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11/28/2015 11:18 pm |
Black Friday for me has become a day to stay in and relax, maybe binge watch some TV show I've wanted to catch up with. I try to make sure that the pantry is stocked and any shopping that I do gets done from the click of a mouse only. ~LastGuy "It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere." -- Keith Richards "There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities." -- Ray Charles
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I just did my shopping on line. Almost everyone had their sale prices in on line already. Plus free shipping. Which I get Monday...just in time to pack to go home.     Inner Fucking Peace: watch?v=92i5m3tV5XY
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I agree with you K. So not worth it. I worked on Friday, then had lunch and saw a movie with a friend. I slipped out early yesterday to grab a couple items, primarily at the grocery and there were already nuts out, speeding though the pedestrian areas and ignoring traffic signs and signals. My errands were done and I departed the consumer areas quickly. Ars longa, vita brevis - Art is long, life is short  
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I wondered why Black Friday is even a thing over there in UK. I got the Amazon UK emails announcing sales and I kept wondering why do they have Black Friday? I only did the true Black Friday shopping once (getting up early and standing in line...) my bff talked me into - JUST ONCE. Keep in mind - I hate shopping as a general rule - other than grocery shopping or shopping for something specific I am looking for - like fabric for a quilt or yarn for a sweater, etc. I generally don't shop and I pretty much refuse to go into a mall at all. I hate crowds . I did do a small bit of black Friday shopping this year only because my bff really wanted to go to the fabric/craft store - and its the first time she has arranged to go since her leg was amputated. She made the ride arrangement and so I decided to go with her since I just couldn't let her go by herself in the crowd. I wanted to "run interference" if needed and to be able to help her if she needed it. SO I made the sacrifice and actually went to a Black Friday sale for about 2 hours. They were out of carts. So I wanted to get a cart for her while she shopped the scrapbooking things. And then wait in line to check out. The store was crowded with people and all the extra holiday crap they put in the aisles - so trying to get around with a wheelchair was a bit challenging. Grr... only cuz I luv my friend (actually sister by choice). My Christmas shopping is almost all ready done several weeks ago - my shopping gets done through out the year and more and more is done online. I only need to get 1 more item and its just a matter of deciding what to get for the guy who helps out in our shop. All family presents are all bought or finished because I made them. I might do some Cyber Monday shopping for myself though.... And I send presents to my Brit usually through cyber shopping.
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Online shopping for me too but not too much 
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It was a German supermarket chain that infected the UK with Black Friday. And even they owned up to the idea that it might have been a mistake! That's odd though; you and I have a paper product symbiosis; I ran out of kleenex so had to blow my nose on bog-roll! 
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It's true Katie! Either Aldi or Lidl. They cottoned on to the Black Friday idea and thought "Hey! Good promo idea!" Which of course it was until the rest of the country discovered that what you do is besiege big shops and then beat up whatever fucker has got his hands on the TV you want! It's not a phrase you would want to put into a search engine at a time like this but dig deep enough and you find this: "Black Friday was a women's suffrage event that occurred in the United Kingdom on 18 November 1910.The protests came in response to parliamentary proceedings regarding the Conciliation Bill, which would have extended the right of women to vote in Britain and Ireland to around 1,000,000 wealthy, property-owning women. The bill made it to a second reading, but British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith indicated that there would be no more Parliamentary time for the reading in the current session. In response, the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) sent a delegation of around 300 women to protest, and 200 were assaulted when they attempted to run past the police. Many of the arrested suffragettes reported being assaulted and manhandled by the police. It was the first documented use of police force against suffragettes. In the aftermath, Asquith's car was vandalized, and the event caused some embarrassment to Winston Churchill who was Home Secretary at the time." Deeply ironic really since it seems to be universally acknowledged that women spend their liberated time going shopping! (Bargeeee! Did you really say that out loud??? Yes I did, but they know I was being ironic, right? Do they? Are you sure????) 
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Doesn't surprise me one bit, Katie. I just think it's a shame that the name of that day becomes usurped and roped into the service of "the Market". I agree, the shopping bit deserves a raised eyebrow but I have no doubt you could see the tongue in my cheek! 
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