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#1 Neither rain, nor snow, nor death of the night, can keep us from our duty......getting great deals!! #2 Hey you all warm? Temps are great in here :-) #3 Must. Stay. Awake.

I'm officially excited for Christmas now! I needed a 'big' ad to be released!

#1 An electric fence in disguise will assure that people heed the warning "NO LINE JUMPING" #2 Surrounded by the comforts of home, John Doe giggles at the thought of selling his PS3 on ebay for quadruple the price!!!! #3 I am armed with a tazer.....be nice, I repeat BE NICE!

Oh,Black Friday Joys stand in line to get the toys For our girls and boys!

We wrap ours and then hide them in our empty luggage in the closet/attic. Larger things are in the garage under my husbands work bench with tarps, tools and random 'garage things' on top.

Wow! A contest entry along with lots of great recipes: Our favorite Christmas cookies are M&M meringue cookes. 2 egg whites 1/2 cup granulated sugar pinch of cream of tarter 3/4 cup holiday m&m's With room temp. egg whites beat and cream of tarter until foamy SLOWLY add sugar beating until stiff peaks form GENTLY Fold in M&M's Drop onto greased cookie sheet Bake at 250 for 25-30 minutes. Yield 1-2 dozen Can't wait to start chrismas baking!!!

My DD6 has chapstick on her list. My ds3 wants yellow stuff. LOL

WOW! What a Black Friday. 1 hr of sleep, at walmart at 3am, shop and out by 5:15, target by 545, out of target by 630, acmoore(craft store), breakfast, kmart, gamestop, target#2, walmart #2 and home! Whew, Now I"m off for a nap!

I agree with you Illinoismom, I believe we had this same debate last year or the year before. Please don't let it get to you, its very easy to judge when you have no clue about other or their reasons for layaway. For me, it saved me time. I put everyones presents on layaway at 1 time, didn't have to run from store to store, everything was nice and convenient in one place. Oh well, things change, nothing I say will or will not bring it back.

1. South Pole 2 Manger/crib 3. Margaret Hamilton 4. The Ames Brothers 5. Neiman Marcus 6. Sugar Plums

1. No 2. Receives a marzipan 3. Sled 4. snowman 5. in the shower 6. The House without a Christmas

Scapple is just as its name suggests...the SCRAPS of meat made into bricks/loaves. I live in Lancaster County PA, the heart of Amish Country and my family eats this stuff up. I personally HATE it! My parents always made it as part of our 'special' Christmas breakfast. http://www.accidentalhedonist.com/index.php/2005/02/06/fear_thy_name_is_scrapple Sorry, didn't see the the other answers to what is scrapple before I posted! My apologies!

Yes I have always had a pt job as a pharmacy tech, but I have just started as an Usborne Book consultant and hope to use any extra cash I make at that straight to Christmas shopping funds. :-)

Now that Labor day is over, I'm officially in Black Friday Mode!!! YAY!! The planning and mapping is some of the best parts for me!

I work only 2- evenings per week Friday is not one of those, so I always have the whole day off. Dh takes a vacation day every year so that he can watch the kids.

Me too! Usually we start at Ephrata Walmart and then head to target in Reading and go from there.

I posted about this last year I was so proud. Last year at walmart, my best friend and I scoped out the door busters we want, perched ourselves at the roped off area and when they let us shop we grabbed the 5 things we wanted between us and headed to the check-out. The time on our receipt said 5:03am woohoo!

Hi All! My name is Heather, I am from Pennsylvania. I have a DS 3, DD 5 and a DSD 10. I have been married to my husband for 7 years and I LOVE TO SHOP! BF is my olympics but I visit GD throughout the year to get the good online deals and to see what other good deals have been found. Hope to chat more soon!

I agree with Brad, Sept is early enough for me. Brad, I say enjoy your summer and worry about us BFers after Labor Day. We'll be here, waiting anxiously! Although, I must admit, my stomach did a flip when I happened to see the BF notice when I logged onto GD this morning ;-)

ahh finished! DD4 RAN to bed after coming home this evening and we were finished, breakfast casserole in the fridge before 10. ds2 and dsd9 went to bed easily too! I am so excited for tommorow1

i am sitting here trying to get tickets for tonight's show...so far no luck!

I was going to ask if he teaches husband classes!

My opinion may differ here however, Christmas gifts are not ones I would see as a reward. If you normally go all out for Christmas, go all out. BUT...receiving Christmas gifts is one thing, keeping them is another. Once he receives those gifts they are his, if he earns the right to keep them. I would enclose a nice note with his Christmas gifts, telling him that he is loved and that is why he is receiving whatever the gifts are you chose to give him. But if his bad behavior continues they will one by one be taken away. If his behavior is not changed to earn them back, the next step would be to sell them on ebay. That is my opinion. In summary, treat this Christmas as normal, with the very clear possibility that those things can be gone in a minute.

I'm going to keep trying too! Thanks for the hope, our show is Dec 17th and I have been trying daily since oct.

My best friend and I got to walmart about 330am, took our position by the rope (superwalmart, wait inside ) Between the 2 of us we needed a bratz fashion doll (hers, i don't buy those ugly things) 2 littlest pet shops and a dvd player. Anyway, we were directly in the middle of those items. When the rope dropped, she ran to the bratz, I grabbed an LPS for each of us and then the dvd player. We went straight to the checkout. The time on our reciept said 5:03am so we grabbed our good and paid in 3 MINUTES!!!! It was great. Our walmart is always the most organized and easiest store to manuever on BF...Other days, not so sure!