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This could probably go out as a poll too but since there's one or two already running I'll just start it as a thread.
Do you get into the shopping scene on Black Friday the day after Thanksgiving touted as the official start of the Christmas shopping season?
Merchants call it Black Friday because hopefully the Christmas retail season will keep them in the black instead of ending the year in "The Red".
I refuse to participate in such nonsense (plus I'm usually deer hunting anyway) and DW won't go shopping on that day either. My kids never got the "must have" toy of the year as I would not stand in a line for ANY toy.
It's always great to start out the observance of a Holy season with people punching each other out over a video game.
Personally I still do 90% of my Holiday Shopping at LL Bean on Christmas Eve. Nobody is there ,stuff is marked down, and I can get it all done in an hour, plus they wrap it!
No, I do not participate in Black Friday. What a bunch of hooey. I don't have many to buy for. I actually do my very best to stay out of any mall type store/s at any time of the year. I can't stand to be around big crowds of people like that. Yuck. A good way to get sick if you ask me!
This year, since I'm doing the brunt of the work and have been out straight for weeks, I plan on sitting back and doing NOTHING Friday!!! lol I might not even get out of my jammies! It might be a movie day on tv and some rug hooking. It's supposed to be quite rainy down here, so why not! Hope you get your deer that day Maineah!
After working for a major retailer for 13 years and worked most of them . . .
No Way In Heck !
Ha ha! I agree. I worked several years ago in retail for around 5 years. 2 or 3 years ago. I fell and hit my head and decided to pick up a Christmas job. Yep. I got to work on Black Friday. Fortunately, I was "back office" but I did go out onto the floor once. I was nearly run over by a rabid, foaming-mouthed person racing through the store with a flat screen TV. I was greatly tempted to stick out my leg and trip him. Shortly thereafter, a woman was shoved into a cabinet and sliced open her leg. They bandaged her and off she continued shopping.
No thanks. I'll use an old Bloom County cartoon description to describe what I'd rather do on Black Friday: I'd rather be dragged over carpet tacks and dipped in rubbing alcohol.
It's not Thanksgiving yet and I am already sick of Xmas commercials. I have always had to work on the day after Thanksgiving and even if I had the day off there is no way I would be out with mobs of knuckle dragging troglodytes like the one that trampled a wal-mart employee to death on Long Island last year.
Xmas should be a holiday for kids and not a festival of materialism and greed. Having a good Xmas should not come with a big price tag, but a realization that the most important things in life are not things.
This could probably go out as a poll too but since there's one or two already running I'll just start it as a thread.
Do you get into the shopping scene on Black Friday the day after Thanksgiving touted as the official start of the Christmas shopping season?
Not me. I rarely shop for anything except food--and not much of that, either.
Geez, sounds like satire--but it really happend. Thank your lucky stars you live in a civilized place like Maine, instead of an uncivilized place like New York City and its suburbs.
Black Friday is decorating day here. I don't like shopping even when stores are empty.
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It's supposed to be quite rainy down here, so why not! Hope you get your deer that day Maineah!
Shortly thereafter, a woman was shoved into a cabinet and sliced open her leg. They bandaged her and off she continued shopping.
