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Black Friday!!! I can barely wait.....I'm so ready......Thinking about getting up and going shopping on Black Friday keeps me going through the Thanksgiving dinner with the inlaws .

I used to be one of those people that thought it was ridiculously stupid....why get up that early to save a few bucks, and freeze your butt off while you wait in lines? But then 4 years ago me and my mom decided what the heck, let's try it out and see what we think. Now we are hooked....

Yes, it feels good to save a few bucks--but I like it more for the tradition of it--and sharing the experience with my mom. I love getting the paper on Thanksgiving and seeing all the sale papers and mapping out where we are going to go....But, I will not fight over something like some people do. I think that is so silly. Me and mom are quick. We get up early, get in the store--get what we want, and get out. No lollygagging around for us......Oh, and just to mention I'm already about 80 percent done my shopping now, so I really don't even need to buy to awful much--I'm the type of person that has problems setting spending limits though.

Plus Black Friday will be the day I drag out all of the Xmas decs.....I'm so excited I can't stand it.....my mom's been sneaking decorations up already....I went in her house yesterday and she had a big snowman picture on the wall. I just laughed at her....she's as ready as I am to put it all up.

Anyway, who else braves the crowds and the early morning to go shopping to save a few bucks?

Oh Loz, you make me laugh, I had the same attitude until a couple years ago, now I love going out the day after because I am a people watcher anyway and there is plenty of watching to do! Some of my sisters and I go , we bring walkie talkies and we don't plan on getting too much done , it's so crazy

Ya know, I normally would say, never!!! I was actually considering trying it this year.. well, until last night's disaster here anyways. Now, I just hope we can still go "home" for Thanksgiving, and wonder if Steve will get to go hunting as planned. Since we don't live there anymore, his hunting license has gone up in cost to over $100, and then to tow the camper so he can stay there for the week after and stay out where he hunts.. that's gonna cost us in extra gas, easily $200. I didn't know how I was gonna scrape up that $300, other than going in the hole more, but now.. we may not have a choice but to go in the hole by not paying bills & not doing any Christmas shopping.

Loz, I owe you a PM.. sorry I'm a few days behind right now. And didn't mean to be a downer in your upbeat thread.

Meg

I've always enjoyed "Black Friday" I've met and had conversations with the neatest people while waiting in line. I always end up having tons of fun! Last time I went someone volunteered to go get coffee and bisquits for whoever wanted them,we saved his spot in line and he ended up getting breakfast for 20 people(everyone paid for their own). We had a ball eating breakfast together! On that day I got a 13" T.V. with built-in vcr for $49.99 and a Gameboy for 29.99

Oh not me! Definitely not me!

You girls must have some kind of seasonal insanity? Maybe?

Merme

RIGHT ON! ! ! ! !

I wouldn't go shopping on "THAT" day if they gave me $1,000. and even said I could HAVE everything I wanted FREE! ! !





Cindy

I hate fighting the crowd for a nickle. I try and do all my shopping early

You know, I don't think it's as much for the saving money as it is for the "sport" of it.

...the thrill of the "hunt"..........

This is how much i hate shopping........I didn't even know it was called "Black Friday"!
I don't do shopping very well. People are always on some kind of mission and if you get in there way , oh boy!! I enjoy my stress free way of shopping. We have a Super K-Mart thats open 24 hours, since John and I are both night owls, it makes for a stress free shopping expierence.
Linda

I had to read that twice I thought you said the thrill of the huRt. I've seen people almost kill their selves at some of those sales.

G-mom- we are going, right?



