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Cloudy skies early. A few showers developing later in the day. High near 45F. Winds W at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30%.

Did a little shopping the Saturday before Thanksgiving. I didn't get to Shaws on Friday (first day of the ad) and was wondering if the place would be picked clean. Nope. Plenty of everything. Eye of Round Roast $2.97/lb (six pounds for jerky) Sweet Potato 37c/lb (for Burbank's Sweet Potato Casserole) Asparagus 97c/lb Scallops $6.97/lb Butter $1.97/lb Silk Oak Milk $1.49/half gallon Friendly's Ice Cream $1.97/48oz Green Giant frozen vegetables 99c ea Green Giant canned vegetables 79c ea Campbells cream of mushroom soup 99c eaPopped in to Aldis for some Salmon ($7.79/lb) and found 1% milk at $1.29/gallon. Grabbed some coffee creamer for $1.85/qt and baby carrots 79c/lb. I stopped into the Dollar Store for some cleaners (oven, rug, mineral/rust, and shower -- all still a buck despite rumors to the contrary. I was in Walmart as well (Levis belt $14...bigger than I expected <s>). Always have to check out the televisions. My first look at the TCL series 4 75" did not disappoint. Ditto on the Hisense. I'll be venturing out into retail stores this week and next. Really do not want to depend on online purchases this year. The ads really suck this year -- at least for the things I am shopping for. Staples: If you are looking for an inexpensive desktop, I like the HP at Staples (live now, free shipping). $25 4k Fire TV stick is the best price ever (not inflated). The Asus laptop (live now, free delivery) is a great deal. Unfortunately, I am shopping for none of these.Walmart: I like the $69.99 PowerXL air fryer. The $499 Asus 15" MSI #GF63 with its GTX 1650 accelerator, 10th gen i5, SSD, and 8GB of RAM would be a very good laptop for a gamer. At less than $300, the portable spa intrigues, but the six people it claims to seat in a 6' diameter spa is suspect.Kohls: I already bought the Keurig Duo. I don't recommend the unit as my pump is failing after just over a year (aka warranty), but at $62.99, I'll rent one for another year hoping my current unit is just a lemon. Kohls also has the $24.99 4K Fire TV stick. Get two and $15 cash back. The $45 Echo Show 5 is a good deal. It has a mechanical shutter for privacy. Target: Echo Show 5 $44.99Home Depot: I got the two pack of Ryobi 4a batteries for $79. Lowes: Echo Show 5 $39.99 and Echo Show 8 for $59.99. Blink indoor cameras for $19.99 and outdoor cameras for 2/$99.99. Feit Electric Smart WiFi 3-Pack 60-Watt Equivalent Full Color Dimmable LED Light Bulbs for $26.98 <-- great deal! GE bulbs are $26.98 right now. Alexa make bed red! Four pack of smart outlets for $19.98. I must have 20 of these. Alexa turn on Christmas. Alexa turn on desk lamp. Alexa turn on xbox light. Bed Bath and Beyond: Echo Show 5 $34. Nestwell plush robe $29. Cuisinart air fryer/toaster oven $105. Ocean State Job Lot: Novelty onesie union suits $10 -- including the bunny suit from Christmas Story. Can't wait to post a picture of my adult sons in those. Not really a BF deal, but Z Grills Wood Pellet Grill & Smoker $399.99 and get a $200 Crazy Deal Gift Card! These guys make made the Traeger grills.Only valid thru Nov 24 2021.Otherwise, not much excites me about this BF.

Keurig® K-Duo® Single-Serve & Carafe Coffee Maker (kohls.com) This is not my favorite coffee maker, but at $63, I can take a chance on durability. Order Summary Subtotal: $99.99 Kohl’s Cash and Promos: Free Shipping for MVC Card holders -$8.95 B774D8WT2UYCZ -$27.00 HOME -$10.00 Shipping: Standard to 03819 FREE Taxes & Fees: Tax $0.00 Order Total: $62.99 PM me if you want to try to reuse my 30% off code.

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32-43" is the right size for a dorm or bedroom. That said, I have 55" sets in my bedrooms. There tends to be less room and, especially, less wall space in a dorm. You really cannot hang a big TV on a wall in a dorm anyway. I'd return the smaller sets if you can.

