Are you going shopping on Black Friday?

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I'm not. As much as I would like to get my Niece a Notebook computer for less than $300, I do not want to wait outside of the store for 6 hours to only have a chance at it.
Are you insane NJ is like the shopping mecca of the eastcoast! You must go out as there will be bargains you will not get any other time of the year! Best Buy always has CD's on sale as low as $6.99. Not crap, good stuff you would actually listen to.


I don't shop, I am shopped for. :cool:
hahaha You and I are so very much alike.

But, but, Kim, she needs stuff. :tongue: :biggrin1: I can understand how you being more than a handful you might think she doesn't need anything else, but diamonds and gemstones are always a welcome token of affection. :cool:


 

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Nothing. As a matter of fact I was heart sick when I heard about the recent jellyfish attack that wiped out all 100,000 salmon over in Ireland recently.

FYI - I prefer Irish Salmon, but when you live in the NW US (AKA Home of US Salmon), people expect you to buy and give it at the holidays.



Don't forget Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Home for the Holidays, and Scrooged.

Ah Scrooged - one of my favourite no brainer movies - no idea why but I love it :redface: - I hope that's on again this year.

Irish Salmon - make sure it is west coast and wild. Actually the farmed salmon is getting better and better - but you can't beat wild - but not from the radioactive Irish Sea - if it doesn't have the word Atlantic somewhere in there don't buy it. Fucking Winscale! Or Celafield - or whatever they're calling it these days - a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Ha!

I am going shopping tomorrow, not that that matters a fig over here, but still - if 'Father Christmas' procrastinates and then can't get his hands on the exact right bike as previewed by small child the other day 'he' will quite pissed off with 'him'self.
 

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I join mercurialbliss and massivepkgo chuck on the SELLING side of things tomorrow. No choice for me at the big HD... and no time to buy. (Now, Saturday I may pick up a few of the deals we have if there are any left ;-)

Many thanks to njqt for that splendid poem from Emerson. Pardon me if I e-mail it to all my family right now.

Blessings to all!

Eric
 

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Required cinema when you arrive here even if you've seen it before is, "A Christmas Story." It'll be a crash course in getting into the spirit of American Christmas.
But 1st, for a refresher on Commercialism in American Christmas, and decent animation, try A Charlie Brown Christmas.
 

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Black Friday? Moi?????!:mad:

I will be working for a few hours in the early hours....6 am to 9:30 am, then it's home. I much prefer to TRY to shop during hours that the hordes are doing something else. (Ever go to Home Depot on Superbowl Sunday? :smile: )

I really despise the whole Xmas shopping thing and the mentality that buys into it. Absolute rubbish. But having said that, there are a handful of people I really REALLY love, so I know I'm not a complete grinch. But the whole thing about feeling obligations during the holidays is a crock.
 

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I'll go by the local mall tomorrow afternoon to watch all the assholes trying to score the best sale deals possible, then go to the movie theater and catch up on my movie watching.
 

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Not a chance. Black Friday is the world championship for people who think shopping is a sport. Under the best of circumstances, shopping is a dreaded chore for me.

Most retailers only have a very limited supply of the bigger-ticket items in stock (or available for sale). They heavily advertise a few "loss-leader" items, but they aren't going to take that much of a loss on them. That's how they lure you into the store.

No, my time is much more valuable to me than to get up at 3 in the morning, stand in line at 4 until they open the doors at 5, discover that the items I wanted are sold out, and then stand in a 1.5-hour-long checkout line to save $10 on a couple of items that I didn't really need to begin with.
 

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I'm not shopping either. I'm going to the casino instead! :tongue:

It happened to work out that way, anyway. I'm still at my mom's house, and I'll be leaving here in a few hours to head back to Lexington. My friend gets off work around 5:00pm, so it gives me a little time to unpack, gather some clean clothes, get my dog situated, and meet him for the drive back up.

I also work in retail, and it reminds me how desperately I need to get out of this line of work. People don't get too insane in my store. The worst of it is first thing when the temporary 60% off is in effect, and then it's the usually busy peak hours from 2:00 to 5:00. I'm not panic-stricken, but I definitely don't enjoy zillions of people all crammed into one place.

And, for that matter, if retailers aren't hip enough to match their in-store promotions with online ones -- I'm gonna look in a few minutes -- then they weren't worth my dollar to begin with. So there. Pfffbt on that. YOU take a bus.
 

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umm... why is it Black Friday? This has evidently passed me by.

I like the Manchester approach to shopping. Enter any shop playing christmas music and immediately hear someone saying "I'm so sick of f**king christmas music already. I'm gonna go home and do this online."
 

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umm... why is it Black Friday? This has evidently passed me by.

I like the Manchester approach to shopping. Enter any shop playing christmas music and immediately hear someone saying "I'm so sick of f**king christmas music already. I'm gonna go home and do this online."


Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, where it is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season. Since Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, Black Friday may be as early as the 23rd and as late as the 29th of November. Black Friday is not an official holiday, but many employers give the day off, allowing consumers to get a head start on their Christmas shopping. Retailers often decorate for the Christmas season weeks beforehand. Many retailers open very early (typically 5am) and offer doorbuster deals and loss leaders to draw people to their stores. Although Black Friday, as the first shopping day after Thanksgiving, has served as the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season at least since the start of the modern Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924, the term "Black Friday" has been traced back only to the 1970s. "Black Friday" was originally so named because of the heavy traffic on that day, although most contemporary uses of the term refer instead to it as the beginning of the period in which retailers are in the black (i.e., turning a profit).
The news media frequently refer to Black Friday as the busiest retail shopping day of the year, but this is not always accurate. While it has been one of the busiest days in terms of customer traffic,[1][2] in terms of actual sales volume, from 1993 through 2001 Black Friday was usually the fifth to tenth busiest day.[3] In 2002 and 2004, however, Black Friday ranked second place.[4] The busiest retail shopping day of the year in the United States (in terms of both sales and customer traffic) usually has been the Saturday before Christmas.[5] In 2003 and 2005, however, Black Friday actually did reach first place.[6]
In some cities it is not uncommon to see shoppers lined up hours before stores with big sales open. Once inside, the stores shoppers often rush and grab, as many stores have only a few of the big draw items. Electronics and popular toys are often the most sought-after items and may be sharply discounted. Because of the shoulder-to-shoulder crowds, many choose to stay home and avoid the hectic shopping experience. The local media often will cover the event, mentioning how early the shoppers began lining up at various stores and providing video of the shoppers standing in line and later leaving with their purchased items. Traditionally Black Friday sales were intended for those shopping for Christmas gifts. For some particularly popular items, some people shop at these sales in order to get deep discounts on items they can then resell, typically online.
 

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My otherwise sensible snowbird parents sent me an e-mail last night, telling me that they were getting up at 4:30 this morning to shop for a lot of stuff that as far as I can tell, they don't really need.

I suppose with the US peso being where it is, shopping for stuff you don't really need is even more attractive this year.
 

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My earliest shopping memory is being so small I was still in a stroller; when I was a little girl I thought it was called Black Friday because you never saw the sun.:smile: Honest, we would be up, showered, dressed, then we would stop at the Capitol Diner on hwy 9 by the racetrack for breakfast and would be waiting for the doors to Ohrbach's at Woodbridge Mall to open, before the sun rose. Mom did all of her shopping for the entire family on Black Friday.

My dad was there as loyal pack mule. :cool::smile: He would make at least 2 trips to the car to drop off our packages. Each time he would move the car to reduce the risk of burglary. We ate lunch and dinner in the mall and by the time we left the sun would have set again. Hence my belief that Black Friday meant you never saw the sun. :biggrin1::tongue:

Nope, no money = no shopping. :frown1::mad:

Trust me if I had any money to spend I would have shopped today with the crazy throngs. I would have most likely missed the best bargains as I refuse to enter a mall prior to 8:00 AM on principle. I used to work retail and making those poor cashiers and associates be at work that early is cruel and unusual punishment. They do not earn enough money to put up with that crap.

The only time I left the house was when my 6 year old cousin insisted we had to have a fire drill before allowing me to light a Duraflame log. :tongue: Ya gotta love the little ones. He was more than a bit pissed at my mom for not having a fire extinguisher too. I love that kid but he's kind odd sometimes.:tongue::smile::biggrin1:

I know we had one in the old house I just don't know where it is . . . in the new one, probably in the shed.
 

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I actually did do a little bit of shopping, but I hadn't planned to. I'd planned to stay home and watch the Travel Channel all day - but they went and had a marathon of "Bizarre Foods"! :eek::mad: (The one show on there that I refuse to watch - it grosses me out!)

I didn't go out in the early morning, but rather in the evening, and didn't go to a big mall, so the shopping was not that bad. It wasn't any crazier than any other time I've done any shopping. More importantly, I now have ALL my Christmas shopping done! I don't have much money, so I could only buy the people on my list one (very inexpensive) gift each.
 

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Nope.

Ever go to IKEA and waste an afternoon looking at all that pre-garbage and ending up buying nothing but a Swedish meatball lunch at the cafeteria?

Ever go to Costco for a case of engine oil and come back with $500 worth of junk just because it was so cheap that you just couldn't pass it up? Ever actually use up a gallon of mayonnaise?

Ever go shopping with someone who likes to shop?

Yeah. I hate shopping.
 

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No, I stayed home and had some wonderful "me" time. It was great to avoid everyone out there today. I'll re-enter humanity tomorrow.

And I agree with you earllogjam, I HATE shopping, with a passion.
 

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I get sick of Christmas tunes too, and am Happy to place on my CD player various Bob Rivers compilations. I'm very found of his version of a solemn Carol that sounds like "Three Wise Men" linked to a Creedence Clearwater Revival song arrangement...or "Chipmunks roasting on an open fire..."