Black Friday

[Caity]

Whooo's ready for Black Friday shopping?   

[Ket]

Heaven's no!  I won't step foot into a store on Friday.  Absolutely not.  I cannot stand the vicious crowds of ignorant people. 

-shudders at the thought-

[Caity]

Awww..

I can't wait.. I love it. 

[Maeven]

I have never, ever, ever gone shopping on the day after Thanksgiving.  There is not one single cell in my body that has that desire.

On the bright side, that leaves all the sales to you!

[Caity]

Hmph... It's the only time I actually like to shop. 

[Kurzyk]

Last year Kiara and her sister got up at 430a, jumped into the lines and were the first ones in the store. After 3 hours they came out with nothing they wanted and a whole lot of stress.

They're probably not going this year. heh

[Caity]

That's about what time I went last year too.    The trick is to go for nothing in particular.  *lol*

[Kurzyk]

*laughs!* yes that's definetly the right approach. :)

[Oniya]

No, but we're ready for the 'working retail overtime'. 

[Revolverman]

not spending money this year.

[Dawg]

Nope, hop in the Jeep with Puppy and Clancy, drive about an hour north of here, hop on a sleigh drawn hay wagon out into the woods, find a Christmas Tree, saw it down, ride on the sleigh back to the warming shed and have some hot chocolate, strap it to the roof and come home to decorate the house and Christmas Tree.  Tradition.

[The Overlord]

Black Friday of 2000, Mechwarrior Vengeance released and I went into the masses with shoulders flaring to get my preorder. Usually only mecha or a good MMO can get me to do that.


Today, I have no interest. I won't satisfy corporate greed by adding the sales, and I'm in the closing weeks of a senior portfolio class, far too busy to hit shopping until next month.

[Caity]

Hmph.  Party poopers. 

[Chris Brady]

I'm Canadian, I don't do Black Friday.

[Caity]

How about boxing day?  Is that sort of an equivalent?...

[Lilias]

I'm not sure about here in the UK (didn't bother to go out and check last year), but in Greece Boxing Day is a holiday too, and everything is closed. Retail people deserve two days of rest in a row.

[Oniya]

Boxing Day is the day after Christmas, though, so it wouldn't be a big 'holiday spending' day.  (Maybe holiday returning day, for that too-large puce sweater that your aunt always sends.)  Traditionally it was when you gave presents to those service people that you interacted with regularly during the year, like your postman, maid, or the grocery store clerk.

Black Friday is more of a retail invention than anything else, based in the days when people wouldn't even think of Christmas until after Thanksgiving.  These days, you see Christmas stuff in the stores as soon as the Halloween stuff is clearanced - if not sooner!

I don't know - do Canadians do a big shopping day after their Thanksgiving in October?

[Caity]

*embarrassed*  I can never remember what Boxing Day is, even though I have a good friend who is Canadian.  Maybe he goes shopping on Boxing Day?  *lol*

[Oniya]

I'm just an Anglophile.  I got an insane kick over the fact that Election Day and Guy Fawkes Day coincided this year.

[RubySlippers]

Its International Buy Nothing Day so I'm all ready to stay home, cuddle with my SO and make love on and off all day followed by movies and pizza ... already in the fridge on the pizza. I see no reason to fight crowds and blow money I can't afford on lots of things. All my gifts are bought already one gift per person something I spent all year picking out. My father is getting a leather coat, my mom a leather pocket bible circa the Civil War, my SO was tough I figured you can't go wrong with something pretty so bought her a Satin Robe and that is about it save for some stockings stuffed with little presents for all of them to.

Anyway they will have great deals all through Christmas why shop then?

[Kurzyk]

Well as it turns out Kiara is going shopping black friday with her sis, and this time not bringing a shopping list. They'll just grab whatever jumps out at them. hehe

Knowing me i'll probably be still awake at 4:30a when they leave. 

[Caity]

Yay!  I'm glad I'm not the only Black Friday shopper. 

[RubySlippers]

With the economy the way it is I won't spend much anyway I'm cutting back hard this year save for the few presents I bought, the one thing we are looking for is a new TV that has digital but we are waiting to find a nice LCD one at a good price without oogles of people around.

We are not ungracious as a couple we donated $167 to a local charity that feeds the homeless on Thanksgiving figuring we would rather help others and not see 100 people go without a meal that day. So in a way we are giving to alot of people this holiday. And at least we have jobs to give to others many are not so fortunate.

[Caity]

I won't be spending a lot either... But it's still fun to go. 

[LaBelleDame]

I'll be working the closing shift of Black Friday in a gamestop.
I made sure to throw myself right on that, because last year, I worked a 13 hour shift, both open and close.
Opening is terrible, so many people are just not fun to deal with.
But as the day wears on, most people are just too tired to be rude.