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90% Off Tacoma and Federal Way Found a 52" snowman for outside for 7.99 at Tacoma, left a couple of snowmen and a couple deer Both Tacoma and Federal Way had trees Lots of bows, ornaments and whatnot at both. Tacoma has a nice endcap of Hannukah wrap and supplies - the silver bags with embossed stars look good for birthdays to me. Federal Way had Hazelnut Bodycology sets on an endcap in beauty - no marking - no clearance - nothing Scanned at .99 It's two items, in a plastic package, with a PINK ribbon. Looks very Valentine's to me!

Penney's has some cute things on clearance. I bought a musical snowglobe there this morning, started out at 29.99, I paid 9.99. They have some ornaments and other things similarly discounted.

Our walmart is 75% off Christmas. I toured yesterday. Didn't see a thing I wanted. My daughter did buy some Gingerbread flavored marshmallows. She liked them, but all I can say is But I don't even like regular marshmallows, so to each his own.

My son is 11. He loooooves Nerf guns. They're annoying, but harmless. He has a paper jamz guitar, which he likes. He gave one to a friend at a birthday party and it was a big hit. I'm sure he'd love a marshmallow shooter too, although I'm not sure I would! He got an electronics snap together electronic set last year from Radio Shack, which was kind of cool.

Bed Bath & Beyond has the Fushigi. They're 19.99, but if you have a $5 off coupon from one of their sale flyers it's 14.99.

Amazon is a pain. I bought Halo a week ago for 48. They won't price adjust, so I have to repurchase at 29.99 and return the 48. For $18, well, closer to $16 after shipping I'll do it, but it's kind of stupid that they won't price adjust.

Whoo-hoo! Survived Walmart. Showed up at a 24 hour Walmart before 9. There were a few other people obviously scoping things out, but not many, and nothing serious. Found the Rockband display...cheated a little.. stuffed one in my cart. My dd was with me and if I hadn't cheated she would have camped and grabbed one anyway. Grabbed a dvd and went and hid out in the garden department for a couple of hours where the other toys I was after were on display. I never would have guessed garden department but I enlisted the help of one of the employees and she was kind enough to walk around peeking under black wrapped pallets with me, and when we couldn't find it, she found another employee who told us where it was. Somehow we wound up near the power wheels. We promised a grandmother we'd run interference for her and help her grab her gds number one wish, a power wheel. When that section started looking ominous about 10:30 the manager told everyone they could take what they wanted but couldn't check out until midnight. We did our good deed for the day and helped load the power wheel and took off, grabbing a nerf gun on the way out. Got the comforter set I was hoping for. Picked up a couple ds games and a dvd and headed over to the checkouts, where we waited for an hour, but we were first in line. Ran over to Old Navy, where I didn't realize you had to get a wristband to get a game, but we had such a great experience at Walmart that it was all good. Walmart employees were cheerful, helpful, and while it got a little pushy in electronics, nobody punched anyone, at least not that I saw!

A Ped Egg.Younger daughter wanted one because her older sister has a phobia about other people's dead skin. The Pedegg thing shaves dead skin off your feet. Or a snuggie. Younger daughter also has a leopard print snuggie. Not sure why. Her sister has no phobias about snuggies. A cast iron pancake puff pan. Son was entranced by that idea one year. Or how about a slap chop. We've escaped that one, but it has an amazingly annoying commercial.

The 250 gig Halo bundle was 389 at Costco. I can't swear to it, but I THINK it included Halo Reach and an extra Halo controller. I passed on it because ds wants the Kinect.

I've tried using a cart on Black Friday, but particularly in places like Walmart or Target it's impossible. I think I'm going to suck it up and go to Walmart, and I can't imagine I'll be able to maneuver a cart through that store. So how do you carry things? Just pile it on and try to balance? I've done that, and it's not that easy! I wish I had a big mesh bag like they have in IKEA to just toss things in and roar through the store. Anyone have a great strategy to solve this problem?

I only found one 250 gig kinect bundle at Gamestop. I found some 4 gig bundles - Target, Fred Meyer and possibly Walmart all had them on Sunday in the Puget Sound/South King County (Seattle) area. Costco had Halo 250 gig bundles. But I only found one kinect 250 bundle. There may be more, I dunno. When I found one left at Gamestop I grabbed it and stopped looking.

I think the 4 gig bundle might be easier to find. I found a couple at Fred Meyer, saw someone at Walmart buying one, and when dh called Target they had some. But ds is twitching at the thought of Halo, and that 4 gig looks like it would fill up awfully fast. So I don't know how available things really are, but I had a tough time finding the 250 gig bundle. They might get more available later, but I don't want to stand in line at 4 a.m. somewhere hoping for a ticket. I did that for the Wii one year. It wound up working out well, but I'd rather just buy it and be done with it.

