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11-22-2004, 10:25 AM
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Anyone going shopping on Friday? I'm trying to decide. If anyone's interested, I have the sales lists for Target and WalMart.
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11-22-2004, 10:44 AM
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Oh glory. Not sure. I hate the lines. I still have flannel from last year, so I really don't need to hit Jo Ann's $0.99 sale like I usually do... anything REALLY good? |
11-22-2004, 10:47 AM
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I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.
I think I finished all my shopping this past weekend.
I have a few ceramics pcs to finish, but otherwise I'm done. I hate shopping during the holiday season!!! If I must shop - it WON"T be at a mall, a Walmart or Target. I may risk Linen's and Things, but thats about it. |
11-22-2004, 10:48 AM
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Buy Nothing Day
I don't go because I used to work in retail and had to work that day, so I knew it was a mob scene and definitely NOT the way to start the season in a spirit of Comfort and Joy. Some religious leaders call for boycotting the malls on Black Friday as a way to keep Jesus the "reason for the season," while non-religious groups who are concerned about the environment or are part of economic movements push to boycott the malls for their anticonsumerism agendas.
Best day to go? First Monday in December, early; get there when the mall opens. The mall still closed fairly early Sunday night so the staff was able to stay and fix all the racks, it's still to early in the season for tons of folks to be taking a day off from work to shop, so you can find what you want and not stand in line. 
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11-22-2004, 10:51 AM
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just shop on line. |
11-22-2004, 10:56 AM
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Some things I just can't get on line - I need to see, feel, smell, and otherwise interact with some gifts before I buy them. Also there's those people who you just don't know what to get, but then you browse the mall and the Perfect Gift jumps out at you.
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It's extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can't find $25 billion dollars to save 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases.~ Bono |
11-22-2004, 11:04 AM
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LOL. I do almost all my shopping online now. The year I was pg with Beanie, I was on bedrest and had no other way to shop. I found I enjoyed it so much that I do it every year. But I do love some of those wicked sales... we got a DVD player one year for something like $30 and it was a nice one.  Of course, that was before the stores got wise to online folks... we got the add, placed our order online for store pick up at 12:01 AM, and got a DVD player that we picked up at 2 PM instead of standing in line in the cold like a food. LOL |
11-22-2004, 01:16 PM
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Not going shopping because other people are so insane. I have about half my Christmas shopping done and the remainder will be a mix of online shopping and actually going to stores. I think I may wait until finals week. We have our final early so I should have some time during the day to shop instead of having to come in to work.
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11-22-2004, 02:10 PM
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I have to work on the Friday after Thanksgiving (because the New York Stock Exchange is open), otherwise I would be out there in the throngs. I love going shopping in the busy season with all the crowds. It just puts me in a good mood.
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11-22-2004, 02:22 PM
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Once I tried one of those post Thanksgiving sales to get one of a limited number of Furbies. They were at a Wal-Mart, and the sale started at about 5 a.m. By the time I got there (4:45 a.m.) the line was several blocks long!
Furbies didn't become widely available until Valentine's Day (and then they had a glut on them.)
We are going to St. Louis for Thanksgiving, and I have no doubt we'll hit one of their malls the day after Thanksgiving. My fifteen year-old loves to shop, and the malls in St. Louis are much largier and fancier than the mall in the town where we live. As an added bonus, the sales tax is several pennies lower, and some of the malls offer free gift wrap.
I am planning on doing lots of shopping online, though. |
11-22-2004, 02:35 PM
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Oh H--- No  Wild Horses Couldn't Drag Me, etc... |
11-22-2004, 02:40 PM
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I don't even like going to the Supermarket between Thanksgiving and Christmas!!! |
11-22-2004, 02:48 PM
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Ugh. Our grocery stores close only twice a year: once for Thanksgiving night so employees can have some family time, and then Christmas Eve through until 6 AM 12/26. You would think Armageddon was coming, we are so unused to it. In this land of 24-hour everything, the thought of not being able to buy things for a day is enough to start a frenzy. |
11-22-2004, 02:51 PM
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Quote: | pippadaisy said
Ugh. Our grocery stores close only twice a year: once for Thanksgiving night so employees can have some family time, and then Christmas Eve through until 6 AM 12/26. You would think Armageddon was coming, we are so unused to it. In this land of 24-hour everything, the thought of not being able to buy things for a day is enough to start a frenzy. |
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11-22-2004, 02:52 PM
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Quote: | pippadaisy said
Ugh. Our grocery stores close only twice a year: once for Thanksgiving night so employees can have some family time, and then Christmas Eve through until 6 AM 12/26. You would think Armageddon was coming, we are so unused to it. In this land of 24-hour everything, the thought of not being able to buy things for a day is enough to start a frenzy. | When I worked at a supermarket, we were closed from 6pm Xmas Eve until 6am 12/26, then again from 9pm New Year's Eve until 6am New Year's Day. Turkey Day we were open and I'd get holiday pay, so I'd work it. Lotsa flowers, canned cranberry sauce, and beer sold on Thanksgiving afternoon and evening
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11-22-2004, 03:12 PM
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Which reminds me that I need to watch for some decent champagne sales before New Years. Nothing says angry hubby than when I pay full shot for a bottle of Veuve Clicquot 12/30. |
11-22-2004, 04:23 PM
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It's usually a family tradition to go out shopping that day. My mom and her three sisters (who each have one daughter) always start hitting the stores at around 5 a.m. This year, they're renting a hotel room so that they can move across the state as they shop and drop packages off in a room. They rented one room expecting all six of us to stay in it.
However, it will only be five 'cause I won't be joining them this year. I'm going to be doing a craft show on Friday from 4-8 and Saturday from 9-4. I'm hoping there will be lots of people shopping for that perfect, unique, can't-get-anywhere else gift. Especially since we won't have many bargains.
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11-22-2004, 04:35 PM
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Quote: | pippadaisy said
Ugh. Our grocery stores close only twice a year: once for Thanksgiving night so employees can have some family time, and then Christmas Eve through until 6 AM 12/26. You would think Armageddon was coming, we are so unused to it. In this land of 24-hour everything, the thought of not being able to buy things for a day is enough to start a frenzy. | Same here, which usually gives us the headache blues. (DH works for Winn Dixie.) Luckily, this year he had the foresight to make sure way ahead of time to get T'giving off. And Christmas is over the weekend this year, so no worries on that account this time.
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11-22-2004, 07:29 PM
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Huh-uh, no way! My brother and I tried to get some of the "doorbuster" things a few years back, and the sight of the line through the parking lot was enough to make us go home and back to bed. Won't be doing that again for quite a while.
Cindy
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