rockpzazz

Hope everyone had a safe and Happy New Year. I didn't do much because a supposed winter storm was approaching (plus I don't go out NYE), but luckily a little dusting of snow was all we got.

The year is ending on a mixed note for me, but I'm still alive, and that's all I can ask for. Found out I had to upgrade my phone, but relieved to find out that tracfone was going to pay for it, so I'm moving into the 21st century. Goodbye flip phone, hello Samsung. It's actually for my mom, but she's won't learn to use it, so I'll likely use it more than her. At least she's willing to try to learn it. For a woman who's never used a computer, she's been more open to use technology lately. She learned to used an old Nook Color, and I just bought her a tablet, which is pretty similar to her new phone, so she might get use out of them after all. Need to get new tires for the car, but at least we'll still be able to go places, but still sucks to have an unexpected expense. Oh well, gotta try to stay positive, and move into 2022. Happy New Year everyone.

It's a bit weird being December 1st and the weather is on the verge of 70 degrees. I'm not one that likes cold weather much, but for some reason I am anticipating the first snowfall of the year.

I don't think I'll go there, but it won't be BF without looking at the Menard's Ad.

I see a few deals there, I'm not sure if I'll buy anything, but I have been looking for external hard drives.

This looks like a pretty decent ad. I don't know what all I'm looking for, but if I had a bit more cash I'd likely consider a few of the sale items.

I forgot to post they I got my shirt yesterday, I was surprised how fast it came. I was even more surprised that it fit me better than I expected (I picked a smaller size on accident). The shirt is a lot nicer in hand that I expected, the light gray is really nice.

While I didn't post as many diatribes this last year, I will return for another year, hopefully I'll have more wordy posts. Can't wait for another exciting year.

Congratulations stina629 on the gift card win, and everyone else on the t-shirt win. As always, there were so many great submissions.

True Navy Heather Royal Blue Heather All look nice though, except the Shadow Gray seems a bit boring.

I miss having a little more money to spend on shopping. As money got tighter, its prevented me from splurging as much, but also prevented me from traveling to stores in person which I enjoyed a lot. Even if I had more money to spend, I'm not sure if I'd go to stores as much. All I really have locally is Walmart and Dollar General, which I still check out, but if I want to go to more stores its an hour or so away, and I don't want to fight the traffic. The last fun year I had going to a bunch of stores was I think the last year Circuit City was open. I think the reason I enjoyed it so much was because I got to hang out with my best friend, it was like a tradition. Those are the memories I miss.

Photo #1: Overheard old-timer- "I miss the old Black Friday sales. I haven't seen one fist fight yet." Upon hearing this a kid replied "Fist Fight? You want it on DVD or Blu-Ray." Photo #2: Even crouching near this wall I feel like I have a target on my back. Photo #3: Little did they know, the Funko's were not Gamestop exclusives.

Can't say I'm excited about the Walmart+ getting early access, but then again, I didn't really see anything of interest. I don't have much of a list this year so maybe that's part of it.

My two favorite deals I've gotten were years apart. My latest was a couple years ago getting the laptop I'm still currently using. My old one messed up and I needed a new one and was hoping for a good deal. I was able to snag one from Best Buy and I'm so glad I did. My other favorite deal was around 2004. I bought a VHS/DVD recorder at Walmart. It was my first big purchase after having my job and it felt exciting to get a big item and feel the rush of beating other shoppers to get it. It was the first or second year I went shopping on Black Friday and was lucky to snag one after working an overnight shift. I enjoyed it so much it became an annual tradition that I got every Black Friday off. I told my boss that I would gladly work both Christmas and Thanksgiving just to have Black Friday and New Years Eve/Day off. Working in fast food New Years Day was always the worst, and we never had family gathers on the actual holidays, so it was a win win. Since then not too many traditions have stuck around as I no longer have a steady income and family members have passed on. It was a bit fun last year to spend Black Friday decorating for Christmas for the first time in years (besides minimal decorations previous years, with no family around, it just didn't feel like I needed to decorate). I found all our decorations we still had (after surviving a move and tossing some), and decided I would decorate the small apartment the best I could. My mom was quite excited to see we still had so many decorations, and going forward, I hope to continue it as a new tradition. I plan to start decorating right after another yearly tradition on Black Friday- watching the B/W 1947 version of Miracle on 34th Street.

I can't wait for the month to be over, I can only take so much of the same 7 movies played over and over. If it wasn't for The Simpsons, I wouldn't even watch Freeform this month, but its good to have background noise in the evenings. I hope their Christmas schedule is a little less repetitive. You would think with such a big library they could play more random stuff.

I can't think of any big items, but I wouldn't mind finding some PS4 games cheap since my bil gifted me his old one earlier this year. Also wouldn't mind finding a good deal on a Tracfone for my mom. She has to upgrade soon and being a penny pincher and not tech savvy, she's looking for the right kind.

Congratulations to all the winners!

I received my nice little package today too. I was quite deLIGHTed once I saw it.

I disagree, but I hold no ill will. If the Chiefs don't win it all this year (I'm having my doubts), I would be more than happy to see Buffalo winning it all.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08N38WQSH/ref=twister_B09F7TGV1H?_encoding=UTF8&th=1 I would get this for my mom. She's not computer savvy (never touched a computer) but somehow got her to use an old Nook my sister had but its old. She won't ever get on the internet, so a bookreader would be better than a tablet for her.

Congrats to all the winners, there were some awesome haikus.

Man I wish I could go back in time and get all the ads from previous years so they could be rescanned for the site. Even better would be going back and finder even older ones.

Time to get out the Halloween decorations! Though to be honest I never cared about decorating for Halloween, but I did get my skeleton from storage to put on the patio. Betting than keeping the skeleton in the closet. Also brought home an old kitchen table to work on puzzles as the temperatures start to fall. I think back to previous Black Fridays and how I'd sit at the same table looking at all the ads. Today I can't remember the last time I bought a newspaper (Black Friday or not). My local newspaper was just sold and changes hands today (thank goodness Gannett no longer owns them), so hopefully it starts to get better. Have a Happy Halloween month everyone and its time to start getting excited for Black Friday if you haven't yet!

I'm not sure which one I like more, so I'll post both: raindrops on kittens don't appeal to me as much as Black Friday deals though, I think I like this one better: Reminiscing on the archive site of deals past what did I buy then?

The weather is always weird around here in the Fall. It was starting to top off in the upper 70's and low 80's then BOOM! a few days of 90 plus weather followed by rain and cooling off again. I don't mind too much though since it will be cool enough to start getting holiday decorations from storage and bringing home a kitchen table to be used to work on puzzles. Speaking of puzzles, I wonder if puzzles ever get any love in Black Friday sales, I don't seem to remember any, but I didn't puzzle as much in the past.