G-daughter

I LOVE Blank Friday! My sister and I used to go every year. We'd get the Christmas lists from all the grandkids (I think there were only 8 at the time) and then go to the KB Toys store 1 week before to map out where everything that we wanted was in the store. The Barbie clothes that are always way cheap on Black Friday was always highest on the list. After mapping out where everything was, we'd split the store in half. I'd take the things in the front of the store and she'd take the things in the back of the store. Now, KB always opens at 6:00 am on BF so we'd be there at 5:00. We'd never quite be at the front of the pack (everyone would be right up against those weird gate things that stores have at the mall). But by the time 6:00 came, I would have squeezed myself right up against it. Then.....at 6:00....the gate would start to go up and I'd quick crawl under it to get a head start. The people from the store would always yell at me, but never caught me because the herd of people would be right behind me! Usually there was a first timer sales assoc. there and he'd be shakin in his boots! So, off to the Barbie clothes to get what I needed....6 different outfits....no duplicates. Then off to everything else and right into to line...where we'd be for the next 45 minutes. Usually the line would be all the way back to the back wall, splitting into two lines when it would get to where 2 aisles came together. Usually I'd be in one line and my sister in another, but whoever got to the main line first, the other would join. I don't do the Black Friday shopping so much now tho. Stephen dreads it because now he is in the store's position. Although, there isn't usually a line to get into the Radio Shack! But its the best place to get batteries!!

Jenn.....

...I think I saw this "episode" on the 6:00 news a few years ago!

And let me tell ya! I DID find over stuff to!There would be like 10 women around the Barbie clothes and I'd take one off the hook and if it was a duplicate to one that I had, I'd be like "nope" and hold it up for someone else to grab...and if someone else was going through the 2nd hook of clothes and had one that I didn't, I'd just grab it and be like "thanks!" what can you say to that??? It's like that commercial on TV where the 2 ladies are in the grocery store at the produce section and the one lady is like "ohhhh...you must be havin' a boy!" and the other lady is like "what! I'm not pregnant!!!" and the first lady says "uhh...umm.....Thank you?" And the other lady is like "me? aww.....give me a hug!!!"

WOW.....That is way to crazy....Yet kinda cool.......Hmmmmmm, can that be??
Linda

I enjoyed it....

We don't do that now...maybe when I have kids. ButI do like to go out on Black Friday as long as I don't have something planned for that day. The key is to not have a schedule so that you don't feel rushed....because when you feel rushed, you'll get flustered and then the fun is completely gone. I like to look at the sales that all the stores run...even if they are not toy stores, there are good sales out there! I can't wait to see what Boscov's and Sears have!

You go girl And when your done you can come here and tell us all about it......I'd love to hear about it. Maybe via your stories I'll get the courage one year!!!
Have Fun!!
Linda

we can go together one year....Ohio is in the middle of us, right. I guess there are malls and stores in Ohio?? Seems like such a flat place when I was there....oh!! Wait!! Cleavland is nice!! I've been there before!

Yippeeeee <img border="0" alt="[clappy]" title="" src="graemlins/clappy.gif" /> Sounds like a plan!!
Cleveland is good.....
Linda

haha...great! now, start saving your money (we'll have to share it....just kidding!!! ). I'm starting to get skinny so that I can buy new clothes!! (thanks Jiffy, its working well). Just remember a warm coat! Its cold there for Black Friday!!!

I love reading all of your thoughts on it, and your experiences!!!

I'm in Merme and AFGrey's camp. HATE, HATE, HATE shopping. (Except at hardware stores.)

Linda- I didn't know it was called Black Friday, either. Where did you guys hear this?

Anyway, just the thought of going into a mall between T-giving and Christmas is enought to make my skin crawl. Thank God for friends and relatives, who know I'm shopping impaired, or I wouldn't have any clothes that fit. My idea of good shopping is to cruise into Sears/K-Mart/Target at about 10 a.m. before it gets busy, grab about six things that look like they might fit, pay, and get the heck out.

It's been called Black Friday forever! It got that name a long long long time ago when stores would have sales on the day after Thanksgiving and it was the first time for the whole year that the store's sales went from being in the red (negative sales gains) to the black (positive sales gains). I thought that everyone knew it was called Black Friday!! Oh well...learn somethin' new everyday.

What the heck is "Black Friday"???? I live up here in Canada in an igloo, so i have no idea what you are talking about, but by the sounds of it, I want a piece of the action!!!
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