sell materials for. The tenor of scrapbooking in the US currently is incredibly marketing driven, with all kinds of stuff being sold. Similarly for things like cake decorating, baby-proofing (all those gadgets they will tell you that you need), fly fishing and so on. The ‘free’ classes are only a deal if you can distinguish between what you really need and what they’ll try to sell you.
That’s a great point. You do need to make sure that you aren’t signing up for ‘sales pitches.’