Kanyon71

I'll be here all year, have been from the first time I found this site forward.

I usually end up getting stuff for my employees at Sams. They always have these gift set where there are 3-4 sets in a package. Sometimes they are cookies or candies in a mug sometime coffee or tea's they are usually pretty nice and work out under $10 a person.

Just saw it also when I logged into my RedCard. Cool.

i5 or i7 are good processors. For the most part you want a Quad core or higher nowadays. i3 is the low end Intel CPU and Dual Core isn't horrid but may be slow in some gaming.

Too funny actually bought 3 of those TomToms that year for various family members

The way that I look at a lot of things is EVERY brand out there has issues and people who hate them for one reason or another. Every brand will have things that are bad when you get them, go bad days/weeks months after you get them or will die after your warranty is out. No way around it. I always tell my friends do you homework on MANY sites and especially on sites that specialize in the type of thing you're looking to buy and take the good and bad reviews then draw your own decision after that. I have a Toshiba plasma I bought on BF 6-7 years ago now and I love it (still to this day am having a hard time finding a reason to replace it). I go for the extended warranty on the lesser brands (Dynex/Sansui/Westinghouse/etc) as they tend to use cheaper electronics inside even then I have 2 Dynex LCD tv's in my house and 1 of them replaced another Dynex when it died. Sometimes it's just a crap shoot on what you're going to get no matter the company or the price point.

I pretty sure running and jumping are required for Black Friday especially in places like Walmart

If you have a spare room you could put up all your stuff in there and then forbid them to enter the room during the holiday season. Explain to them that even though the holiday seems to lack importance to them it still holds a great deal for you. If they would like to celebrate the holiday with you then suggest that THEY move things to the place they belong and if not tell them that their presents are at the store when they care to go buy them for themselves.

I know last year and most likely again this year we shopped less. I won't give up my Thanksgiving in any part to head out to the stores. We still got up early and headed out to the stores but all the crowds had died down and the door buster sales had long since been gone and to be honest I was ok with that. Made our shopping much smoother and no mass stupidity out there.

What differences between the Nook HD+ and the Kindle? I didn't think there was much of a price difference but I'm also not big into tabs so I can't say for sure.

You know the Nook HD and Nook HD+ are both the competition for the Fire? I bought my wife a Nook Color when it came out, this year I'm buying her the HD+ to replace it. Was going iPad Mini until the price came out then that changed my mind for me.

Yes and with the Nook lines you can always lend out digital books to people.

I thought the old saying was Make Love Not War

65" 3D Plasma, not sure Santa has room in the Sleigh though

Awesome, thanks much for posting. I so could have lived back in those days I love seeing the old holiday stuff.

I think it's the traditions that we have come up with over the years, the early mornings, the breatfast at crackerbarrel the going him to nap at some point then putting everything away.

I won't say what I call them. I don't want to offend anyone here who may do that.

We usually decorate the inside the weekend of Thanksgiving. Then the outside within the next week or so. Weather isn't a factor here unless it's so hot out that it doesn't feel anything like Christmas to me and then I don't do it because it needs to be cool/cold out lol.

My biggest is with MS devices like that are horrible track record in support and the cost is way too high in my opinion. I've not messed with their new OS for phones and the tablet much but my first impressions of it aren't great. I'm NOT a fan of Win8 so that could be why. Outside of that I use MS products every day at home and at work and have had an Xbox and the X360 since shortly after they came out and love them so when they put their mind to it they do hardware well sometimes just takes them a while to GET IT and get going. When they release something new like this I always say unless you REALLY want it then take a wait and see approach. That could be said for many companies though lol

My wife was telling me yesterday she was looking at toys in Target I think it was and they had not just a play vacuum but it was a DYSON toy vacuum. I found this funny

We usually do anywhere from 3PM to 6PM depending on how long some things take.

We try and send them every year. Some years we have more luck in doing so than others.

You can look at their site I would expect them to release the lineup and channels they will be on in the next couple of weeks. I seem to recall them being all over the place as lesomom said they replace other channels I think some of them are in the lower portion of the spectrum.

Our daughter will be 2 in December and has used an iPad for many many months now. She watches Disney Jr, play educational games and can fully utilize it with usually 0 help from either of us. She is using a first gen iPad and I can't see buying her a new one for a long time. We will be getting her a new case for it soon that's meant for children but she will use this one until it's no longer useful or bites the dust then we will see whats out at that point.

No need if I was wrong it wouldn't have been the first nor likely the last time. I still think $329 is too high.