Kat07

Our kids(5,12) open 1 present Christmas Eve afternoon before we go out. The others get opened Christmas morning....after 7am(they are sleepers so it's not too evil) But they do have to sit and wait til after I make my coffee and drink some of it. Our stockings are last too...after the livingroom gets cleaned up, so the little things don't get lost.

My DS has always been a slim, a 12 slim now and for the last couple years Old Navy is the only brand I buy him...they are fantastic without even having to cinch.

This place says it has them for pre-order: http://www.toywiz.com/littlestpetshop15tin.html You could call and check. They are a bit $$ but WAY cheaper than eBay.

When my son only had a teacher and a helper I would buy them gifts. Then in 4th grade he started having 4+ teachers, one for every subject. So then I just started buying Dunkin Donuts gift cards for them all. Not the gym, music, art teachers...etc. just the regular ones that deal with my child everyday. They don't see those teachers on the last day of school before Christmas vacation anyway so it is not obvious neglect.

Thanks so much~

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I have been good and haven't gone to Walmart in weeks well I went in today WOW the entire store is a disaster and being shuffled all around and completely remodeled. I found some craft stuff, lace/ribbons moved to where the Lawn and Garden section is...but, the fabric is gone. This sucks! I have to go 45 minutes to get to a JoAnns.

Amazon doesn't have any reviews. Here is a review I found on a different site. It is not a great review, but if your kids really wants this game...this is a great price to be nice and buy it and let him figure it out for himself., 2006 This is the first guest review from Matthew Anders, a 9-year-old gaming fan in Burlingame, Calif. He takes on Mattel's new HyperScan game console HYPERSCAN review By Matthew Anders If you’ve got any boys ages 8 to 12 in your life, you know that we love to play fighting games on our computers or videogame consoles. They’re fun! Playing these games makes us feel powerful. We can be aggressive without getting in trouble. We can pass time in single-player mode, or we can have a good time in two-player mode with a friend or sibling, mastering different levels together. Besides, it’s neat to see puny little things fall at your feet. So I was excited when I heard that Mattel was coming out with a new videogame system called HyperScan, aimed at kids in my age group. (I’m about to turn 10.) It goes on sale in stores this fall. The basic system costs $59.99 at Target, and it plugs into your television. Game cards – which are scanned into the system and then activate specific characters – come in packs of 10 for an extra $24.99. The first few games being offered involve some of my favorite action characters, such as Marvel X-Men and Ben 10. But after a very demanding weekend of testing HyperScan with my best friend, Cameron (also age 9), and my younger brother Peter (age 7), I have to say that it’s not so neat. The battle action in HyperScan X-Men is very limited. Also, it’s hard to scan the different characters into the game’s card-reader system. Worst of all, the game is too easy. We made it to the top of all 19 levels on our second day of play. On a really good game, it should take months to get that far. Let’s start with the game setup. The console plugged into our television very easily. All the wires are color coded, so you know where they go. My dad helped set it up, but that was just so he could keep busy. We tested it in single-player mode, with only one controller. The controller was pretty standard – a lot like what kids are used to if they have a PlayStation 2 or an X-Box. But getting the actual player cards scanned in was annoying. They had to be held in exactly the right position over a radio-frequency sensor on the game console. If the scan didn’t work after a few seconds, the console would make this annoying beep and we’d have to try again. We heard that beep constantly, all afternoon, almost every time we tried to switch players. The game scenery was disappointing, too. The X-Men game offers lots of different battlefields, such as an alley, a church, and a frozen chunk of Antarctica. Those places all look cool. But the characters just move back and forth at the very front of each battlefield, along a single straight line. There isn’t any way for them to leap into interesting parts of the scenery and chase opponents into narrow traps or along the edge of a cliff, for example. It would be better if the background were truly three-dimensional, so those kinds of chases could be part of the game. As for the battles themselves, the characters pointlessly kill each other. There’s no explanation for why Magneto, Iceman or others are fighting. They just jab and kick at each other. Fighting is exciting, but in most of my favorite games, each battle is part of a larger quest. Here there really isn’t any story. Although the characters all are allowed a “special move” and a “superspecial move,” a lot of their fighting styles seem so similar that they get boring after a while. It also bothered me that there weren’t any minor characters or objects that could be introduced into the battles. I think it would be more fun if you could unleash a pack of hungry lizards at your opponent, for example. Or maybe if you were in an alley, Magneto could throw a lamp pole at you. In this game, it’s just the two characters constantly punching or kicking at each other, without any real strategy or deception. The special moves include things like a freeze ray (for Iceman) and metal blast (for Magneto.) The special moves are more powerful, but they drain your character’s energy, as shown by an energy bar above the character. So you can’t use them constantly; you have to wait for your character to recharge. There isn’t much difference between the special moves and the super-special moves. And there aren’t any combination moves, where you have to hit multiple keys in a clever sequence. In fact, my younger brother Peter tried punching the keys as fast as he could, randomly – and he was able to win most of his battles that way. We laughed about that for a little while, but it was kind of embarrassing. Like most videogames, X-Men starts at a very easy level and then gets harder as you win each head-to-head battle against a single villain. Each mission here is basically the same. If you win all 19 missions, the game tells you “Good Work,” and then it restarts. My friend Cameron and I beat the game twice, in about two days of playing it. If you can beat a game that fast, it’s not good enough. I don’t think this would be a game that we’d want to keep playing for months and months. It’s the same thing every time. There’s not enough variety in the attacks or characters. There aren’t enough surprises about what the scenery might involve. If people are looking for good fighting games to play on game consoles, I’d recommend Soul Calibur 3, Halo 2 and Tekken 4. In fact, there are some free games on the Internet that compare pretty favorably against X-Men as well. Some of those include Heli Attack 3 and Bionicle for my brother. I’m giving this just one star, because after two days of testing, we didn’t protest one bit when my dad boxed up the demo game and prepared to send it back. I hope the HyperScan people develop better games in the future, because the basic console is reasonably priced and easy to use. But X-Men didn’t really make a good impression. Toward the end of our testing period, my friend Cameron wanted to play computer-based fighting games instead. As for me, I was ready to go read a book.

