Yesterday I noticed that the Sears Hardware store in Round Lake Beach, IL was having a going out of business sale. Most of the stuff has been cleaned out already. But there were a few goodies left. Most things are 40%-70% off. I picked up some poly, tung oil, spray poly, and spray varnish. I also picked up a black and decker (yuk) heat gun for half price. We'll see how hard it is to screw up a heat gun. :-) Router bits, craftsman 1/2" shank and freud 1/4" shank, were 50% off. I bought both freud 1/4" spiral upcut bits for $10 each. All of the bits were carbide (except the spirals, I'm assuming they were hss) and looked good. I didn't buy any of the craftsman router bits because I already have a huge collection and I couldn't remember who was making them for sears. They also had a number of bandsaw blades. I couldn't buy any though because none were 105" for the riser block. They had a lot of sockets and wrenches as well as some pneumatic tools.
They also had two power tools of interest. One was a largish scroll saw. The other was the new craftsman hybrid saw with the enclosed base. The signs said normally $1000, on sale for $699. It's the floor model and looks like they only one they had. The top looked good. It had the biesmeyer fence. Too bad I'm not shopping for a table saw at the moment. :-)
brian