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Black Friday!

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As the resident nut job of our family, you’d think it would be me who woke up and the crack of dawn on Black Friday to purchase the best deals for the holiday season but…

I was snuggled warmly in bed catching some Z’s.

As I’ve said before, I don’t participate in Black Friday.

Hubby on the other hand, was lined up with my brother outside Lowe’s and Home Depot brimming with excitement. For some reason, I imagine him getting a running start and riding the cart across those concrete floors while ‘It’s the Most Wonderful Time of The Year’ blares as a soundtrack in his head.

He saves gift cards people give him for his birthday and other holidays for months and dusts them off on Black Friday. Our checking account remains unharmed.

By the time I wake up, he’s sitting on the living room floor surrounded by his favorite tools and he has a glass of orange juice and a muffin warmed for me. Sorry ladies – he’s taken.

How’d you fair on the most dangerous debt day of the year *er*, I mean, Black Friday?


4 Comments

  • Reply Cate |

    That’s genius of your husband to save all his gift cards until Black Friday! I don’t have the patience for all that nonsense, but it sounds like he gets some great stuff!

  • Reply emmi |

    Black friday is great for laughing and pointing at a distance.

    Seriously, people, a rugby scrum over waffle irons?

  • Reply Claire in CA, USA |

    Never participated, never will. I am slightly claustrophobic, and the thought of a bunch of crazed shoppers and no elbow room? No, thanks. Your hubby definitely has the right idea with saving up those gift cards, though!

  • Reply JMK |

    I’m all for getting a great deal, don’t get me wrong. But as a Canadian watching the new clips of crazed Americans rushing into stores, it’s a bit like watching a news story about the running of the bulls from Pamplona Italy. My 10 yr old saw the mayhem on the news and asked what all those people were running from. She assumed it must be something horrible.
    I have friends and work collegues who regularly drive to the US, pay for a hotel and load up with as much as they can bring across the border without paying duty (and very likely a lot more that they don’t declare to customs). They claim it’s worthwhile but I just can’t see it. I guess I just don’t shop enough to make any deal worth that much work or investment.
    I do my Christmas shopping from a list all through the year as I find deals on appropriate items. No drama, and no leaping over other shoppers to be first to the sales rack.

So, what do you think ?