Kanyon71

My thoughts are they will have sales but they aren't going to be doing the crazy BF something for nothing stuff. I see LOTS of stuff sitting at Walmart for days after BF the past few years that can't be great for the bottom line either. Target is usually one of our stops to pick up odds and ends but not a place we start at.

Something to be said about closed with lots of malware floating out there I'm not an apple homer by any means they are just very good straight forward and do everything asked. I actually bought my wife the B&N Nook Color 2 years ago and she still uses it daily for reading books. Thought it was a MUCH better value than the iPad at the time and backed by someone in the book business. I'm thinking about the new one they are getting ready to release for her this Christmas.

She uses our first gen iPad and I have to say still not a scratch on it. These things are way tough. She also plays with my wifes phone and my phone all the time (iPhones) it's crazy how good she is at using them. I'm in the tech industry and my wife is a 1st grade teacher and play games on the iPad with our daughter that teach her letters, numbers colors and shapes. She is crazy over the Disney Jr. app. I laugh she is so young and she uses the tech better than people I know my age.

Right now it's a rumor but the rumor is it will be announced this month possibly next week along with the iPhone 5. It's going to be in the screen size range of the fire. The rumors are pretty strong. Hope it helps.

You can also wait and see what the iPad mini is going to run. It's rumored to be somewhere in the $200-$300 price range and the app store is loaded with software thats free. Our daughter uses the iPad all the time and she is MUCH younger than your little one.

I like #2 a lot and I'm not a baseball fan but the style just rings as something I would wear all year long. I agree with the bigger sizes (3X-4X) I am a big guy (especially shoulder area) and tend to wear them a little baggy. I'm even down with the color. Now I have to hope for them to be on sale here as I normally don't win and I also want one for my wife when we go shopping.

I think we should have a T-Shirt contest on when Brad is struck by sleep deprivation

My best suggestion for you is to read all the reviews you can on whatever ones you bring your list down to. Read both the good and the bad and temper both with the knowledge that some people will spew hate just because they don't like a brand and some people will go to the opposite based on their love for a brand. I look for trends in things going wrong or right and base on that. With that said it's what I'll be doing as we want a 60"+ this year to replace the toshiba we bought on BF 6+ years ago.

1. Friday or Saturday is good for me. 2. I would like to see some of the products that hit ad's reviewed, like TVs and such. I know some of them are sale only models but finding it's counterpoint in the normal world and giving some feedback would be helpful. 5. 1.5-2.5 should be good. 6. Yes when I can watch.

Nah we should do it now so some of us actually have a chance of winning lol.

Ya I've bought many deals throughout the year that I see on here. I'm always lurking here just tend to post more in the holiday season.

It seems like we blinked and summer was over. We will hopefully get some done before BF gets here but we will most likely get 90% of it done on BF then finish off the rest over the next few weeks. We ALWAYS end up out shopping for each other the last day before Christmas. We head to target she heads off one way, I head off the other way and we get all the little things we need for each other from us and from our daughter. Then we meet up after it's paid for and bagged up. We head home to different rooms and wrap. I like to call this the Craziness that is life... Better than one year many years back before I was married I had been out of town for some time working got home Christmas eve and had to do the mad dash to shop for my family. Luckily the few stores I needed where open and I had everything picked out ahead of time. I was exhausted and ready to sleep just as everyone was arriving at my families house for the celebration. Mind you this was 16-17 years ago

We normally start early but this year just haven't had the time to do it.

We will be in Wesley Chapel, FL as per usual.

I was thinking that seeing as the start times are getting earlier and earlier you could do one on how you plan to celebrate Thanksgiving at the store cooking the turkey and watching the game and having to run in while it's still on

Back: Gottadeal.com - Trample the weak hurdle the dead Front: Gottadeal.com - Black Friday Survival

I'm ready, wife is ready but I'm about 101% sure our bank account isn't. Is going to be a good holiday season though, little will be 2 by the time Christmas gets here and she will totally be into it. BF is a tradition for my wife and I she even insisted we go out the year our little one was to be born which happened a couple weeks later. Give me turkey, stuffing, football and last minute scouring of the actual local ads to see if we missed anything from the site here. It's funny I was looking at my HD on the laptop the other day and I have all the ad's stored from the past few years in directories for that year. We ARE certainly a winter holiday family. I'm hoping this year when help is needed on this site I will actually have some free time to offer up my services, always fun to be part of goings on....

I'm here all year and will stick around all year. Can I get a shirt now? LOL

One of the ads had the Apple TV on BF for $89.

It's not hard at all. I usually just do an injector with butter/garlic/salt all over the turkey. This year I may brine it first. I use a heavy duty propane fryer (nice wide base and very sturdy) that I bought from Lowes. I just drp the turkey in the pot while it's cold and empty then I run water in the pot until the turkey is just covered, I then remove the turkey from the water and I look to see what the water level is in the pot. Now once I set the fryer up I know where to fill the oil level to. Been doing it for about 4-5 years now and never had an issue or come close to the oil going over. I was skeptical the first year I did it but wow never had a more moist turkey in my life.

I don't like the midnight openings at all. Messes up my schedule. We will most likely miss out an things from anyone who does them.

To be honest I think my favorite part of Black Friday is the tradition my wife and I have built. We scrub the ads one last time thanksgiving night, go outearly , do our morning shopping, go have breakfast at Cracker Barrel, do our afternoon shopping. Head home and drop the stuff we got off, head out to place like Lowes and back to Target and Wal Mart for smaller things, then head home and have leftovers and watch a movie. I think it's far more about it being our thing every year than it is about getting good deals (though those help). I actually use my phone to check GD while we are out shopping. Looking to see what pops up, checking ad scans to make sure we are getting the best deals or to see who may have an item we are looking at in one store cheaper. Gotta love technology.

Our dinner will most be close to the following: Fried Turkey Honeybaked Ham Mashed Potatoes Gravy Sweet Potato Casserole Cranberry Jello Stuff (From the can lol) Rolls Green Bean Casserole Pumpkin Pie Chocolate Pie Pecan Pie Chess Pie (Possibly) Last year we did a brunch for family that had to go to their others sides familys house for dinner it was: Maple Brown Sugar French Toast Casserole Hashbrown Casserole Thick Cut Bacon Sausage Links Needless to say dinner was LATE last year. After dinner we sat around and planned out our BF shopping (my wife was about 2 weeks from having our first daughter) so my mother in law and I did most of the running while my brother in law kept my wife safe :) Good times

St. Leo isn't far from where I live at all. The first year they opened a new shopping center here it was nice, nothing in there was very busy. Got to BestBuy and the line was all of 15-20 people deep. Waited for the doors to open walked in nice and calm. Got everything we wanted. Since then it's a tad more packed though.

We will be in Wesley Chapel FL and New Tampa FL shopping this year as we usually are.