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I am just not a fan of this style of ‘ad’, I guess i just like the ones that look like paper. And I wish it would just say which things are going to be in-store and which are going to be online only in big bold letters. I’m sure hoping the actual Black Friday ad will be more interesting to me. I’m sure it is just me, but I’m not finding a whole lot in their early ads, meaning I haven’t bought anything yet!! LOL!!

Thanks! That helped a bunch.

If someone on here has a Costco membership, could you please tell me how much the Ninja Foodi Air Fryer Oven Model DT251CO is? My membership expired and I can’t see the price for that item. I had planned on renewing my membership in a couple of weeks but if the price is good enough I may have to bump up renewing because it says $50 off through November 16,2022.

I’m thinking a toaster oven/air fryer and an Arlo setup.

I have quite a few years worth of the cute little Disney snow globes that JC Penney gave out, some of them are starting to turn a little yellowish on the globe part. One year Sears had Thomas Kincaid glass ball ornaments. I can’t remember if those were free or free with purchase, but they were only on Black Friday. I remember one year while I was in the Best Buy line…not super far back, but not camp-all-night close either, the employees were going down the line handing out and throwing out free goodies. I think there were T-shirts, CDs, stuffed things, all kinds of promotional items. I have a couple of little stuffed animal things from that year. That was the only year I remember them doing anything like that. And one year my mom won one of the two $100 gift cards that Shoe Carnival gave away for Black Friday. Another thing I have are memories of Walmart Black Fridays. Memories of trying to find out from Walmart employees where to line up for the special limited quantity items. And I get that a lot of times the employees weren’t told where the line would be until just about that time, but it can be frustrating to say the least to be fighting the crowd trying scour the store to find where to line up. One year I got the nicest employee that told me to stay in a certain spot and she would find out for me. She was gone for about 20 minutes but when she came back she had a string of balloons that said the name of the laptop I wanted on them and told me to follow her. She led me to the shoe department, tied the balloon onto something and told me I was number 1. That was before the days of the maps online that tell you most of that now.

That’s a sad “Black Friday Now” ad!!

Count me in…now if I can follow through each month!!!

I think I need to add it this post to my phone calendar for every month so I can remember to post! Just got over a bug I caught while BF shopping. It was hard to keep myself away from everyone in the family, but didn’t want to pass it on to someone else. I have felt better the last two days so hopefully I am not contagious anymore. Killed me not to go back to Walmart to see what BF merchandise they had marked down in my town.

Congrats to all the winners!

My mom and I started out at JCPenney. It didn’t seem like the line was all that bad, no worse than other years, but they ran out of the coupons long before we got in the door. Usully we can be in the store shopping for awhile and they are still handing them out, so I’m assuming they passed out less than previous years. Lots of people were coming back out the doors grumbling about it. Bought a few things there and then headed next door to Walmart where we were REALLY early for the sale to start. I had tried to order an Apple watch online where I had it in my cart and went to check out and it just disappeared. Finally gave up on that and decided to try for it in the store, so getting there early was ok. We got there about 3 and the lines were already forming. I was about 5th or 6th in line. The woman who was first in line was wanting to buy a lot of the watches (not sure just how many, but it sounded like she wanted quite a few, and I’m not sure how many they had). She kept having management after management person back there talking to her telling her she could only buy 1, to look at the rest of the people in the line there to buy one too. People in line were grumbling about it, but management won out and only sold her one. They finally came back there and passed out tickets for the model we wanted so the people that weren’t going to get one because they were too far back in line would know it. They let us leave the line with our tickets and told us we could check out at layaway at 6pm. I figured they let us leave the line because of the woman, so she wasn’t harassing management anymore! After that I managed to snag every 4K movie on my list, all of my tv series and a few more impulse buys, after being told repeatedly that we couldn’t take the movies until 6. Then all of a sudden they decided we could get them at about 5:15 or so. I was disappointed that the final season of The Big Bang Theory wasn’t on sale anywhere, or if it was I missed it. I also picked up a new lightning cable, some socks, and a bath mat. Got in line about 5:30 to check out and was totally out of Walmart by about 6:30, including paying for my watch at layaway. Walmart got a nice chunk of my BF money this year. We then went to Target and bought some books that were in their sale. My mom bought a couple of movies there. Seems like we bought something else there, but it’s slipping my mind. We also hit Best Buy for another couple of series and a Wemo product that was on sale. Also bought a Ninja Foodie that I haven’t tested yet. Went to Lowe’s on Friday morning, didn’t win the $500. Bought batteries. Went to Home Depot for 3 Ryobi tools. They had 1 of them. Hit the mall for Justice, American Eagle and Bath & Body Works. Got in and out of that madhouse!!! Not sure sales were worth that craziness!! I can’t believe I just said that, but you couldn’t even hear what someone standing next to you was saying!!! That was our Black Friday sales adventure this year. I scored almost everything on my list other than the tools, which actually weren’t on sale, just was going to pick them up while we were there. Oh yeah, picked up a bug while we were shopping and got sick for several days after....

Well, it looks like a Ryobi tool I was going to buy is about $20 cheaper Black Friday than now. Haven’t done a thorough look at the paper yet, but my guys usually find several things from Home Depot that they want, so I know I’ll end up here for sure.

