Christmas Shopping 2010

I bought a couple more gifts tonight. I saw a set in the Walmart ad that had a basketball and junior football in it for $7 so I headed to the store to see if I could find it, but they didn't have it. I ended up buying just a basketball for $5, but I may return it if I find the set.

I also picked up some cute Phineas and Ferb pajamas for my 6yo and How to Train your dragon ones that make you look like you're a dragon for my 9yo.
 
I ordered a week or so ago and I LOVE it. Its so great. I have wifi, so I can check e mail and Facebook with a push of a button. The colors are beautiful, and oh, the whole e reader of its pretty cool too! lol It comes with a stand because you can download pics to it and make it a digital picture frame. Wel worth the money and it is Barnes and Noble Compatible. LOVE IT!!!!:rotfl:

Kids just got Moon dough. Circus Peanuts for sure! (and I can't believe I ever ate something that consistancy lol) and they like it ok. You can mix colors like play doh. Not bad.

Ed, thanks for the heads up on the Nook. Just ordered it for hubby and can't wait to give it to him for Christmas. He is a huge reader and travels a lot, so this is soooo perfect for him.

49 days left people!!!! AHHHHH:scared1: :laughing:

Sweet! Glad to hear it helped! That was a pretty darn good deal. The new nook is right on the horizon, but, it's also 150% more at 250..... soooo....

Hmm. I hadn't seen those. When checking it out on Walmart's site it also showed a "dune buggy" version that will go over "rougher" terrain. I'm wondering if that might be an option. I'd rather have him tooling around the back yard than our street even though we DO near the end of a cul de sac. I'm not sure he is big enough to work it. He is the size of a large four year old/ small to average five year old...I guess the only way to know would be to find one in a store and let him sit in it. I wouldn't want to buy only to find out he was dwarfed by it and couldn't operate it.



:eek: I didn't need to know how many days are left LOL That is not enough and I'm nearly DONE!! Time to take a chill pill.

If you get it, please, let me know what you think. I'm REALLY thinking that might be what Santa gets (or something like it) for my youngest. I need to read about it to see if he is too young (5 1/2) for it, but, it looks really cool and I know he would love it. He tried one of those go-kart controlled environment things and just kept getting back in line.

ED! STOP with the great suggestions! LOL DH has been wanting a Kindle or a Nook. Is this worth it? He always wants the latest and greatest but wondering if he would be happy with this over not getting one at all... Does this one get wi-fi or come with any books?



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I think its sold out now, but, yea, that was the original nook ... There are free ones out there, but, it's typically classical works, not current NY best time sellers.

It honestly could come back again. Just keep an eye on the B&N seller over at Ebay that was selling that one!

I'd almost expect it to come back ot be honest again before the season is up. But no inside info, just a best guess seeing as the new one is coming out and they need to blow through old stock / open box / etc. It's actually probably not a bad way to try to get a better-than-refurb "refurb" if you know what I mean?

Ebay has it on every page! 49 days. ACK! :scared1:

Ed - I ordered the Nook. Sounds like a great deal and DH won't be expecting it. Thanks for the tip.

I need to stay away from this thread!

:)

Never mind the above then. Cool.

Well, you let me know how it is then!

Hey ED!!! I missed the Nook 99.00 deal.....was waiting till this morning to ask my Dh about getting it for his 19 year old dd and they were gone! LOL Do you know of anywhere else? Anyone know of a good deal coming up on BF?
What is the Nook download for the computor? Is it free?
I'm also in need of a Cricut or Silhoute (sp) for a really good price if anyone knows of a sale coming up on those:goodvibes
Keep up folks and you'll have done all my shopping for me!;):thumbsup2

Like I was saying, I bet it will be back again. Just keep an eye on that same seller and see what happens.


Any suggestions on a spy kit?

DS9 wants spy gear really bad, but I don't want to get "junky" spy gear but also don't want to break the bank....suggestions? :confused:

The JAKKS Pacific lineup is probably the bigger known of them all in the toy aisle. They have that whole spy gear line.... which includes that camera watch ....

The Nook download for the PC is free but you still have to pay for your eBooks and stuff like that!

