i went i got a laop and a 4o inch tv i really enjoyed myselalf and wanna go again i dont like thAt they got workers on thanksgiving everybody needs a holiday but the walmart i went everybody seemed so friendlly made it even more worth it

There's a store called Black Friday in my neighborhood, but I never get anything from there. I've never even entered the place, because, TBH, I'm afraid that if I go in there, I'll find out they what they really sell are black guys named Friday. And believe me, I ain't no Robinson Crusoe.
Besides, that's just wrong.

cbarnes3121 said:

i went i got a laop and a 4o inch tv i really enjoyed myselalf and wanna go again i dont like thAt they got workers on thanksgiving everybody needs a holiday but the walmart i went everybody seemed so friendlly made it even more worth it

They're probably getting at least double time, which is actually a bonus for a lot of people. Also, holiday work schedules, even at places where it's required, are often done on a volunteer basis, then by seniority. So if the people who have worked there the longest want the day off, they can have it. But that's "often", and who really knows with Wal-Mart?

DVD's and CDs the usual Black Friday purchases. (I go at night. It may be busy, but it's not crazy like the daytime.)

free2bfreeda said:

lots of rest, peace and left over thanksgiving food. i did not wish to fight the crowds nor the hassles.

Sounds like a nice peaceful heaven on earth moment for me

I'll never understand why people are out going crazy to amass a bunch of stuff that's fleeting, has no intrinsic value, and will not have anything to do with what you'll be thinking about on your death bed...let alone will you be able to take it with you once they stick you down into your burial plot and throw dirt on top of your coffin...or into the coffee pot they'll stick your ashes in.

In any event, I wouldn 't be caught dead shopping on Black Friday

I forgot my biggest Black Friday hassle.

My coffeemaker started to die (it's leaking), so I went to Target to find a new one. Fortunately, by the time I got there (at around 8:30 in the evening), the store was completely dead. I found a coffeemaker that I thought would work for my purposes, but there wasn't a floor model for me to look at. Well, I bought it anyway (first mistake), then paid with a check (second mistake), since my debit card number had been cancelled after someone stole the number and charged a bunch of stuff at the iTunes store.

Well, I got the thing home and discovered that the gauge that tells you how much water you've put in is on the back of the machine. So you have to turn the whole thing around every time you make a pot of coffee. Uhhhh...no thanks.

So I packed it back up and took it back right away (Target was open 'til 11), but they wouldn't refund my money since I paid with a check. (They have to wait for it to clear before issuing a refund.) So I decided to see what else they had and chose another coffeemaker, giving up an additional $10 in cash because I needed to spend at least what I'd spent on the other one (since I couldn't get a refund).

Got that one home and found a gigantic roach in the box (dead, fortunately). Needless to say, I did not want to make coffee with that thing EVER, since I had no idea where the roach had gotten to.

By now, it was around 10:40, so my coffeemaker shopping was finished for the night. I packed the thing back up and it's sitting at my place, waiting for the check to clear so I can get a damn refund.

I found another coffeemaker on major sale at Boston Store on Saturday. I opened a Boston Store charge and saved another 20%. So I got this

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which makes coffee and also gives you hot water on demand for making tea or hot chocolate or whatever. Retails for $185 and I got it for $75 including tax.

I spent the rest of the weekend experimenting with how much coffee it needs to make a pot that tastes the way I like. I went through a fair amount of beans.

A fever blister from lack of sleep.

Two new cars, a big TV and surround sound, and best of all - a vocal harmonizer!

Although, the vocal harmonizer kind of scares me. If I'm off-key and it's just me on guitar, I can cover it up if I scream loud enough.

But when you've got 2 or 3 perfectly-harmonizing voices in the background, I might sound worse than ever!

BTW, the harmonizer generates off the chord my guitar is playing, not my own voice. Which just made me think - my guitar had better be in tune, or all my harmonies will be flat or sharp!

Hmmm, maybe I over-thought myself on that one!

I didn't plan on going out at all, but my partner wanted me to go with her to drop her sister off at work...at 1am. So we got out and bought some jackets while we were there.

dup

[Edited 11/26/12 10:05am]

One hell of a cramp in side from all my hysterical laughter watching all the video clips of shoppers acting straight monkey doodle fools. #OUCH

Mostly clothes. But, here in Thailand, black friday ain't no thing.