I went in the Gamestop in my town today to buy one of the PS4 controllers in one of the new colors that is advertised in the Black Friday ad and also in their Black Friday preview ad. I was told they only had one controller in the new purple color and I couldnt buy it today, they had to save it for Black Friday. I thought that was a bit dumb, I mean, a sale is a sale. Especially since they were in the ad for now. So when I ran to the next town over to pick up something at another store I decided I’d go to one of the Gamestop stores there and pick it up, only to be told the same thing by both of the stores there, that they couldn’t sell the new colors now, I had to wait until Black Friday.... So I went to Best Buy there and bought it for a little more than a dollar more...but now I have one less item to have to hunt for on Black Friday.

They will ALWAYS be Burlington Coat Factory to me!!! Actually, nothing in that ad looks like it is on sale at all. Everything just says “starting at”.

Yeah, I spotted that one too. I was thinking my nephew would love it, not so sure about my brother and sister-in-law...or my nieces!! They would probably all be targeted very quickly!!.

Since my kids are older now, and dont really go on a big hunt for their presents anymore it’s not nearly as hard to hide them. Usally I just stash stuff in my closet behind clothes or in the floor under them, bigger stuff sometimes in the storage building out back. Not so hard to stash them in the closet since mostly what they ask for is video games and movies. BUT, last year one son wanted a new computer gaming monitor. I bought it and then decided I didn’t want to store it outside in the cold, so I stashed it in plain sight, so to speak. I put it in his closet at the back, hidden by the shorts and summer clothes that I knew he wouldn’t move. And I for sure wasn’t afraid he’d get the urge to clean his closet out and find it! LOL!! I use my Note 9 to keep up with my present & stocking stuffer ideas and purchases for each person. Now when I wrap a present I make note of it, so I don’t go on a mad rampage around the house looking for it later on (yes I have done that, and then had to unwrap a couple of presents to double check!!).

No one in my family got excited when they saw this ad. The guys are waiting for Home Depot’s ad. They will want Ryobi tools, although I think they own all of them already!!! Not really, but our garage has a lot of green in it! LOL! And I’m glad I don’t have to buy any appliances this year....maybe I missed something, but the prices don’t seem spectacular to me anyhow, I gave less somewhere else for my washer and dryer when they weren't even on a holiday sale or anything.

Does anyone know if you have to have a membership to order the Black Friday sale items? I’ve ordered things from them without one before and just paid an up charge, which was still cheaper than anywhere else. I spotted a couple of things I would like to have from them, but can’t justify another club membership since Sam’s is closer to us and we don’t really go to the area of town where Costco is.

I’m not even sure where the nearest Sears store is. The two in Tulsa (about an hour from me anyhow) closed a year or two ago. Hard to even remember exactly when because shopping in there got so bad we didn’t hardly ever go in there. The tool department would have like one or two of a few hand tools with lots of empty spaces in between and the housewares department was just as bad. That last Christmas they were open we cut through the store to go into the mall and it was like a ghost town in there compared to the people in the mall. Really sad for a store that had been an icon to go down like that.

I got mine in the mail a few days ago...no gift card or T-shirt voucher, but still cool. Maybe I’ll win a T-shirt some other way!!!

Nice prizes. I’m usually more of a lurker, but am going to try to be more involved this year.

There isn’t one of these stores near where I live, but I just looked at the ad out of curiosity. I’d probably buy some of the motor oil for a stock up. Pretty good price on it with the rebate. I’d end up buying some of the clothing items too. Oh well, back to the ads for where I live.

Personally, I found more at their 1 Day Sale than in this ad. It seems to have the popular blankets and TVs in the ad, and since we aren’t buying a tv this year I haven’t really paid attention to the prices of those for comparison. So unless my mom, who I BF shop with every year, sees something she wants, we probably will pass on Sam’s this year.

I get Bed, Bath & Beyond coupons all the time in the mail for 20% off one item. The cool thing with them is you can still use them after they expire, and if you buy more than one thing in a purchase, you can use the same number of coupons as items purchased, without having to pay in a different transaction, But the awesome thing I notice about this years ad is that instead of the normal 20% off entire purchase coupon (which usually I have so many coupons stockpiled that 20% off isn’t any different than any other day) this one is for 25% off entire purchase! Of course there are the usual exemptions, but for me it will still be worth the extra stop this year.

I see Walmart will be my first stop for movies for sure. I was going to pick up an iPad for my husband this year so Walmart may be where I get it too. I did spot several smaller things I’m interested in, but the iPad is probably my biggest purchase this year, as everyone has mostly smaller items on their list. Now, I’m waiting for Sam’s Club, Home Depot and Lowe’s ads.

I LOVE Black Friday for movies...I always buy for me that day too. One movie for someone else, two for me, one for someone else, two for me...LOL!! Seriously though, Big Bang Theory for my husband, probably Bohemian Rhapsody on 4K for him too. Walking Dead Season 9 on Blu-ray, John Wick 3 on 4K and Deadwood: The Movie for one son. The other one hasn’t told me anything yet. I will be looking for any of the NCIS series, Criminal Minds, Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, etc. for me.