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Spending Black Friday at Home This Year

Yes, I have been one of the crazy shoppers who stand in line at 4 a.m. to pick up a big ticket item at one of the sales the day after Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday. I won’t be doing it this year. I went out for a half day (instead of the usual full day) last year, came home and decided to check the sales online. I found out that almost every single item I had purchased, I could have gotten without getting out into the cold morning and hanging out with the other crazy shoppers. I suppose I will kind of miss the laughter and the camaraderie of most shoppers out there first thing in the a.m. but I will enjoy lingering around in bed until at least 6 a.m. and not going out until the sun warms things up a bit.

Here are just a few of the deals that can be had between now and Black Friday and some even longer.

Just click on the paragraph that intrigues you to check out the sales:

Shop during the Holidays with these great offers from The Children's Place. 15% off with code HHHA9 now through December 6, 2009. Also, be sure to check out the great Cyber Monday and Black Friday offers. If you shop early, you will receive 20% off your entire purchase.

This one is for free delivery on select Harry & David Gourmet Gifts. The code is GIVE.

The Scholastic Store Online is advertising their Black Friday/ Cyber Monday Super Deals for the upcoming weekend! They promise tons of special discounts all through their site - all weekend long. AND you can take an extra 20% off plus free shipping on orders over $25 with code AFFTGS for even bigger savings! This offer ends Monday, November 30th.

And at Barnes & Noble, you can get free shipping in time for Christmas on any order of 25.00 or more and placed before December 20th.

Happy Shopping!

Honoring Our Veterans

There aren't enough words to express our gratitude to all who have served, are serving or will serve this great country. Because of you, we are free. Because of you, we can enjoy our way of life. Because of you, we do not live in daily fear for our lives. We keep you all in our prayers and we also honor the families left behind that have to play dual roles of mother/fathers, sometimes forever. It is not an easy life the military and their families live and we appreciate you all. God bless our military AND their families.

Special November Events

CONCERTS: Bruce Springsteen, AC/DC, Elton John & Billy Joel, Jay-Z, Miley Cyrus, Kiss, Metallica, Black Crowes, Jackson Browne, Roger Daltrey, the Pixies, So You Think You Can Dance? and Brand New.

HOLIDAY FARE: The Radio City Christmas Spectacular with the Rockettes in New York and other cities on tour, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and How The Grinch Stole Christmas in New York City.

COMICS: Dane Cook, Robin Wilson, Jeff Dunham, Jerry Seinfeld and Ron White.

NFL: Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings visiting Favre's old team, Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field. Other premium games are the New York Jets at New England Patriots, New York Giants at Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys at Philadelphia Eagles. Other games of significance are the Pittsburgh Steelers at Denver Broncos, Cowboys at Packers, New England Patriots at Indianapolis Colts, Washington Redskins at Dallas, New York Giants at Denver Broncos, and the New England Patriots at New Orleans Saints.

NCAA: LSU Tigers at Alabama Crimson Tide and at Mississippi State Bulldogs, Ohio State Buckeyes at Michigan Wolverines and at Penn State Nittany Lions, Oklahoma State Cowboys at Oklahoma Sooners, Florida State Seminoles at Florida Gators and UCLA Bruins at USC Trojans. UFC 105 will be held on November 14, 2009 in Manchester, England at the Manchester Evening News Arena. UFC 106: Lesnar vs. Carwin will be held a week later on November 21, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.

BROADWAY: A revival of Ragtime, revival of two Neil Simon comedies Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound and the world premiere of Race featuring James Spader and Kerry Washington and Wicked.

USCITY.NET Mentioned in Article

Wow, I just ran across this article about the top free local marketing options and saw we were listed at #5! Thanks to Dream Systems Media for the mention.

Here is an excerpt:

USCity.net is a HUGE Internet business directory – It is not the kind of directory that is good for helping out search engine rankings by getting a listing, it is a local directory that is amazing for sending actual traffic to your site. They have such trust with the search engines that for a huge number of local searches they come up on top, and people will find you and click on you that way. For one of my sites about 15% of the daily traffic is sent to me from USCity.net
If you search for Arizona Mattress Store, you will see the results, and how the USCITY.net page ranks in the top 5. These guys do have paid options for listings, (better placement of your ad) but they do have free listings. All of my listings are free and I still see really good traffic. Just follow their instructions for listing and its pretty easy and self explanatory – especially if you have never listed with a web directory before!

To read the entire article, click here!

It's nice when someone notices all of our years of hard work.