I am looking for a meatless meal or a couple meatless meals to add to my menu. These would be for weeknights, so slow cooker or instant pot recipes would be great. The thing is we're not vegans or vegetarians, so I would not want to be 'settling' for something simply because it is meatless. Things we avoid in our diet: white potato, white bread, white rice, and pasta. So far, I see stir-fry ideas, meatless Chinese, and meatless Mexican (bean burritos, cauliflower rice). Some recipes I want to try... Really Good Vegetarian Meatloaf (Really!) Recipe - Food.comVegetarian Taco-Stuffed Peppers | AllrecipesDave's Mexican Veggie Tacos Recipe | AllrecipesAnyone love a meatless meal?

FINALLY! Bare shelves in New Hampshire. On the first day of the ad, store brand k-cups were all but sold out. Of course, the k-cups were 12.5c each, so it may have just been a demand thing, right? Limit of two boxes per person with a best by date of 12/16/2022, so I got an Italian Roast and a French Roast. Wish me luck! Other things on my list... Blackberries $2/pintBacon $3.99/lbNew England Coffee 33c per k-cupShredded cheese $1.59/8 ozPineapple 99c each@magickallight, I agree about Amazon Prime. LOTS of stuff arriving outside the two day window for a very long time. If you chat with them, you will usually get a $5 credit. Amazon No Longer Offers 2-Day Shipping...Here's What To Do About It (rather-be-shopping.com)

I see what you did there!

Thank you. That's the plan. Summer 2022=Puppy+Garden+Pool+Hammock.

got mine. thanks!

If only I weren't so naturally beautiful...

I'm just starting to think about frozen desserts. I made a very thick and frozen smoothie which my son ate as ice cream. He asked me to do it again. Now I want to do it better.

Still works for me, but search for Cuisinart® Pure Indulgence Ice Cream Maker if it doesn't work for you.

I was looking at that too as well as this review... ICE CREAM MAKER REVIEW - Ninja CREAMi tutorial - YouTube After reading the comments (my neck is sore from nodding), I'm having second thoughts despite the attractive $105 price. Maybe this instead? https://www.kohls.com/product/prd-1431534 at a net cost of $65.

So the Walmart delivery person rings your bell and waits? What if you are not home or in the shower when they deliver? How much do you tip and is it part of the purchase or handed to the driver at the time of delivery?

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No surprise. During the Marketbasket strike, Walmart's shelves were bare while another local grocer (Hannaford) installed extra registers, hired additional employees, and secured local production that Marketbasket could not use. Agile corporations with short supply chains are much better prepared to react to market change than bureaucratic corporations. That is one of MANY reasons I eschew the corporations you named.

