Shopped/Dropped

robinseggs · Post by **robinseggs** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:13 pm

Well folks, I'm out....cant stay awake any longer....I got up at 4:30 am to shop, even went to Starbucks and got my favorite, a sugar free vanilla soy latte.....hit Walmart, Target, Kmart and Toys R Us all in that order and it's 2:10 pm...yawwwnnnnnn............talk to y'all in a bit! Hittin the pillows.........

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:17 pm

Your a brave girl to go out among the masses on BLACK FRIDAY AND SHOP!! You deserve a rest kiddo.. !!;)

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:19 pm

My poor son went to work down at the mall this morning, the stories hewill be telling me soon.......................you are a brave one!

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:22 pm

one guy got a beating in a walmart down here for cutting in line! ---------------------November 25, 2005

Sales, shoppers and scuffles

Bargain shoppers, many facing frigid temperatures, woke up before dawn to snap up specials on items from cashmere sweaters to flat-screen TVs and digital music players as the holiday shopping season officially got under way. Things got out of hand at a Wal-Mart store in Orlando, Florida, where a man who allegedly cut in line to get a discounted laptop computer was wrestled to the ground, according to WFTV-TV.

FULL STORY | NEWS UPDATE

Annie Mouse · Post by **Annie Mouse** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:00 pm

robinseggs wrote: Well folks, I'm out....cant stay awake any longer....I got up at 4:30 am to shop, even went to Starbucks and got my favorite, a sugar free vanilla soy latte.....hit Walmart, Target, Kmart and Toys R Us all in that order and it's 2:10 pm...yawwwnnnnnn............talk to y'all in a bit! Hittin the pillows.........

My hat's off to you. I NEVER shop on T-Give Friday :-3

booradley · Post by **booradley** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:07 pm

I'm surprised the shops are open on such a special day

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 12:32 am

CARLA wrote: Your a brave girl to go out among the masses on BLACK FRIDAY AND SHOP!! You deserve a rest kiddo.. !!;)What's black friday ?

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 1:45 am

I'm off to Toys r us to get a couple of things for the grandchildren, and my present to myself - a flat screen telly for my bedroom - there are loads of offers at the moment to boost the Christmas sales, but January sales will be the time when everyone goes mad and the 'riots' start. Definitely WON'T be getting involved with that.

Good luck to anyone else that's Christmas shopping today..see yer laters..xx

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 4:01 am

I had to spend $950.00 on my car yesterday. It took 5 and a 1/2 hrs. It was next to a mall so thats where I was....at the mall. I fell asleep in a comfy chair at Borders so it wasnt too bad.

robinseggs · Post by **robinseggs** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 2:23 pm

abbey wrote: What's black friday ?

Black friday is the day after Thanksgiving here in the states.....it is America's biggest shopping day of the year. People go nuts. Basically everybody eats like crazy on Thanksgiving, then goes to bed and gets up at 4 am to get the biggest sales and deals for their Christmas shopping. A lot of the stores advertise unheard of prices, and buy one/get one free, 75% off.....but only while supplies last or a couple hours. Usually the people getting up/waiting in line/camping out on parking lots have a particular item in mind....like yesterday at Walmart it was their laptop computers!!! Don't even know what the price was, but they only had 68 of them and they were gone in less than 2 hours.

All that said, even though I was there, I am NOT one of those people! I wasn't after anything in particular. My neighbor asked me to go w/ her and I just happen to be a morning person....so why not? I did it last yr and now it's almost like I didn't want to miss out on the frenzy!!!!! It gets me "into" the season!!!

Annie Mouse · Post by **Annie Mouse** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 2:37 pm

I went a few years ago to a 6 a.m. sale at Circuit City with a friend. Never again. Those people are CRAZY!!!

robinseggs · Post by **robinseggs** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 2:52 pm

Yeah stay away from the electronics stores!! Those are the ones where the fuss is all about usually. A Best Buy here had a line that wrapped around the building.... when we passed by at 6 am, the lot was FULL and cars were parked in the grass! The way I feel, there is just nothing that could be that important to me to wait in a line like that!!! I would rather pay extra later than have to be elbowing my way around one of those places that early!

Annie Mouse · Post by **Annie Mouse** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 5:50 am

I agree - I haven't been out since that time.