Who else here is NOT a "Black Friday" participant?

[flvegan]

I'm a Buy Nothing Day kind of guy, but I'm seeing nothing but crap about BF on the news.

[DS1]

1. I avoid stores at all costs that day

It's much more fun to stay home and watch the news and people trampling each other at the big box stores doors.


Someone needs to make a montage of that shit

[LeftyMom]

2. I'm not standing in a line anywhere, but my fake cheese and donut habits will be indulged.

[flvegan]

12. Wimp.

I stocked up on booze and food through the weekend.

[LeftyMom]

14. I'm gonna be in Portland. They have stuff I can't buy here.

:shrug:

[Parche]

21. portland oregon?

:shrug: :hi: :hug:

[LeftyMom]

24. Yep. I'm driving up tomorrow.

Stopping in Redding for lunch with XemaSab.

[Parche]

25. really?

for how long?

my brother is picking me up at 2pm for the long weekend!!!

me works in downtown portland

[LeftyMom]

26. I'm driving home Sunday. nt

[CreekDog]

3. I'm not a Buy Nothing Day participant because I'm not against shopping on that day

I am against overconsumption, or wanton consumption for its own sake.

But what day people buy things on, for me that's not the issue, it's how much, it's instead of what, that's the issue for me.

[Midlodemocrat]

4. Never, ever, ever go. I can't stand crowds.

[Bjorn Against]

5. I am celebrating Buy Nothing Day as well...

I don't go anywhere near the stores on Black Friday as I find it to be an incredibly repulsive experience. While I used to be in the minority I think this year we will see many more people staying home, the economy is in rough shape and I don't think people are as excited about shopping as they were in years past. People will probably go out in the early morning for the bargains, but throughout the course of the day I would expect less shoppers this year than there have been in previous years.

[Deja Q]

6. If brothels were legal, I'd still stay home that day.

[seemunkee]

7. Usually with family and would rather do other things than shop

[Parche]

8. never ever ever

I wont even go with Midlo (freeper,traitor) to Walmart..............:hi:

[Lyric]

9. I've never gotten the chance to go.

We've always had something else to do--work, school, etc. I'd like to try it someday just to say that I have, but it probably won't become a habit. I get a little uneasy about the "Hey! It's BLACK FRIDAY! You're totally SUPPOSED to go shopping today!" propaganda.

[Critters2]

10. We're decorating the church that day. So, no. I won't be at Walmart. nt

[LaydeeBug]

11. I am gassing up my car tomorrow, and picking up a few odds and ends...

and then I am going to try and purchase nothing until the weekend is out.

[Aristus]

13. I stay away from the stores on Black Friday as if they were disease-bearing organisms.

Just watching the local news footage of all those fevered, harried people rushing through the aisles and the malls, grabbing merchandise off the shelves, yelling back and forth, looking sweaty and worried, is enough to keep me away for all of "Black Weekend."

The "War on Christmas" is a marvel of seasonal reverence and gravitas by comparison.

[Gormy Cuss]

15. I won't go within 10 feet of any retail establishment on Friday.

I hate shopping on normal days.

[Ava]

16. i don't shop unless i absolutely have to

i HATE shopping.. especially around the holidays when people are so crazy in the stores. i usually do my christmas shopping a week or two before christmas.

[SOteric]

17. It would take an act of Ghod to get me in a department store on Black Friday.

And by that, I mean the good lord would have to appear to me in the flesh and personally direct me for apparently valid reasons to go into the store. Otherwise, it's Nineveh all over again.

[trof]

18. We have a Black Friday ritual.

There's a Tanger Factory Outlet mall about 5 miles from us.


http://www.tangeroutlet.com/foley/directory/

The parking lots cover acres and acres.
On Black Friday the lots are FULL and shoppers are parking a mile or more away, on roadsides, in fats food parking lots, and walking in.
The SUPER SPECIALS go on sale at the stroke of midnight.
And there are CROWDS there to buy them.
It's insane.
:silly:
Last year the mall started running shuttle buses from outlying parking areas.

I like to drive by on Black Friday and see how far away folks are parking.
I'm betting that this year the lots won't be full.
But we are in Alabama, so who knows?
:shrug:

[spinbaby]

79. That's amazing

We had a Tanger outlet mall go in near us a couple of months ago. I haven't gotten around to going up there to see it yet and I'm certainly not going there on Black Friday. That day is reserved for movies, football, and leftovers.

