On occasion, they do sometimes have things on sale and even price match + give a 10% discount for matching a price if you find it at a competitor for less (like Futureshop). I also signed up for their Best Buy Reward Zone awhile back because I figured I might as well earn some points for the few times I shop there.

Well, this is what I get for signing up…

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From:	Best Buy Reward Zone (rewardzone@email.bestbuyrewardzone.ca)
Sent:	April 4, 2011 1:14:32 PM

Dear Tina,

We have been informed by our email service provider, Epsilon, that your name and email address have been exposed by unauthorized entry into their system. Epsilon deploys emails on our behalf to our Reward Zone members. Click here to read Epsilon’s statement.

We have been assured by Epsilon that the only information that has been exposed was your name and email address. A rigorous assessment by Epsilon has determined that account details, passwords or any other personal information were not at risk.

It is possible that you may receive spam email messages as a result and we would advise you to be very cautious when opening links or attachments from unknown senders. More information on spam and protecting yourself from email fraud can be found here.

In keeping with security industry best practices, Best Buy will never ask you to provide or confirm any information, including credit card numbers, unless you are on our secure e-commerce site, www.bestbuy.ca. If you receive an email asking for personal information, delete it. It did not come from Best Buy. The next scheduled email from Reward Zone about our Trade In Event will arrive to your inbox on April 15, 2011.

Our service provider has reported this incident to the appropriate authorities.

We regret this has taken place and any inconvenience this may have caused you. We take your privacy very seriously, and we are working diligently to fully investigate this situation and continue to protect your personal information. If you have further concerns or questions please contact us: 1-866-BEST-BUY (238-7289) or customercare@bestbuycanada.ca.

Sincerely,

Angela Scardillo
Vice President of Marketing
Best Buy Canada

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Thank you so very much. I’ve been wondering why I’ve been getting 50+ junk mail a day out of the blue. I appreciate it. NOT! I could have done WITHOUT signing up for the rewards program and getting spammed by a gazillion junk emails in my inbox. Ughhh… Back to cleaning out my inbox.

We’ll be opening our gifts tomorrow night on Christmas Eve. To be honest, I can’t remember a time when my family actually opened our gifts on Christmas morning. I think we’ve always done it on the eve before. We do this whole party too. My mother goes all out with cooking some Portuguese favourites, plus she cooks seafood by the bundles so everyone will have enough to eat. Half the time, we have leftovers of shrimp, crabs, lobsters, muscles, and even clams….yes…she cooks all of it. LOL. Afterall, we are celebrating. HAHAHA.

This year should be lots of fun though. My nephew is old enough that he can open his own presents, unlike last year where he was just a month old. So it’ll be fun to see him dig in as well and feel the Christmas spirit. He already knows “Ho, Ho, Ho”. He even repeats it sometimes. Plus, he smiles whenever you put on a santa hat.

He knows that the presents under the tree are for opening. I caught him opening one before and had to snatch it before he saw what it was. Ironnically, he grabbed one that was labeled for him too. Hahaha.

But yeah…Christmas should be definitely fun this year!

So, when is your family opening gifts?? Christmas Eve or Christmas Day??

• 2GB
• up to 480 songs
• small and light
• clip onto clothes
• easy to use
• built in battery
• 12 hours of battery life

One of the main reasons I decided to go with the iPod Shuffle was because of the clipon and how easy it is to just clip onto your shirt, pocket, jacket, etc. I love the simplicity of it since I’m hoping to join a gym soon and can easily clip it onto my shirt and listen to music while I work out.

Of course me being the most awesomeness sister, I ended up getting my sister one too. She wanted the turquoise one, while I got the silver. It was on sale at FutureShop.ca for only $59.99 which is really great! So now I just have to go pick it up sometime today since I selected to have it picked up instead of shipped to me. Saved me $10 there especially since I have a Future Shop location near my house. LOL!

Amazing right? I think so considering it’s age and the fact that it actually still works after all these years. If you are looking for the perfect house warming gift or just a long lasting gift for someone, consider getting them a traditional grandfather clock. They do make a remarkable presence in any home.

If you are looking for a great place to get clocks from, you may want to check out 1-800-4clocks.com. They have SOOO MANY that you can pick any style, price, and brand. The clocks found there are made with the highest form of quality as you can see from any photo. The photo I have shown in this post, looks exactly like my mother’s clock. If you’re not looking for a grandfather clock, they also have wall clocks and mantel clocks.

Like I said, there is a large variety that I’m sure you will find that perfect one for your home. Plus, don’t forget that both Mother’s and Father’s Day are coming up and this could make the perfect gift!!

Check out 1-800-4clocks.com for grandfather clock and much more!!

Maybe I’ll just go for something easy such as flowers. I know that 1800Flowers.com have perfect mother’s day flowers available. They also have gift baskets and other goodies that you can send to your mom as well. Not to mention everything is on sale too!!

Hum…*thinking*…maybe I SHOULD get her a gift basket with lots of goodies of her favourite things! That sounds like a plan to me!