What (s)he said. You can get Nook, Kindle, etc for the computer, iPod/iPhone ... even though they make hardware solutions, they will still gladly take your money through other methods! How great are they :)

In the past there have been some very good deals on the Cricut on Black Friday. I think ACMoore had a pretty good bundle deal last week, I looked for the flyer but I don't have it anymore. I would keep checking the flyers for ACMoore, Hobby Lobby and Michaels.




I got my ds the air hogs helicopter with the camera (not really spy gear I know) and now I'm thinking I may return it for the watch that is a camera, he mentioned that he thought it was really cool. I hate to get it and it be junk, it seems like every spy gear/equipment thing that we already own is.

I thought I was done but realized I am one short for my youngest, I think I'm going to get him the paper jams drum set tomorrow and then I'll be completely done with my kids.

I checked out the air hogs helicopter ... we did a review on it.

Here's my SHORT version.

If you are familiar with the older air hogs indoor flyers, and, you are happy with the quality and flight.. You won't be disappointed in that. It's the same exact thing. Same thing. Works the same way as the older models.

Now, throw a small old-school webcam on board and is that enough to make it worth it. Depends I guess.. For me, it was. The quality is decent (you wont be wanting to watch it on an 106" HDTV, but, you probably know that going into it). There is no audio, so that should be noted.

But, the video frames per second are VERY nice so there is no choppyness.. it looks like a good fluid video. It's small, because the resolution is small.. but, again, you have to take into consideration the price of the toy. It also takes still pictures. You take the pics and videos off just like you would hooking up a camera the PC/Mac.

All in all, it's a lot of fun. Like I said -- it's two questions.

1 - do you like the air hogs of old?
2 - would the one you are buying for go nuts over the idea of having a camera on it? it DOES work. its lower end quality resolution wise, but, the overall quality is very respectable. and, like i said it does work.

But, it is ~60 bucks.

Phew.

Hope that helps.

And there are... reviews of it out there with pics and stuff.

Last year my DS bought a set at Walmart, we think the brand was Spy Gear. It had a dart gun thing that went around his wrist and a couple other accessories. He loves it and still plays with it, it's held up well. HTH, I'm sorry I can't remember more details.

We've been trying to get the attention of JAKKS Pacific, but, we just haven't connected yet. If we do, we'll be taking a look at the entire spy lineup from them this year.

Spy watch inlcuded (which I am dying to see!)
 
I take back what I said about Moon Dough being ok. I HATE HATE HATE it. All I have done for 3 days is sweep the floor. The stuff crumbles sooooo easily and makes a huge mess. Can't wait to get rid of it.

I went to TRU today and they had Zhu Zhu Pets and accessories 50% off, so I grabbed a ton. I hate them so much but my kiddos love them and at that price I couldn't pass them up.

The real reason I went was to get a Justin Bieber doll for dd9. They had them behind the customer service and said it was because it was one doll per family. lol I said, 'heaven forbid there is a family out there without a Justin Bieber doll!" :rotfl: The only reason I got it was because when I was 12 or 13 my aunt got me a Joey McEntire doll, (New Kids on the Block) and I thought I would die of happiness! I know she will be soooo excited.

I need to get more stuff for my dd7, she likes everything ok and nothing a ton, which should make it easier to buy things but its not. I don't want to get things just to get things, but because she really wants them. She wants her 1st American Girl doll, which I do have, and some space stuff, so thats what I am working on now.
 
I take back what I said about Moon Dough being ok. I HATE HATE HATE it. All I have done for 3 days is sweep the floor. The stuff crumbles sooooo easily and makes a huge mess. Can't wait to get rid of it.

I went to TRU today and they had Zhu Zhu Pets and accessories 50% off, so I grabbed a ton. I hate them so much but my kiddos love them and at that price I couldn't pass them up.

The real reason I went was to get a Justin Bieber doll for dd9. They had them behind the customer service and said it was because it was one doll per family. lol I said, 'heaven forbid there is a family out there without a Justin Bieber doll!" :rotfl: The only reason I got it was because when I was 12 or 13 my aunt got me a Joey McEntire doll, (New Kids on the Block) and I thought I would die of happiness! I know she will be soooo excited.

