Kanyon71

Congrats everyone

That's a bummer. I make sure that I get my wife presents and I also take our daughter so she can pick out things for her that she want's her to have.

I've thought about getting a smart lock for that but I have an issue the seal on my front door requires you to push the door in some in order to lock the dead bolt so that would make a smart lock useless.

I miss Circuit City (which is still supposedly making a comeback) and the old Sears. I used to love walking around sears when I was younger and seeing the new really cool electronics (was introduced to large rear projection TV's by them and stood there ogling it with my friend). Then I would wander over to the appliances and look around then off to the tool/garden departments and think about all the stuff I wanted. Up until it started to become a shell of itself (thanks for that Kmart) we still shopped there often especially when I needed tools and such.

Can't wait for the big ad's to start showing up

I think the best use for the garage door opener portion is when it doesn't close (dd or dw left something in the way) and the door alerts me on the phone that it's still open. I got an alert the other day, wife had bumped a rake and it was in the way and door didn't close and she didn't know it. I went and looked moved the rake and closed the door. Other times it's useful is when you are outside cutting the lawn, garage closes itself (we have it set to close after 15 mins if left open and hold isn't on) and you're cutting the lawn. I pull out the phone open my alarm app and hit Open.

Ya I think they are starting to come down a decent amount. Yields are starting to improve on the panels so hopefully it will keep pushing the prices in the right direction.

Which Meijer? I didn't notice anything when I was in the one near me today but then again I didn't wander around too much, had some things I needed to get and just grabbed those. I know the Home Depot I go to has all their decorations out now.

Funny thing is I think a lot of us do this more for the fact of we have done it forever. I can do all our shopping online in the middle of the night while working on the site here and get everything. BUT I only get the things I know I will miss because we don't go out on Thanksgiving. We still leave a lot of it and head out at our normal time and follow same traditions we have for many years now.

The only plan we have that we stick to for the season is to plan on still be wrapping stuff on the day.

Which one did you get? I have been thinking about getting the one that's fairly skinny as the doorbell on our house is placed between the door and the side light window. Not a lot of space and the other ones seem to be fairly wide.

I have been adding SMART home features. I have an alarm system I installed from Alarm dot com and it's Z Wave based. I have added a garage door controller, I can remotely open and close that, it will alert me via SMS if my door is open more than a set amount of time. I have also added Z Wave light bulbs and switches lately so I can turn lights on and off remotely using the app. I just added in the last month an Ecobee Thermostat which I LOVE, I got a couple of extra remote sensors for it so I can have the system monitor various rooms and turn on/off based on the temp in those rooms also. The Ecobee is homekit enabled so I can ask Siri what my house temperature is and also have her adjust it. My alarm system is supposedly adding Homekit to it at some point so I will be able to fully control that also. I will keep adding new things over time until I eventually have everything remotely controlled. I don't have the home assistant thing at this point though I have thought about an Echo at some point. I'm just not sure I want something listening to every word said in my house lol.

Ya Brad make me an admin so that abently can reward me with it.

They kick off some heat when running also, so maybe you can save some money on heating during the winter. I agree totally worth it.

My daughter is only 6 but she has already informed us she is going to live with us forever.

Bonus bucks if you return the Amazon stuff and rebuy it from Kohls.

Does that really work? Seems like one of those fantasies people talk about but it never really happens.

Oh how I miss plasma I'm waiting to see how the whole OLED thing starts to shake out with their yields finally going up which is helping to bring the pricing down. Hopefully by the time I'm ready to replace my 70" Vizio 1080P set in the living room the technology will be at a place where it's affordable for me. I still regret not picking up the 60" Pioneer Plasma from Best Buy's Magnolia when they were closing them out.

My dd is December 8th but she loves the tree. We make sure her birthday is celebrated using only birthday stuff. My B-I-L is 12/26 and we make sure it's celebrated as a birthday also.

For studio headphones here are some brands you can check into: Beyerdynamic Sennheiser Audio-Technica Shure Beats tend to inflate the bass so it's not a true sound. If he is using it to record you want a studio grade headphone.

Yes you should see deals on the latest and previous versions. I got one for my wife on BF. I don't remember the exact details but I got it from Target and got a nice gift card out of the deal which we used on other presents.

There is ALWAYS a way to make room. It may take $10s of thousands in construction to add on to the bedroom but it WILL fit.

I think it's even worse with Amazon. At least of the apps I have used I can't figure out how to only show me things that are free with Prime and it ONLY show me things free with Prime lol.

I agree, I was looking on Saturday and had to look through a ton of movies after searching for Christmas. Was annoying.

We will decorate for Christmas most likely the weekend of Thanksgiving. As for a tree well to be honest we have one up all year round in our hallway. It gets decorated to fit the holiday or season at any given time.