Black Friday Shoppers!

[Romona]

Are you a Black Friday Shopper? Once in awhile I go, but in the evening. I never really see too many things in the sale ads I want to get. This Black Friday I have an appointment in Pittsburgh. I am wondering about the traffic.

[angela515]

I usually go, but due to lack of money this year I am unable to go this year. I have my shopping pretty much all done anyways, so it's ok..

[Black]

I wouldn't shop on Black Friday if they were giving out $50 gift cards at the door of every shop in the mall.  The horror stories I hear every year about circling the parking area for more than an hour to find a space, crowds in the stores, long lines at the registers, rude clerks, and the pickpockets -- NO THANKS!

Besides I do my Christmas shopping all year long - easier to find just the right gift and much cheaper.  I'm finished for this year and I'm already keeping an eye out for next years gifts.

[goofynina]

Does anyone know the website that we can see what stores are having on their sales?

[angela515]

Does anyone know the website that we can see what stores are having on their sales?

Here is one: http://bfads.net/

[goofynina]

Thank you Angela 

[thegrammalady]

i don't do malls. especially from the day after thanksgiving to somewhere in february. if i have to go i park outside one of the doors to the store i want, go in, buy what i want and leave. if the store doesn't have a door to the outside, forget it, i really don't need anything they have.

i've already done all my shopping, amazon.com. wonderful, never left the house, never paid shipping fees, got everything i wanted, easy peasy, lemon squeezy     you can take black friday and.........

[Wattle]

 

  What is Black Friday Shopping?  You crazy bunch 

[Amanda From OZ]

Maybe its like our Thursday night late shopping? 

[angela515]

"Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, where it is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season. Since Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, Black Friday may be as early as the 23rd and as late as the 29th day of November. Black Friday is not an official holiday, but many employers give the day off, allowing consumers to get a head start on their Christmas shopping. Retailers often decorate for the Christmas season weeks beforehand. Many retailers open very early (typically 5 A.M.) and offer doorbuster deals and loss leaders to draw people to their stores. Although Black Friday, as the first shopping day after Thanksgiving, has served as the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season at least since the start of the modern Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924, the term "Black Friday" has been traced back only to the 1970s. "Black Friday" was originally so named because of the heavy traffic on that day, although most contemporary uses of the term refer instead to it as the beginning of the period in which retailers are in the black (i.e., turning a profit)." - From Wiki.

Basically, the biggest deals of the year all in one day. Stores open very early, and you have to sometimes stand in line to even get in the store it's so busy.

[okarol]

I have never heard of Black Friday before - found this:  http://www.blackfriday.info/

[Wattle]

Thanks Angela. Our biggest shopping day is Boxing Day. Huge clearance sales.   

[glitter]

One black friday I got in line at a walmart at 4 a.m. for a 'Furby'-- I didnt get it, they only had 10 of them, But I did get a VCR for 20.00- geeze- that was about 10-12 years ago- Most of the years I just STAY HOME! Those women in them stores are just scarey! Black Friday is usually the day I put my Christmas stuff up.

[lola]

I'm out the door at 4:30am my girlfriend and I have done it for years we have girlsday, but her mother-in-law just passed away so they are driving to California so I will be doing it alone this year. I get 90% of my shopping done. It's so fun to watch women and MEN go crazy but stay out of my way or else

[skyedogrocks]

I LOVE Black Friday!  I get there early and leave early.  I make sure I know exactly what I want.  Rob used to go with me, but now has to work on that day.  I don't like going with other people because I want to leave as fast as possible.

[Deanne]

I never buy anything, but I love going to watch and take in the atmosphere.

[paris]

My girls and I have done this for years.  This year Kohls is opening at 4!  I might not make it this year!  I usually get good deals and it is fun to be in the middle of all the madness.  Then we go to Bojangle's and get the best biscuits made in the world!  And then home to nap!

[KR Cincy]

I don't join in the Black Friday fun, but I've heard it can be big fun if you aren't under pressure and have time to watch the madness.
There's an outlet mall about an hour north of me that is opening this year at midnight on Thanksgiving with special deals until 8am on Black Friday...you realllllly have to love shopping (or hate sleep) to join that frenzy!

[thegrammalady]

I don't join in the Black Friday fun, but I've heard it can be big fun if you aren't under pressure and have time to watch the madness.
There's an outlet mall about an hour north of me that is opening this year at midnight on Thanksgiving with special deals until 8am on Black Friday...you realllllly have to love shopping (or hate sleep) to join that frenzy!

we too have an outlet mall about an hour south of denver. my daughter has a second job at the gap. they also are opening at midnight on friday morning, she has to be to work at 3am.

[Stacy Without An E]

Our malls always seems to be filled with the most god-awful people every Black Friday so for the last few years I've been doing all my Christmas shopping online.  If you check the sites, they usually offer special days or weeks where they have free shipping.  You save gas, injury and bad dispositions from ruining your holiday season.

[MyssAnne]

Yuppers!! That's the way to do it, online!

[jbeany]

Oh, I never go, and I might have to this year, at least to one store.  I just got my JoAnn's flyer, and they've got fabric I want on sale for 99 cents a yard instead of $5, plus a coupon for a huge percent of the total sale, but only if I finish shopping before noon.  I need something like 25 yards for the memory quilts I want to make everyone for Christmas with my dad's clothes.  I don't think I can afford NOT to go.

[paddbear0000]

Oh, I never go, and I might have to this year, at least to one store.  I just got my JoAnn's flyer, and they've got fabric I want on sale for 99 cents a yard instead of $5, plus a coupon for a huge percent of the total sale, but only if I finish shopping before noon.  I need something like 25 yards for the memory quilts I want to make everyone for Christmas with my dad's clothes.  I don't think I can afford NOT to go.

Hey! I didn't get my JoAnn flyer!!

I haven't gone out on Black Friday since the time I went to Walmart on that day. I drove around the parking lot for over an hour, literally narrowly missing 2 accidents over spaces. Then, while pushing my cart around, I had people ramming my cart with theirs to get me out of the way of something they wanted, I was screamed at for taking the last item, I had someone even take something out of my cart that they wanted! Then I stood in line for an hour and a half (that's not much different from any other day at Walmart lately)! NEVER, NEVER, NEVER EVER AGAIN!!! I won't even drive anywhere near the mall. The traffic is bad enough all other times of the year. You actually sit through at least 8 light cycles just to get through a traffic light!

[thegrammalady]

i must really be crazy (we'll have that discussion later) but i need snow tires for my car NOW, not later. so since gap has a friends and family program for the holidays, i'm going to work 16hours this weekend ($9perhour and lunch) i really feel sorry for the folks working at the outlets on friday. they open at midnight and are the only thing in the denver metro area that will be open. the other malls in the area don't open till 5am. they figure they will either all be sitting around twiddling their thumbs or MOBBED!!!

[Romona]

You can all avoid this madness and shop like I do. Visit your local conveinance store Christmas Eve. Who can resist a Slim Jim or Beef Jerky. For the hard to buy for on your list washer fluid is one size fits all.