Well, I should have stopped by Target a little earlier. By the time I got there, around 9 am, it was horribly crowded. After a while, I found a parking spot. The Leapster 2 games were half off -- I had to try. Armed with a shopping bag, I was glad I didn't need a cart... there weren't any left. It would have been difficult to navigate the store pushing a cart anyway.
The line to checkout went past the $1 items, through juniors and past the purses, belts and socks. Then it turned past menswear and ended somewhere in toys (I think). At that point it seemed to meet up with another line that was wrapped from the other side of the store.
I couldn't do it. Empty-handed, except for a rain check on the Frog Princess Leapster 2 game, I left the store.
I should have checked the Leapster 2 website. They had a great sale on Cyber Monday, which they even extended. Makes me rethink the Didj. What price!
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Black Friday test drive
Good Morning and Happy Thanksgiving. I took my daughter to ToyRUs yesterday to preview some of the things that will be on their Black Friday Sale. I did see that ToysRUs will be giving vouchers to the first 100 people in line at the Black Friday ToysRUs sale. The world is about to be invaded by robotic hamsters that our little girls must have for Christmas but we'll have to stand in line for them to pay only $9.99 instead of $40 on ebay to someone who somehow got their hands on a few? It's always something....
Oh, I forgot, I was going to tell you about our trip to ToysRUs. I turned her loose and watched her play with the v-motion, the nitro notebooks. She showed me all of the Leapster 2 games she feels she must have. She didn't say much about the Didj and passed by the ds (Thank you Lord!). I was really hoping to get another year out of the Leapster 2. In fact, after we got home she told me it would be alright if I just bought games for her Leapster 2. Thanks to the folks at Leapster for making the games so good she doesn't want to part with it. See, I know that some of you would shy away from taking your kid into a store and saying "Ok... tell me what you want," but sometimes it works out so well.
I followed her with pen and paper and she examined the paper now and then to make sure I had written everything she said. Now, it's the day before Black Friday and I have scratched off several things that I would have bought just because they're going to be on sale -- but she doesn't really want them. She doesn't want the hotwheels track my husband thought she had to have. (Duh!). She doesn't want anything Barbie or Baby. It's electronic and high action all the way.
She warned me sternly to not buy a bunch of clothes and shoes like I did last year.... But at Meijer today they are Buy one pair, get the second for a dollar! I think I'll just go and have a look. I don't have to be to dinner until 3 pm.
Oh, I forgot, I was going to tell you about our trip to ToysRUs. I turned her loose and watched her play with the v-motion, the nitro notebooks. She showed me all of the Leapster 2 games she feels she must have. She didn't say much about the Didj and passed by the ds (Thank you Lord!). I was really hoping to get another year out of the Leapster 2. In fact, after we got home she told me it would be alright if I just bought games for her Leapster 2. Thanks to the folks at Leapster for making the games so good she doesn't want to part with it. See, I know that some of you would shy away from taking your kid into a store and saying "Ok... tell me what you want," but sometimes it works out so well.
I followed her with pen and paper and she examined the paper now and then to make sure I had written everything she said. Now, it's the day before Black Friday and I have scratched off several things that I would have bought just because they're going to be on sale -- but she doesn't really want them. She doesn't want the hotwheels track my husband thought she had to have. (Duh!). She doesn't want anything Barbie or Baby. It's electronic and high action all the way.
She warned me sternly to not buy a bunch of clothes and shoes like I did last year.... But at Meijer today they are Buy one pair, get the second for a dollar! I think I'll just go and have a look. I don't have to be to dinner until 3 pm.
Friday, November 20, 2009
to ds or not to ds
Last Christmas we gave my daughter the Leapster 2. Actually, I had bought her the Didj. It was the package from Target that came with a special Star Wars game. She opened it when we tried to start it up something was wrong. I can’t even remember now. Anyway, we took it back to Target to exchange it. In the toy aisle my daughter found the Leapster 2 and it also came with a Star Wars game and she chose that instead. I did like the math games but she’s always been slightly annoyed at having her Star Wars laser fights interrupted by math questions. I really thought we would get more than a year’s worth of play out of that toy but a couple of months ago the touch screen stopped working and I couldn’t figure it out. Finally, last week, I discovered a blog that shows me how to recalibrate the Leapster 2 touchscreen and viola! It works again. Too bad, she’s already lost interest. Now I have to decide... do I buy a new game for the Leapster 2 or do I give in and get her a nintendods this Christmas? Then I would get the ds games, super mario, ds lite... There’s no end, is there?
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