I'm old enough to remember Black Friday before waiting in line and all night/day shopping. For me, waiting in line and all night/day shopping has been an anomaly. I never much got into it and don't miss it. Of late, I have been doing most of my Christmas shopping online and haven't ventured out on Black Friday before daylight. Still get what I want and save a lot of money, but no lines and no disappointments. ***** My personal history of Black Friday ***** The day after Thanksgiving has been referred to as Black Friday since 1952, but I only remember it as it has been since the 1970s. Back then, Christmas season began once the Sears Wish Book arrived in the mailbox. Then there were television specials and commercials for things we didn't know we needed. Then the parades -- the local crappy ones in our towns, the bigger ones in nearby communities, and the really big ones on TV. All featuring Santa Claus and most sponsored by Macy's or some other retailer. And then came the decorations. My mother used to take us out for a ride in the car to look at all the lights. Then Thanksgiving. Christmas Club checks were issued the Monday before Thanksgiving. Stores mailed out ads that week. My mother ventured out on Friday to shop. No lines. No Doorbusters. Just lots of sales. My father always bought our Big Gifts. He carefully studied our interests all year then bought the perfect gift for each of us. You could tell which gift that was by his interest in how much each one of us liked one particular gift. His shopping was mostly done before Thanksgiving. I'm kind of like my father. My mother bought the rest. She shopped the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday after Thanksgiving the the weekend before Christmas for the stuff that was marked down. When I was older, I got to help and that was lots of fun. I also got to help wrap -- lining up patterns and curling ribbons. I still hate wrapping. I'm kind of like my mother. The term Doorbuster also predates my memory. JC Penney used the term Door Buster in an ad in January of 1949. In 1950 Newberry's ran an ad in the LA Times that used the single word Doorbuster. My first awareness of the word and concept came with the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls in the 1980s. I remember seeing a video on the local news of people pushing to get to the front of a crowd at the opening of a Walmart. I could not believe people were lining up for a doll. That's a doorbuster. About the same time, I worked at a department store that had a bunch of us come in after dinner on Thanksgiving to get ready for Friday. The manager left the lights on and the doors unlocked and people came into the store and shopped. He was the 'cashier' and was surprised at how busy the store was. We never locked the doors that night, so, I believe, that was the first store that was ever open on Thanksgiving and the earliest opened store on that particular Black Friday. We got double time for our Thanksgiving hours and the store bought us breakfast, but the real reason we agreed to work on Thanksgiving was to get Friday morning off. I have never camped out in front of a store and I never bought a TV on Black Friday. But I know plenty who did. I used to wait in line at Staples for computers, monitors, disks, discs, GPS's, and all the free-after-rebate things. (I still have unopened DVDs.) Twice, I waited in line at Kohl's mostly for digital picture frames. Once I shopped with another person (my sister) which was fun, but slowed me down a lot and cost me a lot of money. Last two times I ventured out were for cell phones -- four and seven years ago! Both times, I simply walked into Walmart on my way home from Thanksgiving dinner at my in-laws. I still like to go out on Black Friday, but mostly to be part of the Christmas shopping. The first Cyber Monday came in 2005. I have not ever really participated in these. Now, of course most of the Cyber merchants have migrated to Black Friday. Do they still do Cyber Monday? Today, the deals come earlier and earlier. Last year, I bought my Legends Ultimate Arcade on November 7th and two TCL Roku TVs on November 11th. In both cases, I was waiting online for 'the doors to open' and snagged a 'doorbuster'. It was exhilarating. As exhilarating as it ever was. This year, a lot of my friends are looking at televisions and computers. If you go back to 2004, those were hot items then. Today, they are bigger, faster, and cheaper. People are still hoping for a deal on iCrap. Probably DVDs still (I am). I don't think Black Friday as we knew or remember it is gone. I believe the hunt, the thrill, and the community are just the same. Merchants have changed, online shopping is better, and the calendar is a little bent out of shape, but Black Friday is alive and well. I would argue that the last twenty years have been an anomaly and that today's Christmas season is more like those of my childhood. Happy shopping!

I succumbed to peer pressure today and set out on an emergency Thanksgiving shopping spree to ensure that one of the hundreds of turkeys at local grocers would be in my oven Thanksgiving. Turkeys were more plentiful than on my last trip with Marketbasket showcasing a half dozen brands. I grabbed a ten pound bird for $0.79 per pound. Great size, great price. Had to make some room in the freezer. Even a ten pound turkey takes up a lot of space. Other things I found... $0.99/dozen Large Eggs$1.50/pint Blueberries$1.99/half gallon of Silk Vanilla Almond Milk$1.77/pound Boneless Pork Loin$7.79/pound Atlantic Salmon$0.49 each Mangos$0.49/pound Jalapeno Peppers$1.29/pound Green Beans$12.19/gallon Peanut OilStill no empty shelves. Still everything I want. Still great prices. Plus i got my turkey

At the Verizon store, I was told I could order my phones now and they would hold them until shortly before Christmas and that I could come in after Christmas and activate the new phones, transfer the data, and trade in the old phones. I do not think this is an uncommon ask. When he ordered my phones, he put a note to hold until 12/26.

A. No. I have a strong desire not to pay for the privilege of shopping. I have found that I can do better than the 'clubs' shopping locally and have found no membership that provided long term benefits. I currently subscribe to Prime at the student price. Frankly, I do not think that is worthwhile. I paid for a Sam's Club membership to procure my Legends Ultimate Arcade, but that membership was a money maker after coupons and discounts.

I bought new phones today ;-) I did not plan to, but Verizon had the phones I wanted at a decent price and a good plan for a decent price. PLUS, they will hold my phones until I need them and not activate them until after Christmas. So, I can let the kids down easy about 'supply chain issues' and put two phones under the tree. Verizon gave me $400 trade for our iPhone 7s. AT&T offered no trade in. Verizon is $35/month more but has a better network and includes hot spot and free hulu plus. Oh, and Verizon has phones. Also, most of the price difference will disappear when I retire in May. Finally, Verizon will allow me to cancel and rebuy if a better deal comes along between now and Christmas.