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Thank you all! My son is home and recovery is - difficult. He has terrible headaches and no sense of taste, He’s frustrated that he can’t go to school or play his beloved hockey. His younger brother just left for a tournament with my husband, so that’s rough. I do believe that he will recover 100% but he is worried about falling behind his sophomore year that just started, and how much muscle mass he will lose before he can put on skates again. I keep telling him that he is here for a reason, and this will all work out. And we have so much to be thankful for. He can walk. He knows who he is and where he is, and he can remember most things except for what happened that night (which is good). We learned that if his head had been turned a different way, or the bike that he was on had been moving, he would probably not be here with us today. We are hoping that his next CT scan will show improvement, and we can start to make plans for his return to normal. Right now it’s just sit and wait, and IDK if you know anything about 15YO boys, but patience is not their virtue lol

Lots of birthdays for my family this month. 3 of my grands, 1 of my kids, and my own. A week from tomorrow, I will be having my hip replaced. When you search for recovery stories, they are all over the place but I intend to be getting up and around by Black Friday! Admittedly, most of my shopping is done online, and I will happily rely on my son to go pick up any packages that get delivered to the post office instead of my front porch . BUT, I still go out on BF bright and early every year. If I have to swallow my pride and be seen using a walker in public, well, that's just what I'll have to do .

So sorry to hear about your son. A lifetime ago, I was hit by a car that ran a stop sign. I was on a motorcycle. The police asked my parents to come to Anna Jacques hospital to 'identify the body'. By the time my parents arrived at the hospital, the prognosis was better. Initially, the surgeons advised my parents that they would not amputate my left arm because most people prefer a useless arm that can be inserted in a jacket and posited in a pocket to no arm at all. Well, it's been half a century since, and use of my left arm is nearly 90%. Keep the faith. If your son's physicians promise you anything less than 100% recover, find a new doctor.

I retired in May. As a consequence, I am free to do whatever I want without regard to compelling commitments. Again, as a consequence, I am free to get up late or very early. For the first time in nearly a decade, I anticipate standing in line for some store opening BF. Not so much for the Door Busters as for the nostalgia. Brad, send me a t-shirt and I will post a picture or me in this shirt in line on BF in New Hampshire -- with no consideration for weather or temperature. I am having SO much fun being a teenager again.

Happy August! My oldest started his senior year at Temple University today, and my luger started her junior year in high school today as well. My youngest boy, who is moving to Seattle for school three weeks from Wednesday, is home today recovering from having his wisdom teeth removed on Friday. Gotta get all of the medical stuff done before he leaves, because we don't know when he'll be back. I picked up my luger in Lake Placid last weekend, and she is done until she flies out to Salt Lake City on November 3 for her first in season training camp. Then it's a whirlwind til mid March, including traveling to Latvia and Germany for 6 weeks starting right after the new year. It's going to be a very long winter with just my husband and I, lol. While Kendall was in Lake Placid training up with the next level team, her current level team coach sought her out to give her the medal she earned for her 3rd place overall finish for last season, which is probably the nicest medal she's ever received. Also while she was there, she took part in the Starts Championships, and placed 2nd among the upper level team. And while I was in LP for a few days before bringing her home, I got to watch her practicing her starts, and she established a new personal record for herself that day. So, she's had a very good summer! This month's pics and video are of her medal, her second place finish in the starts championships, and her PR start. The next couple of month's posts will be a little more boring with no luge, lol. VID_1753499669112.mp4 20250815_140245.mp4

My son and I have been stocking up on Lego Winter Village sets all year long and we will begin assembling them 1st of October. Not many big "must have" items anymore so we are anticipating the season more than just a day.

I'm hoping for something that brings back the spirit of BF...

Only 80 Days Until

Just went to the old ones being posted. Circuit City was showing. Man I miss some of the old stores. Guess I’m old I prefer to be able to hold what I buy at the point I buy it. I find myself shopping Amazon less and less every year. Didn’t buy a thing this Amazon days sale.

The past few years we have been out of town for Thanksgiving, so I am excited to cook it again. It'll just be three of us so nothing elaborate but homemade!

