Black Friday

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Don't I know it! I put up with the worst of it Thanksgiving night, when it took almost an hour to get through the checkout line at Walmart. I wouldn't have bothered, except Wallyworld was the only place open where I could find ground mustard seed. I needed the ground mustard seed in order to make a mustard plaster, put the plaster on a tea towel, and put the towel on my chest to burn the living day lights out of the cold I've had all week.

I am with you 100%! !! ! I despise the whole commercialization of Christmas thing SO MUCH, that I refuse to buy any gifts during the Christmas shopping season. Around Southern California, the "Holiday" crap starts up as early as the 5th of July! By the end of August, Costco and Big Lots have plenty of Christmas stuff on display. And what really seems stupid, is that now here it is December 1 tomorrow, and I was at Costco last week and I saw barbecues and summer patio furniture getting ready to come out; stacked on the high shelves on pallets. Who in Sam Hill wants to buy Christmas lights in August, or a bikini and a beach chair in December?

Charles

I am with you 100%! !! ! I despise the whole commercialization of Christmas thing SO MUCH, that I refuse to buy any gifts during the Christmas shopping season. Around Southern California, the "Holiday" crap starts up as early as the 5th of July! By the end of August, Costco and Big Lots have plenty of Christmas stuff on display. And what really seems stupid, is that now here it is December 1 tomorrow, and I was at Costco last week and I saw barbecues and summer patio furniture getting ready to come out; stacked on the high shelves on pallets. Who in Sam Hill wants to buy Christmas lights in August, or a bikini and a beach chair in December?

Charles

What is ''black Friday''?

black friday is a manifestation of capitalism and profit as the be all and end all of human civilization.

Everything nonprofit that people enjoy doing is slowly being made illegal or phased out leaving nothing but corporate wasteland.

instead of spending some time in the woods with your family, now you have to pay four hundred dollars take them all to an expensive and nauseating resort full of crying children and plastic trees and unhappy cleaning staff.

and if you don't take them, highly sophisticated propaganda from the people who run the resort will make your family feel that you have failed them. that is the reality of the world we live in.

and in the case of black friday, that same propaganda is used by companies like walmart to trick you into buying a new TV, because that's all that's missing from your life, a slightly better TV! Once you have that everything will be fine, until the next time they make you buy a TV. Capitalism works by making you buy the same stuff over and over.

Commercials don't make me want to buy a new TV. It's when the DVD-player or the areal is no longer compatible with the TV (or vice-versa) because of becoming outdated and then unusable. I brought a cheap TV with a video built in, about 10 years ago, and it still works today, with good picture and sound quality. But the last DVD-player I had suddenly packed up and so I went out and brought a new DVD-player, and that wasn't compatible with the TV so I tried another make and nothing would connect to the TV any more. I even looked for a scart lead or other type of extension lead but I couldn't find the right one even after asking several shop assistants, and it was too complicated to look online, so I had to give the old TV up and buy a new TV. OK, the TV is bigger, but the other little TV had a video attached to it and the whole thing was as good as new. It seemed such a shame to have to put it up in the attic (yes, I'm a hoarder, I cannot throw things away once I have got attached to them). I was going to sell it but didn't think anyone would buy it, and I was worried in case people who did buy it might just be buying it for a target to practice shooting at in their back garden or something. People are so heartless these days (not everyone).

I, like many friends of mine, have felt that sitting in front of a computer and looking at stuff online is a much better, wiser option than risking our health by waking up at the crack of dawn for on-sale clothes.

I find Black Friday amusing because for some reason, I always hear that at least one person dies due to trying to get some materialistic object. Hell, Boxing Day is not that bad in comparison or at least where I come from. Also, it would suck at someone's funeral that their cause of death was due to shopping.

This was the first Black Friday in all my 52 years that I ventured out into the shops. It wasn't bad even though we went in the middle of the day. We went to Sears and Lowe's. Sears is in a mall and we still came out unscathed. Anything else I need will be bought online (thank God for Amazon!).

I like the idea of Black Friday.

Not so much on how it actually works.

I participated (a little) this year. Went to a local store around 7:30 on Thursday night (they started the sales early). I mostly hung around the clothing section because I was actually there to buy pajama pants. Ended up buying a few incredibly cheap blu-rays and waited in line for another 2 hours to check out.

I was glad the blu-rays were put in a promo box near the clothing items because the electronics section was pure chaos and I wouldn't go near there even if they were giving the stuff away for free

(Got 11 blu-ray movies for 30 dollars, very happy! The cash register wait wasn't enjoyable but it wasn't really stressful either- plenty of space between each person waiting and the people with kids had them firmly strapped into the carts so they weren't running about.)

I'd be participating in Cyber Monday if I had the extra funds, but the banks were closed on Thanksgiving when I got my check Why do banks close on Black Friday? The day when everyone needs money...

Seconded. I do spend a bit of time in shopping centres, but that's where I get overstimulated and head into meltdown territory.

Geronimo!

Spend a 100 dollars worth of time and agrevation and suffering for each dollar you save on christmas presents?

No thanks.

Not a good business proposition.

At least someone out there know how to have fun on black Friday.

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The reason its called Black Friday is becouse on that day in the year on average the stores will have made enough income to cover all of their yearly costs and everything they make from now until New Years is 100% profit therefore from that Friday on their out of the red and into the black. Thats the historical verson anyway, Jerry00's discripton is more accurate by todays standards.

What Black Friday proves to me is that a collective of people is dumb enough to go on a stampede and make life miserable for just about anyone over stuff that is on sale, when it was already there previously and may actually be there after.

I don't think I've ever been out during Black Friday.

Plus, I'm not much of an impulse buyer.