It's Holiday Shopping Season--Thoughts for CyberMonday

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Apparently, not too many people went shopping yesterday, and those who went didn't buy as much as they have in years past.

As we know, Black Friday is so named because the Friday after Thanksgiving represents the time when many retail stores start to show a profit, or go "out of the red, and into the black" for the year.

Well, this year Black Friday may represent the retail massacre that is a comin'. We can hope for "Cyber Monday" (ie, the Monday after the holidays, when everyone spends the first day back to work, buying things on-line) to help pick up the slack.

Personally, I am hoping that sluggish sales can provide me with some discounts. So here are the items that I never see go on sale, but I can hope...

1. Rock Band2--xBox 360--My son has been asking for this for months now. Gotta have it. The video game is somewhere between $18-86, and the console is $66-400. I am going to wait a week or two, and see whether I can get both at the lower end of the range.

2. iPod Shuffle--Looks like I can get this from $25-70! Not bad! I'd like to wait on this too.

3. jaw bone--Just cuz--I will probably just go to www.dealtool.com, or something, and find a good deal. Looks like I can get a pure bluetooth for something like $30, if I am reading that right.

4. Hannah Montana Video game--for the xBox. My daughter is now just old enough that Miley Cyrus is the first famous person she goes completely ga-ga over. As long as I am breaking down to get the xbox...

5. NFL Power and Glory Soundtrack--Could be the best music to watch football films ever. I love this CD. I can always take the CD, and download to my new iPod, right? This could be the best $10 gift I ever get myself.

6. Gift for the wife--Any suggestions here would be most appreciated. I have a few ideas, but nothing really says "I love you" at this point. The best thing I have come up with so far was a bottle of Yellow Tail Pinot Grigio. I have to do better than that if I want to have the same wife next year...

Anyways, I'll check the stats next week, and see how sales are going for the holiday season. Ho, Ho, Ho. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays (for the Bill O'Reilly fans out there...).