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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Thursday, November 26, 2009 - 2:57 pm
Hoping everyone has a very good thanksgiving day and weekend. I am very thankful for TVCH and all of you--each of you make this an excellent community that feels good to be a part of.
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Friend
Member
05-21-2008
| Thursday, November 26, 2009 - 7:09 pm
Happy Thanksgiving to all you TVClubbers. I have a soft spot for my N&V crew. You guys teach me something new everyday and I appreciate that. I am venturing out into other areas of the Clubhouse so I hope to see you all around. Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, November 28, 2009 - 11:53 pm
I've seen someone (Juju?) post about leaving a bag at Walmart the other day and thought I'd post a warning about something similar. We went to Game Stop earlier to pick up a game for Caleb for Christmas. They were having a sale for $20 off through tomorrow. Game stop doesn't keep the real games out in the store. They have the cases out and when you take them up to the checkstand they give you a new case with the game in it. We set the empty case on the counter and the guy went and got the other one with the game in it and set it next to it. Our first oopsie was when the game rang up at the regular, not sales price. Darren said whoa wait, it's on sale and pointed to the sticker on the empty case. Guy said no, sales over, and Darren pointed again at the sticker, nuh uh, sales good from 11/27 - 11/29. Guy hit a button on the cash register and said oh you're right, sorry about that, it rang up as regular but once I hit total it took it off. Apparently they'd been talking about taking the sales stickers off the empty cases earlier in the day and he'd thought the sale was over. Here's where my warning comes in. I paid and the guy stuck the case in the bag and was handing Darren the reciept. He went to grab the bag and I stopped him to check the case. I'd noticed the case he put in the bag had the sales sticker on it and the brand new cases from behind the counter hadn't had the stickers on them, only the empty cases had them. Sure enough, he'd put the empty case in the bag. I would not have noticed (Darren didn't) until I went to wrap it, except Darren had pointed out the sales sticker when they'd talked about the game being on sale. So, warning, if buying stuff like that where they exchange an empty case (or box or whatever) for a new one check them before you leave the store. Guy said it wouldn't have been a problem to come back and get our game, we had the reciept and the empty case which was different than a brand new one having the sticker on it, plus they'd have noticed the new case when going to put an empty back on the shelf, so no problem knowing we walked out with the case. Except that it would have caused us an unneccessary trip back across town and a moment of panic when we finally realized we had an empty case rather than a brand new game!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, November 29, 2009 - 7:58 am
Juju and Pamy both. I think Pamy got her purchase outside the store and left it in the bottom of the shopping cart. Our purchase got left in the bag carousel because the girl used so many bags, and we didn't check the entire carousel. Our experience was just a few bucks and had a happy ending. Bigdog went back yesterday and told them what happened. Cust. Svc. said go get the missing items and just take them.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, November 29, 2009 - 12:50 pm
we will find out this Friday if they do same for us...manager said they would ck the tape.....pisser is that it was a charity gift....I guess I can look at it as someone musta really needed it if they took from the cart and didnt bring back into store Juju, was your store Walmart also?
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, November 29, 2009 - 2:34 pm
Ack, I remembered someone, Juju, I thought leaving the bag on the carousel, didn't remember Pamy. Probably remembered that because Darren had the same thing happen a couple Christmases ago, left a bag of stocking stuffers for me on it. He didn't know til he got home, can't remember if they held the bag or let him just go get the missing items but I know they were pretty good about it (he didn't have to re-buy anything.) Must be a weird universal Walmart thing cuz all of ours out here bag things funny too, one and two items per bag or even not bagging things (chapstick, gift cards) and leaving them sitting them on the counter in case you want to stick them in your purse. Pamy I hope they can figure out what happened to your item and get it back to you with no problem!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, November 29, 2009 - 8:59 pm
Pamy, yep, Walmart. And well, if you don't get it back, your charity has just been redirected.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, November 30, 2009 - 12:58 am
Heads up for anyone interested in the Griffith Park Christmas Light drive thingie. They're cutting back on the days they're doing it this year, plus cutting back on the days you can drive through. The first two weeks, Dec. 4 - Dec. 17 is pedestrian only. Dec. 18 - Dec. 30 you can drive through or take the shuttle. 5pm - 10pm every night. I know it's local stuff (kinda local for me) but I was just looking up the dates for it and saw it was a bit different than in other years so thought I'd share. We've been taking the kids for several years and love going. We've talked about walking through, but never seems to fail it's freezing the night we go...in fact last year it was raining, lol!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, November 30, 2009 - 10:55 pm