[redqueen]

19. Me.

I like shopping for gifts, but not at the same time as a mob of crazed shopaholics. :scared:

[Taverner]

20. I've never ever gone shopping on the day after T-givin

But I have lit up a joint or two... do I count?

[jakefrep]

22. I'd rather work than go to the mall on Black Friday

I figure that Christmas shopping is the reason Al Gore invented the Internet.

[Lady Freedom]

44. Some of us work in the mall on BLACK FRIDAY.

Please say a prayer for us.

[jakefrep]

80. You have my sympathy...stay safe.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

23. I'm collecting my free "Black Friday" medium coffee from Quik Chek

I'll probably pick up a pack of smokes, too. That's about it.

[Initech]

27. Not for me.

I dont feel like getting up at 6:00 AM and getting my ass stomped just to save a few bucks on a big screen, thanks.

[Missy Vixen]

28. We might visit the grocery store

but we're staying as far away from the mall as humanly possible. Plus, I have to put up the tree, or it won't get done. :woohoo:

Julie

[KitchenWitch]

29. Normally I am too...but there is this tent sale at the super duper closeout center

nearby.

We want a camcorder (since my life partner poured water all over our old one and wrecked it) and they have decent brand new ones for around $100. And the tent sale offers some sort of discount from the usual $100 pricetag.

[flvegan]

32. Right, but how many tents are you buying?

[KitchenWitch]

39. Just one very large one!

:evilgrin:

[Chan790]

30. I'm working.

I'm probably not buying anything though.

[MorningGlow]

31. I used to work retail (bookstores)

Nuff said. After being on the other side of the counter, watching people act like total eedjits starting at 5 a.m., well...I refuse to be party to that level of stupidity.

[DarkTirade]

33. I'm a "Fuck, I'm scheduled to work that day" person.

But every year before now I hung out and ate leftovers. Christmas shopping is for the week before Christmas, not a month before.

[RoyGBiv]

34. I don't leave the house ...

It's more fear than anything.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

35. staying off the grid here

[AlCzervik]

36. me neither, no thanks.

[surrealAmerican]

37. I hate shopping on normal days.

Add in some crowds, and you'd have to pay me to go.

[petronius]

38. Not me - I'll do my xmas shopping on 12/23 and not think about it till then

If people were smart, they'd all stay home on BF - scare the stores into cutting prices deeply and early. Personally, I don't see the appeal of shopping at all, and I can't comprehend why someone would find pleasure in going shopping on a day when lots of other people are also going shopping. Seeking out a crowd? Why? :shrug:

[Rhythm]

40. I can't deal with that kind of pressure... i'll be home in bed.

I have to work that night, anyway. No sense being out in the mess until i have to.

[hippywife]

41. Same here.

Couldn't pry me outta the house with a crow bar for any reason whatsoever. :hi:

[GoneOffShore]

42. No shopping but a meal out with 2 other couples.

We do a different restaurant every year.

This year it's Cochon here in Philadelphia. BYOB and lots of PIG!!!! and offal. Liver and kidneys and tripe, oh my!

[femmocrat]

43. I'm not leaving the house.

I hate Christmas shopping, crowds, etc. x(

[JimWis]

45. No way in hell I would shop on that day. Unless I could get the

Packer offensive line to go along and run interference. Maybe then..

[arcadian]

46. Buy Nothing Day all the way.

n/t

[yellowdogintexas]

47. most definitely me. I often have to work, but when I am off, I hole up in my house

and bake. Maybe just maybe we will take in a movie.

This year I plan to bake things to freeze for Christmas parties.

[ValhallaChaser]

48. I stay home.....

and hide on that day. There's too much craziness out there!! :yoiks:

[stuntcat]

49. not unless I ran out of juice :)

If I HAD to go to Giant then I guess.. That would be it though.
My husband is a consumer but I've taught him how cool it is to save. So he'll get out in it because he can't stop himself, but he'll just people watch.

[unsavedtrash]

50. I intend to spend Friday recovering from a turkey and carb induced coma.

Not getting out of my pj's all day.

[tigereye]

51. haven't gone for years- my mom refuses to go anymore, so it's not as much

fun.

[WCGreen]

52. Me, well I prefer Taupe Tuesdays....

[TK421]

53. Not me...I gave up on ritual killings about seven years ago...

now I only participate on Sundays, except I get this cool wafer-looking thing at the end!!!

