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Black Friday Tips Giveaway

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In case you are hiding under a rock, Black Friday is coming up!  We asked in 2009, What is your Black Friday plan of attack? In that post, I offered up one of my favorite Black Friday tips.

My favorite tip … take some food with you. You will get hungry and you will over spend on coffee from Starbucks or bottle water and candy at the Best Buy line. Shove some candy in your pocket and a bottle of water in your bag and then head out on Black Friday.

The most obvious tip is to plan your trip out! Use the Black Friday ads … I go for both the online early released ones and the day of ones because I love the real ads! You might also check out this Black Friday Preparedness Guide!

 

We are excited to offer our a readers a $50 gift card to do some online Black Friday shopping! You can pick from iTunes, Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy or Target!

Details:
This drawing will end Thursday, November 17th at 11:59pm EST. The winner will have 48 hours to reply with their address. You must include your email address in the comment form so you can be contacted if you are a winner! You must complete the Mandatory Entry for the additional entries to count.

This giveaway is open to anyone with a valid email address!

So how do you enter?

Mandatory Entry: Leave us a comment with your favorite Black Friday tip. (Don’t use the two already listed!)

Additional Entries:

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NOTE: We were sent a gift card in exchange for this post. No other compensation was received. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are our honest opinion.

Comments

  11. My tip is to go with friends and each head in separate directions to get the shopping done quickly.

  15. Don’t forget your phone if you are going with other people and are going to split up. You may never see them again!
    littlegray88 at yahoo dot com

  16. My tip is to make sure it’s not cheaper online….no point in wasting time trying to find it in stores if it’s the same OR cheaper online. Plus, make sure you dress well. It might get hot with all the people, but outside is sometimes cold and if you dress poor, you can get sick!!

  17. My tip is to stay home. Nothing is worth all that hassle. I won’t be doing it because I’ll be in Chile for 10 days.
    Thanks for the contest.

  25. My tip is to shop online, starting right after Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday – I get just as good deals (if not better) that way, no crowds and not getting trampled for a $3 toaster I didn’t really want anyway!

  27. My favorite tip….convince your husband to go for you. I have never in my life gone black friday shopping but one year there was a great deal on something I really wanted at a store just down the road from us. I convinced my husband to get up and go. 🙂 He got it but said he’d never do it again.