I enjoy shopping – one day a year. Each year I head out the day after Thanksgiving to take advantage of insane deals, while treading through insane lines. It’s not that I even come home with many items. I just love the experience. I love that it makes virtually no sense that I get up at 4:00am to stand in line outside, only to end up buying a $5 DVD. Yet I’ll do it again this week. This time Kelly won’t be able to join, so I’m open to any other nuts that want to have some fun on a Friday morning.

We’re less than a week away. I’ve done some homework and thought I’d offer you a few items that may convince you to get your butt out of bed on Friday.

• Samsung 40” LCD HDTV. $597 at Best Buy. Currently selling for $799 at Target or $714 on sale at WalMart. Great television for a great deal.
• DVD’s for just $3.99 at Target.
• Or, if you are against the idea of standing in lines at 4:30am, choose from over 1000 DVDs for $3.99 HERE.
• GPS system by TomTom (or TamTam if you change the personality to a British woman:). $58 at WalMart – a drop of thirty dollars from last year.
• If you’re in the hunt for a quality digital camera for a good price, go for the Nikon Coolpix (Retails: $299) at Best Buy – marked down to $179.99
• Another worthwhile investment is the George Foreman Mean Lean Grill for $9.99 at Kohl’s. Not to be mistaken with the one-up version which will be listed for $39.99 on Black Friday.
• Perhaps Kohl’s has outdone the rest this year, offering a “Black Friday Sale” on every single item in the store. Either they’re having a going-out-of-business liquidation sale or they realize that American’s will spend over $11 billion this Friday.

The early bird catches the worm. And there are a lot of worms to be caught. Happy hunting.