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A Black Friday Special

Looking for a good deal for a hunter in your life? Pretty much every male I know in this county (and all surronding counties) are hunters so I noticed this one quick!!  Check out this Nikon Black Friday Promo I just found and had to share.  It is an ultimate Hunter’s Promotion that includes:

  • ProStaff 3-9×40 Riflescope with BDC Reticle 
  • ProStaff Laser Rangefinder 
  • Silent Technology Rangefinder Case 
  • Mastering a Long-range shot with BDC DVD 
  • $50 NikonProGear Gift Card 

This is a great set I can assure you (I’ve consulted my local hunters).  By purchasing this you will save almost $150.

Not looking for quite such a large package (even if it is a good deal)? You can buy the Nikon Action Extreme ATB 10×50 binoculars and get an extra $20 off.  Or check out the many other special offers thay have right now. It really is a large selection that you’ll find whatever the hunter in your life is dreaming of owning for a great price.

MomDot Party Day 8

I’ve already written and posted this post, but something happened this morning so here’s try 2.  :)

Today’s topic is one that I’m looking forward to – not necessarily this post, but the actual action:

Do you shop on Black Friday? What time do you start? Do you finish all your shopping on that day? What’s the best deal you have found? What’s your shopping strategy?

I LOVE Black Friday shopping.  I’ve been all over the web (there are several Black Friday sites) finding all the sites I can about what will be on sale where and actually have most of my plans for next Friday mapped out already.

Shopping on the day after Thanksgiving is a tradition for our family.  My grandmother, my mother and I all go and do some major bargain shopping.  The plans begin early.  Like I mentioned, I’ve already gathered most of the ads and forwarded them no to my mom and grandmother.  We’ve got our lists ready.  We compare items we know we want at each store to know who has the best deal.

Next Thursday (Thanksgiving) we will go back through the acutal sale papers to make sure that the sales I’m finding on the Black Friday websites are true and develop a final plan.  We will split up the stores so that we can be at all of them when they open. For whatever stores I’m going to, I’ll have my list, my mom’s, and my grandmother’s.  Sometimes Dad puts some items on the list, but he won’t dare brave the crowds.

Friday morning we’ll wake up WAY TOO early and head over to the neighboring town that actually has stores to shop at.  We’ll travel in a caravan so that we can go too different stores and have plenty of room for all of our purchases.  We’ll use our cell phones and each hit a different area of town and buy as many items on each of our lists as possible.

Around 9:30 or 10:00 we tend to have wrapped up our early bird shopping, and we all meet at Ihop for a late breakfast to share what we did successfully buy and what we missed.  Then sometimes we will go browse the mall or stores that have sales that day, but not early morning be there at store opening sales and then head home to divide up our purchases and take them to our respective homes to wrap them.

Christmas Time – Approaching Soon

With the role over from October to November, I have become more excited about that one big shopping day -Black Friday. It is a family tradition at our house to wake up so early that morning after Thanksgiving and load up in whoever has the biggest vehicles that year. We all head out and separate around town with each other’s lists.  After waiting in lines and fighting the crowds, we purchase whatever we can for each other and then we all meet up for breakfast.  We’ve done this for as long as I can remember.  Even in years when there really are no deals that I’m just dying to take advantage of, I wake up in those wee hours and join my mother, grandmother, and siblings.

I can remember not too many years ago, when we bought newspapers every day the week of Thanksgiving looking for every sale people we could to organize this family ritual, but now thanks to the World Wide Web, we don’t have to do that. Now I visit Black Friday forums, websites, and subscribe to email alerts when new sales are available to peruse. One of the stores that I’m always looking for is Kmart.  I have several sites bookmarked for my Black Friday predictions and Black Friday Online is one of those sites. This is a site for browsing, but it’s also one that will allow you to subscribe to email alerts.  Being a busy mom, I love that.  It’s much easier than me trying to keep up with the sales or visiting the sites to stay up to date.  

So I ask you – do you wake up in the wee hours the day after Thanksgiving? Any traditions or trade secrets that you’d share with us!

Shopping Wisely

With rising gas prices, utility prices, grocery prices. With the price of everything increasing, finding smart ways to shop has become increasingly important. We rely entirely on my teacher’s income in my house. No outside child support or such. Just my paycheck each month. I don’t know if you know much about Texas teacher salaries, but they aren’t that high (at least not if you choose to live in rural areas) so I’ve been finding ways to cut corners, save money. It’s important to me that we take family vacations, the girls can participate in extracurricular activities, take lessons…I want them to have amazing opportunities.

In Texas, we just finished tax free weekend. This is one weekend each year that most clothing and shoes under the price of $100 are tax free. With three of us needing back to school clothes, that savings adds up. But now that is over, and I am looking forward to my next big day of savings – Black Friday. Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving when stores run major sales. If you have never taken advantage of these sales, you’ve seen the chaos on the news.

Here it’s not only an important way to save and be able to purchase items for Christmas, it’s also a family tradition. Last year I knew we would be going to Florida so that I actually didn’t need to buy the girls anything, but still had to get up and go. My mom and grandmother and I load up ever year. We separate to do some of the shopping – each taking the others’ lists to whatever stores they’ll be going to. We are typically finished by about 8:30 or so that morning and then meet up for breakfast before going home.

I can remember the days of buying the newspapers every day for a week, anxiously waiting the sale papers to tell us what bargains would be available, but now thanks to the Internet, we usually have our lists complete before the sale papers come out. We double check them to the sale ads, but so far, they’ve been entirely accurate. Last year thanks to a rewards program forum I participate in, I found out that you can also do a lot of your blackfriday shopping online. I actually gave that list to my dad as he refuses to fight the crowds. He was excited to be playing the game with us as he found some great deals (and we were excited to have one more person to give us even more stores to cover).

Finding sites with reliable sales information can be troublesome, and if they aren’t reliable, you turn out to have wasted your time and maybe missing some sales. One site that I’ve bookmarked to track the sales this year is BlackFriday.biz. They are already posting ads for this year! Yes, in August, we can already start anticipating those sales for some of our favorite stores such as Wal-Mart and Best Buy. Scared you’ll forget about this site before November arrives? Sign up for the email alerts, and they will let you know each time they get a new sale ad. How convenient is that?