I don't need to buy anything; I already have everything I need.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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Agree w/ WolfofWSO, this year looks shitty. Picked up most of my Christmas presents already, most BF sales seem to start the week before. Surprised this may be one last push - retailers around the world just have too much inventory to move. You can see it everywhere with the percentage ticks on sale prices starting to move up. I predicted that we'd be seeing price cuts hitting the 50-60% mark by now but still looks like it's staggering at around 30-40% from summer and/or pandemic levels. 

I did pick up a Gen2 Beam from Sonos on their website for about $95 off retail. That's been probably the biggest I've seen, nothing to really write home about. If you like clothing, have seen some OV products going for up to 70% off. I've picked up a couple of sweatpants that usually retail about $120 for $60-70, so there's that. 

 

I’ve been thinking about a portable Bluetooth speaker and I am just not seeing the BF price point for specs I’d like.

I’m casually looking at a new shark vacuum that dropped $70.

Otherwise, I notice cheap crap crowds the ads. Google derivative product Black Friday. For instance, I wanted a new George Forman product and what do you know, Target has one! Thing is, the cheap BF product is the bare bones appliance that no one will like using. If anyone cares, you need the George Forman with removable plates to soak and properly clean the cooking surfaces. Without the removable plates, it is a pita to clean and gets arced up pretty quick.

 

WolfofWSO

I wanted a new George Forman product and what do you know, Target has one! Thing is, the cheap BF product is the bare bones appliance that no one will like using. If anyone cares, you need the George Forman with removable plates to soak and properly clean the cooking surfaces. Without the removable plates, it is a pita to clean and gets arced up pretty quick.

I’ve never heard of the George Forman grill. It could be a cheap Asian knockoff of the George Foreman grill. Watch out for cheap imitations - they usually break easily.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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If you like clothing, have seen some OV products going for up to 70% off. I've picked up a couple of sweatpants that usually retail about $120 for $60-70, so there's that. 

where did you find that, I need to upgrade mine

Quant (ˈkwänt) n: An expert, someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
 

This year is pretty shit. Haven't seen anything that screams "buy me"

"The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly" - Robert A. Wilson | "If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

Like some of the other senior monkeys, I have 95% of what I want (aka things within reaason). So the one BF deal I would've been interested in is if the liquor store had a deal on something nice like a 12 year Bowmore, Hibiki/Yamazaki or some good Pappy, 

The poster formerly known as theAudiophile. Just turned up to 11, like the stereo.
 

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