Kanyon71

I really wish someone would buy Sears and turn it back into something good. I loved the craftsman brand, we used to buy a lot of things at Sears when they had a good variety. Once Kmart bought them they seemed to stop upkeep and modernization of the stores (much like Kmart itself) and things went downhill from there (at least in my eyes). I liked that I could go into the store and buy clothes, tools, lawn equipment, decorations, appliances, electronics and so forth. I say this from the standpoint of I HAVE bought all of these things from them. While I love and use Amazon a lot I don't but things I feel the need to touch and see from them I do to brick and mortar stores for those. My choices are becoming more and more limited as time goes on.

Well in the worst of that situation you just go to the stores you normally do lol. We shall be here as long as Brad allows us to be here. I'm too much a creature of habit for some things to do anything else.

We have been doing eh on our goals. We both have some in our savings account and are trying not to touch that. Something always seems to come up (unexpected bill or trip or some such thing) which stops from putting as much away as we want. Story of all our lives probably lol

If I could just figure out how to not have a house payment things would be awesome lol.

Ya I look at what we spend going out to eat and I wince. I try to avoid the reality of that as much as possible. I have been telling my wife we need to stop eating out so much and cook more often and then we both get off work and have no desire to cook anything.

But the more you bring in the more you can sell so the more you will have for the next year lol. We are doing the same, we have a donate and a sell box we are loading up.

I wonder when the first one will be leaked. You have to figure they are already working on them.

I wish I had a Christmas Club account that I could pull some of my check to right away. Would make it easier.

I'm here Counting down the days until the fun begins again.

I keep checking back here hoping to see a bunch of new threads and responses.

Hope they don't kill the warranty of it. I think spreading the craftsman brand to other stores will help it out though. Article I read (not WSJ as they block most of the article unless i sign in) said that the deal gives Stanley the rights to sell at stores outside of Sears/Kmart. Odd wording. Did they just buy all of craftsman including the manufacturing and such or did they buy rights to it? Either way it goes it says Sears bought Craftsman for $500 in 1927 and just sold these rights for $900 Million plus a percentage of sales of the items. Sounds like a good investment to me. I think they should kill Kmart off and try to revive Sears itself.

I heard there will be a lot of store closing for traditional retailers this year even though it was the most successful shopping year in a long time. Article I read said a lot of the stores will end up remaking themselves to add things you just can't get from places like Amazon (they used an example of trying out a treadmill). Was a pretty interesting article all in all. I honestly don't care much about K-Mart, so many have closed and the ones that remain open look like they haven't been updated since the 80's. You want your store to be a success why do you try making them look nicer. Now as for Sears that will make me sad if they go away. I have bought many things from them over the years and still tend to wander in there for tools (especially when they have a good craftsman sale).

Can't wait for the next one to roll around

That's insane. $200 for a $60 console. There is an old saying that fit's this

Really bothers me when retailers do that stuff.

Shopping - Nope (need to take my daughter to get a few things for mommy) Wrapping - Nope, we are going out of town for Christmas so we aren't going to wrap until we get there. Don't want the wrapping to get trashed while being shuffled around to get there. Baking - Yes we finished that. We had our big Holiday bash this past Saturday and we finished baking on Saturday. Was pulling the last of the cookies as I was also finishing off my pulled pork before all the guests started arriving lol.

I was hoping it would be also. I need to pick up a couple of Fire Sticks. Of course my wife decided this is what we should get a couple of people AFTER they were no longer on sale.

Check the cruise lines sites themselves. I know Carnival usually has some good last minute deals.

What I find funny is one package I get with something that had a fairly small value I had to sign for but the 50" LG TV they delivered they just put on the porch (2 days late) and took off.

I will wait till they are in the bargain bin at Big Lots lol. I think it's cool, used to like the games and all but I don't see a lot of time in front of this thing. Especially to pay the prices people are asking. When I can have a limited NES Classic or a full blown console for the same price the decision becomes easy

Was in Walmart on Saturday and someone who was parked next to us said they had just one from that store. Seems like some have them off and on.

That's awesome. We have talked about going to visit the house. I heard you can actually rent it out to stay a night or two. Would be awesome.

Only thing we still have out there is a gift card that came with one of our orders.

Very cool. Are the lights on the wreath battery operated?

Ya I think I just read the PS4 just went over 50 Million units sold. I'm pretty sure they still have a pretty heft lead on the Xbox also. All I can say is I miss Sega lol.