Guitar update: I'd originally asked for help with an electric guitar in the dumb question thread but this no longer fits there. The orignal question was along the lines of is a cheaper guitar ok for a first/starter electric guitar. I'd seen a pack...the electric guitar, cord, gig bag, etc, on sale for $79 at Guitar Center. Sale was for the weekend and because my check hadn't come, we missed it. But, I think we got a better deal. When we pulled up to the store, I told Darren if we could walk out with a guitar for $100 or under, I'd be happy. There was an employee sitting at the door checking receipts and when we went in, he asked what we were looking for and when we told him, he pointed us to another guy. That guy asked if we would mind waiting a couple minutes while he finished up with another customer and we told him no problem, we'd look around. We looked for 10-15 minutes or so and at that point I'm thinking $120, we weren't seeing much for under that and it was fairly close to our budget for his guitar. Guy came back and apologized for taking so long (no problem by us, I liked the fact he spent so much time with each customer since we don't really know squat about guitars!) Anyways, we told him what we were looking for...13 year old who's been playing for a little over a year, loves it but not sure how much his attention will hold after this school year and we want to encourage it as much as possible. Dude cracked me up when he said if Caleb had been playing for a year, he probably wasn't going to lose any interest! We chatted for a while and then he made my holiday shopping season. Store brand electric guitar (they plant a tree for every guitar sold, the guy told us proudly,) good starter guitar. $149...on sale for $79! He hooked it up and played it for us, sounded good. Even polished it up for us. Sis has an amp for him so we were good on that. We picked up the cable, gig bag, and picks (I always pick up more picks,) and a pick holder. Walked out having spent $130. The guitar has a year warranty, the cable is garunteed for life. We were quite tickled. The guy spent a good 30 minutes with us chatting about different types and finding out about Caleb and just helping out with all we needed. Very, very helpful and I think we got a pretty good deal. We did quite a bit more shopping and while not done yet, we did fairly well today and what is left is pretty minor. Oh and the icing on the cake, no where at all was really busy today, that was very nice. We'll probably finish up with the shopping by next week sometimes and I've happy with that. I can wrap the gifts and just focus on the fun holiday stuff. This Friday is the city tree lighting and Christmas walk where they close down the blvd. Pics with Santa, looking at trees decorated by the elementary school kids, outdoor movie, etc etc. We had fun doing that last year and are looking forward to it this year as well.
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Monday, November 30, 2009 - 11:05 pm
Yay, War. Glad to hear you had a good experience finding Caleb's new (surprise!) electric guitar. 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, November 30, 2009 - 11:29 pm
Thanks! I'm not big on shopping, but that was the fun kind, saving money, lol!
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Tuesday, December 01, 2009 - 12:48 am
Congrats Santas War & Darren! Whew! Sounds like you got a great salesguy that truly 'understood'. Folks aren't flush w/cash this year but they still want their kid smiling @ what's under the tree.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, December 01, 2009 - 1:02 am
Bisc, that was the best part for me. He took the time to understand, really talked to us to find out what exactly would be good for us. Also why I didn't mind waiting 10-15 minutes for him to finish up with the customer before us because he was willing to spend that much time with people. I forgot to mention another deal I found today that I thought I'd pass along. Michaels has 2010 calendars for $1 each. They also had daily planners and the smaller calendars to carry in purses. That's a traditional gift for us, the kids and I get a new calendar every Christmas so I was excited about that. They didn't have a huge selection, but they had some color your own calendars, each month has a new coloring page. Some were dinosaurs, some had cars. The one I got Kota had girlie activities (Sept. is girls having a slumber party.) Besides the coloring ones they also had flowers, dessert of the month, landscapes, etc.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Tuesday, December 01, 2009 - 9:38 am
Great deal on that guitar! And thanks for mentioning the $1 calendars! That is very helpful to me. We saved a lot of money in the last few days getting ready for Christmas. It feels good to have most of the shopping done. I went to Kohl's and Costco on Sat. and spent several hours online yesterday comparing prices. When I could, I got quite a few gifts ordered. I ordered through ebates.com, so, I'll get a check from them eventually with some cash back! We don't have much to spend this year compared to other years. I think our kids will be happy with what they get and the best gift for me is that I saved a lot of money! Several neighbors decorated. It is so nice to look out the windows and see the lights! We ended up having no time to decorate. Maybe in 2 weeks.
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Taysmomcj
Member
03-24-2008
| Tuesday, December 01, 2009 - 10:51 am
That's GREAT Wargod!!! I'm sure he'll love it!!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, December 01, 2009 - 11:07 am
Thanks! I really think he'll be thrilled, especially since he's not expecting anything like that. And you're very welcome, Happymom. I was happy to find those calendars, don't usually find them that cheap before the new year. I really don't know anyone who isn't trying to save as much money as possible this year. Cutting back for us has been nice because it's really forcing us to think about what the kids will love and it really forced them to think about what they want. We're not spending much so it's got to count. Hehe, my neighbor who goes overboard on decorating started Christmas decs before Thanksgiving. He keeps asking when I'm bringing the little ones (my younger niece and nephew) over to look and walk through. The older kids love his decorations but the little ones get all wide eyed and excited and ohhhh and ahhh, lol.
