Kanyon71

Awesome free publicity for the store

We went to Target on Sunday to get a birthday present for my nephew, while in there we say these cool Elf PJ's for the family. May go back and get them this weekend. We all get in our PJ's and make some hot cocoa then go ride around and look at Christmas light displays after everyone is gone on Christmas eve so we like to dress as close to each other as possible, looks like this years theme might be Elf's (also saw some ELF - Will Ferrel hats at Burlington Coat Factory we may get)

I think Samsung is probably going to push pretty hard after the hurt that the Note 7 has put on them from a PR standpoint. I think you will see some good deals out there.

I actually think one of the things I've loved the past few years is trying to get some of the great deals on Christmas Decorations, we have bought almost all new LED lights, we have picked up a couple of the really expensive air blown decorations for the yard (got one that was normally $160 last year for $60). It's been fun stalking and hunting down the deals at those stores. Got a lot of good stuff from Home Depot, I use order online and pick up in store for the things it will let me do that and we visit the stores for things it won't. Has made replacing a lot of our older stuff much more reasonably priced.

The $49 Kindle Fire has two cameras on it. Neither are like top of the line 12MP like the higher end new phones but the one that's rear facing should be fine for what you're describing. I'm not sure if/how much they will discount it but $49 is a pretty good deal.

Some neat stuff in there, none around me that I know of though.

I looked it up the other day. The site is https://www.feeln.com/ it's owned by Hallmark and streams all their stuff from the two Hallmark Channels. You can search for shows, movies and so on at any point so you don't have to wait for it to be on. My m-i-l loves it, she said she has watched a ton on it.

You can actually get the Hallmark Channel subscription. My m-i-l/f-i-l cut the cord also. We bought her a subscription to it this summer. Think it was like $30 for a year. She watches it all the times, they do all the Christmas movies on it.

Only about a week away from Hallmark channel going 24x7 Christmas movies

I have considered picking up one of the Surface Pro 3 or 4's I like gadgets and think it would be cool for some of the things I do and want to do while out and about or just sitting in the living room. I'm not a fan of the iPad or iPad pro to be honest just not real useful to me, I have an iPhone and it's just a bigger version of that. Now if they put MacOS (used to be OS X) then I would consider it as it would be an ultra portable laptop much like the surface pro. I just keep waiting for a really killer deal on a surface pro 3 or 4 since they are kind of expensive

That's an awesome deal. I will have to watch if I see that deal I will be grabbing it.

Ya I went into the crevices of this place and the basement and all it's hidden rooms and storage and back pathways. Was crazy and like I said creepy Shorcut's to the food are always good though. lol

I switched my wife to one in I think 2009 and she is still using the same one today. Only changes to it have been that I added more memory and about a month or so ago I ended up putting a new battery in it for her (cost me about $30 on Amazon). It's still able to be updated to the latest OS (which is free) and still runs great. I'm considering getting her a new one and we will move hers to our daughter to play with. Wife wants a MacBook Air like I have. Whats great about them? Well it's not as targeted for viruses and such (still need to be smart about passwords and sites and still need virus software) but it's not as large a target as Windows machines. Not saying it's better or safer just saying it's not as big of a target. I like that for at least the last 3-4 versions the newer versions of the OS have been free. I like that the hardware is stable, I like that it does everything I need and for the most part much like windows I can find free software to do those tasks. I honestly think it comes down to what you want, Mac's in general will never be cheap it's not the market they aim for. Once you get to a good Windows Laptop the price difference won't be as great the hardware costs and no one gives it away free. They are overall very good quality machines. There are differences in how the OS works that sometimes make a lot of sense and other times I wonder why they did it. I still have a Windows Virtual Machine I run on it in case I need something that's only supported under windows.

Ya I found the launch time odd. Why wouldn't you either push to make it for this holiday season or hold till the next. I'm sort of waiting to see some real life reviews on it. Not sure if me and my family are it's target audience, we have the Wii U and the Xbox One but this one I'm honestly not sure about. Being partial mobile I just don't see it having the hardware to have a truly great gaming experience. Hopefully I'm wrong.

It's a good community here. Which is why I hang out all year long looking for deals.

I would say you're likely to see some deals, though places like Sam's Club and other tend to have deals on the newer phones.

Is that considered re-gifting?

Seems to me all the better reason to shop on BF. Help those dollars go further. Get better deals and so forth. As I said in my previous post it's not the same anymore, but we have just changed some of our habits and we still go out every year and still end up having fun doing it. One year we even took our daughter and bought stuff for her without her realizing it was FOR her or for the most part know what it was we were buying. As times change we adapt but we make sure we keep our tradition alive and will do so for as long as we can continue to do some.

The large bowl looks like it comes way up the beater shaft, I wonder how it is if you will the bowl. Does anyone local to you sell this model? If so you could look at it and see if it fit's your needs? This is actually the one we are thinking about getting to replace our current one and then ship that one off to my f-i-l. I would go with the better machine that will suit your needs, you can always get attachments later.

To an extent you are probably not far off lol. Malls when they aren't fully open can be very creepy, especially you get in behind the scenes (I used to do tech work for a business in a mall so had to go back in the catacombs of the mall).

Ya I'm pretty sure it was pretty late into the season when he suddenly showed up and then was gone soon after. Guess life has gotten in the way

We don't ever finish early. We are usually still picking up things leading up to Christmas (yes that week). We always have a good start but we like to make BF a big part of it so we wait till that comes around to get a good portion of it done. The week of Christmas is usually just smaller things for each other though, we usually have each others larger gift so then we need to pick up small things.

My wife loves ours. She like to bake so it has gotten a LOT of use over the years.

Exactly, might be able to make it 4.5 if we just say it's pretty much just like last years.

I've never been first but I've been close to the front at BestBuy. We ended up in line and there were a few campers ahead of us one year. They had been there at least a day or two from what I was hearing from them.