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SW Louisiana here...rain for BF here.

4 grandkids 2 sons 1 daughter 1 dil 1 sil 1 soon to be dil Hubby That's it..I've cut my list waaaaaay back in the last few years.

I like Black Friday but not enough to stand in line for days on end!

Shoot, I'm usually begging guests to take food home after dinner, I'm usually sick of turkey by the time I get to the cleaning it off the bone part and just want it gone and don't much care who takes it. LOL Quite frankly I start making various packages when I get it all back into the kitchen anyway, perhaps that is the way to handle it..when you get it all back int hekitchen just start making up care packages and tell them when they leave their doggie bags are ready.

have, well the computer said they had 5 left but the ones in the boxes could not be found anywhere. So they sold me the one on the shelf..after I got to the checkout I found a small break in on the reindeers antlers (not enough to really matter or that couldn'[t be repaired)...the checker called the store manager over and he proceeded to mark the thing down from $60.00 to $25.00!!! It looks so cute in my livingroom. *G*

I guess after watching my daughter go through the stress of figuring out how she was going to be everywhere she was expected to be Christmas morning (with us, her dad and stepmom, both sets of grandparents on her side and then her DH's parents). I took a step back and said ok, nothing says that we HAVE to open these gifts we bought on Christmas morning. So we go up a week before Christmas or a week after. The grandkids love it, their Christmas is about two to three weeks long. *LOL*

morning and then tell them ok, get dressed we have to be at Grandma's by 9AM? I never had to deal with that issue, but my daughter did with her first two. I finally told her that it was time that she and her husband start a tradition of thier own, like let your children have the morning with thier new stuff and then head to other family gatherings after lunch. So that's what they did.

The rule of thumb is 300 Mini lights per foot, which means if you have a 7 1/2ft. tree you will need 2250 lights. Anything over that really becomes a fire hazard especially if you use only one oulet. Having siad that I agree, the more lights the better. I do however spread the lights out to two different sockets. Even though I have a prelit tree I do add extra lights and this year I am adding 4 sets of bubble lights.

Hmmm, well this is a tough one...I have a set budget of $100.00 per kid, and I shop year round for "deals" so the amount of gifts is different for all of them. When you have 4 grandkids and 3 kids and the spouses it is important to shop year round. *LOL*

I would imgaine for those camping out some of them want them for the game itself, the others want them to place on e-bay.

Mine is a plain old fashioned Christmas tree, the ornaments are generally the old fashioned blown with lots o glitter, I have noticed that I am leaning more toward trees and santas. I like to have the typical red, green and gold round ornaments as filler and the rest as the focal points. I usually purchase the collectable ornaments (Radko, Waterford, Polenaise, etc) then use the others as fillers. I try to buy one a year after they go on sale the day after Christmas, I've quite a nice collection now. Oh and while back I was in Marshalls and they had some of last years Waterford ornaments marked at $7.99, normally they were $75.00!!! I was a happy camper. By Waterford, I don't mean the crystal ornaments, I'm talking about the hand blown old fashioned ones.

I would love to, however the nearest Kohl's is 150 miles from me, there isn't a Kohl's one in the state of Louisiana.

Good I'm glad she was happy with her gifts and on top of that you get brownie points!!! Way to go, you're a good hubby!!!

When I was younger; before sunscreen I was in the sun most of my young life, we spent every weekend at the lake, so sunburns were just part of summer. I have pigmentation changes that are quite prominent on my face, BE covers it without my face looking like I have a mask on, I don't have to use a lot to get it to cover. Try an introductory kit first and see if it works for you!!

I don't know how good it is but I just purchased a Linksys G at Circuit City for $69.99 with the $40.00 in rebates it brings the price down to $29.99. Course I have to wait 8 weeks for the rebates, but oh well.