Shopping for Winter Wear in February

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Happy Thursday all! Did not sleep great last night so these next 8 hours are going to be a challenge for sure. How is everyone elses Thursday shaping up? I decided to do something crazy this weekend -am taking a 2 hour beginners course in snowboarding! While I can rent equipment what is needed is I must have snow pants. Snow pants, which I havent owned for many years. This is probably my fault for waiting so late in the winter season but winter is still very much so in gear throughout March even. Yet, it seems impossible to find any winter gear in late February being sold at stores. Big box stores like Target and Walmart already have gotten rid of most of their wintery items in lieu of... swim suits and shorts. Despite that it will be several months before us Minnesotans can even wear these things. This is good and bad. On one hand, many wintery items go in clearance or sale as early as December. Which gets us better deals since December is just the beginning of winter for us here. Does your area do this too? So after running to two separate thrift stores, Walmart and Target I came up empty handed. I think the next step is finding a sporting goods store and seeing if they have any. The downside to that is spending a big chunk of money on something you might only use a handful of times. Anyone else have problems like this? Do your stores start selling for new seasons far too early too?