Black Friday

[chelelev]

The rumors of the sales are beginning to come out. Here are two links to different websites that have this information. Nothing in guaranteed but they were damn good last year.

These websites also will give you info on different store's return policies. Best Buy didn't even have the door busters out so I couldn't buy and return for lower price but other stores might.

http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/

http://www.bfads.net/

Wal-Mart, Radio Shack, Harbour Freight and Walgreens are listed now. Keep checking, new stores are added everyday.

Comments

[flyingwolf.livejournal.com]

hmm. the idea of actually shopping on "Black Friday" gives me the willies.

[scarletharlot52.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. I stay home with the covers pulled over my head. :-)

[flyingwolf.livejournal.com]

I usually go to a science fiction convention, but have also found that grocery shopping and Costco are two safe places. Costco doesn't have sales so it emptier then usual and everyone is sick of grocery shopping for the holiday.

[chelelev.livejournal.com]

Y'all are just a bunch of chickens. It is not the holidays if we are not standing outside a mall door or outside a box store to get the deals. There were people there last year at 11:30. We were lucky to get the laptops (and two of them) last year that I think we will go about 2 am this year. We have enough clothes/blankies to keep us warm and we can take turns going to the car.

Granted after we do that, we go home and go back to bed, unless we split up, it is usually too late to get any of the other door busters.

[flyingwolf.livejournal.com]

Y'all are just a bunch of chickens

HEY! I resemble that comment.

But really, I think people that go out on black friday early to shop are crazy. This isn't totally a bad thing - remember, I'm crazy too - just in a different way. I totally hate shopping most times. Esp holiday shopping. I'm at the point where - if I can't make it, you aren't getting it. Years before that it was 'if I can't get it at a grocery store or Costco you aren't getting it. There will probably be more in my journal about this later.

[chelelev.livejournal.com]

We've done this for years. It is just recently that there is camping out in front of the store. A few years ago we did it to help find something for an on-line friend, the hot toy of the year. Years before we used to get up, have breakfast at Dennys and hit the stores. I think the hot thing was 5 inch tv/radios for about 40.00 (way cheap then).

I really hate shoving my way through the big box stores unless it is early in the am. Usually find something at Sears that is a door buster for a different weekend.

My family has gotten so small (at least the ones I talk to), mainly cousins, that we don't have to buy for them. Mark's side of the family sends us trays from some on line cheese place, not good, don't even think the homeless want it. We used to send them much more but are backing off (for years she got Longaberger). Probably will send them a cheese tray from the same place - I think she needs to see what crap she is sending. There is on aunt and uncle I send local food to.

Basically, we are in lines now to get what we want. Either we are getting new desk tops or at least a flat screen monitors this year. My desk top was free through work (won it in a United Way fundraiser), I did have to buy XP Professional since IT had cleaned the hard drive off just a little too far. One of the law partners got me access to Microsoft's Company store so I got things way cheap - she was appalled that there was no OS on it. Both of our deskstops work find but new is always nice. We would end up giving the old desktops away to someone who needs them.

[flyingwolf.livejournal.com]

I think she needs to see what crap she is sending.

Hee.

I guess the whole thing can be fun if you've got friends that do it too. I don't. And for years I had problems doing any holiday shopping.

I always pass on my old computers. Some of my local friends have been well outfitted by my castoffs.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about the second one, so I signed up for their mailing list.

I hope Alan is a good sport about coming with us, he's been good the last *3* years (yes, he came with us when he was 6 weeks old!)

[chelelev.livejournal.com]

Good luck. He might be a bit crabby now that he is older. Maybe a night out at MIL might be in order.