Overall I had a good BF experience.
Shopped BF sales online Wednesday night/Thursday throughout the day at Newegg,
Walmart,
Best Buy, Radio Shack, and Lowe's. And all of those except lowes are Sunshine Rewards merchants so I also scored a % back of my shopping.
Left home about 10:45 and headed to Walmart. Arrived around 11:30. Mom and I separated and headed to each side of the store. We both only wanted small stuff so no real panic. We ended up with everything on our lists except the $9 griddle which neither of us ever saw except in people's carts. Everything was super at walmart. They didn't let us touch anything until midnight. Just one or two employees guarding lots of stuff, but everyone was obedient. Lines were forming for 5 am stuff, but wasn't interested. Had everything we wanted, found each other, and got it in the right carts by 12:40, but then in line to check out until 1:30 *sigh*
Headed to next town to hit Old Navy, but pulled in CVS on a whim. Got all of their "Free" stuff and had a WONDERFUL checker who rang up our orders in like 5 different orders to help us get most of the stuff free today. He would ring up like 3 things, get their ECB's, and then ring up the next 3 and use the ECB's from first order to pay, etc. I ended up making one charge to my debit card for $9 and walked out with $10 in ECB's. and then headed to next town.
Walked in Old Navy and had my jeans in my hands in 5 minutes. Then waited in the line from hell. It was soooo long, but had friendly people in front of us and visited the entire time.
Left Old Navy at 3:50, went to Mall, and arrived at JC Penny at 4 on the dot. Walked right in with crowd, got 2 of their griddles for $19.99 with $10 mail in rebates so was thrilled (and we got the free snow globes!).
Was out of JC Penny's by 4:15 and headed to Target. The line was still going in so we jumped in and headed in. Again, we only wanted smaller items so no big deal. Mom bought a good bit there, I only got 2 movies and 6 of the iTunes gift cards (will give 1 each to my dds for stocking stuffers) and the rest will just keep through the year as we buy a lot on iTunes and thought the savings was worth stocking up.
After Target decided to head to Kmart just to see what was going on. I really wanted the 2gb memory card (bought a child on my list a mp3 player and 2gb is the largest sd card it will hold). Kmart was insane in my opinion. Made everyone that wanted ANYTHING out of electronics line up. Had the entire electronics blocked off (they did not do this last year). Even if you wanted something not on sale, you had to be in the line. I was not waiting in the long line for 1 2g sd card. Mom bought a few other things though. Checked out in jewelery which was not too bad.
Decided we were tired of shopping. Went to ihop for breakfast. Mentioned to Mom (since I knew she was in the market) that Target sales Kindles. We decided to go back by Target to see if they had any - they didn't.
She (Mom) needed a new tag for her dog, so we went in Pet Smart and got that.
Told Mom that Staples also sales Kindles so we went to the town that has a Staples on the way home (adds about 5 miles to the trip). They had 2 left (how many she wanted). We got those, the hd, and some flash drives (actually she got all this, I didn't need any of it).
Mom realizes she needs a few regular household items from Walmart while we are so close so we went in there.
Then headed home. We were back at my house around 9:50 (so almost 12 hours later).
I hugged and visited with my DD10 (who my brother was nice enough to bring home for me so I wouldn't have to drive half awake to go get her) and then headed to bed. Slept until 8 pm! Woke up, fixed chili dogs for supper at dd's request. Back asleep by 10, slept until 6 this morning.
But all in all, I'm pleased with our purchases. I'll be digging everything out of my trunk later and recording who I bought what so I can see who the couple people left that I need to purchase anything for are.