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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 2:10 pm
Oh cool...aunt liked the idea when we explained what it was. My oldest niece wants one too so we know what the three of them are getting. Nice thing about it too is that it gives me a little more I can add to their list (like the gift cards or don't they have cases or something?) Course if I do something like that we'll have to take those gifts to her house so they open the shuffles first. Lady, I always buy or take an extra inexpensive gift or two to the family gathering. Cuz sure enough, someone will come that was unexpected. I'm the same way...can't sit there and see someone without something to open. I'll take a couple bookthongs, maybe buy some tin cans full of candy or cookies.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 2:26 pm
I try to do my shopping throughout the year except for my own kids. (I usually buy in the stores when I see something for a certain person at a good price. Occasionally I will order something online for Christmas for someone if I'm trying to make a min. $ amount to get free shipping.) Even though the two younger ones make lists early, they often change their minds. By early, I mean several or many mos. early. I do prefer to shop online if possible. I don't like to shop. I really like to get a good deal though. I get a ton of psychological satisfaction from saving money. I don't know what my two younger kids will have on the lists, but I want them to finish them up/update them today or tomorrow. I may go out early Fri. morning (hate that idea) or stay up late and shop online tomor. night depending what they have on their lists. They will probably have lots of expensive clothes on their lists that they won't get. If it is something electronic, that is more what I would go to the sales on Fri. morning for. My oldest has an early Dec. birthday, so, she usually gives us her list early. Sometimes I'll find that I overbuy for her birthday and will save some of it for Christmas. Beach, I am opposite of you. I try not to give cash because then $20 costs $20. I try to get the $20 items for a lot less. I do spend the same on each kid (my own kids) and will give them cash to make it equal.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 2:32 pm
War, I was thinking about you the other day re: your broken oven. There are some no bake cookies that you can make. I have a recipe for a good chocolate oatmeal one if you'd like it. I'm sure the internet has lots of no bake cookie recipes.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 3:48 pm
Okay, who knows anything about ipods. Sounds like you have to subscribe to itunes as well? And download music from there? Can't I load music from CD's I already own onto an ipod? Where's a tween when I need one? 
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 3:59 pm
Well, I found the apple help page. This is like a part time job figuring all this stuff out. Sounds like you can download itunes software for free when you hook up your ipod to your computer? I feel so out of it. LOL.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 7:13 pm
Brenda, I don't really know much about the Ipod stuff. Darren has one and he has the Itunes account or whatever it is. I buy him a gift card ever so often and he dl's new stuff, but I know he also put all our cd's on his Itunes lists so he could have them on his Ipod. Heh, that's the kind of gift that I'll expect him to get all set up. Happymom, funny you mention my oven! We were picking my nieces up from my sister earlier and bil's little bro (my little "adopted" bro) showed up and the subject came up. He said they had the same problem with their oven and he told Darren he fixed theirs. And offered to come over next weekend to help fix it. I have one recipe for chocolate oatmeal cookies that are yummy, wonder if it's the same one? Also have a lemon icebox pie one thats pretty good.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 7:21 pm
Brenda - you have to download Itunes, but it's free. No charge. Once it's downloaded, you can rip your own CDs into it to transfer to Ipods. You can also buy music through their store if you want. I just got Harry Connick's new Christmas CD for $7.99 (for 16 songs). They've had free audio books (The Alchemist) and there are some great deals on CDs, too. Most full albums are 9.99. Anyway - that's a great deal on the shuffles, and if DS didn't already have one, I'd get him one! 
