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Congrats winners! And a HUGE congrats to vkoslowski0419!!

It's started!!! **There's a skip in just about every song, but it's started.

About 10 minutes before you posted here (according to the time stamps), a notice came up in Discord that you had joined. Were you able to get in? If not, maybe try a "forgot password" or something with your email address?

If it were me, I'd probably pay the extra $4 and get the newer one. I don't know how much different the speaker is, but in general the technology will be a little newer.

What a great way to start November! I've loved this thread all year. I hope it wasn't too much trouble, and you'll do it again .

I know I've already asked you all to do this, but please check the lists. I don't want to miss anyone, or sign anyone up for something they don't want to participate in . Great participation this year! I'm so excited!!!

We never go to Kohl's on BF, but I've never had trouble with online shopping there.

This is how I would feel, and then I would end up buying WAY too much because I would decide to put all that together and make 1 gift, and still have to run out and buy other stuff. Of course, there were a couple years when they were little that I would literally go to Walmart in the middle of the night, the night before Christmas Eve, because when I got out their stuff it didn't look like "enough". I have a problem. LOL

My kids generally would only tell me 1 or 2 things they wanted, then I filled in the rest with other stuff I thought they would like. They figured out pretty early that if they kept their list short, they would probably get whatever was on it, LOL.

Tomorrow!!! On another note, I wonder why some of these stations start so late in December.

'Tis the last official day to sign up. I won't get the names out until Saturday, so stragglers will have a couple extra days but if you're already here, PLEASE DON'T WAIT. The last couple years, I've been able to switch things around and allow late comers, but it does cause some confusion. I especially only want to send out 1 cards list this year. (Having said all that, I hate the thought of anyone missing out so I guess we'll just see how it goes).

Amazon is the worst about this! Which really stinks, because I use Amazon to price check other companies. I don't have anyone to price check Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CDSX3Z5/?coliid=I3IMGA4DWLTW2J&colid=3VHLSFABL98MP&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it&th=1 Spyro Reignited Trilogy. My son(23) just asked for this.

I just said something similar over on Discord, but I would like to know the financial ramifications to the company of letting the ads be leaked. I feel like they wasted money having their lawyers draw up the letter.

It has. We also have 1 more committed (just hasn't had time to get her info in), and if the last 2 years are any indication we'll have 2 or 3 that come in after the deadline.

I was in the Christmas aisle at Walmart the other day and saw a bag of slime you put gift cards in.

I've used the Walmart pay twice now. It's not as bad as I thought. LOL. Actually, I had to run in the other night for 1 thing. I grabbed it, went through the self check, used Walmart Pay and was out the door. I wondered why I had been so resistant, it was the easiest thing ever.

I'm not sure about downloading content to watch offline with DirecTV, but I think I remember you can do that. Also, you can rent movies from Amazon, and download those to a tablet. Once you start a rented movie, I think you have 48 hours to finish it. You can do that with a Kindle, or with any tablet you can put the Amazon video app on.

Trading Places. I love that movie. I keep trying to get my kids to watch it (they're grown), but I can't pin them down. "How can I stop him sir, when I don't know which way is Connecticut?!?"

Funny story... I am making cookies with royal icing for my niece's baby shower in a couple weeks. Since I've never made royal icing, I made a practice run over the weekend. My son comes in while I'm baking, I turn around and he has a mouth full of cookie. I said "Seriously? You have no idea what i'm baking these for, you don't know if I needed a certain number of cookies, what if I hadn't had enough for you to start eating them??" Him: "what? I thought they were Christmas cookies." Me: "It's OCTOBER!" Him: "SO? You start celebrating Christmas in JULY!!!". He kinda had me there (but seriously, I don't start making Christmas cookies this early. LOL).

https://www.amazon.com/KitchenAid-KHB2351CU-3-Speed-Hand-Blender/dp/B005MMNBBQ/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1540908765&sr=8-6&keywords=emulsifier Immersion blender. My daughter just added this to her wish list.

It doesn't need to be an even number, since the names are disbursed and not just traded straight across. But I'll add you to the ornament list, if you want!

We've officially exceeded the last 2 years SS participants. There are still a couple days left if anyone else wants to join. Those of you that have signed up, I don't want to sound like a nag but please check the lists and make sure I have them right .

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-eGift-Card-Christmas-Sweets/dp/B01LZM1BC8/ref=sr_1_4?s=gift-cards&ie=UTF8&qid=1540823585&sr=1-4&keywords=amazon+gift+cards Amazon gift cards. For the person that loves to read. Or the person that has everything else .

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074V9JZND/?coliid=I26YKQN8J8W7KL&colid=1IBN745DE5ZG5&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it Russian piping tips set, for the person that loves to bake and decorate