dsewell311

God bless the internet! I was able to get most everything online before we set out this morning which was fantastic since I live about an hour from the nearest BB. Oldnavy.com: some jeans, a sweater for me and fleeces for the kiddo, wasn't able to get the cashmere sweaters (I assume they had sold out online quickly) No big deal, wanted to go try my luck at getting a free mp3 player anyway. (no luck) but did grab two cashmere sweaters for the wife at the store. Bestbuy.com: picked up a few Wii games that my TRU did not have in stock during the B2G1 sale that I wanted and also the Envision 22" monitor. (already recieved a shipment email to boot) Walmart.com: I hear everyone else in the nation had empty walmarts, which was not the case in Alabama.. the parking lot at the closest one to my house was FULL @ 4:30 when we left. All the better since I order a step 2 desk I was going to get anyway to ship site-to-store and picked up some sopranos seasons for my F-I-L for $20 each. Went to Kay-Bee and got the B2G1 fisher price toys (Little people A to Z farm, Easy internet launchpad and a backyardigans guitar which will give my 2yo something for us to "play" guitar hero together with) :) Got the $10 bonus bucks for spending over $50 so I'm going to use that to get her the Barney character for the easy link. By far the best deal of the day I found was at Bed Bath and Beyond. They had a 10 pc. Emerilware set for $200 and gave a cast iron griddle and 7" chef's knife (all of which are things we wanted to get anyway) with a $200 purchase but also let me use a 20% off coupon after including the "gifts" so got all the for $160 bucks. My wife also found a bedding set she loved on clearance for $160 so it was $127 with the 20% off.

My experience with WM was a little different than any of the others I've heard so far. This was not last year, but two years ago when they had the $378 hp laptop. Someone in Electronics lined everyone up around 1 a.m. (granted I'd been there since 11 p.m. and by that point those of us who were waiting for the laptop had pretty much organized ourselves) and made a list of 25 for each of the laptops they had in stock. We were told if we wanted the laptop we would have to pay for it in layaway, and would not be able to "line-up" for any of the other big ticket items. There was some dissent from a few people who felt they should've been able to get a laptop even though they were late arriving (comparatively speaking), but on the whole it was a pretty good solution in my mind. They also did this for whatever big TV they had that year, which kept one person from buying everything available. Side note, there was one really ticked off man who was screaming at the store manager about how could all the laptops be sold already if the sale started at 5 a.m. which I overheard as I was leaving. She responded that had he really wanted one he should've came to the store and waited since midnight or earlier like everyone else. I thought that was pretty cool.