Twenty Percent Off and a Scoop of Ice Cream: First Friday at Hallstrom Home
Doors stay open until seven, everything in the store is twenty percent off, and if you buy something you walk out with a coupon for a free scoop at Eight Cow. Which is across the parking lot. Someone planned this well.
Here is the thing about a Friday with nothing on the calendar. You get to about four in the afternoon, you have vaguely committed to being a person who leaves the house, and then you cannot think of a single reason to actually do it. This is your reason. You have a two hour window, it costs less than it should, and it ends with ice cream.
Hallstrom Home stays open late on the first Friday of every month, five to seven. Everything in the store is twenty percent off during that window. Make a purchase and you leave with a coupon for a free scoop at Eight Cow Creamery, which sits directly and diagonally across South Settler from the shop. The walk is about ninety seconds. I have timed shorter walks to my own refrigerator.
The Details
What You Are Actually Walking Into
If you have never been inside, the short version is that it is not one kind of store. There is clothing, there are home goods, and there is an entire category of thing I can only describe as the gift you buy for someone else and then do not give them. New arrivals have been landing steadily, and the clothing side in particular is worth a look right now.
The twenty percent applies to the whole store during those two hours, which changes the math on the thing you have been circling for a month. That is genuinely the play here. Not the impulse buy, the item you already decided you wanted and have been waiting on.
Then You Walk Across the Street
Eight Cow Creamery is at 4327 S Settler, essentially straight across from Hallstrom, and they are open until ten on Fridays. So there is no rush on the coupon — you can shop until seven, wander over, and still be sitting on the back deck with a cone well before the light goes.
Their waffle cones are made in house, and there are dairy-free options if that is your situation, which is more than a lot of places can say. If you have kids with you, this is the part of the evening that buys you the browsing time. Trade accordingly.
Frequently Asked
Is this only tonight?
No. Hallstrom does this the first Friday of every month, five to seven. Tonight just happens to be one of them. Put the first Friday on your calendar as a recurring thing and stop thinking about it.
Does the twenty percent work online?
This is an in-store, after-hours deal. If you want it, you have to actually go, which I would argue is the point.
How much do I have to spend to get the ice cream coupon?
Any purchase earns one. Check at the register for the specifics on minimums or expiration — I would rather you ask than take my word and be disappointed at the scoop counter.
Where exactly is this?
South Settler Drive, the same stretch as Eight Cow. Hallstrom is at 4320, Eight Cow is at 4327. You will not need directions once you are in the lot.
More from Meanwhile in Ridgefield
If you go, say hello and tell me what you found. Half the fun of a small town is that I will hear about it either way, but I would rather hear it from you than from the birdie in the orange vest. Support the shops that stay open late for us — that is how we keep having places worth staying open.
