Kanyon71

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.

We have watched them off and on. I have a wishlist for Christmas on the TiVo so we look through and record stuff. Will start watching more after Haloween is over lol

Black Friday is our family tradition.

Looking for good prices on Blu Ray players, want to get my wife a new HD Video camera other than those things not really a whole lot. Unless we see a screaming deal on 55"+ 1080P TV then I may be forced to upgrade our Toshiba 50" Plasma in the living room. :) We usually end up just picking up things on sale for our families. More than anything else it's become our tradition.

We have a 50" Toshiba Plasma we bought on BF about 3 years ago from BB it was one of the Door Buster specials. Love the TV, has a awesome picture and was a good deal.

Land O Lakes FL

Can't wait to see the deals this year. We have a 37" Dynex we bought a couple years back for our bedroom I would like to replace it with a nice 42" 1080P this year.

Last year we went a little later in the morning and it was kind of busy but nothing horrible. We went in found everything we wanted and then checked out. Line was decent but moved fairly quickly.

We shop at Best Buy, Wal Mart, Target, BB&B and then places like Walgreens/CVS for small stuff.

Fried, we did it for the first time last year and it was the best turkey I've ever had. I'm not a huge fan of turkey but once it was injected with a butter garlic sauce and deep fried it was so juicy and had so much flavor.

All XBox 360 HDs are added on the outside. They attach to the side of the unit and are easily changed.

Dynex is Best Buys in-house brand, I have the 37" Version of it bought it last year on BF. All in all I would pay the extra $100 and get the Samsung but that's just my opinion. I think the Samsung line of products is better in general they normally have a brighter and somewhat sharper picture. My major complaint about the Dynex is the sound, it's not very loud and lacks bass outside of that though it's been a pretty good TV.

Usually shorts, t-shirt and a fleece pull over for the night, it gets chilly here in FL sometimes LOL

No problem at all, glad I could be of some assistance.

They make these large vinyl scenes that you can apply to walls for Christmas I've seen a few different ones. Like one is Santa, a fireplace a tree you know the typical room setup. You could apply one of those (they are big and long meant to be a full sized wall size) and then spruce it u more with garland and lights to set it off even better.