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We go there every year. We were actually there 2 weeks ago. Love it. Downtown Frankenmuth has lots of nice little shops. Ofcourse, there is Zehnder's chicken dinners also. I joined their birthday club a few years ago. Basically on my receipt every year is a coupon for $10.00 off $50.00 at Bronners. I do not know if everyone gets that or if it is hooked to the birthday club. I know the free ornament is hooked to your birthday club. We tend to hit just a few stores in River's Place. Basically the Tervis store, the Yankee Candle store and the Sugar High Bakery. The owner of the bakery was one of the winners of Cupcake Wars on The Food Network. Birch Run is an awesome outlet mall. Definitely make some time for that also. It is just a few miles down the road. If you should happen to stop at Tony's to eat, be careful of ordering anything with bacon. You basically get a pound of bacon with it! This place was featured on Diners, Drive Inn and Dives or one of those shows like that. Enjoy your trip. We might try to get back up there before Christmas this year.

I have always found these at Wal Mart.

Good God I would never walk into Toys R Us. 2 years ago we were at Jcpenny's and Toys r us is right across the street the line and all the people looked like an angry mob out of one of those pictures where the mob has pitch forks and torches... LOLZ :eyepoppin I did that ONCE, never again. Luckily kids are all grown now so I don't have to worry about the toy store.

I usually put mine up the weekend before Thanksgiving and then light it on Thanksgiving nite.

I also think she is talking about amex/MC/Visa cards. Check with your bank and see if they charge a fee for those. I know my bank does not charge a fee if you have an account with them.

Mine was in plastic with a bill for $6.99 I think. I will probably subscribe, I do enjoy it.

They also had the Christmas trees in the pots marked down to $26.00. Not sure what the regular price was I just saw them moving them to the front of the store. Seems like someone on Gottadeal was looking for those, but darn if I can remember who.

I hit the outlet store in Lodi Ohio tonite hoping to find some of the gylcerin soaps there yet. No luck they didn't have any either. I did find the soft socks for $1.99 though, so I've officially started my 09 Christmas shopping.

Lorain County Ohio-Very very windy with windchills of -10 degress. Luckily we did not get the 1" of snow they were calling for. An inch of snow is not alot but with these winds we would have visability problems. Step daughter is flying in from Texas today hopefully no issues!

Our Hallmark at the Midway Mall in Elyria Ohio is closing January 24th. This sign just went up within the past week:( Just another sign of the times! Hopefully some good deals though.

This also brings me to my next point. For my friend that Im helping try to find his son a computer for college, the one I recommended the Staples computer to above, the Circuit City one is great if you dont mind sacrificing the 250GB HD and getting the 160GB one. Of course you wouldnt get the free printer either than. So yea, Id say for you, being that you said you needed a printer...and really wanted the 250GB....the staples one is still for you. Hey thanks for all of your help. I did get the one at Staples and my son is in the process of setting it all up now. I did purchase the 2007 office and ended up getting it for $59.00. I didn't think that was a bad deal at all. It had some rebates with it, plus and extra $20.00 off with the purchase of a computer. We got there ten minutes before they opened and they sold three of them right away and one lady bought the $499 computer they had. That 10 minutes of waiting time sure was much better than the 4-5 hours I wasted at Wal Mart on Black Friday for a computer they didn't even have. I couldn't of found this without your help so thank you very much:)

Hey thanks for the Staples lead. I did not get that ad today. I think I will wake my son and we will go check it out. We are going to need a printer also, so all in all not too bad of a deal! I will let you know how we make out.

I guess I am torn between the 160 and the 250. I don't exactly know what he will need college wise. I guess I figure that more is better:) But that drains the battery life correct? I do not have an Office Depot around me though.

Drat, I missed Lebron, my son would of loved that one.

Thank you very much for the awsome advise. If you see anything appropriate, I would really appreciate it if you could let me know. We have a brick and mortar, Staples, Office Max, Best Buy, Wal Mart and Target with a 1/2 hour away. He does store music on his computer, uses the internet, will need office 07 (I don't know that any computer comes pre-loaded with that anymore) He does watch movies online from Netflix. Wireless capablity. I didn't even think about the weight, that was a really good point. The lighter the beter to haul across campus. He will need ample storage and speed. I was not happy with Wal Mart. In fact, I sent them an e-mail today. I have not yet heard anything back from them yet. Luckily our Wal Mart is a 24 hour store, so I did not have to stand outside. I had called the store on Thursday to see how many they had and ofcourse, they don't know how many of what they received. Maybe I am niave, I would of thought they would of received at least a few of them and being third in line I thought it was a sure thing. The two people in front of me wanted the X-boxes. I did go back later in the day just to make sure maybe they missed putting them out. Once again, thanks for the wonderful advise and if you see any amazing deals, let me know in case I miss them. You did give me some guidelines as to what to look for!:)