Tony Brewer

I like to buy a lot of presents at Christmas time.  I admit it, I am NOT a scrooge!  At least not yet!  I like to buy lots of gifts for lots of people, and play Santa Claus.  Many times I’ll give a gift to someone and simply write “from Santa” on the tag so that they don’t know who actually gave them the gift.  Of course it’s a nice gift (all right, every now and then it’s a lump of coal!) and it brings me a lot of joy to watch them open the gift and see the delight in their faces. 

In order to buy all of those presents, I have to be paying close attention to the Black Friday shopping bargains.  The news station that I listen to was having a story today about shopping on Black Friday and they mentioned using some  Black Friday websites to help find the best deals.  I like the black-friday.net website; it has most all of the merchants that I like to shop with on their list of merchants.  One of the things I like about I’ll be keeping a close eye out for the Black Friday wal-mart ad to see what kind of great bargains I can get online from the Wal-Mart website.  I’ll also be keeping a close eye on the Sports Authority list to see what kind of skiing or skating equipment and/or clothing they may put on their list of specials.   I’ve signed up for their email list so they can send me a notice when they get new ads uploaded from their vendors.

I’ve been too busy the past couple of days to really pay close attention to the reason for this, but I did hear that the stock market has gone down the past three days.  To be honest I try not to pay too much attention to the stock market – I feel that stocks should be a long term investment and if you follow it too closely you are likely to panic and sell the stock at a loss.  I’m confident that by the time I retire and want to sell my stock that I will have made a profit, and that is the whole idea of buying stock (at least for me!)

Teri and I have been talking about what products we should be stocking up on now that winter is coming.  For us, winter means dry skin because the heat is on.  We run humidifiers constantly, but we still suffer from dry skin.  Poor Teri’s thumbs get so dry that they crack and bleed, no matter how many times she puts lotion on her hands.  One of my co-workers told me that we should check out the review website called beautifulreview.com.  She told me that the website reviews hundreds of beauty and health and skin products and programs, from the Olay Company to the Meaningful Beauty Company.