The Black Friday Podcast is officially declaring today “Rebate Sunday.”

Rebate Sunday will occur on the Sunday after Thanksgiving and Black Friday each year: November 25, 2007, November 30, 2008, and so on.

Rebate Sunday is the day to take the time to fill out your rebates and get them ready to mail in. Read your rebates carefully, fill out all the forms properly, and send them exactly what they ask for — and always make a complete set of copies of everything you send in. You never know when you’ll need the proof.

Don’t forget — if you got that awesome Black Friday deal but you don’t send in the rebate . . . then you didn’t get that awesome Black Friday deal.