I need to get more stuff for my dd7, she likes everything ok and nothing a ton, which should make it easier to buy things but its not. I don't want to get things just to get things, but because she really wants them. She wants her 1st American Girl doll, which I do have, and some space stuff, so thats what I am working on now.

HAHAH.

Too funny.

That was actually the EXACT thing that came up in our review about how it kind of naturally comes apart a bit more than other similar products. Too funny.

I think veggiemom spent about two paragraphs spelling all that out in the review.

But, she felt ok so far about the cleaning up. So far. :)

What drives you over the edge of insanity? ... just the spill over that happens?

Really? The bieber dolls were that crazy?

Wow.

They still haven't left the preorder stage on Target looking at things.

I guess it was the singing ones that made the most waves?
 

I just checked my email and saw that zhu zhu pets and accessories were 50% off. Wish we had known earlier today so we could have went to the store for it to save shipping cost, but hey, still a deal.
I got my nephew a kung zhu and the zhu zhu pet arena. The zhu arena was 30, so quite a deal for 15. I'm so excited I can't go to sleep now :goodvibes

I also picked up sing a ma jigs the other day. My two youngest dds just think they're adorable and really want them. They'll be happy. I thought they were just little weird looking things until we played with them one day. :love:
 
The real reason I went was to get a Justin Bieber doll for dd9. They had them behind the customer service and said it was because it was one doll per family. lol I said, 'heaven forbid there is a family out there without a Justin Bieber doll!" :rotfl:

O-M-G. I need to check this out. DD has Bieber Fever to the nth degree. She actually asked for a JB shirt, which I forgot about :headache:, so I'm really, REALLY glad I saw this. If Santa were to leave her the doll in her stocking she might faint (and I'm sure DS11 and stepson 14 would pass out, but not from happiness :laughing:)

I guess it was the singing ones that made the most waves?

One of them sings? :scared: I hope she doesn't hear about THAT one because Santa would NOT be that cruel to the rest of us LOL
 
So I went ahead and ordered the Special Edition Red Wii today...thanks for the help Ed!! Now can anybody else tell me what I need so that my kids can play it first thing on Christmas morning. I plan to pick up more controllers...I am going to get the new motion controllers...ugh...3 more at $40 each...any deals?? But really, besides more controllers what do I need...cables? batteries for the controllers? I have a couple of games so that is set! Thanks in advanced for any help!!:goodvibes
 
I went to TRU and was able to get my DD11 a 4gb MP3 player on sale for $29.99 and my DD10 a CD boombox and matching alarm clock and got my DD6 a Journey girls bedroom set for her AG dolls. And because I spent more than $75 I got a $10 giftcard!
My DD6 is pretty much finished just need to get a few small things and her stocking stuffers but I just got started with the older 2! I did get my nephew(2) a Toy Story Potato Head Set at Khohls today on sale for $20 so he is done, just need to shop for nephew(1) and niece(5) now!
 
So I went ahead and ordered the Special Edition Red Wii today...thanks for the help Ed!! Now can anybody else tell me what I need so that my kids can play it first thing on Christmas morning. I plan to pick up more controllers...I am going to get the new motion controllers...ugh...3 more at $40 each...any deals?? But really, besides more controllers what do I need...cables? batteries for the controllers? I have a couple of games so that is set! Thanks in advanced for any help!!:goodvibes

Nunchucks for the controllers!! I would not do batteries for the controllers. We have a charging dock for our 4 controllers and it came with rechargeable batteries. Best. Investment. Ever! My SIL and a good friend both use batteries, both complain about it eating them up, but refuse to buy a charger. If you play much at all a charger will pay you back big time.

Another cute thing is the "add ons" for the controllers. You don't have to have them but my kids, especially the youngest, love them. Last year we got 4 of each: Sports sets and wheels for Mario Kart. This year we got the Nerf game and an extra gun. I cannot tell you how much play those have gotten, DH found the sports sets on one of those deal of the day sites for $1 each.

I went to TRU and was able to get my DD11 a 4gb MP3 player on sale for $29.99 and my DD10 a CD boombox and matching alarm clock and got my DD6 a Journey girls bedroom set for her AG dolls. And because I spent more than $75 I got a $10 giftcard!
My DD6 is pretty much finished just need to get a few small things and her stocking stuffers but I just got started with the older 2! I did get my nephew(2) a Toy Story Potato Head Set at Khohls today on sale for $20 so he is done, just need to shop for nephew(1) and niece(5) now!

