Black Friday Ads......list the top sales...

Well the time has come and we are quickly approaching Turkey Day...

To the dismay of my husband we always do Black Friday. (he tries so hard to get out of it each year) but I think it is so much fun and really seems to kick off the holidays for us. I am not sure what I like the most....watching ppl freak out or getting a great deal.

Anyways....I thought it might be fun to list some of the specials that you know of, along with the price and the store (and open time) so that everyone may be able to take advantage of a good deal if they want to.

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You're nuts!:P

I loathe crowds and there's nothing fun for me about trying to find parking and being elbow to elbow with other shoppers.

I avoid Black Friday at all costs.

However, to contribute to this - I did see that Kohl's will be open at 3:00 a.m. on Black Friday so you can get started REALLY early if you want! Won't your hubby be so excited??!!!!!

You and my wife must be sisters. She goes out every year. Most of the time she's out the door by 2 or 3 in the morning. I've gotten calls in the past, to bring her a coffee or hot chocolate at 4 in the morning.

I've gone out a few times in the past when the kids were younger and we needed to be in more than one spot in the store to get that SPECIAL deal. But for the most part, I think you're crazy. Unless someone is selling a Bugatti Veyron for $9.99, I don't want any part of it.

Slickdeals.net has a Black Friday webpage that lists many of the more popular stores (brick and mortar as well as on-line). It's a really good page to visit any time of the year. I've gotten many great deals on things I really didn't need but wanted.

Good Luck!
Jim Smith

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You're nuts!:P

I loathe crowds and there's nothing fun for me about trying to find parking and being elbow to elbow with other shoppers.

I avoid Black Friday at all costs.

However, to contribute to this - I did see that Kohl's will be open at 3:00 a.m. on Black Friday so you can get started REALLY early if you want! Won't your hubby be so excited??!!!!!

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I think Walmart is open on Thanksgiving Day with many specials. They will then close, and reopen with the Black Friday specials. So, if you want to go out after that turkey day meal, head out to Walmart.

Jim Smith

I will not be going anywhere on Friday. I live near a Wal-Mart and a shopping mall and I do not want to deal with the people that will be on the streets acting crazy to get that perfect deal. I will be having left overs from the dinner that I am going to make tomorrow.

We did it a couple years ago, and we're going to do it this year. We're mainly shopping for a laptop, I think we're going to hit Best Buy. I'm not a huge fan of it, but it does kick off the holiday season!

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We did it a couple years ago, and we're going to do it this year. We're mainly shopping for a laptop, I think we're going to hit Best Buy. I'm not a huge fan of it, but it does kick off the holiday season!

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You've gotta watch the quantity for the Black Friday Specials. If you look at the Best Buy circular, the quantity on many of their items is less than 10 and you must get a coupon while in line or you won't get the special price.

Got to:
http://www.slickdeals.net

There will be a banner on top of the page about black friday, click that and there are about a dozen stores listing their Black Friday ad.

Good Luck!
Jim Smith

You guys are too funny. Big ole scaredy cats. ;) Well I have looked at some adds and really am not seeing too too much that I am interested in this year.

Target has some legos for 64.99 but haven't looked at which ones they are.
I am however looking for a 250 gb xbox ....the cheapest I have found so far is $250- w a $50 gift card included. That is at Target and Toys R us....but to me that is not really a sale as that is pretty much what they are everywhere.

So if you guys see any better X box sales please let me know. ;)

Sears has a great stand up tool box for $99 I think there was 3 compartments.


If I don't see better ads I may just do online ....:O crazy.

Jim - I think it would be a blast to shop with your wife!!! Though I do make it a point on black friday to only take helpers...not shoppers....lol

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You guys are too funny. Big ole scaredy cats. ;) Well I have looked at some adds and really am not seeing too too much that I am interested in this year.

Target has some legos for 64.99 but haven't looked at which ones they are.
I am however looking for a 250 gb xbox ....the cheapest I have found so far is $250- w a $50 gift card included. That is at Target and Toys R us....but to me that is not really a sale as that is pretty much what they are everywhere.

So if you guys see any better X box sales please let me know. ;)

Sears has a great stand up tool box for $99 I think there was 3 compartments.


If I don't see better ads I may just do online ....:O crazy.

