It’s hard to believe, but two weeks from today is Thanksgiving! So on that day after we all have had a wonderful time visiting with family and friends, eating beyond our hearts content at the Thanksgiving feast, and enjoying football on the television, settle down in your comfy chair and let that top button on your pants go!

Check out Walmart’s Black Friday sale on walmart.com, because who needs to get up at 4am to hit Walmart’s awesome sales when you can get lots of them online from your cozy chair at home, right? Beginning at 10pm on Thursday evening, long after you’ve got your fill of turkey and all the sides, but before the craziness begins on “Black Friday” you can get great deals.  Examples include select Wii and XBox 360 games for $10 and $15, and Power Wheels ride on toys for as little as $99! Some of the awesome deals that start at 12:01am Friday are a 51″ Samsung television for $498 and a Canon SLR Digital camera for $479!

On top of the great deals offered at walmart.com, they have introduced their Home Free Shipping service. This allows you to choose from over 90,000 eligible items and if your order is $45 or more your items will arrive to your address within 3-5 days for free. Who needs the hussle and bussle of Black Friday when you have great deals and great shipping?

So while you are making your plans now for Thanksgiving weekend, take a few minutes to look through Walmart’s Black Friday Ad and start making your list!  Also, don’t forget to sign up for your secret santa online at sneakysanta.com. The site that allows you to create a group, post pictures, make a wish list, draw names and even send “sneaky” messages. We hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and friends.  Save room for dessert!

If you like to get your shopping done early but worry about missing out on special pricing Walmart has announced a new program to help reassure you will be getting the best price.

The “Christmas Price Guarantee” program covers the eight weeks leading up to Christmas.  If you find a lower advertised price on an item that you purchased from Walmart from another retailer they will give you the price difference on one of their gift cards.  This is especially handy for those of you that do your secret santa at Thanksgiving.  Even if you purchased a gift and have already given it you’ll be able to take advantage of any savings advertised up until Christmas.

The primary restrictions on the offer are that it does not apply to Internet advertisements or Black Friday offers. This is one of many aggressive steps we are seeing from retailers targeted at Christmas shoppers in 2011 that are even more inclined to look at bargains in a down economy. Walmart also recently revived their layaway program to assist those that want to ensure that they get the items they want but pay for it over an extended period of time. You can learn more about the Christmas Price Guarantee program in the video below.

If you have little ones you’ll definitely want to snag the Veggie Tales album, The Incredible Singing Christmas Tree, that Amazon is currently giving away for free. You can download all 16 songs on the album for free for a limited time.

They also have a few other Christmas music downloads for free already including:
The Very Merry Christmas Sugo Holiday Sampler

Timeless Christmas (Amazon MP3 Exclusive Sampler)

Chacra World Music Holiday Sampler

You can typically find lots of free Christmas music downloads on Amazon from now until the big day. We’ll pass them on to you as we hear about them!