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 7:52 pm
Brenda--you can also transfer music from your CDs to the ipod.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 7:53 pm
and individual songs are 99ยข via iTunes.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 1:37 am
One thing, nonbaked I seriously LOVE is the Kellogg's Cornflakes wreathes. I'm not a cereal eater but those I gobble down. Last year my Sis commented that it's the shaping of the wreathes that was time consuming. So, I asked if she couldn't just put it in a pan, sprinkle the cinnamon candies on top, and cut out squares. She did that and it came out nicely! Still looks very Christmasy. http://www2.kelloggs.com/Recipe/RecipeDetail.aspx?RID=1416 War, I sure hope he can fix your oven! Wouldn't THAT truly be a practical present before Christmas!?!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 10:36 am
Oh it'd be so wonderful. I've learned to work around not having the oven (crockpot, stove, bbq grill, electric grill) but sometimes I really miss it.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 10:39 am
Brenda, you can also transfer music from other music software into iTunes and therefore onto your ipod. DS does it all the time.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 11:59 pm
Well, we did go to Kmart today for board games. They had a bunch of different ones on sale, buy one get one free...except by the time we got there they were pretty well picked over. We did pretty good though, got two free games and $5 off a 5th one. I love buying board games as family gifts. They're pretty reasonably priced and gives us more to do with the kids. I've looked through all the black Friday ads and really didn't see anything I'd get out of bed for. There is a lego set at Target, but that's part of their two day sale. We're planning on going this weekend (need to work on my list) because Darren's mom wants to go with us. Should be a mighty interesting experience.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Friday, November 28, 2008 - 4:46 am
Went to Meijer before Thanksgiving feast at sister's. Got Pirana Panic and Rhino Rampage for $13 each and Pretty Pretty Princess Cinderella edition for $4. Just got back fro Walmart. Got Leapster for $30 and a V.Smile Pocket Handheld System for $25. Just gotta figure out what the diff between that and the cyber pocket is...
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Friday, November 28, 2008 - 9:54 am
Wargod, I hope you got your shuffles already from the Apple site, they are back up to $49 today! ETA: Oh, they are still $44.99 at MacConnection tho!
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Friday, November 28, 2008 - 8:50 pm
Help Please, I'm a stomped Biscuit today. My older Sis has requested from the Christian Bookstore, some sort of box/pad where you tear off sheets 365 days a year. Thought-for-the-Day, inspirational messages, to read before work. Today I went to a Christian Bookstore but they didn't have much. They had little inspirational postit-notes for $1.99 (which I grabbed) but it didn't look like there could be 365 there. I bought a Thomas Kinkaide pretty painting tear off desk calendar, BUT it has Scriptures not Thought-for-the-Day. I've googled madly, but can find nothing. Has anyone seen such an item? Or know where I can get something like that or have a Title I can try to google? This Sis is hard to shop for, so if she says she would like it...well, I will be disappointed if I can't locate. TIA!
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Couchtomato
Member
09-09-2008
| Friday, November 28, 2008 - 9:12 pm
Biscottiii - I googled Christian thought for the day calendar. This is one that looked like it might be what you want: http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=892160&event= CFN (don't know what CFN is, lol)
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Friday, November 28, 2008 - 9:23 pm
First time in my life, today I DID Freaky Friday! & survived. Wasn't too bad, since I went out at 3:30pm (thinking all the tired Masses might have gone home by then). Plus, I only had two presents in mind (the Thought-for-the-Day calendar mentioned above) and a watch for my next younger Sister. That watch has been a hard item, believe it or not. She wants an "inexpensive watch with velcro strap" so she can rip it off quickly at work when doing dishes. I've hit several low cost stores, Big5, Ross, drugstores. Finally found it last night (called Athletic Watch) on the Target website, sold in their stores too, but the thought of doing the whirlies in their parking garage on Freaky Friday, was just too terrifying. I knew exactly what she wanted, since last year I bought both her & I same watches at a going out of business store last year (75% off, paid $5-each). She had given hers to Dad back in the Nursing Home and won't be getting it back, mine is looking pretty worn. Today, I hit Sears and KMart and (Bless You Kmart!) they had one single round-dial velcro strap watch left and I GRABBED it. $19.99 plus 25% off. I'm so tickled and now I can tell her I waded through the crowds on Freaky Friday to get it for her. LOL, Sis goes to those sales yearly and all her stories left me afraid to try before (I hate shopping).
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Friday, November 28, 2008 - 11:03 pm
Bravo Couchtomato! TYSVM! Looks EXACTLY like what she wanted! Has now been ordered and should arrive (@ another Sis' house) by the time I arrive in Phoenix, so that I can wrap and put under her tree when I'm there. Since your "Find" was on sale, I can get her some movie coupons to add to the present. Strangely, I had also tried googling "Christian thought for the day calendar" but think I was thrown off when they were offering in Hardback vs. Paperback. Given the spiral binder, guess it could fall into one of those categories. I was so excited, I forgot to figure out what "CFN" is myself. Will try to take back the first calendar I picked up. If they won't refund, maybe I can find something nice to exchange for my BFF who is also a Christian. For the rest of the family, I usually buy Movie&popcorn coupons, or Grocery Certificates for families, when I hit Phx. So all my 'heavy' shopping is done. Practical plus beats trying to squeeze through airport security.