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Taysmomcj
Member
03-24-2008
| Tuesday, December 01, 2009 - 11:10 am
This year our neices and nephew will be getting hand crocheted Christmas Stockings filled with small bags of chips and some candy, instead of what they usually get from DH and I. We've had to really scale back this year. We are hoping that the extra effort in making each of the stockings makes up for not getting as much from us.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, December 01, 2009 - 11:39 am
That's a great idea, Tays! Stockings are something they can keep forever.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Wednesday, December 02, 2009 - 1:25 am
That sounds lovely Tays! I've still got ALL my homemade stockings from over the years, very sentimental about them. Maybe nobody has an excess of money this year. But Christmas is sounding more like when we were kids. Not so commercial but a lot more thoughtful & exciting!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, December 02, 2009 - 1:53 am
Heh, that's the best way for it, Bisc! Kidlike excitement and magic is fun. We're already talking about making reindeer food with the kids and sis and I are planning what evidence to leave of Santa and the reindeer having visited. I found the roll of Christmas coloring sheets at Michaels last night so next time my nieces are over the kids are gonna be coloring some pictures for everyone. I need to figure out what holiday craft I'm going to do with all of them to give as gifts (thinking gingle bell wreaths.) I am a bad, bad auntie. I told my little nephew that I'd come get him and bring him over to play last week. Got busy with all the holiday stuff and I completely forgot about it. Told little adopted sis I'd come get him one day next week and I think I'm going to make cookies with him. I think he'll enjoy that and hopefully it'll make up for forgetting him!
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Wednesday, December 02, 2009 - 2:01 am
Awww, the little guy will love baking cookies! I agree about the stockings, great gift! I still put up the one my mom made for me when I was a baby or tot. Talked with my brother tonight. He said he is miserly...I said call it frugal instead .
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Thursday, December 03, 2009 - 1:22 am
But Christmas is sounding more like when we were kids. Not so commercial but a lot more thoughtful & exciting! I am also finding this to be true, this year, and it's wonderful. }
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, December 03, 2009 - 2:05 am
It is and I'll say again, it's fun, lol! This weekend starts are fun Christmas stuff. Friday night is the tree lighting in front of city hall and then the hospitality walk thing. They close off the blvd (for the parade Saturday,) the stores stay open, there are carolers and Santa. They show a movie (against the side of a building) and have places to buy hot chocolate and cookies along with being able to go in to the museum and write letters to Santa. Several elementary schools decorate donated Christmas trees that will be displayed up and down the blvd Friday night and Saturday for the parade and then given to needy families (Dakota did it last year.) Sis and I took the five kids last year and had a blast...we spent $12 if I remember right, got three pictures of the five kids with Santa, hot chocolate for everyone and cookies for the kids. We're really looking forward to it again this year. Then Saturday we're going over to decorate aunts house. Darren and bil have all sorts of plans for the outdoor lights once they get the tree set up, the kidlets will decorate it as sis and I take care of things like the nativity set and Christmas village. That's always so much fun, the kids really get into decorating nicely for aunt and because she can't really help and enjoys just watching them, they get goofy for her amusement. Hehe, I got to crack my sis up the other day. One of the local radio stations started playing 24/7 Christmas music BEFORE Thanksgiving. I got a kick out of it so in the minivan unless my morning radio program is on, I'll listen to that station. I hadn't realized Darren had also been listening to it in the Buick. I'd taken the truck one day for a recycling run and had changed it over to the Christmas station too. Sis had asked to borrow the truck right after that and when she brought it back, she didn't say anything. A few days later I was over at the house and she asked if she could take my minivan to run an errand (I was parked in front of the gate so she couldn't get her car out) and I said sure. When she came back, she didn't say anything. Well day or two later, I'd showed up driving the Buick. Same thing, I was parked in front of the gate and she took the car to the store. When she came back, she finally asked why on earth all 3 cars were stuck on the Christmas station so early??? Couldn't believe we were listing to Christmas music at the end of November, lol. To tell the truth, by that point, I'd been listing to it for a week and didn't even notice anymore, radio is always background noise when I'm driving, I keep the volume low and rarely pay attention to it and it certainly hadn't occured to me all 3 cars were tuned to the same station, especially the truck since we so rarely drive it!
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Thursday, December 03, 2009 - 11:20 am
Lol! We have a station here that began playing the Christmas music before Thanksgiving. I stumbled across it a full week before and was surprised. That City Hall tree lighting event sounds fun!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, December 03, 2009 - 11:10 pm
I've been thinking somethings missing for a week or so now but it was only tickling at my mind what it could be. And then yesterday we were picking the kids up from school and there was a woman painting a holiday scene on a store window, it finally dawned on me the city hadn't put up the Christmas decorations in the big parking lots and shopping centers around town. They usually start the week or two before Thanksgiving. They have Christmasy signs (presents, toy soldiers, trains) that hang on the light posts of the major shopping centers like Walmart, Target, etc. Once it hit me that was missing I realized Palmdale had also not done their decorating, we were out there Monday and their shopping centers were bare, along with the signs they hang along the major streets. Just read an article talking about other cities doing similar things: Strapped cities cut Christmas from budget.
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