I don't know if just the XBox360 by itself will be a hot seller, but the 250 gig XBox/Kinect bundle is already sold out online. You can buy it through Amazon for $50 extra from some places I never heard of, or there are some on ebay. I toured Costco, Walmart, Target and Fred Meyer today and finally found ONE at Gamestop. I don't know if stores will be getting more in, but it's not that easy to find now.

The library thing can be a pain to set up, but it works very well and easily once it is set up. Check out your local library website, but for ours you had to download Adobe Digital Editions (free) to your computer. It was supposed to do a popup and recognize the nook, but it didn't. After websearching endlessly I changed some permission and the popup came up and it recognized the nook. Then I couldn't figure out how to move books from my computer to the nook. You just drag the title over on top of the word NOOK. I'm sure that's all obvious to many, but none of it was for me and the directions to do this were nonexistent. But it's extremely easy, at least at our library, to check out ebooks once it's set up. I might have given up setting it up, but checking out books from t he library was the reason I BOUGHT the thing, so I was not about to give up.

Wii is fun with a lot of family friendly games. XBox is more game-y type games. We have Wii, my son wants XBox so he can play Halo and some of the other games the kids at school talk about. The Kinect looks fun. I just picked up a Xbox/Kinect bundle for christmas today. If you do decide to get that particular bundle, I'd buy it now. They're already sold out online. You have a choice between 4 gig and 250gig for the XBox. I went ahead and got th 250. Supposedly not all games will play on the 4, and it gets filled up quickly.

Dh and I decided to buy the 250 Xbox Kinect bundle a couple of weeks ago. Took a look today and it's sold out everywhere I looked online. Toured Costco, Walmart, Fred Meyer - only found a couple of 4 gig bundles at Fred Meyer. Finally found ONE 250 gig bundle left at GameStop. Could be they'll restock everything in a couple of weeks, but if you're after that bundle and you happen to see it, I'd buy it now.

Check out your local library. If you own a Nook or a Sony EReader you can check out books to either online with our library. You can't use a Kindle with our library system. I have a Nook, and I love it.

After refreshing 10 bazillion times, adding and dropping things, watching the prices go down, go up, go down, go up, I FINALLY managed to get a stupid Creepy Crawly Bug Maker, a couple of light sabers and a Rubik's 360 at the sale price. I lost a little of the savings by paying shipping, but at least I didn't have to go fight the crowds. I did have a refill for the bug maker in the cart, but it dumped that AFTER I paid for it. Out of Stock.

Both of my parents and my inlaws have passed on. I've gotten some weird, tacky gifts that we giggled over in private, but honestly I wish any of them were around to give me a wacky gift. It's kind of goofy, but I love Christmas, and I couldn't help love even the dumbest gifts when I thought of the person who gave them to me.

Do they sing? What songs? I saw some on ebay, one looked like it had a Lowes sticker on it, but I'm probably too late because I didn't find any at Lowes. Thanks!!

Went to two Hallmark stores in western washington, one was a Gold Crown. The Gold Crown was still 50%, the other was 60%.

2 stores 75% and 1 was 90% south sound, western washington. Very weird, I've never seen them not all go at one time! The 90% was stocked to the rafters with Christmas stuff, but it was spread out all over the store. The aisle of gift wrap, and it was an entire aisle, was clear over in the car care department, which might be why they have so much of it all left! Best items I found were a 5 foot snowman for 9.99, a 5 foot spiral outdoor christmas tree for 2.99, and some baskets that were 1.67 at 90% off in the decor department.

I picked up a couple of animated musical things from 75% off at Target. I have a Rudolph, whose nose glows, head turns, he says a couple phrases in a Rudolph voice then he sings part of Rudolph the red nosed reindeer. He came with a stuffed "bonus" doll, although I saw this Rudolph with a bonus spotted elephant too. I also bought a Bumble snowman thing, same packaging, he says or growls or something or other a couple of things, waves a star and sings "Holly Jolly Christmas". He came with a small "bonus" stuffed Rudolph. What other, if any, of these were available? My daughter seems convinced that there must have been a Herbie. I didn't buy any of it until 75% off, in fact I didn't even look - so I have no idea. TIA!!

I'm glad they called it a GIRL cupcake maker. My nine year old son would have gone wild over the idea if it had been packaged differently.

Haven't seen this one before. Picked up a 20 piece set of silverware - pattern is Alpine something or other, possibly Alpine Lace. (sorry, threw out the box) The box is white with a couple of snowflakes. Started out at 49, it's 75% off now for 12.XX Silverware doesn't look Christmas-y to me. Solid handles that are crosshatched, almost a pineapple type pattern.