December 26, otherwise known as Boxing Day in the UK, Canada, Australia, and some other countries, is another day when many stores issue deep discounts on their products. This is how stores liquidate the large amount of stock left over from the holiday rush.

The leftover stock may be more prevalent this year due to the economic difficulties of 2008, so more stores may be placing more product on this type of a deep discount.

The up side is that you can purchase items that you thought or hoped you were getting for Christmas but didn’t. Also, you have the opportunity to quickly use those gift cards you got and save money at the same time. The down side is that the discounted items are generally products that no one bought during the holiday season, much like perusing the clearance section of a store.

Yahoo! Finance has published an article about the post-Christmas sales this year. The article reports that the following stores will be having some sort of post-Christmas sale this week: Neiman Marcus, Circuit City, Toys’R'Us, KB Toys, Target, Wal-Mart, Barnes and Noble, J.C. Penney, Home Depot, Bath and Body Works, and Kohl’s.

Happy Cyber Monday! Today is the day that e-tailers offer their best deals on their websites. I know, I know, it’s no fun when you don’t have to stand in line in the freezing cold for hours and then wait in the checkout line for an hour, too. But I think you’ll manage somehow.

That was obviously a very tiny selection of the deals available today, and many more sites are participating. Be sure to check out each site for its Cyber Monday deals.

For more info, check out the Cyber Monday pages on GottaDeal, Black Friday Ads, and DealTaker.

And if you miss the hustle and bustle of Black Friday, go stand outside in front of your door for four hours before you try and buy anything.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Just one more day until Black Friday.

Be sure to check out the websites for your favorite Black Friday stores, as some deals may also be available online. That’s much easier than standing in line all morning!

Also, don’t forget to stop in at KMart today for KMart’s Thanksgiving Day sale.

Enjoy your turkey and the rest of your Thanksgiving dinner, and get rested up in preparation for the big day tomorrow!

Slickdeals.net released the Best Buy Black Friday scans on their forum today.

There’s plenty more, so be sure to check out the ad scans linked above.

As usual, expect a large number of customers lining up at Best Buy this year.

The Black Friday ad scans for Circuit City have now hit the internet, thanks to SlickDeals.net.

Definitely take some time to check out the full Circuit City Black Friday ad scans for plenty more deals, including sales on many smaller items, too.

In an unprecedented move, Wal-Mart sent preemptive cease and desist orders to the large Black Friday websites via the legal firm Baker & Hostetler LLP.

From this action, we can presume that:

• Wal-Mart believes that competitors will alter their Black Friday sales based on the content of leaked Wal-Mart sales.
• Wal-Mart believes that competitors can only obtain the leaked information from a Black Friday website.
• Wal-Mart does not appreciate diligent Black Friday shoppers who seek out ads early.

And really, why should Wal-Mart appreciate the diligent shopper? The business of Black Friday is based on a few basic principles, but the two greatest ones are these:

1. Many shoppers will buy more than just the best bargains while shopping on Black Friday.
2. Many shoppers will never send in their rebates on rebated items.

Since diligent Black Friday shoppers scope out only the best deals, rarely buy much else, and send in all the rebates, we don’t fall into their moneymaking traps. And that’s exactly the way we like it.

I declare a boycott on Wal-Mart this Black Friday. This doesn’t affect Wal-Mart much: Any such boycott will not affect Wal-Mart in any substantial way because most of the uninformed Black Friday shoppers head to Wal-Mart or Target. (I should note that many informed BF shoppers head to these stores as well, but only when it’s in their best interests.) I’m declaring this boycott mostly out of convenience because it really doesn’t affect me much. As a personal rule, I refuse to head to Wal-Mart or Best Buy on the morning of Black Friday for other reasons. Since I have mentioned Best Buy, it should be noted that they have been quoted as saying they will not bother with tracking down Black Friday ad sites to have their ads removed.

Objectively, this cease and desist order is simply a nuisance and not much else. In 2006, the Wal-Mart ad was leaked 15 days before Black Friday and now we’ll have to wait 12 extra days or so to see it. This simply means less organized planning time for those expecting to head to Wal-Mart on Black Friday.

GottaDeal.com has leaked another exclusive Black Friday ad — this time for Harbor Freight.

Here are just four of the 102 items in the Harbor Freight ad:

• $149.00 solid oak 60″ workbench
• $69.00 3000 lb. portable winch
• $29.95 microbrewery system
• $9.87 twin chrome air horns

For the complete list, head over to GottaDeal.com’s forum and view Harbor Freight’s Black Friday list or download the ad scan!

GottaDeal.com leaked the Ace Hardware Black Friday sales on Friday, September 14 — 70 days before Black Friday!

Some of the doorbuster items include:

• $59.99 portable DVD player
• $49.99 digital photo frame
• $29.99 Radio Flyer wagon

For the complete list, head over to GottaDeal.com’s forum and view Ace Hardware’s Black Friday list or download the ad scan!