Michaels Vs Hobby Lobby

[Colleen27]

Did you intend this one to be ironic? Maybe next we should talk about Popeyes vs Chik-Fil-A.

Michaels (though I prefer Joann over both). And I'll bet anyone who is familiar with my posts can guess why.

 

[mrodgers]

Hobby Lobby because neither Michael's nor Joanne has RC airplanes

I never knew there was a Hobby Lobby craft store. I went to their website assuming to just go to hobbylobby.com and was like, what the heck is all this? I was expecting an RC hobby shop website.

Seems looking now, the hobby shop I think was bought out by Tower Hobbies.

 

[rowan1813]

It depends on what I need.

Joanns - fabrics (or Happy Planner stickers )
Hobby Lobby - decorations, faux flowers, wrapping paper (I love their wrapping paper so much! Thick, heavy quality, and the cut lines on the back!)
Michaels - frames, crafting supplies, everything else that I can't find at the other 2 options.

 

[Mysterian]

Michaels (though I prefer Joann over both). And I'll bet anyone who is familiar with my posts can guess why.

An outspoken connoisseur of fabrics, of course that's what you're known for here. "My place is littered with McCall's fabric patterns..." yeah yeah, Colleen, we get it!

 

[PollyannaMom]

I voted JoAnn's because I can't pass one without going in!

I also like/shop at Michael's.

I don't have a Hobby Lobby close, and have never been to one.

 

[Colleen27]

An outspoken connoisseur of fabrics, of course that's what you're known for here. "My place is littered with McCall's fabric patterns..." yeah yeah, Colleen, we get it!

Well, back in the day when my girls still wore handmade clothes and the DISboutiquers thread was still lively, there was that too... My stash of Disney fabrics is surely the envy of all, and my granddaughter will be the best-dressed toddler in all of Disney World when we take her on her first trip in a year or two.

 

[VandVsmama]

Where I live, they're both right across the street from each other. I go to them interchangeably. But I don't have a need for crafting stuff very often, so I hardly go into either store.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Other: My spouse prefers Michaels or Joanne depending on the type of craft needed. Both have a different mix of things and concentrate on what they do rather than try to be jack of all hobbies master of none.

I will not do business with Hobby Lobby. I prefer the people I do business with not be involved with smuggling 5,500 artifacts. I could list plenty more transgressions, none of which have to do with politics but I simply don't have the desire to spend the time doing so.

 

[tvguy]

Joanne's is my wife's favorite.

 

[BrianL]

There are a lot of things I dislike about Hobby Lobby, but around here Michaels stores are just terrible! They are messy, disorganized, crowded, and checkout takes forever - sometimes the line is to the back of the store! Hobby Lobby is generally a much nicer store with more selection too. I hate their rotating sales, and their clinging to entering prices manually, which slows down checkout but this is mitigated by the fact that they seem to always have many registers open and operating.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I go to Joann's or Michaels if I need something right away, else I order from various places online. I will never go to Hobby Lobby.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

They both serve different needs for me. Hobby Lobby I find I like their decor better and random crafts. I mostly go there for decor though.

But Michaels has been good for other crafts like some jewelry stuff. And pretty much all my frames have come from Michaels (not custom ones) and I generally check there first for crafts. We got a sewing machine something like a year or two ago and found the thread at Michaels to be good and cost effective.

Since Joann was brought up while I haven't done too much with fabric but I have bought a thing here or there and that place is great for the sheer selection they have.

As an aside Walmart has been a good spot for me. I was able to get good inexpensive chain to use for jewelry plus lobster claw clasps among other connectors. And their fabric selection actually much more plentiful than I would have thought although this part very much varies by location.

 

[Imzadi]

I love Michaels. I will never step foot in Hobby Lobby or stop at a Chick-Fil-A for something to eat after shopping.

 

[Mysterian]

Other: My spouse prefers Michaels or Joanne depending on the type of craft needed. Both have a different mix of things and concentrate on what they do rather than try to be jack of all hobbies master of none.

I will not do business with Hobby Lobby. I prefer the people I do business with not be involved with smuggling 5,500 artifacts. I could list plenty more transgressions, none of which have to do with politics but I simply don't have the desire to spend the time doing so.

That's about 5,500 times Hobby Lobby was told that "It belongs in a museum!" Certainly at least twice after peoples' faces were melting because Hobby Lobby mistakenly put the actual Ark of the Covenant in the Outdoor décor section.

 

[TippyThomas]

I've never shopped at either of them and probably never will. Not much of an arts and crafts kinda guy.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I prefer the people I do business with not be involved with smuggling 5,500 artifacts

You know interestingly and something I can honestly say I hadn't really thought about is that museums are your single biggest place you'd find this at along side auction houses (but museums take the cake). We were watching Last Week Tonight that did a segment on this and the British Museum (not surprising) had so many of these. Many of these were not necessarily smuggled but rather stolen or they were added to the collection without the proper reviews although sometimes the red flags were so high you know they just simply didn't care where they came from.

Weird tangent but your comment made me think about it because museums are normally something we think as a good place for educational purposes but they do have their own dark side.

 

[princesscinderella]

I like Joann’s usually first because they do offer fabric and still have a nice selection of other crafts. Michael’s is second. Hobby lobby to me is like a mixture between home goods and a craft store, but they are closed on Sundays when I have the time to shop so they really don’t get my business.

 

[easyas123]

I will not do business with Hobby Lobby. I prefer the people I do business with not be involved with smuggling 5,500 artifacts.

I'm not huge into crafts, but I pop into Michaels now & again. I won't patronize Hobby Lobby for a few reasons, among them noted above by Cannot.

I can be at 4 different Michaels in about 45 minutes, and 1 Hobby Lobby.

 

[Micca]

DW shops at Michael's and Hobby Lobby, usually for some project for DGDs. I usually wait patiently at home on those excursions.

 

[Magical2017]

I like both Michael's and JoAnn's. I mostly go for in-person scrapbooking supplies, although for the past few years I have barely touched my supplies.