Kanyon71

I was in the Tampa area for 16 years. SOME years we would have to put on a pair of sweats over the shorts and maybe a hoodie for a little while then usually by the time the sun was up that all had to come off so we didn't end up with heat stroke lol. This year I think my wife's going to be asking me WHY did I want to move north

Wow what load of garbage. I guess they are trying to make up for all of the people dropping print editions of news. We usually go out and buy the paper for Black Friday since we stopped delivery a long time ago.

I'm waiting for the call to arms for BF workers to go up here. That tells me we are nearing that time

Usually as soon as the Christmas stations hit Sat radio my wife has them tuned in

I would be down for the hoodie and sweats also. We are in the cold this year and will be my first BF in 16 years that I will be outside in the cold instead of the horrid heat in FL lol. Just make sure you remember us FLUFFY people with sizes

I will have to keep trying it out. I could deal with it at that price. Thanks for the info.

Did you get that on special? Say's $450 right now. At $250 would be a steal and something I might think about picking up. I use a Mac Air but sometimes I need Windows and something WAY smaller than my work laptop would be nice.

I said it last year and will say it again the only way I can. I won't go out to the stores on Thanksgiving and give them my money. I will order what I can online and get the rest at my normal insane hours of the morning on Friday lol.

I watched the ones back in July on Lifetime I think it was. We were on vacation in the mountains so when I had nothing I wanted to do I would crash on the couch and watch them lol NEVER too early for a Christmas movie. This year I won't get to start watching the ones we have early as everything is in storage until the new house is done which isn't probably until Thanksgiving or so

Well to be honest it made my shopping day a little easier. I have come to the realization that I will never again get a door buster that you have to be in store for. Though we still got everything else that we wanted last year and the stores were a lot less busy than they have been in the years past. We went out at our normal time and pretty much walked in and got what we wanted and the things I wanted to make sure we didn't miss out on we got online on Thanksgiving when they went live and had them delivered. I did miss the hustle and bustle that we normally had but all in all we kept out tradition alive. This year we have relocated so we will have to find new places to do our shopping and eat.

Ain't no party like a Black Friday Party

It's crazy how fast mid-september seems to be getting here. I could swear the other day it was just the start of June

I'm hoping our new house is done and we are settled in. Right now it might be cutting it close which would suck. Oh well if I don't get to go out I guess I will be helping around here all the more lol.

Will be fun trying to figure out where to shop this year. Not to mention freezing our butts off. Moving back to MI, I've been in FL 16 years now so a lot of the places I used to shop there are no longer around lol.

Looks like it's going to be a new TV year this year. We are moving out of state at the end of this month and I'm not taking my plasma with us. SO we will be getting a new TV on BF. I'm hoping for some killer deals on 70"+

I tell you I was majorly bummed. I was like now we need to find a REAL hobby shop so I can bask in all of it's glory lol. We were out of town at this time so looking for one proved fruitless. We have normally already started but this year we are moving long distance at the end of July and we don't want extras to pack so we haven't bought anything yet. Hope to get started once we get into the new house.

I avoid Hobby Lobby. They tricked me with their name. My wife asked me one day if I wanted to go to Hobby Lobby. I was like R/C Cars, Planes, Trains and so on HECK YA I'M ALL IN. We get there and I'm like what the heck is this, it's Michaels with a different name. Now don't get me wrong stores like this are just fine but don't get my hopes all up and then shoot me down. Now I don't go there with her unless she is reminded that it's not a hobby store in MY eyes.

We are all going to blink and it will be here. Funny thing is someone brought it up yesterday. My wife and I are re-locating to MI in August and yesterday my MIL said so what are we going to do for Black Friday. We said come to MI and we will go lol.

Don't know if anyone is in the market but Woot has Gemmy inflatable on their sellout site right now. I just bought the animated Snowman Popcorn Cart for $40 http://sellout.woot.com/plus/gemmy-airblown-christmas-inflatables-3

Sweet now we can start planning REALLY early and no one has to ask when the forum will open.

Still have a couple stocking stuffers to pick up today, flat out slipped my mind. Will run to Walgreens in a little while. Have a little cleaning in the kitchen to do then just start preparing the meal and we are good. Merry Christmas all

I was able to get through to MyRedCard online. Was very slow but worked fine. I don't think this is just about the target cc and debit card I think this is any card, a lot of the reports I've seen said they are sending data to banks to match up with their systems for people that have been hurt. So to me this means if you used anything OTHER than cash and possibly gift cards you need to watch your account. I used my one that goes against my bank account but I've seen nothing so far. I have a feeling anyone affected will now be getting new cards. To me this sounds more than just someone grabbing a DB it actually sounds like another scam I've heard going on where people are hacking firmware for card readers and having the actual terminal you're using do the skimming of the needed information. This has been happening around the US for some time now. To me this just screams of insider people from these terminal vendors I remember reading that there was a ring busted for doing this to Barne's n Nobel. I've had some ideas on how to stop a lot of this but they are only half formed (well except the ones that require a band of ninjas )

We finished off a couple more people over the last couple of days. Will finish another tonight. I have all except stocking stuffer's and maybe some footie pj's for my wife. As for wrapped we have nothing really wrapped except the stuff my wife took to work for her angel tree child. All 4 of the trees are now decorated all the inside of the house is decorated except a couple things that keep falling for some reason. Santa is in the yard and some outside lights are up. Getting closer but it's been so hectic at home and work lately it seems it's still going to be some last minute things popping up.

Not done shopping yet and nothing is wrapped. Hoping to have that all done this weekend. Need to get some presents sent back home for family also so they aren't late.

We ordered from Wal Mart, Target, Amazon, Toy's R Us and everything has arrived. If you got no emails or anything it sounds like your order never actually made it into the system.