black friday

[jbcohen]

Tad behind the 8 ball when it comes to xmas shopping.

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by dsvick

Was at my moms for the holiday and stayed there while my brother, who takes it quite seriously made his plans, studied the sales papers, planned his route, and, in general put way too much effort into it.

Has anyone else noticed though, that the sales keep starting earlier and earlier and run longer and longer now? Pretty soon it will black weekend, and it'll start on the Wednesday before!

You say that like it is a bad thing.

I got a Garmin GPS with 5 inch screen for Tim.

And today is Cyber Monday, better than Black Friday, because you can do it while snuggled in your jammies under a blanket on the sofa.

[happy_terd]

I love the rush of the crowd and the fighting and the craziness and the all around good time.

It is crazy fun. Beats a lousy night indoors any day.

[DixieGal]

I love the crazy also. Tim and I used to camp outside the stores. But it has been too scary and dangerous since I lost my eyes. I would be trampled!

[bjones6416]

Originally Posted by happy_terd

I love the rush of the crowd and the fighting and the craziness and the all around good time.

It is crazy fun. Beats a lousy night indoors any day.

What did you get?

[happy_terd]

2 dollar DVDs...a truckload.

Well worth fighting for. I love this season.

[Latinandgreek]

Originally Posted by happy_terd

I only went to one place this year...


WALMART!!!


I purchased some stupid digital picture frame for my wife (not as a gift).

I also took advantage of their 2 and 5 dollar DVD sale. I must have purchased around 70 of them total.


As I left the store around 1:30 AM some security dude at the front door checked my receipt and I shouted out "dont touch my junk."

What a great night.

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Anyone besides me get any good deals this black friday???

I miss having a Walmart nearby. I'll have to talk my mum into picking me up some stuff when boxing day comes around, there are rarely any good sales over here.

[Latinandgreek]

Originally Posted by desertblues

No Black Friday in The Netherlands, as Christmas wasn't a gift-giving tradition, until a few years ago. Our family goes for St Nicolas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas

I bought all my gifts for St Nicolas on 5 december; for us and the neighbors and their 3 girls….that was the easy part, as we had agreed not to spend more than $40 per person.
For the neighbors we'll put the presents in a jute bag; bang hard on their door and run away so they won't see who brought the gift.

Now the difficult one:
Each gift has to be accompanied by a poem: preferably a long one, mentioning the weak and strong points of the recipient. But always mild and funny. Some years I made about 40 poems; for every tiny present, traditional chocolate character (I get a J) or traditional marzipan pig.
This year I've only got 12 poems to compose.

A lot of family's also make a special project of their presents; they disguise it as something typical for the recipient. For example; a video-lover will get a present that looks like a video-recorder on the outside. The aim of this disguises: to have a laugh and to make it hard to get to the present.
We don't do it any more in our family, as it really can be a lot of work.

Croatians don't really give Christmas gifts, either. Let me tell you, I don't miss the gift giving in Canada at all! Sometimes my husband and I exchange gifts for Christmas, but when we are low on cash we skip the gifts.

[The Terminator]

Not at all our town has the worst sales in the world