We usually stroll around the local mall on BF. Not so much to get great deals, but more to get into the holiday spirit. Christmas lights turn on tonight and the tree goes up this afternoon. Woohoo!
Didn't end up going out today. I bought a bunch of things online from Best Buy, Target, and Game Stop. Even managed to snag a BOC with free shipping from Woot. Fiance is running out to Home Goods now. Got the tree up and decorated and most of the house decorations are out.
I have to hit the home improvement store and Aldi's tomorrow, but nothing else. And we're not going to shop at all for a while at any retail store that opened on Thanksgiving (and told them that). Because they suck.
@duodec Tried the home improvement store after noon today (when their big sales ended) and there were still traffic and intersection-blocking delays, lot was jammed, etc. Maybe tomorrow; I really do need some millwork trim and A/C filters... Aldi was quiet, got my Stollen bread and bacon ;)
I finally have agreement from my extended family that we can dispense with the whole giving each other crap we don't want rigamorole. Finally a Christmas gift I can use. The gift of low stress.
My son and I went to Walmart at 8 for the sd cards, flash drives and Skullcandy ear buds. It was horrible. They trapped all the 8pm items in the little girls clothes, then taped the area off so you had to get in line and wait to be allowed to enter. I honestly bought more than I would have just to try to justify waiting in line for 20 minutes. Then we couldn't find video games anywhere, they were in the refrigerated aisles. WTF? By that point they were well picked through, but that was insane. Then there was a huge line to check out, then we had to get in another line to leave the store because they were checking every item in the cart to the receipt. I was feeling very stabby by the time I got to the cashier.
My Friday tomorrow will be blacker than the blackest Black Friday in retail: I am going to tear apart my entertainment center and redo it. Including my Xbox One. And that Philips Blu-Ray Player I bought from Woot back three or four years ago back when they were still, like, $89.99. And the Android TV. It's complicated enough that I have a Google Docs spreadsheet detailing what connects to what and what plugs in where. That doesn't mean it will be physically possible, though, and I have a couple bombers of homebrewed red ale and tissues to wipe away my tears.
Nope, between Meh, Woot, and NewEgg (laptops for the kids) we are 99% done with Christmas shopping already. I've never been one to participate in Black Friday anyway, though.
I wanted to get one of those 500GB Xbox bundles but they sold out before I got the chance. Going to try for a Windows tablet on Best Buy too. All online of course. No way am I going out and braving that ice cold 68° air just to buy some cheap stuff.
Hitting our local Goodwill computer store which is doing half off monitors... I don't know if that counts as shopping, since I'll probably donate them right back in a year when I realize I don't need them.
I normally sleep till 9 or 10pm, so I love when stuffs open in the middle of the night. Didn't really buy anything this year, but I did a bunch of window shopping.
No way I am going anywhere near a retail establishment on Black Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I stopped a number of years ago when it became impossible to park in our malls. I put on the disks of a favorite movie series and forget there is a world out there where one is supposed to be spending money like an idiot this weekend.
I tend to shop online; I'm still gathering wish-lists (and generating my own) so Black Friday is a little early in the season. Also the crowds; can't stand 'em. Still, I think some people got into the Black Friday spirit early this year; on Monday in some cities, people were enjoying Door-Buster deals, braving large angry crowds, and briefly warming themselves by a fire before resuming their orgy of acquisition.
We usually stroll around the local mall on BF. Not so much to get great deals, but more to get into the holiday spirit. Christmas lights turn on tonight and the tree goes up this afternoon. Woohoo!
Didn't end up going out today. I bought a bunch of things online from Best Buy, Target, and Game Stop. Even managed to snag a BOC with free shipping from Woot. Fiance is running out to Home Goods now. Got the tree up and decorated and most of the house decorations are out.
Travel day.
I have to hit the home improvement store and Aldi's tomorrow, but nothing else. And we're not going to shop at all for a while at any retail store that opened on Thanksgiving (and told them that). Because they suck.
@duodec Tried the home improvement store after noon today (when their big sales ended) and there were still traffic and intersection-blocking delays, lot was jammed, etc. Maybe tomorrow; I really do need some millwork trim and A/C filters... Aldi was quiet, got my Stollen bread and bacon ;)
I finally have agreement from my extended family that we can dispense with the whole giving each other crap we don't want rigamorole. Finally a Christmas gift I can use. The gift of low stress.
My son and I went to Walmart at 8 for the sd cards, flash drives and Skullcandy ear buds. It was horrible. They trapped all the 8pm items in the little girls clothes, then taped the area off so you had to get in line and wait to be allowed to enter. I honestly bought more than I would have just to try to justify waiting in line for 20 minutes. Then we couldn't find video games anywhere, they were in the refrigerated aisles. WTF? By that point they were well picked through, but that was insane. Then there was a huge line to check out, then we had to get in another line to leave the store because they were checking every item in the cart to the receipt. I was feeling very stabby by the time I got to the cashier.
My Friday tomorrow will be blacker than the blackest Black Friday in retail: I am going to tear apart my entertainment center and redo it. Including my Xbox One. And that Philips Blu-Ray Player I bought from Woot back three or four years ago back when they were still, like, $89.99. And the Android TV. It's complicated enough that I have a Google Docs spreadsheet detailing what connects to what and what plugs in where. That doesn't mean it will be physically possible, though, and I have a couple bombers of homebrewed red ale and tissues to wipe away my tears.
@editorkid I was going to do mine, too. You've encouraged me to blow it off, except for the (cheap) beer part.
Nope, between Meh, Woot, and NewEgg (laptops for the kids) we are 99% done with Christmas shopping already. I've never been one to participate in Black Friday anyway, though.
Was not aware any people on meh were the leave-the-house type. Explains the fo--no it doesn't.
I wanted to get one of those 500GB Xbox bundles but they sold out before I got the chance. Going to try for a Windows tablet on Best Buy too. All online of course. No way am I going out and braving that ice cold 68° air just to buy some cheap stuff.
Hitting our local Goodwill computer store which is doing half off monitors... I don't know if that counts as shopping, since I'll probably donate them right back in a year when I realize I don't need them.
I normally sleep till 9 or 10pm, so I love when stuffs open in the middle of the night. Didn't really buy anything this year, but I did a bunch of window shopping.
Watching BF shoppers go postal on each other: Yes. Shopping on BF: Oh hell no.
No way I am going anywhere near a retail establishment on Black Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I stopped a number of years ago when it became impossible to park in our malls. I put on the disks of a favorite movie series and forget there is a world out there where one is supposed to be spending money like an idiot this weekend.
I tend to shop online; I'm still gathering wish-lists (and generating my own) so Black Friday is a little early in the season. Also the crowds; can't stand 'em. Still, I think some people got into the Black Friday spirit early this year; on Monday in some cities, people were enjoying Door-Buster deals, braving large angry crowds, and briefly warming themselves by a fire before resuming their orgy of acquisition.
I'am busy sleeping, go away. Die .
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