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    Does anyone sleep the night of BF?

    in 2009

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    I always plan to get sleep. Get up at around 3-4 to get preparing for cooking (this year work) coffee, newspaper, cooking and looking all over the ads again to make sure I didn't miss anything here. LOL. Dinner, clean up, make sure hubby has everything needed for the night/and next day for him and kids. Then too scared to go to sleep I might not hear the alarm.So I stay up. I know a few years ago this did catch up with me in BB when the lines went up and down every asile or make shift one anyway. I think I cat napped in there a time or two .

    Big Toy Book - Link @ Post #135

    in 2009

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    Thanks for the help

    My boys want those too. I noticed that there are a few other items that have that same "hot price" tag. I think it's done on purpose and not cut off of the page. I think the regular price for those is something like $24.99. I did notice the other day at target that they have a rectangular case for the Bakugan that has a handle and snaps shut ($9.99 and comes with one exclusive bakugan), and a Bakugan binder to hold the cards ($8.99). I think I am going to go that route for my boys because the sphere only holds 12 bakugan, and the case holds 24 and is half the price. Just another option for you :)

     

    Edit: Here is a link to the other case, and it's cheaper at TRU:

    http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3351170

     

    And the binder:

    http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3544707#showReviews

    Toys R Us Opening at Midnight - Rumor - See Post #18

    in 2009

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    I can't wait to see. I called my tru and they told me to call back and talk to the store manager to see if he knew the hours they would be open on Thanksgiving and black friday. Come on people I know these people know. I would love it to be midnight. Think about it shop, coffee, bathroom break, and shop at the next store.

    How do you handle gifts for siblings w/ larger families

    in 2009

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    We have large families on both sides. When money is tight we get a big box (wrap the outside with Christmas paper)and put smaller items for the whole family in the box. The kids love it because the think they are getting alot. You don't have to buy high dollar items to go in this. Kids are happy with alot of Arts and crafts if the are younger aged. Or make a theme of it like movie night put one dvd in it they want and popcorn,big movie theater candy boxes(sold everywhere now),the flavorings that go on popcorn,etc. Hope this may help. Or simply mention to her money is tight and see if you can lower the amount of the limit.

    Share Your Story & Win GottaDeal.com Black Friday Survival Kits! [Winners Chosen!]

    in 2009

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    Other than the time I waited out in front of CC all night in the worse blizzard that we had that year, the story that still gets told and retold in my house is the BF when the Oaks Mall in Gainesville Florida was giving out free gift bags with coupons and prizes to the first 500 people through their front doors.

     

    People were crowding around the doors quite early that morning, dawn was just starting to shed light through the darkness. My mother and I were in the fifth row of people in front of the middle doors, for there was no such thing as a line. About five minutes before the doors were to open, the anxious crowd gathered even closer together, the mist of their breath nearly fogging up the glass windows that was the entrance to the mall. Everything was very orderly inside the mall. Workers had tables behind them piled high with the gift bags that would all too quickly be gone. A cameraman had a camcorder on a tripod off to one side. They were ready, or they thought they were.

     

    The front doors were allowed to be open, they were not busted off their hinges. The first few people trickled gingerly through the entrance to grab their bags and be off on their way. It was shortly after this that all forms of civility were put aside and a force coming from the back of the crowd funneled the eager people through the two open doors like meat through a grinder or more like a small planet next to a black hole.

     

    Just after I passed through the doors, a lady dashed between my mother and I, stepping on my ankle in the process. Not my foot, but high on my ankle bone. I don't know how that happened, but I do know that I was sprawled out just inside the mall in front of a crazed mob of frenzied shoppers, all the while, not being able to feel my foot from the ankle down.

     

    At this point, my mother, seeing that her 90lb 27 year old daughter was about to be trampled into the ground by the surging mob, stood between the doors like Gandalf the Grey in front of the Balrog in the mines of Moria shouting “None shall pass”. And just like the fellowship, I was saved from certain death (or at least drastic damage). I struggled to rise on my twisted, sprained ankled, just as Gandald-Mom faltered and the tide rushed forth.

     

    Staring in horror, the mall employees jumped across their tables in a desperate attempt to retreat. The cameraman was knocked back, and his video footage would be stopped short before it could really capture the assault. This fool was able to get a bag and slipped under the table to escape the crushing pulse of the crowd.

     

    There used to be a video from the poor shocked cameraman on the web at a news site, but when I went to look for it and post a link, it wasn't there anymore - it has been a couple of years.

    This is the same day and place I felt like a sardine I know is wasn't long when we got inside the store but I felt like my back was about to break from everyone pushing from the back and the sides

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