Now, I am one Happy Holiday Freaky Friday Shopper! 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 1:52 am
Kar, when I got home tonight there was a message from my sis on the answering machine that she'd gotten the shuffles, pink for Kota, green for Caleb. She didn't say where she got them though so I don't know if she ordered them online or went out and it was too late for me to call and ask. I accidentally went black Friday shopping this morning, lol. We took the kids to Disneyland today and before we left, we stopped by Walmart (Darren needed a beanie hat for tonight and we needed some munchie stuff for our picnic lunch.) I wasn't even thinking about it when we left the house and then we got there and it dawned on my why there were so many cars at 8am. Decided since it was that late in the morning (for that sale anyways) and we only needed a couple things to go ahead in. They had pajama bottoms for $4, which actually was something I'd planned on getting the kids. I picked up a pair of Hannah Montana and another of HSM 3 for Kota and a pair of Family Guy for Caleb. I had to send Darren and the kids to the front of the store so they wouldn't see them. I also picked up another game (some kind of find the buried treasure board game) at Disneyland for the kids/family and a set of Indiana Jones playing cards for my aunts companion (we get them a few stocking stuffers, he plays solitaire constantly and loves Indiana Jones so that was perfect.)
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Couchtomato
Member
09-09-2008
| Saturday, November 29, 2008 - 7:04 am
Biscottiii - YW. Glad I could help.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 2:12 am
Did anyone do any shopping or decorating today? We talked about decorating but decided to wait til tomorrow at least. I want to do a big cleaning on the living room (moving furniture to vacuum and carpet clean,) clean off my book shelves, dust, wash windows, etc before we bring in all the inside decorations. Darren also has to replace a busted sprinkler pipe tomorrow and wanted to wait til he was done with that before decorating outside. We did some shopping today. Went to Target looking for a lego set for Caleb that was on sale, but they were already sold out (we didn't go til 4, lol.) However, we did find the video game he wanted on sale, I was very happy about that. I also picked up quite a few stocking stuffers for Kota off the dollar shelves. I started Christmas cards tonight. I'm hoping to have those done by Tuesday or Wednesday and in the mail by Thursday. I usually put them off, but thought this would leave me more time later in December for fun stuff with the family. Oh! I ran by Michaels too earlier and I found the coolest thing for the kids. It's a roll of Christmas posters (smaller sized) to color. I think it has 30 altogether. For $3.99! I was really excited about that, I do a lot of kid swapping during the holidays for shopping/cooking/cleaning/wrapping and I'm always looking for something to keep the kidlets busy while they're here. We do a lot of Christmas craft gifts for their parents, but sometimes I need to do other things and still keep them occupied.
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Chewpito
Member
01-04-2004
| Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 2:35 am
Ahhhh, War..I cant sleep but just reading about all you have got going is making me tierd...LOL My Daughter works at the mall and I try never to go there.... but I met her for coffee on her break and then went and looked around abit....vic secret, bath and body...grocery store and home..... It was fun actually cause I really dont like to shop....found some cute sweatpants for me...and some things for my girl for xmas....I think I will put my tree up soon too...for some reason the lights sound apealing to me right now.. other then that Im not a big decorater...
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 2:49 am
Oh I'll stay out of the mall unless I have no choice at all. Hate that place during the rest of the year, can't stand it at Christmas time! I really don't have that much going on yet cuz I still have time to plan and schedule. In three weeks I'll be going nuts trying to figure out how I'm going to get everything done, lol. But, I do want the majority of shopping done in the next week or two, Christmas cards out this week, and all of the decorating done soon. I also want to wrap what I have here this week. That'll leave more time later on for family fun stuff, looking at Christmas lights, movies, etc. I still have to finish up my aunts Christmas shopping and I've offered to help my mil if she needs it so I won't be too stressed out when I have to do that stuff.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 5:14 am
I got my outdoor lights on yesterday. checked on my boxes of indoor stuff and the boxes look like they might have gotten damaged by Ike...i just didn't have the heart to open them.
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