Can I make a suggestion for your 11 year old? Take that GC back to TRU and apply it towards one of those GPX charger/player/clocks. It also comes in blue.
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3534417
Or, if that is too cutesy, this is what we got our 11 year old son:
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4290898
 
[B said:
southern_redhead[/B];38870697]Nunchucks for the controllers!! I would not do batteries for the controllers. We have a charging dock for our 4 controllers and it came with rechargeable batteries. Best. Investment. Ever!
Ooh, I just realized that I have 4 controllers (2 remotes and 2 nunchucks...bought an extra one of each), but I only bought 1 charging dock? Do you suggest I get 2 docks so I can recharge all 4 controllers? I got the charging dock free when I purchased my Wii a few weeks ago and I think it was only around $20 anyway, but should I snag an extra when I'm out & about?

ETA - should I have spare batteries around Cmas morning so we can actually play? If so, what size? I've already wrapped all this and forgot to look. THANKS SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!
 
My DS9 wants the Kinect for his xbox 360 which would be his santa gift. I searched all the stores here and online everyone is sold out. Amazon had it where you could order it and they will ship it once they get more in stock, fingers crossed that it comes before Christmas. This reminds me of the hunting I had to do years ago for the Nintendo DS.
 
[B said:
southern_redhead[/B];38870697]Nunchucks for the controllers!! I would not do batteries for the controllers. We have a charging dock for our 4 controllers and it came with rechargeable batteries. Best. Investment. Ever!
Ooh, I just realized that I have 4 controllers (2 remotes and 2 nunchucks...bought an extra one of each), but I only bought 1 charging dock? Do you suggest I get 2 docks so I can recharge all 4 controllers? I got the charging dock free when I purchased my Wii a few weeks ago and I think it was only around $20 anyway, but should I snag an extra when I'm out & about?

ETA - should I have spare batteries around Cmas morning so we can actually play? If so, what size? I've already wrapped all this and forgot to look. THANKS SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!

Well, nunchucks don't require batteries. They are only used to plug into the bottom of your wiimote. So if you have 2 wiimotes/2 nunchucks then you should be fine with your double charger. I read that as you had 4 of the actual controllers (and no nunchucks) so I was thinking you would need a quad charger like we have (if you do get a 3rd and 4th remote definately get the bigger charging dock - we often have guests and all four remotes will be used.) It takes a while to charge them up so I'd suggest waiting until the kids go to bed that night to start that process. I could be wrong but I think the remotes have one set of batteries with them (and your charging dock should have 2 sets of rechargeables if it charges 2 remotes.) You might have a pack of AA's on hand, just in case they wear out the demo batteries that come with it before they get ready to shut it down for the night. If you have Netflix, also set your Wii up to stream movies. We love that feature on ours and the kids use it for that quite a bit.

Oh, and I wouldn't get out the charging dock until you are actually ready to put the controllers on the charger. When we first got our Wii and just had the 2 controllers THAT charging dock had what looked like regular batteries (but green) as it's rechargeable batteries. I remember once that a set of them got laid somewhere and I nearly had a nervous breakdown before we found them. Our quad charger has batteries that are little "packs" sort of like what comes with an RC car but we've never had them out of the remotes so I haven't had to worry about losing them.
 
So each remote takes 2 double A batteries? If I do not plan on getting the charger right away can I use regular rechargeable batteries or do I need special battery packs?
 
My DS9 wants the Kinect for his xbox 360 which would be his santa gift. I searched all the stores here and online everyone is sold out. Amazon had it where you could order it and they will ship it once they get more in stock, fingers crossed that it comes before Christmas. This reminds me of the hunting I had to do years ago for the Nintendo DS.

Oh boy, the DS search. I remember that xmas as well!:scared1: I don't know where you live or if there are any around, but did you try places that sell new and used video games and systems. Around here we have gamestop and gamecrazy. That is actually where we ended up finding our DS. Not used of course because it had just came out, but they sell new stuff too. We kept calling all of them all around us everyday, they never knew when they were going to get a shipment in. One morning they said they just got 2 in and there was 1 left. We sped over there and got it.