Jim - I think it would be a blast to shop with your wife!!! Though I do make it a point on black friday to only take helpers...not shoppers....lol

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I'm not afraid, as long as I have my wife with me. She won't let anything happen to me.;)

It would seem like MS hasn't dropped their pricing for the Christmas season. Maybe, if you were to wait a few weeks, they will drop their prices if their sales are flat (which I would presume they will be). Only problem with that, is you don't know what their production numbers were, nor their forecasted sales numbers.

Come on down! Take a trip to Maryland and we'll all go shopping. That is as long as whatever you buy, is for ME. :D

I hope you have a great Thanksgiving and good luck wherever your travels take you on Friday!

Jim Smith

Likewise Jim...and feel free to come down here for turkey day...much warmer...lol..;) Plus I think we all would have a blast together.

Well i just got home from Petsmart putting out all the Black Friday tags. Ball Pythons are only $29.99 and so are bearded dragons. Certain tropical fish are only 80 cents and then a ton of treats, beds, collars, and stuff are all 50% off.

Also most small animals are 50% off also, so if your looking for a hamster, Friday is the time.

I'm so tempted to get one of the 2 female normals we have, but i already have too many female normals, so i will wait.

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Likewise Jim...and feel free to come down here for turkey day...much warmer...lol..;) Plus I think we all would have a blast together.

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I could never be away from Baltimore on Thanksgiving day. All of my sons have attended or are attending a private school and they have a 93 year football game tradition. The Turkey Bowl. We've enjoyed it for the last 10 years. It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without being at the game.

Maybe one day we'll get together. I'm sure we'd have a great time.
We are probably going to do Hawaii for our 2 week vacation this coming year, but we may take a quick 3-5 day vacation to the Grand Canyon.

We also travel up to Glouocester Mass to do some whale watching a few times during the Summer. Talk the husband into traveling there. Talk about a humbling experience. I would recommend everyone do this at least once in their lifetime. PM me your email address and I'll send you a few pictures of out last trip in August.


Take Care and I hope you and your family have a great Thanksgiving.
Jim Smith

Jim - Have fun playing football in this weather. BURRR COLD RAIN!

I have done Black Friday once in my life, and that was when we lived in this tiny town in Tennessee. Even if the WHOLE town went to Walmart, it wasn't too bad. People were still really bonkers though. We got a bunch of great things that year, and it was fun, but I would NEVER EVER EVER think of doing Black Friday here in Baltimore.

I would be afraid of getting killed over the lame new hot toy for this season.

Main thing I was looking for was a laptop for one of our girls. Best Buy has an Acer 15" with 250gb hard drive and 2gb of Ram for $250 online. There are slightly better deals available with Doorbuster sales, but it's worth paying the extra $50 or so to not be at Walmart at 3am.
That laptop deal is available now online and I ordered one for her this morning. She's 13yrs old and this will be perfect for her.

I posted this in my Gadget Geek forum, but I figured I'd throw it in here as well since it's fitting.

For those of you on AT&T all of their quick messaging phones are free and the really great new Windows Phone 7 Smartphones are buy one get one. You can even take advantage of it if you already purchased a WP7 device already.

Tmobile has buy one get one on the Windows Phone 7 beast that is HTC's HD7 as well as plenty of deals on messaging phones.

Verizon is offering free Jawbone bluetooth headsets with select Smartphone purchases and many nice phones like the Droid Incredible are free free free!

Amazon will have some excellent deals as well, but keep in mind that most online dealers like Wirefly and Let's Talk have you sign an additional agreement that can take a Smartphone early termination fee all the way up to $600-$700 so shop smart. Shop S Smart (Couldn't resist the Bruce Campbell reference)

im getting my kids the 4gb xbox with a copy of black ops from kmart for 200.00. And we are getting some games from walmart and target and kmart they have nice sells on there games and movies but thats usually the only thing we get. The higher end electronic stuff is usually very numbered and I would rather pay more then have to fight someone over it.

Black ops FTW!!! Big Lots has Wii games for $5 a piece for the add on tv

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You're nuts!:P

I loathe crowds and there's nothing fun for me about trying to find parking and being elbow to elbow with other shoppers.

I avoid Black Friday at all costs.

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Ditto. Ditto. Ditto !!

LOL

On top of that, so far I've always outdone my friends with online deals I've found :)

well I survived...lol. Actually it was pretty smooth sailing for us. No huge lines. Our first store was the PX on base and of course no one will act crazy there....lol. Was able to get my son the x box 250gb for @299 w a $50 gc. No fighting smooth sailing...yea. We went to Sears for a camcorder for him as well and again...no lines. Old navy...no lines...Wally World no lines... Was a bit of a line at Game Stop but not more than 4 ppl. So all in all a pretty easy black friday.