[Shell Beau]

54. I never do it, but I may this year because I saw

a killer deal on 1000 thread count sheets only for Friday, and seeing as how I just somehow just dyed my best set pink (damn one red sock ruined my sheets), I think I need to go and get those sheets.

Yea I am using black Friday for ME ME ME!!!

[astral]

56. nah! What's wrong with pink sheets?

[Shell Beau]

59. It is like pink tye-dyed sheets. That would have been cool just

a few years ago when I was in my early 20's!!

I may be on to something here! :P

[astral]

55. I've never been into it.

In fact until just a few years ago I never knew what it was. I did not know it was the day after Thanksgiving and then I still didn't know what it meant. I remember the Steely Dan song Black Friday which I figured was about about the 1929 stock market crash.

I'm probably wrong about that one too.

I'm safe anyway -- I have to work the day after Thanksgiving.

I thought everybody did . . . . . oh, well, I guess everyone who works in retail!

[Connonym]

57. HELL TO THE NO!

I don't even want to go into any store between now and Xmas. I'm going to use Amazon.com same as I have for the past several years. I refuse to go shopping on the day after Xmas either. I don't get either one of these crazy practices. :eyes:

[Sebastian Doyle]

58. I will not set foot in any retail establishment on "Black Friday"

and do my damndest to avoid the circle of Hell known as "the mall" for the remainder of the year.

[Lucian]

60. I don't go to the store to buy shit I don't need.

So no, I will not be a "Black Friday" participant.

[Godhumor]

61. The only thing possible I may buy on Black Friday is if I get picked to buy one of...

Amazon's crazy "customer vote" deals. The one for Black Friday is a $199 Playstation 3 with movie and game, and, yes, I will buy it in a heartbeat if I get the email invitation.

[Neshanic]

62. I am.

[quakerboy]

63. A what now?

I'm learning so much this year. I had no idea I was so sheltered. Aspic and green been casarolle, and now this.

[Zavulon]

64. My Christmas shopping was done in August

and there's nothing I really want for myself. On Black Friday, this kid stays the fuck home.

BTW, there is little that irritates me more than the headlines about shopping trends on the Saturday after Thanksgiving and the quotes from individual shoppers. I don't give a flying fuck if Gloria M, from Bethesda, has only three more gifts to buy. I really fucking don't.

[MrSlayer]

65. I shop online.

Black Friday is no more important to me than any other day.

[JVS]

66. Oh man. When they get the numbers in for this upcoming weekend, they're going to shit bricks!

[Highway61]

67. Never

I HATE lines and way too many people shoving and being rude.

[Starry Messenger]

68. Why ruin a perfectly good hangover?

I shop online anyway. I can't be trusted in stores. I end up buying way more stuff for me than for the intended recipient. If I shop online I can justify this quirk by telling myself it makes more sense to combine shipping costs!

[Marrah_G]

69. I hate crowded stores

[TommyO]

70. The only think I might do is go to a movie.

It's too bad my niece and nephew have already seen Bolt, I would have loved taking them to see it.

[Arkansas Granny]

71. It's not so much "Buy Nothing Day" for me as avoid the crowds day.

I haven't seen a bargain yet that would entice me to stand outside a store in the early morning hours waiting for that 4:00 a.m. opening just so I could be trampled by people with the same idea..

[bigwillq]

72. ME!

I never go shopping that day. Never. Ever.

[lizziegrace]

73. I'm not

No money and I get panic attacks in crowds. The noise, people and confusion just unnerve me.

[Ellen Forradalom]

74. ME me me

There's nothing I want to buy, and I can't deal with all those people.

[old mark]

75. I hate being in those kinds of demented crowds.

There are stores here that will open at 4AM! And they will be crowded all day.

We will go shopping one last time today, and not again till maybe Monday.

We plan on taking walks with the dog in the country,around the lake, etc. and go for drives.

Mostly, we will stay home, play guitars, eat even more read and nap.

mark

[Bertha Venation]

76. I will be at home Friday, maybe working on a honeydew list

but strictly at HOME. No cash will leave my wallet on Friday or Saturday or Sunday.

[MilesColtrane]

77. My mind is boggled when I consider that there are people who actually...

...enjoy fighting huge crowds in order to buy stuff.

I Do Not Want

[madinmaryland]

78. I too find it bizarre that people get excited about getting up to be at a store

before 5 am, and will stand in line to be the first one in.

:wtf: Get a life people.