I woke up early so I decided to venture out and check out black friday (aka - after Thanksgiving sales) and I did find a few things (mainly blue jeans which I was in need of).


But, I did notice some of the ladies and young girls had long hair.  I would have complimented some of them but for those who have ever gone out at this time in the morning and the chaos you will understand why I did not say anything to them

Jerry

My sister-in-law got a flat screen tv for $800.  It was on sale at Sears for $1,300.00 until noon, but someone brought in an ad that showed it on sale somewhere else for $800.00, so the clerk gave all the people standing there at the time (about 4 I think) that price.

I did not have the same luck.  Hubby and I got up at 4:40 to go to Best Buy for a $300 computer for our son.  The doors opened as I walked up to the store.  There were probably about 300 people in line.  It took about five minutes for them all to walk past me so I could go in.

When I got in, people had loaded carts with stuff, and then were saying, "Yeah, there's none of those left, but I can let you have mine for $20.00."  Basically scalping the merchandise!  Of course with the store so crowded the employees didn't have a chance of stopping them, since they were busy with the legitimate customers.

They had aisles that only went one way, with an employee standing in front of a barricade letting people in.  Of course there were no $300 computers left by the time I got in the store at 5:10 a.m. 

I should have known better, since there was a segment on the 10:00 news last night showing people standing in the snow waiting for the sales.  I know that won't have significance for you more northern people, but it snowed in Dallas yesterday around 4:30 for about 45 minutes.  So people waiting in the snow meant they were in line 12 hours before the sale began.  Most sales began here around 4 - 5 am. 

My husband said, "What do you want to do?"  I said, "Go home and go back to bed."  So we did.

I have never got out to those sales on Black Friday, and I don't plan to.  I did a little net shopping since I got some great discount coupons from sites I subscribe to.  That's enough for me.  I have a tendancy to shop year round, so I don't worry about those crazy adverts.

I'm with you, Jerry, I got a coat that I needed to buy for me this winter.  It was on sale and I got my email coupon so I made out quite nicely on that.