I have to say for me this years sales were disappointing, I will have to do a lot of shopping online as most everything my son wanted is either not in stores or not on sale.

Wally World has Halo Reach on sale for $35 which is pretty good.

Not sure about your area but I can say our Walmart had a BOAT LOAD of stuff left. Tons of TVs, and computer storage devices that did not sell in the am hours. If your on the hunt for a TV....you might find some good deals there. Just make sure to do your research on the TVs before hand. My hubby loves to use Crutchfield.com to research his electronics.

we went out thursday night at 9 oclock and got home friday at 12:00 pm. And I got enough video games for ps3 and 360 to last another year

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well I survived...lol. Actually it was pretty smooth sailing for us. No huge lines. Our first store was the PX on base and of course no one will act crazy there....lol. Was able to get my son the x box 250gb for @299 w a $50 gc. No fighting smooth sailing...yea. We went to Sears for a camcorder for him as well and again...no lines. Old navy...no lines...Wally World no lines... Was a bit of a line at Game Stop but not more than 4 ppl. So all in all a pretty easy black friday.

I have to say for me this years sales were disappointing, I will have to do a lot of shopping online as most everything my son wanted is either not in stores or not on sale.

Wally World has Halo Reach on sale for $35 which is pretty good.

Not sure about your area but I can say our Walmart had a BOAT LOAD of stuff left. Tons of TVs, and computer storage devices that did not sell in the am hours. If your on the hunt for a TV....you might find some good deals there. Just make sure to do your research on the TVs before hand. My hubby loves to use Crutchfield.com to research his electronics.

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Maybe the economy is really worse there than in other parts of the country. We had mobs everywhere my wife went. I had to head to the mall around 5pm yesterday to get a few things for my son's wrestling team. It was still crazy. Had to park 1000 yards from the mall entrance. Had to wait in the check out line longer thna the time I actually spent shopping. I hate Black Friday.

I'm glad you got almost everything you were looking for. My kids are are 24, 20, 18 and 15 and I'm not getting any ideas what they want for Christmas this year. AND I AM NOT GIVING THEM MONEY. They will have gifts to open Christmas morning. Even if I have to buy what I want for Christmas and put their names on it. :D;)

Jim Smith

I know the older they get the harder it is to buy for them. Tristen is pretty standard for a 10 year old. Video games and Legos!! Though he is getting pretty hard core on the legos and wants the big sets which are quite expensive. Last year I was sooooo lucky he asked "Santa" for the Lego Death Star, $500-. He said ...."Mom...Im going to ask Santa for this so you don't have to spend all your money"..........:O "gee sweetie thanks....:rolleyes:

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I know the older they get the harder it is to buy for them. Tristen is pretty standard for a 10 year old. Video games and Legos!! Though he is getting pretty hard core on the legos and wants the big sets which are quite expensive. Last year I was sooooo lucky he asked "Santa" for the Lego Death Star, $500-. He said ...."Mom...Im going to ask Santa for this so you don't have to spend all your money"..........:O "gee sweetie thanks....:rolleyes:

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Kids say the darnest things!

Wait until they start asking for 32 inch LCD/LED TVs, or a car, or an AR15 rifle. I can remember when I would spend $300-$350 on each kid and they were happy. Now, I'm luck to get away with $500 and they look at me and ask "Is this all?"

But I guess money doesn't go as far as it once did either.

Take Care!
Jim Smith

My wife and my sister went to Wal-Mart at 9:30pm Thanksgiving night for the sale that started 5am Friday morning. They had 32 inch Tv's for $198. I got 2 of them for my brothers. She loved it .. she was awake for a total of 27 hours. NUTS :rolleye2::rolleye2::rolleye2::rolleye2: I told her think again if she thinks Im going. I wear the Pants in this household (she doesnt see this website so I can say that )

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OMG you wear the pants.......:rofl::rofl::rofl: We just let you think that....it makes you feel better....lol.

Love you wife...she's a die hard!!

Jim ....too too true!! We already went through...computer...then flat screen and of course the surround sound:rolleyes: The car is going to kill me as he is already saying.....I want a lamborguini (sp??) :weirdface...ahhh yeah thats gonna happen....when pigs fly!!:rolleyes: