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Whereabouts are you located, and are you planning on doing a lot of shopping on your trip? I used to travel back and forth a lot to San Diego. We would buy luggage at a swap meet or in Tijuana for pennies on the dollar. They're surprisingly durable for $20-$40 apiece. I used to spend weeks shopping in San Diego, LA, and TJ, so I'd return with way more stuff than I went there with. Sometimes it makes more sense to get your luggage after you've arrived where you're going, especially if your essentials fit in a carry on - why wait at baggage claim on the way there if you don't have to? Otherwise, checkout places like Big Lots that might have things at a discount.

Hey there, everyone! I was poking around to find the thread for which stores have the best categories of things or the best specific item offers, but all I could find was the reverse. There are lists per store of the best deals at that store (and whole threads devoted to only one single item), but what have you found the other way around? I'll go first: Best socks - Belk (runner up: Von Maur) Best food baskets - Montgomery Ward Best homemade chocolate/candy departments - Boscovs and Montgomery Ward Best range of higher end beauty and self care products at a discount - LOOKFANTASTIC Best deep discounts on designer brands - Yoox Best perfume/beauty sample boxes - Macy's if they're not sold out, otherwise LOOKFANTASTIC *Where did you find your best favorite things?

@Rockfordmom, Yes, I noticed retail and restaurants were fairly empty, but all the service places were packed. For example, the tanning salons were packed with people trying to get the BF packages while they can. I guess with all the closures there's not much else to do. Might as well spend your money on the services you need anyway and things to entertain you. I'm locked into a BF special from 2014 - a $56 per month membership where I can use any of the high tech machines anytime I want. The package now costs $200 per month!

I buy and rebuy Starbucks every Black Friday because you need it to get your shopping on at that hour!

Ah, forget TV - what's wrong with books anyway?

2022 is the year Black Friday is officially dead.

I have a master list of every single department store in the country, including smaller regional ones and lots most people have never heard of. I go to every site and fill the cart with what I want, but I don't buy. Then when all the carts are full, I open each in a separate tab, compare what's in each cart, remove the duplicates with higher prices and the things that don't look as nice as other things and narrow everything down to my favorites, then I purchase. Except I purchase using gift cards I bought at a discount or got miles for buying, then I make the purchases through points sites that allow me to gain points even if purchasing with a gift card.

I bought so many pairs of awesome looking socks, you'd think I have a little obsession!

NYC

NYC!!!!

Best: My mom found an angel pendant to remind me of my aunt after my aunt died. My mom reuses gift bags, and the only one she found happened to be to me from my aunt from the year before, and we have a very large Italian family. Worst: Every year someone buys me a small throw. I think it's a Minnesota thing...everyone needs a throw there. They are all nice, but they don't realize I now have like 15 throws.

It's very hypocritical to release something, intentionally or not, and then to get threatening when you see the results of the chain reaction. It reminds me of the adage, where there's a will there's a way. That is, if it leaking out concerned them all that much, then they can figure out themselves how to stop it. And, they are constantly in the media, so often for doing something that makes some group mad. They have a long history of it. It reminds me of Courtney Love, never getting attention on merit alone, but having to run around doing ridiculous things in order to get it. It works well enough for an individual because it has no ill results for the public, but when a corporation does this, something negative could happen. And, I read something of Walmart's defense claiming their releases are copywritten with release dates. I would suppose that it to prevent early leaking, yes. But, it's like this: If I compare ads and choose to go somewhere else with my money before Walmart, then I can see how this might disadvantage them. But, really this just means that a.) their sales could have been better, and b.) they are presupposing that I would go there on the mere chance that they could have better sales, if I did not know what their sales would be. Of course this is not true, and I don't know many people who would stand in line at Walmart not knowing exactly what they're standing in line for while other stores are offering things like a free $10 gift card. It's getting to the point that Walmart does b.s. so often that nobody cares passionately to react negatively anymore. It's corporate corruption at its best.

Toys R Us - crayola dough full of fun playset 9.99

Walmart - lexmark x1240 all-in-one printer early bird 29.88, comes with one color cartridge, cartridges cost under $20, according to their site.

CVS pharmacy - telecom pay n talk phone 2.4ghz cordless phone free after rebate.

The cheapest I found was at sears - TGE 512MB digital audio mp3 player 19.99 AR, EB

Opps, I mean I couldn't find the $29 shuffle deal on their site.

I couldn't find that deal.