With so many different sales happening throughout October, November and December it can be a little overwhelming to keep track of everything. We have several ways to stay updated with all the new ads and sales that we post: 1. Sign up for our email newsletter. We'll email you about the latest sales and ads as well as the best deals we're finding throughout Q4. 2. Follow the Sale & Ad Discussion forum. On this page, there will be a light blue "Follow" button (on the top of the page if you're on a tablet/desktop and on the bottom of page if you're on a phone). You can get notified when we post new threads in this forum for each ad, sale or catalog. 3. Follow us on Bluesky, Facebook , Instagram and/or Threads. We'll post updates on these accounts including when we post new ads or learn about upcoming sales. 4. Bookmark our Black Friday news page and check it regularly for the latest updates. This page also will have a list of ads we've posted, upcoming sales and more.

There is no holiday between Fourth of July and Christmas except Black Friday. Get with the program!

No luge this month, so I may as well check in for September, lol. We are setting up a table at a yard sale that my workplace is having on Saturday to familiarize people with the sport of luge, and to hopefully sell the remainder of her fundraiser stuff. A local business is donating a banner for us to use, and we will have a display of Kendall's medals, news articles, and pictures taken through the years, so I guess this month's pics will be the banner design that will be used, and the picture display that is almost done. Happy September - the first BF ad should be out any day, right? LOL

Wanna know one of the only good things about being up at 4 AM ....I can check in for a new prizeclub month...here for Sept.

For those who are unaware we have a GottaDEAL server on Discord for everyone to chat about Black Friday, deals or whatever else comes up. Here's the invite link: https://discord.gg/3hd2K5t If you're unfamiliar with Discord, it is a free chat service. You can access it via their dedicated apps for phones or tablets, or through a traditional web browser. Once you sign up for an account you can join the GD server using the special invite link above and can chat with everyone else who has signed up. Currently there are #general, #food and #tech channels for more off-topic chat and the main #blackfriday channel for discussing Black Friday. There's also a #contest channel that we'll use for some giveaways over the next few months and a #deals channel where we'll be posting some of the hottest deals, in-stock alerts for hot items, preorder opportunities and more. Sign up if you haven't and we'll see you there!

hmm… I just had a thought (a very bed habit) (I know) Could we start a similar channel on the Discord to the Prize Club Thread here on the forums? Something to keep the Discord active year round?

As we do every year in early September we've opened the various sub-forums here to unofficially start our coverage of the Black Friday & holiday shopping season. As the day of Black Friday itself remains less significant we'll continue with the "Sale & Ad Discussion" forum having threads not only for Black Friday ads but also for many of the additional sales and catalogs that get posted on the site, whether they take place on Black Friday or not.

Black Friday is still significant to me! I am so excited to be able to go out and shop this year.

Rosh HaShanah is only two weeks away! Followed by Break Fast for Yom Kippur, Dia de Muertos, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and many others I may not be aware of. I look forward to seeing everyone’s menus and photos of their Festive Meals as the season progresses.

I'm going to start collecting addresses for your prizes. If you're one of the 40 still in the club, send me a message here on the forum with the title 'Prize Club Address' and include your name and full shipping address. I'll chase down whoever I don't hear from in a couple weeks.

Yep. Same. No chance of order cancellation if we're walking out the door with our items already in hand.

It’s fun to be a part of year round!

I have a feeling it’s going to be a little worse with all the tariffs taking their toll on deals. I also think it’s going to be so spread out that it’s going to be hard to determine if the deals will be any better with the later sales.

Can’t wait

Kinda crappy month already. Here’s to hoping it turns around

I’m a firm believer that recovery is as much mental as it is physical. If he believes he will be better and then puts in the hard work things will get better.

Ahhh retirement, something I look forward to but not sure I will ever get to do. We go out still for the nostalgia also. I always have the week off.

Just days off from work

YAY best 4 months of the year are here!!!!

For those of us who use m/dd/yy… Happy 90125 Day!

Crazy it’s September. Soon BF will be here and gone again.

Airport people watching is the best kind of people watching.

I thought I had somehow missed the 100 day countdown post. There wasn't one, so I checked last year and there wasn't one then either. Thinking I've lost my mind, I went searching and I had to go all the way back to 2021 to find a 100 days! post from Brad . I guess I'm just living in the past. I've decided that's okay though, because I like it here. **I realize the 100 day mark doesn't mean much when BF doesn't happen on BF anymore. BUT, that said... 95 days till Black Friday y'all!!

