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I am anxiously awaiting the one I won... but if I have to choose.. I'd rather have the ads

When I first started Black Friday shopping, the earliest opening time was Walmart at 6 am in our town. My husband and I had just met and having both been single parents prior, we had limited finances and 5 kids total ages 10 and under. I would send the oldest to her dad's and take the little ones (1, 3, 4, and 6) with me in their PJ's. I put them all in a cart together and I kept one hand on the cart at all times. I didn't brave any area that there was a lot of fighting, etc and I told many many fibs about who I was buying things for (large family) and that if they wanted one they could ask Santa. We just could not find a sitter for that many and if we found one we wouldn't have been able to afford the sitter. Never did I put them in a dangerous situation and when they were a couple years older, my husband had a job where he was home when I left to shop so I no longer had to take them. This allowed me to pull my sister into the mix and she and I now shop in a bigger town with more choices at crazier hours. Also, I wouldn't take a little one to a new store that you haven't checked out on BF a prior year. The town we go to I would have no problem taking a child to the JCPenney, the Kmart, or even the Walmart... but I would not take any child to Target.. saw an arrest last year as well as a ton of pushing/shoving.. plus it's VERY cold and you do have to wait outside for a long time. But you can kind of judge what the crowd will be like based on past history of a store as well as what is in the ad for them if you've done this for more than a year or so. So I think that each person needs to decide based on their kids' willingness and ability to be up at those hours, the weather, etc. However I currently have 4 and 8 year old grandchildren and I wouldn't take either of them shopping on Black Friday. First they "want" everything, they will whine if they walk too far, and in general are not good shopping companions for anything longer than 20-30 minutes. Of course, my teenage boys are almost as bad if they have to shop too long so they will stay home and babysit their nieces in exchange for a delivered pizza for lunch... If anyone in my area needs a sitter... both my boys love kids and will work for food... lol

I can't win but my favorite thing is getting to spend the day with my sister with no kids! We so rarely get that time and I look forward to our annual "date".

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Harbor Freight Oct 20

Low Fat / Sugar Free Pumpkin Muffins (makes 20 small muffins) - 78 calories each and 1 gm of fat each 3 eggs 2 cups splenda 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce 1 can (15oz) of 100% pure pumpkin 1 1/4 cup fat free milk 1 1/2 tsp salt 1 1/4 tsp baking powder 3/4 tsp baking soda 3 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp nutmeg 2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour Mix first 3 ingredients in blender until smooth and creamy. Then add the pumpkin and milk until all mixed. Add all dry ingredients and mix until lumps are gone and it's all mixed together good. Put in muffin tins and bake at 350 for about 20 min until done.

#1 These umbrellas aren't really blocking the bright lights from the sign at all... how do they expect us to get any sleep while we wait?!?! #2 Ok, guys on the count of 3 I will open this door... and then we run.. ready... 1.... 2.... HEY SLOW DOWN!!!!! #3 The doorbuster deals were fake.. but America's Most Wanted has made another arrest

I got the 30% in the mail today. The code is SAVENSUMMER

They are safe and so is the diet... but as freesia39 says, it definitely should be done under doctor's care. Most side effects are simply from something else going on in your body and changing your nutrition without correcting any underlying causes. Other side effects are from not using the drops in the correct manner. And yes, as dealdiva says, eating only 500 calories a day you are going to lose weight. No way around it. HOWEVER, the difference is that the hCG targets the body's stored fat cells and introduces them into the blood stream as fuel. Therefore making a person feel as though they are "full" with only the 500 calories. But it's not like you can go have a cheeseburger or fries for the 500 and call it a day. There is a strict list of foods to choose from and you have to make the appropriate choices from each of the types allowed. This is to make sure your body has the correct nutrition while eating the VLC diet. Plus heavy exercise is discouraged on the diet because you are not eating enough to fuel muscles for workouts, etc. So perhaps this is a great way to jumpstart weight loss when someone feels they are just too heavy to be able to move and start getting the weight off on their own. For myself, the choices on the 500 calorie diet are just not acceptable to me long term. So I have chosen a different route and have been very successful in losing almost 60 pounds in 4 months. The biggest advantage to me with choosing to eat right, eat correct portions, and exercise is that our family can all eat right together, including the kids. Only one meal to cook each time we eat instead of one for them and one for me. Plus we are exercising and moving and being active as a family and that's what it's all about for me. Enjoying my family and life. :) Good luck to all trying to lose weight, whether it's hCG or any other diet plan. :)

TY OP.... I was all done shopping but for 4.00 each Santa can bring one more to each of my grandbabies :)

Best Buy... only because there is none close enough to me .... of course if there were one close and something I wanted bad enough I would probably cave in and join the madness....

It started moving very slowly for me.... I kept my fingers crossed and was surprised when the order confirmation popped up. My hubby was trying from work also and it crashed on him too.

I got the mixer for 90% off and can pick it up at my local store tomorrow morning for free shipping too!!!!

In the past I have always done the tree on Thanksgiving and let the kids decorate it while we were out shopping on Black Friday. Last year I wanted to get a new tree on BF... which I did... but at the same time we became so overly busy at work that we started working OT and Saturdays and I was so tired we never got the first decoration put on the tree and no nutcrackers... bare tree and stockings.. that was it... so I have felt cheated ever since.... In case we get swamped again this year... I am not taking chances... so this past weekend I cleaned and cleaned the house good and gonna put everything up this coming weekend so that I have 2 whole months to enjoy them ... I know what the family will say.. .and you know what I don't even care

Up until last year, the other manager and myself always did something nice for every staff member and each other. The other manager would get $20 gc each.. and I would spend 5-10 each and they would get something 20+ in value..... they seemed to enjoy it.. they would take up $10 each in donations and split this in g/c for both of us... We never felt they had to do this and told them it was appreciated but they shouldn't feel obligated. Last year, the lady that was always put in charge of doing the g/c retired... and so another lady that never liked her basically came to us and said "ok.. so and so isn't here and we aren't doing things her way anymore so we all discussed it and please don't buy us anything so we don't feel obligated to donate money for the two of you".... we told them that we never felt they needed to do that and they were adamant they wanted NOTHING from us... so we did exactly that.. then several of them were upset... seems we can't win... So this year... I am gonna make some homemade candies... and just put them in little tins I have leftover and drop one off at each person's cubicle with no name as to who they are from, etc... simply it will be small and not much, but maybe it will stop the ones that are upset from getting nothing, but respectful to those that didn't want us to spend $$ on them. Also, in May I was given the opportunity to go to the other office on the West Coast... spending that time getting to know the folks out there makes me want to do something for them also so I think I am going to do a very large tin full of candy/cookies/etc and send it out to them to put in their break room at work... and send a smaller tin to each of the new owners' homes for them and their families to enjoy to let them know that we are thinking of them and appreciate the new opportunities they have given us over the past year.... That way.. it's just the "oh, she loves to cook" thing and no one feels obligated to return the effort of homemade goodies :) Or so I hope...