Kanyon71

Here is my first one: Line: Howard, I'm of the mind set you can never do too much to make a child's Christmas magical.

I have it bookmarked and check back throughout the year to see when they update the schedule.

I wish all would follow this announcement of CLOSED Thursday

Could do something where you pull a line from a Christmas movie and people have to figure out which movie it is and who said the line.

There you go. Need to record that one this year.

I went to change mine today and it won't let me put a new one in. I removed the old one and it still won't take the new one. Not sure whats up.

Some of our favorites in no particular order. Elf The Santa Clause A Christmas Story Rudolph The Red Nosed Renideer Frosty The Snow Man Christmas Vacation Home Alone The Polar Express How the Grinch Stole Christmas (both orig and newer) Charlie Brown Christmas Jingle All The Way Muppet Christmas Carol It's A Wonderful Life Christmas With The Kranks Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Bad Santa We also watch a lot of the Lifetime and Hallmark ones. One of the ones I really liked the name escapes me is one with Tony Danza where he is a thief and works in a small town during the holidays to case the town. Was a good movie.

I set a couple to record on TiVo last night from the Wishlist (as well as some Halloween things from that wishlist). Need to unpack all of our videos so I can find all of my Christmas ones. I'm always into Christmas shows. We actually have a lot of winter and Christmas themed artwork (most still packed right now) that we're going to put up when we finish the bonus room off. I hope to be able to start working on that this winter but I also need to work on finishing the basement so I can build out my office down there lol. Even at my age I still LOVE the original Rudolph and Frosty claymations. A couple of years ago my wife bought the set for me.

I'm getting in that mood. I have a Christmas wishlist on my TiVo's so I have been going in lately and setting some shows to record Can't wait to start watching lol. I ALWAYS have A Christmas Story and National Lampoons Christmas Vacation on disc and those are ones that get watched year round.

We take almost no cash with us ever (just not fond of having to deal with it) we normally have a credit card we use and then it's paid off right away (or fairly close when we have those no interest offers then I may stretch it out a little.

Yes it usually is one

I avoid Kohl's like the plague. It's the one place where I will let my wife head in there and I will stay in the car. FAR too many people in there and they tend to annoy me. So it's best for all involved lol.

Ready for it to kick off

Len, I have heard they are going to stop selling the Fire Phone. Has been a HUGE sales letdown for them. I read an article that it has caused them to look again at many gadgets they have coming out. So with all the stock they have left you might be able to get a great deal on one. Just not sure what support is going to be for it though. I agree the $67 only for new is annoying. I wonder what their description of new is. Is it that you have never subscribed before? I use it for the free shipping we have WAY more than paid for it with that in the past couple of years. Last year we did all of our out of state Christmas shopping on Amazon and that alone covered the cost. Then with all the added shipping we got while buying stuff for our house was a bonus. Free is good and it being 2 day and free makes it even better, many times when I search Prime is one of the check boxes I tick off

If you have a Sam's club membership or know someone who does they usually have good deals on gift cards. Like $50 for $39.95 on a lot of them. We buy them for restaurants we like, picking up one for Buca this weekend $100 for $79.95. $20 instant savings and then we have a coupon on top of it

If he has hobbies you could get Gift Cards for places that sell things for those, like if he is into Hunting or Camping you can do Bass Pro Shops or Dicks or places like that, if into Games you can do Game Stop, into Models or R/C you can do local Hobby Shops. Also you can break up the food ones like you were saying based on the type they are.

Hmmm, didn't know people were holding back. Seems to me people seem to be spending more freely lately. I guess time will tell though

I can't believe how far down Kmart has gone. They need to build some new nice stores, lay them out well and rebuild their image. If not I don't see them being around much longer.

I think Apple is playing a lot of catch up right now. They should have added the app store YEARS ago. Going to be some decent features on it but nothing no one else has right now. I will most likely check it out at some point just because I love tech but I will wait until they come to the conclusion that the price is too high just as they did before.

First ad will be Harbor Freight probably on 10/12 lol

I think a lot of people look at specs of something and go oh that's not the latest buzzword bingo spec I keep hearing about so it must be garbage. In 06 we bought a Toshiba 50" Plasma 720P (or 1080i) TV and the ONLY reason I don't have it right now is we moved 1300 miles away and I was worried about it getting broken so I gave it to my in-laws who still use it and it still has an awesome picture. I have a 70" and 42" Vizio in our house now and some of the first things I did was search the net for good picture settings. Got the TV setup and tuned right and they both have awesome pictures.

To me it's kind of odd, there are so many reasons to have Prime for us as a family that I can't imagine some eh deals really being the swaying decision. The 2 day Prime Shipping has WAY more than paid for our membership the past few years alone.

Ya the deals always make it fun and are what usually hook people. Now we usually have very specific things we want but we still go all out for the tradition and the fun of it all more than the pure money savings aspect. With us both having families in different states we end up doing a lot more online through like Amazon so that we don't have to worry about a ton of shipping but we would never miss the fun of going out and shopping. Ya people seem to take this stuff WAY too seriously, luckily I am not a small person and I don't always look very pleasant when people start to get on my nerves so the majority of the people around usually don't try stuff with me or those with me lol. One year my wife had a HORRIBLE headache and we thought we were going to miss out but I told her let's go back home (we had been in line from about 1AM waiting for Best buy to open) and she thought I would be bummed. I told her that her feeling better was more important than a deal on a TV. So we went home and she went to sleep, woke up about 5AM and her headache was gone. So she wanted to head back out. Got to Best Buy, got in and still ended up getting what we wanted so it was a double win.

Usually some deals out there for them, though I see far more of the full home theater sound systems than just the bars and subs. I watch Woot a lot and they seem to get a bunch as the season approaches and leaves.

It really depends on what you want to do. ChromeOS is a cloud type OS will not run MS applications or games and such. It's meant to be more like the old netbooks where they aren't powerful just inexpensive. In my VERY limited dealing with it I wasn't super impressed but they have been around a while so I guess they have a place