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Congratulations Pogiporkchop! You deserve it.

I received my ornaments today and I could not be more excited! I love them all and can't wait to put them on my tree. Thank you so much Swampbaby! http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k499/ts1852/IMG_4771.jpg As usual, I couldn't get the photo to resize. Sorry it's so big!

Academy was closed Thursday, and opened at 5:00 Friday morning. Obviously, I don't know what their total numbers for Friday looked like but judging solely on the crowd that was there at 5:00am I don't think being closed Thursday hurt them, lol.

That snowman is super cute! My tree has always been western themed. Until last year, every ornament on my tree was somehow cowboy related. I'm trying to move away from that though, so I'm adding more ornaments of all kinds.

I am mostly done. I just have to get my new train set up under the tree. I hope it works out the way I see it in my mind .

Mine are wrapped and ready to go. Just have to print the shipping label and get them out in the mail. Hopefully tomorrow.

The Walmart we went to was crowded, of course, but I was impressed with the way they managed the checkout lines. They, too, had the area roped off so you had to get in line at designated spots, then employees directed you to registers as you got to the front of your line. We were probably in line 15-20 minutes. I've seen much worse. Target was next and I was amazed how quickly we checked out there. We had never gone to this particular Target (Moore, OK) on BF, usually we go to a bigger one in Norman, OK. I do believe we will go to the Moore store from now on. Not very crowded. The movies and games were very organized. The only thing we wanted that we didn't get was the sleep tees, and they weren't gifts so no big deal. Of course, we weren't after any major hot items. After that we went to Gordmans, and again found it to not be nearly as busy as years past. And as near as I could tell, they still had plenty of every doorbuster available. Their ad was not nearly as big as usual this year. I think the craziest store we hit this year was Academy at 5:00 Friday morning. And even they weren't as bad as I've seen them in previous years.

I got most of what I was after. Looks like How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Planes Fire and Rescue will just be in store. We'll either get them or we won't, I guess.

Unfortunately, we don't know for sure what will be available online yet. But what item are you looking for?

http://www.jcpenney.com/for-the-home/kitchen-dining/small-appliances/bella-3-liter-deep-fryer-%2410-printable-mail-in-rebate/prod.jump?ppId=pp5004880571&catId=cat1004820056&deptId=dept20000011&topDim=Brand&topDimvalue=bella&dimCombo=Brand%7C&dimComboVal=bella%7C&currentDim=Brand&currentDimVal=bella&_dyncharset=UTF-8&colorizedImg=0900631B818D0A97M.tif&urlState=/for-the-home/shop-sale-clearance/black-friday-deals/bella/_/N-gm8s48Z1j8/cat.jump I think you have to get to the product from the Black Friday links on the home page. I had saved a couple items earlier and they didn't show the rebate unless I clicked from the BF deals. Hope this helps.

On the item listing, there's a link to print the mail in rebate. I just saved the .pdf just like I do the ads, and I'll print them later. I'm glad to say I'm done with Penney's and won't have to go there.

I feel totally unprepared this year! We are pretty sure we have to do Walmart first, but we don't even know which Walmart to hit. Where we've always gone was WAY too crowded last year with the early early start times. I'm trying to get as much online tonight and we'll just wing it tomorrow night. Wow, I've never "just winged" Black Friday before! ARGH! I'm not ready!!!!! LOL

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11888563&cp=2255956.2262937.13133718.12433693&parentPage=family Several of the Innotab cartridges are marked down to the 12.99. I also got the Rock Elmo for the sale price. http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11844990&minCartRedir=TRU

The video tells you that you can line up 2 hours early to get a wristband for that item.

I believe if you're logged in it automatically shows your time zone.

Of course, what I can snag online tonight will greatly impact what times I'm in what stores Thursday and Friday!

I would think most of his part of the holiday shopping season is probably already done.

Pre-Black Friday Sale - 55% off with code JOY55 I would say "site-wide", but it would not allow me to use it on a framed canvas print. I was able to use the code for the canvas print, unframed, however.

I received both of my Represent orders via USPS yesterday. Fingers crossed that everyone's come in, and they just have the wrong tracking #s listed or something!

I'm hoping to catch the xbox live card as well.

both of my orders show "out for delivery" today. I had them delivered to my office though, and I'm not there, so I can't confirm.

There are a couple movies and a game that I'm hoping to catch, so I don't have to fight the crowd for them at Walmart. I missed it when Amazon ran the Planes combo pack for 9.99 the other day.

I finally got notification of movement on my tracking numbers from Represent!

I'm going to hope they've ramped up their customer service for the holidays, and he was too new to know what he was talking about. As far as lightning deals being add-on items, it doesn't even make sense that the lightning deal would NOT override that. I hope that was just a one time glitch.