Are you getting all those emails too? Or flyers in your door?

Now I don’t have much money these days to take advantage of the sales, but I’m keep an eye on them anyway. I figure that I might see something that someone else might be interested in and I was right. I saw an ad for kelty tents at RockyMountainTrail.com for really good prices and I sent the ad to my nephew because I know he’s been looking into getting some camping gear. I don’t know if he’ll take advantage of the sale or not, but at least he knows about a great sale now.

Do you take advantage of some of the great sales at this time of year too?

It seems like we bought more gifts for my family this year than his, but I guess in years past it’s often been the other way around so fairs fair. Now I have a dinning room table loaded with presents waiting to be wrapped – books, a nice blanket, tillman gloves, lovely skin care items, clothing, gourmet treats and many other special gifts. I’m pretty sure everyone will like what we bought.

Are you finished shopping yet?

I should have actually done some Christmas shopping last weekend. I met with several of my family members on Sunday at a restaurant in a large mall here in Toronto – Yorkdale mall and then a few of us did walk around a few stores. I didn’t buy anything, but considering we were in such a huge mall it would have been a great opportunity.

Hmmm Now that I think about it, I saw some justin boots that might make a great gift for my brother. Perhaps I should go back to that mall this weekend? Anyway wherever I go I must shop shop shop and shop some more.

It would be great to get everything on my list. I hate shopping in the week or two just before Christmas when the stores are really crowded. It’s just crazy in the stores. Actually I suppose tomorrow will be crazy in all the stores in the United States considering it’s Black Friday.

How are you doing with your holiday shopping? Are you done? Have you started? Are you dreading shopping?

Naturally I don’t take advantage of all of these sales because I don’t always need to be out buying things … but it’s good to keep any eye on what’s on sale just in case I need something or in case I have to buy a gift. I always have sales and savings in the back of my mind.

Do you sign up for your favorite department stores sales newsletters so that you can find out when they are having big sales?

Anyway .. it’s been exactly a year since I quit smoking so that calls for a celebration and what better way to treat myself than to use some buckle coupons to buy some new clothes? Yep .. save some money and get some cool stuff. Uh huh … and if I don’t find anything for me at that store I can always use the coupons on something for one of my nieces I suppose.

So what do you think? Doesn’t that sound like a good enough reason to treat myself?

He’s had a girlfriend for about two and a half years and it seems that he’s ready to make it permanent. Just having the girlfriend for this long has been a record. I’ve known this guy for about 25 years and prior to this I’ve never known him to see a girl for longer than about two weeks! So you can imagine my surprise when this relationship lasted and lasted and now when he told me earlier today that he wants me help finding an engagement ring.

I think I just about fainted when he told me he was about to get engaged. He really should have told me to be sure I was sitting down. LOL

I guess sometime next week we’ll meet up and go out and look for the perfect engagement ring. I used to be a jeweler so I still have some great contacts that we can use to get him a very good deal. My husband was a jeweler as well so I’m sure he’ll have some input as well. In the meantime I told him to take a look at various Semi mount diamond ring styles to get an idea of what he thinks his fiance to be might like.

Hopefully he has an idea of what kind of style she’d like. If he really doesn’t seem to have a clue when we go out looking I might suggest that he proposes without a ring and then lets her have some input on her engagement ring. Not quite as romantic, but it’s better than totally hating your ring.

I know it’s kind of early for gifts, but I’d like to get her a mother to be gift now … just to show her that I’m in her corner and that I’m excited for her and her husband.

My big dilemma is whether to get her a gift just for her – something that she can use to pamper herself now, or to get her a gift that she can use when the baby comes in the Fall. Hmmm … What to do, what to do …

If you were just fairly newly pregnant would you want a present for yourself right now or would you want a present for your baby? I mean … in a few months she’s definitely going to have a couple of very big baby showers from the people at work and all of our friends … I think I’m leaning towards getting her a personal gift.

I guess it’s time to start thinking about getting a new cell phone. I’ve been looking around online and as I’m sure you know, a lot has changed with cellphones in five years!

I’ve toyed with the idea of getting an iPhone or maybe even a htc desire hd. Whatever I get I’m sure it’s going to be a smartphone.

Any suggestions?

I don’t use my cellphone a lot so I don’t really need to use it to get online for browsing or even to do a lot of texting but it would be nice for it to have those capabilities if I wanted to use them or get a a package that offed those features.

I didn’t buy too many gifts this year. We don’t have any extra money, but of course we still have to get a few gifts for the kids in the family at least. I was thinking that one of my nephews might like an iPod. I already checked and he doesn’t have one yet, so it would be the perfect gift. I spent some time earlier today reading an ipod shuffle review and I’m pretty sure that I’ll get him an iPod Shuffle.

Now that I think of it the iPod and maybe just a few DVD’s or Video games and I should be finished all my shopping. If I’m lucky perhaps my shopping trip this weekend will only take an hour or so.

So … tomorrow is shopping day. Man I have a lot of stuff to get and I have to pack it all into one day too!

I need to get some Christmas presents for the younger kids in my family, and I’ve been doing a lot of baking lately so I need to get some cooking supplies like uh … chocolate chips, flour, vanilla and things like that.

I also need to find the time to buy some clothes. I need new clothes and I’ve needed them for a few months now. Ever since I started losing weight in September I’ve needed new clothes. I’ve gained a few pounds back in the last few weeks but I’m still about 10 pounds lighter than I was in the summer and that means my current clothes are still loser than they should be. I could use a new pair of apple bottom jeans if I can find them on sale.

Hopefully with all that I have to do this weekend I’ll find time to get a little clothes shopping in, but I’m not sure that I’ll get around to that.

What are your plans for the weekend? Are you expecting bad weather this weekend too?