I don't know if you already ordered yours though?
 
I went to TRU today and they had Zhu Zhu Pets and accessories 50% off, so I grabbed a ton. I hate them so much but my kiddos love them and at that price I couldn't pass them up.
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Really? My TRU ad says Zhu Zhu stuff is 30% a purchase of $75 or more. I do NOT need $75 worht of Zhu Zhu stuff. Was that 50% off sale in your ad? I'd love to grab a few hamsters at 50% off. I wish that was the sale where I live!
 
[B said:
southern_redhead[/B];38870697]Nunchucks for the controllers!! I would not do batteries for the controllers. We have a charging dock for our 4 controllers and it came with rechargeable batteries. Best. Investment. Ever!

Well, nunchucks don't require batteries. They are only used to plug into the bottom of your wiimote. So if you have 2 wiimotes/2 nunchucks then you should be fine with your double charger. breakdown before we found them. Our quad charger has batteries that

Thanks! Great scoop. I feel like I'm prepared! I can't ask DH these questions cause the Wii is from Santa to both he and DD :goodvibes
 
Really? My TRU ad says Zhu Zhu stuff is 30% a purchase of $75 or more. I do NOT need $75 worht of Zhu Zhu stuff. Was that 50% off sale in your ad? I'd love to grab a few hamsters at 50% off. I wish that was the sale where I live!

The 50% off sale was yesterday only.
 
Oh boy, the DS search. I remember that xmas as well!:scared1: I don't know where you live or if there are any around, but did you try places that sell new and used video games and systems. Around here we have gamestop and gamecrazy. That is actually where we ended up finding our DS. Not used of course because it had just came out, but they sell new stuff too. We kept calling all of them all around us everyday, they never knew when they were going to get a shipment in. One morning they said they just got 2 in and there was 1 left. We sped over there and got it.

I don't know if you already ordered yours though?

Yes I ordered it already but still can cancel it since it has not shipped. I done called around today even gamestop and no one has any in yet.
 
Really? My TRU ad says Zhu Zhu stuff is 30% a purchase of $75 or more. I do NOT need $75 worht of Zhu Zhu stuff. Was that 50% off sale in your ad? I'd love to grab a few hamsters at 50% off. I wish that was the sale where I live!

How about Justice? There are 40% off coupons for there.
 
So I went ahead and ordered the Special Edition Red Wii today...thanks for the help Ed!! Now can anybody else tell me what I need so that my kids can play it first thing on Christmas morning. I plan to pick up more controllers...I am going to get the new motion controllers...ugh...3 more at $40 each...any deals?? But really, besides more controllers what do I need...cables? batteries for the controllers? I have a couple of games so that is set! Thanks in advanced for any help!!:goodvibes

No problemo! Good one on getting the red edition. Your kids will be the envy of their friends. Watch, you'll see all the ooooh's and ahhhh's :)

My DS9 wants the Kinect for his xbox 360 which would be his santa gift. I searched all the stores here and online everyone is sold out. Amazon had it where you could order it and they will ship it once they get more in stock, fingers crossed that it comes before Christmas. This reminds me of the hunting I had to do years ago for the Nintendo DS.

:)

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It is in stock. As of this writing, I show it at mygofer. That could change at any minute, I see it's been in stock for a whopping 54 minutes.

Good luck.

I'll have to leave it at that for now, sorry. Let me know if you are able to catch it in time!

So each remote takes 2 double A batteries? If I do not plan on getting the charger right away can I use regular rechargeable batteries or do I need special battery packs?

Yea, each remote ("wiimote") takes two double A. They eat through them pretty good so you want to stick with everyones earlier suggestions of recharge kits...Which, by the way, you can get on ebay a lot of times for a pretty good deal.

BIG TIP though : if it looks like an off brand, run far far away. You don't want off brand for the batteries if you can avoid it (IE ships direct from HK on ebay etc). Alternatively, it will probably cost ~15-20 for two controllers give or take to get rechargeable batteries for. (That's if you dont go the straight up double A rechargeable and get a Wii specific one)


And..... if any of you that didn't pull the trigger want back in on that Nook deal, it's back. 20 bucks more, but, it is back.

Search ebay for item : 300490545158

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