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I finished all my wrapping last night, woohoo! Earliest I've ever been done. The 2 or 3 things I'm still waiting in can be wrapped quickly when they come in, and I can go ahead and start clearing out my son's room. Today I need to start the buckeyes. My recipe makes about 14 dozen, so it takes me a couple days to get them all done.

Oh no, I am so sorry to hear that. Here's big hugs to you!

I'm actually in fairly good shape I think for once! I still would like to find 2 people "one more thing", but not a big deal if not. Other than that, all gifts are planned. For purchases, I need to buy 4 or 5 more gift cards. And 1 more gift that I can't make a decision on, because it's something I know nothing about and I'm afraid I'm not getting the right thing. But that needs to get ordered today or tomorrow no matter what. It can be exchanged if needed. I placed a couple of orders this week, so I'm waiting on 6 deliveries, plus the one still to be ordered. They are all expected by Monday though, so I should be okay. And if not, they are mostly sheets and bedding, so that will be fine. I am actually doing pretty great on wrapping for a change! Everything is wrapped except for my daughter's family, which I hope to make progress on today. Their gifts get taken to them, so I usually don't put them under my tree. And so I put those off til last. I am using my son's room for storing and wrapping, but he's coming home from school Monday, so I need to get that all "wrapped up" and cleaned up! I haven't much planned my baking or candy making. I always make buckeyes, So I have everything for that. I need to start that tomorrow. And I have ingredients for basic sugar and chocolate chip cookies, plus cool whip cookies. I'd like to do fudge and maybe marshmallows, but we'll see. We usually have the week before Christmas off, but this year we work through Wednesday, so I'll have only Thursday to bake. If I don't go to my daughter's that day. If so... then I guess I'm baking Christmas eve!

So, we are under 10 days to Christmas now. How are we doing? Are you spending the rest if the time in bliss sipping hot cocoa and watching the lights? Or are you still in the list making stage? Lists finished? Purchases made? Purchases received? Gifts wrapped? Baking/candy making planned or started? Let's stress together!

I wanted to bring this back up, as tomorrow is listed as the deadline for Priority and First-Class Mail. And I've seen a few stores with deadlines this week.

Congratulations to HanShotFirst!!

Great deal! We have this exact chair and it's VERY nice.

I did see a little sliver of a smile before he said "I'm going to plug up now..." So at least there's that.

How exciting, congrats!

They actually went up again to $25.50, so $10.25 is about 60% off. The $8.95 price is 60% off $22.50, so they kept the percentage the same.

Awww... thank you!

Omg y'all, can I please be done ordering consoles and related items?? So far I've gotten Halo Xbox pre-order for son (that shipped to my old address!!), Xbox for husband (that I had to drive 1 1/2 hours for, and I'm terrified of interstate travel in Atlanta), PS5 for other son, and 2 Xbox mini fridges (2 days, 2 targets). Then mama decides she needs to look for a PS5 for niece. She's stressed, and stressed my step-dad, to where he asked us (in front of my son!) how we got our PS5. So son knows now he's getting one. Sigh. So this morning after refreshing my cart for 39 minutes while also getting dressed and going to work (husband drives), I was able to get the PS5 for niece. Whew! I feel like I need a reward.

I feel this in my soul.

I've been checking Amazon every day since Thanksgiving for the bean bag chair my son wants to hopefully go down. I even checked a couple times this morning, so I was about ready to give up and pay regular price. Tonight I checked one more time, and it had gone down by $50, hooray! Plus, I redeemed Bing points for $150 in Amazon cards, so it ended up being $25. That's $200 savings.

That is amazing.

I found out Wednesday night that some Targets had gotten in the Xbox mini fridge. So I went out this morning for that, as all my other shopping had been online. I didn't get up and out there until 10:30, and they still had one. Hooray! So that is my big exciting buy. The parking lot was pretty full, but inside wasn't very crowded, I've been in busier Saturdays. Had to only wait on one person at checkout. This evening about 6 my husband had to go pick up an order at Best Buy. He said the target parking lot was a nightmare, it was very crowded inside, and there were 15 people in line at electronics. Best Buy also had a pretty long line, but he said the associates were going through picking out the people picking up orders, so it didn't take too long.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I've been dragging my heels, and didn't ace my first order until late last night! Then I started adding more things, and got up first thing this morning and shopped some more on the super deals. I will do some more in a bit, but I need to do some other stuff first. I finally feel like I'm being productive with my shopping though, yay. And I have no ideas yet what I'll spend the kohls cash on, except some converse. But I'll for sure need more than that!

Looks like the sale has started.

My husband wants me to upgrade my phone (Galaxy Z-Flip) Mine is 1 1/2 years old but there is a new version out, and that is driving him crazy. This ad has a good deal on it and the Z-Fold (which we just got from Tmobile last week. )

Right now I have a couple lego sets in my cart. We'll see what else I come across. Nothing else is standing out yet though. The PS Plus is digital only, so I ordered a card from Best Buy for the same price. I did buy an Apple watch this morning for my MIL and shipped it to SIL so she can wrap it and do setup and support. I think I got the best side of that deal! I wish they had a Wondershop promo like they have in the past. Sadness. Maybe next week.

Yarn! B2G1 yay And I feel left out in all these crafty ads not being into the Cricut stuff. But I sure don't need another craft!

Oh yay, my favorite loopy blanket yarn will be on sale! Hooray! Not that I need any more yarn, but... you never know when you need to make a blanket!

I am thankful we were able to move this year. Several people I know have been trying to find a house and haven't been able to. We are in a better area, have a house we love, but also we were able to pay off all our credit cards so our monthly bills are much smaller now. That is a big relief and makes a lot of things easier.

Good to know, thank you!