LOL the day after we got it my arm hurt so bad. OMG tennis is brutal. The boxing game wow my poor DD4 loves to play, but she can barely finish a round and she is so tired and her ams are like jelly. It is so funny watching her.

Thanks so much!

I bought these for the first time yesterday and WOW it works so quickly and I love it. I should have bought more than one. But today I went back online and bought 3 more starter sets and 4 different refills.

LOL I usually forget something or another til later on Christmas day....This year it was baseball cards for my DS. This year I also lost stuff....a Barbie toothbrush, nail polish, a Pet Shop Tomagotchi and Mach3 razor blades. I know I bought them and came home from the store with them....after that...?????????....

Yes I did Hubby bought me a laptop and my Godiva chocolates. My mother gave me tons of Scrapbooking stuff and a special dufflebag for it all. And I got giftcards(Walmart, Citgo and Dunk'n Donuts) from my little ones.

That was a wonderful story.:) Thanks~

The kids presents to each other and to us are under the tree as well as ours to the other family members my mother, father,..etc...All others from us to the kids and from Santa go out after they are sleeping on Christmas Eve.

STOP!!!!!!! LOL this site is not helping my decision to be DONE shopping.

Are you kidding me!!! This is amazing...I just passed up to buy at TRU for $50 Thank you!!

My daughter has enough presents My daughter has enough presents My daughter has enough presents My daughter has enough presents Awwww Did you see this: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000EPFFCO/ref=ord_cart_shr/102-8137072-9442510?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance

How about a nice soft bright colorful micro fleece blanket? This is what we got for my MIL, along with some lotion (Jergens has a wonderful Cherry/Almond), some Godiva chocolates and a pair of slippers.

My Walmart had quite a few yesterday.

I bought this set for my Pontiac. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/GREEN-HAWAIIAN-MICROFIBER-SEAT-COVER-COVERS-70-7012_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33702QQihZ015QQitemZ250002453542QQtcZphoto They do have other colors in this Hawwaiian pattern.

I bought one from hubby from this seller on eBay: vjjepub He also has this store: http://www.coolaprons.com/ They are a good price, shipping is really fast and the aprons are heavyweight. The do look a bit too screenprinted if you know what I mean, but there are a lot of different ones, even personalized if you want.

WAHHHH I bought the Mountain Spruce two weeks ago for $179 It is a gorgeous tree~ Maybe I can buy this one and then return to HD with my other sales reciept...

Our world is stopped right now we are all watching Rudolph and then Frosty will be on next. There is a commercial on now;)

I didn't recieve a confirmation email from Timberland...just Google I ordered boots on 12/1 On 12/4 I received a shipping notice from Timberland and got the boots on 12/7:) Since I never got a confirmation email or a Timberland order number I did call them after 2 days and gave them the Google order number just to make sure the order was alright.