Disher Family Fodder
Excellent! The Steelers couldn’t handle the Colts. In fact they didn’t keep pace as well as the Bengals did IMHO.
Their D played better than the Bengals, yes. But their O, no, no match what so-ever. Next week, If the Bengals can squeak out a win, and I think they just might, it’s over for the Squealers.
😀
So we’re going to try this.
Not exactly sure what he’s going to put up here or what he wants to do but he’s creative and WordPress is easy and fun so here goes.
OK, so if you don’t think I’m a perfect husband then just keep this in mind.
I shopped with my wife the day after thanksgiving for 14+ hours, then again on the following day for another 10 hours. I didn’t whine, nor complain. We went out to dinner too on Friday night as well, and I did this all with a broken toe to boot.
Just kidding, I enjoy participating in the event. But it’s getting harder each year. We are blessed. Our family is blessed. Nobody needs anything really, and it’s getting harder and harder to buy for people.
We did luck into some killer bargains though. Some Black Friday left overs that I can’t write about at this time as it wouldn’t be appropriate. Let’s just say some folks are going to really appreciate Santa this year.
I am truly amazed at what people do buy, at the crap that’s available and at the number of places to shop. The economy can’t be as bad as the news would have you believe. Ever place we went was unbelievably crowded. Far worse than any of the last 5 years that I can remember.
Gas prices all under $2.00 a gallon every where.
The only unpleasant experience we ran into was at BestBuy, but maybe I’m jaded, as I said prior, I just don’t like em. I had a really crappy experience with them a couple years ago with a digital camera that didn’t work and returning it cost me more money than they made profit wise on the original purchase (10% restocking fee if I recall correctly) on a $1000 camera, that’s $100 bucks. For what amounts to a defective camera. I don’t like they way you are hounded and hassled at Best buy.
There’s a post over on DataPoohbah about them changing their Black Friday deal for XBox 360’s and making those that stood in line buy bundles. This wouldn’t surprise me at all.
The final results for the weekend were positive. We completed our goal of knocking out 80% or more of our shopping. It was harder than it should have been but it’s done and over with.
There are holes here and there and some gaps to fill but we’re almost there.
I’m interested to see what gets reported to the markets next week. In any event as stores restock, more sales are around the corner leading up to the holiday. There are still deals to be had.
Happy shopping 🙂
Todays game was rather boring actually. They jumped out on top of the Baltimore Raisins an put them in their place. How Pittsburgh lost to these guys I’ll never understand. But that’s how it goes some times, you have your running game working and a few turn overs go your way I guess.
Holy Moly what a year!
Nobody can complain about the economy that’s all I have to say!
About 5 years ago my wife decided for her birthday (Which falls on Nov 30’th) that we’d take the day after Thanksgiving and knock out the bulk of our Christmas shopping. I let her talk me into it.
It was the easiest thing we ever did. Really. No lines, no traffic No nothing the last 4 years. A LONG day sure, but we’ve had fun and enjoyed the day together taking our time and getting the bulk of our shopping done in one day.
I’m not kidding. What’s billed as the busiest day of the year simply was a piece of cake for us. Most malls and stores were empty. We’d get front row or near front row parking everywhere. Now I worked retail for a number of years and I know what this day is capable of being but for the last few years, it has not been bad at all.
This year was very, very different. Butts and elbows everywhere. We didn’t even attempt to get up early. Didn’t even drop the kiddies off at the in-laws until 10 am to avoid the BIG rush to get the uber bargains. To me that’s just not worth the hassle.
Our first stop was at Kohl’s, and I kid you not at 11:30 am the check out lines wrapped half way around the store. (Sheesh).
More on this day later, in depth but I’ll leave you with a couple tid-bits.
I do a fair amount of Internet shopping. Best Buy, you didn’t get a DIME from me this year. Here’s why.
Every time I went to your website from Thursday night on, this is what I saw:
Not good. I never got a good chance to see what you had on sale. We did stop by and browse the store, but I can’t stand you’re return policy anyway so you lose.
I almost bought this camera online from Circuit City.
After all I was saving almost $10,000 dollars 🙂
Man you’d think as important a day as this was and as far as the internet has progressed companies would have their act together when it comes to this stuff.’