Gonna be a warm one today 101 here in Cali

Well, work day tomorrow and back to school on Wednesday. It doesn't look like it will be any cooler and, even though the school is air conditioned, that doesn't man anything in the cafeteria. It gets unbearably hot! The employee who gave us so much trouble with her attendance last school year is moving to a different position in the school. We found this out less than a week before school starts, leaving us a person short to begin the year. Wish us luck!

Yep, %. My two raised beds are also in a community garden, which is located in a County park. It is amazing how many patrons of the park read “Community Garden” on the signage and interpret that as “the public can help themselves” as if it is a U-pick operation. Our biggest problem is deer and voles, though. Thankfully the voles focus more on the in-ground plots than the raised beds, but the deer definitely liked my corn last year. I tend to like the tomatoes to ripen on the vines to about 70%; more than that and I risk losing them. When I harvested the tomatoes above, all the rest were bright green. We started to get the rain that night, and when I returned to the garden the next day some of the tomatoes were turning yellow-ish, but not really blushing at all yet. I left them on the vines, and the rain continued through the night, but had let up this morning. When I checked on the tomatoes again, some of the larger green ones had stretch marks, but the skins had not actually cracked. The yellow-ish ones were the same, although the stretch marks were more pronounced. But none were actually cracked yet. I went ahead and left them on the vines to turn more red than yellow. Hopefully the stretch marks won’t get any worse.

It's been a rough last month or so at work, with the start of the school year. My husband also works with me, and our son works in an adjacent industry (with one of our vendors actually), so have all been wiped out. Things are finally getting slightly calmer, so we are looking forward to that. I did a big thing today though. I went to my supervisor and told him a wanted a title change, and presented documents outlining what the title should be and why. It went really well and he promised he would have discussions about it. But, I know it's a long shot because it has to go up a few levels for approval, and there are others with my current title who would then want the same. But we'll see. The important thing is that I took up for myself, and was taken seriously.

Yesterday my landlords and I attended a pot luck brunch game party. We brought a brunch enchilada casserole made by my landlord and I made blintz casserole with homemade strawberry glaze/pie filling and homemade blueberry pie filling to be used as toppings. We also brought along sour cream to use as a topping for both casseroles as well. The hosts made French toast, and the other couple in attendance brought a variety of sausage. Frozen blintzes layered in stoneware in a single layer and rolled to coat in melted butter Soufflé batter poured around and over the blintzes Puffy and slightly browned Enchilada Casserole My plate, starting from 12 noon and going clockwise: French Toast My Blintz Cassetole tipped with strawberry, blueberry, and sour cream Enchilada Casserole topped with sour cream Various pieces of sausage

Happy September

Time sure is flying, I didn't realize I hadn't posted for September yet! School started about 2 1/2 weeks ago and just seems so different this year. We found out less than a week before the first day that the person we had issues with last year was moving to a different part of the school. Good, yes, but since we're "only" in the cafeteria, there was no rush to replace her. We're always the last thought when it comes to anything in the school. The new hire just started 3 days ago so we were working with our substitutes for 2+ weeks. She seems to be working out well, we'll see. I was promoted to head cook the beginning of last school year and it was a good year. Now this year, the kitchen manager (the same person as last year), has been giving not only me, but the other girls, attitude. I'm always second guessing myself when it comes to decisions because whatever I tell the girls to do, the manager always tells them to do the opposite. I'm always in tears, both in the walk-in cooler and at home. I've been working in the cafeteria 11 years (substituted for 7 years before that) and have always gotten along with her. My problem is that I can't speak my mind, I'm always afraid I'm going to offend someone or make things worse. If I say anything, then the attitude will really come out. The manager has been there not quite 30 years (thinking about retirement), I'm starting my 12th and then everyone else has been there less than 2-3 years. We just can't get people to stay and a lot of it is the manager, it's been said by many of the previous employees who had quit, because of her control issue. There's so much more I could go into but won't. I didn't mean to even get into it as much as I did. Anyway, Happy September!!!

Also for those of you who like the old ads, we have an account on Bluesky that posts random old Black Friday ads several times per day: https://bsky.app/profile/blackfridayarchive.com

What about Labor Day and Thanksgiving?

Happy Birthday Brad!

One third of the way through August. The summer is slipping by fast. Today is August 12. Happy Birthday, Brad!