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    Black Friday Printer advice

    in 2015

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    I don't do very much printing but she wanted something that she could use to print from her iPad and Surface Pro wirelessly, so we recently bought an HP Envy 5660 at Best Buy for $89. My old printer still worked (an HP 810c inkjet that is 12 years old!) but we needed wireless printing.  We can even email documents to it to be printed.  Can automatically print double-sided. Very pleased with it so far.

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    Anyone used the "Grab Bag" advertised on TV? (now with review!)

    in Deal Finder & Deal Discussion

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    My wife's interested to know if anyone has used these and how they liked them. She has a bunch of reusable shopping bags but none of them can be closed or stand up in her SUV and she would like those features. Our driveway is on a slope and it's not uncommon for stuff to want to fly out as soon as she opens the tailgate.

     

    Here's what I'm talking about: https://www.grabbag.com/

     

    Update: we've used the bags three times. They are light and fold down pretty small when not in use . The material seems to be nylon. Handles are sturdy nylon webbing and reinforced with extra stitching. There is a thin cardboard bottom inside the bag that helps it stay upright. It does hold a lot of groceries. I'd say you could get 4 or 5 plastic grocery bags of stuff inside one (weight permitting). There is a flap that can be folded over the top and secured to the side with Velcro to seal it.

     

    They are not machine washable but can be wiped down. I would avoid putting raw meat in one unless it was inside another bag as it would be kind of tough to give the inside a good scrub down, and you wouldn't want to get the cardboard bottom saturated.

     

    They have plastic handles that hook over the sides of the shopping cart to hold the bag open in your cart if you want to, but I don't see the need unless you wanted to put two in your cart and keep stuff separated for some reason.

     

    They do great at staying upright in back of the SUV when parked on a slope and that's the problem we wanted it to solve. We'll see how long they hold up.

     

    Super Saturday

    in 2014

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    I wasn't shopping but the traffic on the main road where all the shopping is was terrible, and a local TV station had a segment on the news about the madhouse crowds this weekend.

    Charity for the holidays?

    in 2014

    Posted

    Our church collects gifts for single moms at a local homeless shelter, then we deliver them with cookies and have a short Christmas program with music and singing. It's tough because we have a lot of people who would cheerfully buy really nice (=big) toys - but due to their living circumstances the gifts need to be physically small. We also bump up our giving at Christmas.

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    Is there going to be a list of items you can buy now at bf prices?

    in 2014

    Posted

    Here's Brad's comment on this topic from another similar thread...

     

    There is no way to 100% know what items will be online and which won't. I don't think there's ever been a major (WM, BB, Target, etc...) store that has put 100% of their ad items online at the sale price. There's always some that are out of stock or the prices never change.

     

    Then there will be items marked as in-store only in the ads that will end up online too. You just have to be online when the sale goes live and take your chances. We'll have the schedule up in less than a week. You can also check the forum archives to see when online sales started in previous years and which stores people found the most items at.

     

    Edit: continue discussion here: http://forums.gottadeal.com/topic/237416-in-this-thread-your-online-black-friday-shopping-questions-answered/

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