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A take off on “the price is right”/”let’s make a deal” – savy savers unite!!!! 1. Participants are chosen by those who have found the greatest useable deals via internet or general shopping (free stickers or pens do not count)– they must stand in line and present their awesome items as well as proof of receipt – bonus points to those who have posted this wonderful deal and helped others to obtain the same 2. Game #1 – Don’t break the bank – contestants are given a piggy bank containing $50, they must make purchases to gift 5 people and have only 15 minutes to do so via internet, as they spend their piggy bank money it is removed from the piggy bank total (don’t go below $50 in your bank or it will be crushed with the gavel of bankruptcy) – bonuses are extra money put into your piggy bank for free gift cards w/ purchases that are received – the contestant with the most money left and the most items with the greatest retail value will win this game – they may choose to keep these items or exchange for the credit card behind curtain #1 that may have a government tax stimulus check, or it may have a disgruntled cashier who will over charge you. 3. Game #2 –OOPS! Free or Almost Free Speedy Purchase– This game will be played via the internet - Great OOPS! deals are listed for various sites – contestants must purchase these free or almost free oops! deals that the sites have before their managers realize the mistake and either take the deal off of their site or cancel their order. Phone calls to these sites will be allowed to complain and try to get the deal as was stated on the website (but beware – you may be faced with a not so nice customer service rep who puts you on hold, you cannot move onto the next deal on the list until you have completed or cancelled the current deal). You will only have 20 minutes to complete as many of these OOPS! Deals as you can before they are gone. Winner of course is the one who saves the most amount of money and actually has their items shipped (not canceled). 4. Game #3 – Black Friday Hit and Miss – These contestants will have no sleep for 24hours – they must wait in line in horrible weather conditions and try to keep line jumpers from getting in front of them by taunts or physical confrontation (but beware there are cops lurking, only present physical confrontation when the cops backs are turned or you’ll owe the court money, if you leave the line to go pee you will need to go to the back of the line, peeing in line is not permitted and those contestants who do so will be removed from the game)– once the store door opens and the crowd starts running and pushing, the contestants must find the advertised item hidden somewhere on a shelf within the store – bombarded by kicks, hits, and screaming idiots, they must keep ahold of the item they snatched from the shelf and make their way through the checkout line in record time. Once through checkout – they are told of another item in the store that they “forgot” to get. The contestants must crawl over the already swarming crowd and “steal” the item from a huge guy named Bubba Billy Bob who is a professional wrestler. The goal of this game is to not get thumped by Bubba and get your items to your car safely and in record time. Winner will also receive a bottle of Tylenol (for advertising purposes of course) 5. Grand Prize Game – the last 2 contestants will compete in the final challenge – Bah Humbug – In this game 10 members of the contestants extended family (including their step brother’s aunt’s mother in law’s sister) will need to receive a gift that they like. You may shop via internet or in store. You must buy each member of your family a gift with a retail value of at least $40. The goal is to save the most amount of money. But there is a catch – when giving your gift to your family member – they must LIKE it (no regifting allowed!)– or you have to go back and return it. If you win your family gets to keep all the gifts and you get to keep your hair (as the losers hair would have been pulled out form the stress of the returns.) As a bonus you will be able to guess the total savings of 100’s of items purchased by a master gottadeal shopper behind Curtain #2. If you guess within 5% of the total savings of these items – you win them all!!! But if you don’t guess enough you will be forced to participate in the game yet another time. BAH HUMBUG!!

forgot to include - there are alot of generic accessories and speaker docks you can get at 5below or the dollar tree's. They are compatible with most as they come adapters. But I will add that ipod accessories are so much more easier to find.

I missed the 30gb zune at TRU last year but snatched one from Dell the very next day for $90 and free shipping. I am now looking for another MP3 for DD this year. I am not picky about the maker but I'm looking for one that is at least 30gb and will download movies. The Zen is also a voice recorder (great for college). Which ever is the best deal for the most gb's is what Im lookin for. Dell also has refurbished ones that also come with the warranty for those lookin for something a tad cheaper. Also Buy (dot) com sometimes has some good deals.

I found some at the Family Dollar store. Double sets of pets with accessories for $5. Tubes of 3 pets for $5. And some singles for $2. I saw some serious sales for these on Craigslist also. Depends on your area though I guess.

I only go if there are MAJOR deals. I skipped last year as there wasn't anything worth standing inline for 2 hours. I take as many people as I can and we split up at different stores (great if you all want the same item) and I agree that electronics go the fastest. Sometimes we will "scope" out the stores the day before to find out where exactly the sale items will be placed. Toys R Us and KB Toys "rope off the whole store" like a maze and it can take you a few hours after they open to just get through, so I'd loose out going any other place. The Kmart in my area gave out $40 gift cards to the first 50 in line. If you know someone who works for the store, sometimes they have a site just for employees to order their BF items. I heard CVS is doing that this year cause shoppers complained of the workers buying everything up. Not sure if you could get anything off the sites. We got BF deals from KBToys site for the "early prices" after standing in line all day one year and the store was sold out of everything. Not sure if they still do it. Most poeple are jerks and run you over, don't say thankyou, ect. But I found that at our Walmart last year(because the lines to the toys were the whole way across the store) the ones closest to the piles would holler if anyone wanted a particular item and we'd pass it back. Also one year Circut City had great deals on TV's (one per customer) we got one for each of our 4 kids by letting each one go in and pay for their own. Kmart one year walk down the line of poeple and handed them redemption tickets (if someone wanted it) for the big sale items so you could go get other things and still get what you stood in line for in the first place.