Kanyon71

To me the difference is that I can do it at any time of the morning/afternoon/day/night and not have to leave my house and family for hours and hours. I can put something in a shopping cart on my smart phone and checkout in minutes if need be. I am still with my family still talking to them, still being present and so forth. Now there are many people who like to work the holidays for many reasons some as stated above more pay, but there are also many places that force their workers to be there or will not allow any vacation time during this part of the year. To each their own on it and yes maybe I'm a hypocrite because I watch TV and football on those days.

Pine Cones and Holly Berries

It's funny how in the same instance someone can trash our faith in humanity then someone else comes along and restores it. Whacky whacky world we live in.

I will use a CC, affords me more protection on my purchases. I don't like having to get them replaced with the breaches but for now at least it's a fact of life. Hopefully with the new breed of CC's coming out things will get better. I'm not a big cash person, just as dangerous if someone really wants it, pick pockets, thieves and people being mugged for it. Not to mention can't pay with cash on the websites where it happens just as often lol.

This is any different than any other day at Wal Mart?

Santa Claus is Coming To Town

In the past it's been my wife, my mil and myself. This year since we are in another state it will be my wife and myself, MAYBE my sister and her husband.

We normally go into it with 2 different laptops, we split what we want from each store and both go at it. Reduces the amount of time it takes to get that order in. I usually have the CC numbers prepped (sometimes ready to be cut and pasted into place to speed up the checkout time. Using this method we have been pretty successful at getting what we want. If the order from a store is small then the other will take another store. We know to do it in smaller lots not try and put everything in the cart at some time (some don't show up till the last minute) and then checkout.

It will depend on when we get in our new house but usually we start right around Thanksgiving. Real tree will come early December but most everything else is Thanksgiving.

I remember going out with my grandmother and mom when I was younger so it's been more years than I want to admit lol. I know I have been doing it at least the past 17+ years on my own lol.

It was probably the person in the store who was arranging everything so only they could get what they wanted Once they got their stuff hidden they snuck off to hide and take a nap until the locksmith got there and they "opened", at which point they slipped out into the crowd and then went to their hiding spot to gather up their bounty and go pay for it.

Got my daughter hooked on it last year. She will start asking about it soon. We have the whole collection on DVD with Rudolph, Santa and Frosty. Childhood favorites of both mine and my wife's.

We bought a few things online the last few days for our daughter. Some of it has already arrived. The season is NOW ON.

I think it's the thrill of the hunt for me, the tradition of it all. To be out there to do the things we have done year after year, yes we get some online but to be honest I LOVE that feeling when you find that BluRay box set of your favorite show that someone hid inside of a microwave to come back for later on and yes this has been something we have done along with a door buster GPS hidden behind cameras and a few other things. HAHA we rule at B.F. hide and seek

Ours was a higher end item. 50" Toshiba Plasma TV back in 06. The TV was in BestBuy for around $2600 on sale most of the year, B.F. it was a DoorBuster and we got it for $1499 with free delivery and setup. 0 problems with the TV to this day, when we relocated from FL to MI in July we gave it to my inlaws to replace their failing DLP (that was purchased a few months before ours and was on it's 3rd bulb). They are still enjoying it now and to be honest I really don't see that changing anytime soon.

Photo 1: MAN I can't belive so many people showed up for the Buy 1 SPAM Get 1 FREE sale. Photo 2: (Queens We are the champions playing in background) YAAAAAAAA I told you all it's a Marathon NOT a RACE. Now why am I here again? Photo 3: (crying into her hands) I can't believe we slept here for 3 days, waded through 1000's of people and those flippin GottaDeal.com People still got my Doorbuster!!!!!!!

Not bad but nothing really jumping out at me.

Never camped out and can't say I ever would. I enjoy the time with family and friends far too much. We just get up stupid early to go out lol.

At least the list of people I have to try and beat out has shrunk some lol

We usually have our normal Christmas Eve get together, then my wife daughter and I open our Christmas PJ's make some hot chocolate, load into the car and drive around looking at lights in the neighborhoods. Our little one (now 3 will be 4 by Christmas this year) usually falls asleep in the car. When we are done looking at the lights we drive home and get her in bed and get ready for Santa to show up. We have been trying to read her a Christmas story before we go out looking at lights also. Christmas day we have been doing a brunch for immediate family with French Toast Casserole, Hash brown casserole and bacon. This year may change things some since it will be our first year living up north (I was born and raised here but moved to FL 16 years ago, wife and daughter are born and raised in FL) though we plan to keep as much of the traditions as possible.

Best Buy and Toys R Us.

Yes indeed we do. Hoping this year to get a great deal on a 65"-70" TV for the new house We also pick up movies and things for ourselves and usually the box set for sitcoms we watch.

Half Price Books 10/10

Unless they have changed Alienware is usually only sold online. They are very high end and usually you order to your specs. I'm not sure about great sales but I have seen sales on their web pages just don't remember the time of year.

We usually look at things all year long. This year we moved states so we ended up only picking up a couple of things. We do a lot on BF though and then finish up all the smaller things between then and Christmas.