Kanyon71

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

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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.

I would go to the store and look at them undecorated, look for something that looks full. I bought my large one about 7-8 years ago from Sears 3-4 weeks before christmas. I got a really good deal as it was one of the last ones. I can't tell you who it's by anymore since the box died a couple years ago. NOW the bad of mine is that it's over 9' tall and at the base it's MUCH larger than the tree skirts I can find, plus it's not sectioned so we have to put each of the probably 150+ branches on it. Now the good, no one seems to be able to tell it's not real it looks that good, we've also put out some of those glade pine fresheners around it so you get the smell lol. OH and it takes a REALLY long time to decorate when we do it right (run the lights up one side of a branch down the other then on and on - got the tip from a pro decorator).

I had purchased one of the small tablets a while back, the old adage rings true. You get what you pay for. :) The touch is resistive not capacitive like a touch is which means you actually have to push on spots on the screen and it can make it very hard to be precise. I'm hoping someone will decide they can't get their money back from the HP Touchpad price drop and sells them off for even a little profit :)

I'm actually one of the odd ones who doesn't use FB. Never been of any interest to me so I steer clear of it. I'll just keep trying my luck on the forums :)

Well not just the ads what I REALLY want to know is when do the contests start so that I can HOPEFULLY finally win a shirt to show off while we're out shopping. :)

Can't say we will flat out ban it but I can say it's pretty much the last place we go for the day and still usually get everything we want from there. Last year at the one closest to us my wife found 4-5 of the door buster TVs still out by the garden section around 5PM. Things seem to get very spread around the store very quickly so we just end up walking around and exploring.

We usually knock out 3-4 stores before we head to Cracker Barrel, we eat while waiting for BestBuy to start their 9AM release of some of the items they had over stocked for Door Busters. Once we are done there we head to the other side of town for Target/Wal Mart and the other stores over by them. Always end up with pretty much everything we had planned to get. :)

Our little one was born December 8th last year so we made last years BF shopping a lot lighter than years past. This year we have the great grandparents lined up to babysit while the rest of us go shopping. Should be fun since our daughter will be 1 for Christmas. :) This has been my wife and my tradition for all the time we've been together. We get up super early grab something cafinated, head out the door wait wait wait, shop a LOT head to Cracker barrel around 7am-8am eat breakfast then head back out shopping grab a late lunch the usually head home around 5pm, nap then put stuff away and have leftovers for dinner.

I would do the 40" Samsung LCD - $497.99 from Sears (My In-Laws TV just broke and would be a nice gift for them)

It's back in stock now, we just ordered one for our nephew.