Black Friday

[Drac]

I'm still off on injury so I ain't going anywhere..We've got 98% of our shopping done so we can stay home...Anything left is just small stuff..I picked up a small diamond necklace for her and a video that she has been searching for so MY shopping is done....

 

[Carol]

I'm still off on injury so I ain't going anywhere..We've got 98% of our shopping done so we can stay home...Anything left is just small stuff..I picked up a small diamond necklace for her and a video that she has been searching for so MY shopping is done....

Excellent! Well...not excellent that you are still injured Drac but excellent that you have your shopping all done. Sounds like you did a fine job too!

I still have to pack my bags...my flight leaves at 6AM Turkey Day Morning. Ugh! Unfair hours for someone that works nights.

 

[Drac]

5 days after Black Friday we leave for Las ( Sin City) Vegas...

 

[Drac]

So what's the HOT item this year???..Last year it was the X-boxes..

 

[terryl965]

So what's the HOT item this year???..Last year it was the X-boxes..

Well for us we are buying the boys a pool table and a flat pnel 46 inch. TV with Bar stools and a table for there game room. Us we just get each other, that is always enough for me.

 

[Drac]

Rox always asks what I want for Christmas and I always tell here NOTHING..

 

[terryl965]

Rox always asks what I want for Christmas and I always tell here NOTHING..

I'm with you on this.

 

[Drac]

I'm with you on this.

The THINGS I really want I'll buy myself..I'm saving for one of those new Combat Hapkido gi's from Tiger Claw.. They are AWESOME..

 

[terryl965]

The THINGS I really want I'll buy myself..I'm saving for one of those new Combat Hapkido gi's from Tiger Claw.. They are AWESOME..

Yes I saw them and they look very cool, what size do you wear. You know I have an account with them and get discount or wholesale pricing. If you would like when ordering let me know and I will grop ship to you.

 

[Rich Parsons]

I've dusted this old thread off to see if anyone is going to venture out shopping this year on BLACK FRIDAY..Some stores are opening at 4 AM...

No.

I barricade myself in and do not go out until the afternoon time frame and avoid the store areas of town.

It is honestly much safer this way.

 

[Rich Parsons]

5 days after Black Friday we leave for Las ( Sin City) Vegas...

I like Sin City good movie and comic.

I like Las Vegas as well, but I really did not have a good time at the Luxor, rude employees and a floor manager putting his hand in my face and telling me it was no this problem. He then walked away into a locked door area. (* Note: He did not have money, nor was he armed escort with anyone with money, and at best he was a cleaning manager *) I supposedly got updated, but my anger while checking in and explaing my issues with their staff, got me an escort most of the time from security while in the hotel. The good things was it was work and we were just on our way through to Death Valley.

 

[Carol]

Did Black Friday start early? I went to a nearby Dunkin Donuts (which happens to be in front of a shopping mall) and it took me forever to get there and back. Traffic around the mall was insane!

 

[Senjojutsu]

Did Black Friday start early? I went to a nearby Dunkin Donuts (which happens to be in front of a shopping mall) and it took me forever to get there and back. Traffic around the mall was insane!

I cannot speak for your experience Carol, but I remember last year CompUSA stores were pushing the envelope and trying to open their stores on Thursday (Thanksgiving) night at 09:00 PM.

Some Massachusetts local police chiefs were saying “nyet” – but it is only a matter of time before these last two major holiday pillars remaining - Thanksgiving and Christmas Day - fall prey to the greedy retail mentality. Maybe in a generation there will be no public holidays left in the entire dreaded private sector. "We need to compete globally" the Ebenezer Scrooges of 21st century Corporate America will be saying to our children.

I sound like an old geezer here, but about ten years ago I noticed a distinct change with Black Friday dawn door busters. Back then it was just us proud few, the insomniacs, we people with no lives.


But now all the two-legged swamp creatures have joined our pre-dawn party. It just isn’t fun no more – plus there is online shopping.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

I have a family function in the evening. Other than that, I'm staying home and turning off the phone on Friday.

 

[Carol]

I cannot speak for your experience Carol, but I remember last year CompUSA stores were pushing the envelope and trying to open their stores on Thursday (Thanksgiving) night at 09:00 PM.

Some Massachusetts local police chiefs were saying “nyet” – but it is only a matter of time before these last two major holiday pillars remaining - Thanksgiving and Christmas Day - fall prey to the greedy retail mentality. Maybe in a generation there will be no public holidays left in the entire dreaded private sector. "We need to compete globally" the Ebenezer Scrooges of 21st century Corporate America will be saying to our children.

I sound like an old geezer here, but about ten years ago I noticed a distinct change with Black Friday dawn door busters. Back then it was just us proud few, the insomniacs, we people with no lives.


But now all the two-legged swamp creatures have joined our pre-dawn party. It just isn’t fun no more – plus there is online shopping.

If you're an old geezer, then that makes two of us.

 

[grydth]

I would not plunge into the rabid cattle herd on the aptly titled Black Friday if all the cashiers were strippers handing out free prime rib on plates made of $100 bills...... there is nothing that would make me want to be a part of that insanity.

 

[Kacey]

I avoid Black Friday sales like the Plague that they are... I used to shop on the Monday after (when many of the sales were still on) but we no longer get that day off.

Some of the stores in Denver are opening at 4:00 am - and I know people who intend to be there when they open... and I hope none of them get frostbite; the predicted low Thursday into Friday is in the single digits.

 

[crushing]

I would not plunge into the rabid cattle herd on the aptly titled Black Friday if all the cashiers were strippers handing out free prime rib on plates made of $100 bills...... there is nothing that would make me want to be a part of that insanity.

If you do hear of such a Black Friday promotion, please PM me. Thanks!

 

[Drac]

If you do hear of such a Black Friday promotion, please PM me. Thanks!

Ditto..Prolly only happen in Vegas...LOL...

 

[Senjojutsu]

I would not plunge into the rabid cattle herd on the aptly titled Black Friday if all the cashiers were strippers handing out free prime rib on plates made of $100 bills...... there is nothing that would make me want to be a part of that insanity.

Strippers handing money to me! Is that what college professors and policy wonks refer to as a “paradigm shift”?