Do you all do it? I don’t get up at the crack of dawn, but I have been known to get out there and shop a little bit. This year I think I may get up a little earlier and hit some of the stores. I will not, however, be out at midnight!!! I can’t believe some malls and stores are opening up at midnight! That’s just insane. But I digress. I wanted to share this site with everyone.
It lists all the ads and new ones are added daily. It has really helped me decide where I will go shopping and which store I need to get to first for the best deals!
Enjoy!!
Nope, haven’t been out after Thanksgiving for about 27 years and don’t plan on it. Last year my husband kidnapped me before we left for vacation and made me go to Circuit City to buy a 50" plasma tv on black Friday, it wasn’t too bad but no way I’d do it again.
I’ve only gotten up early one time…when those Razor scooters were the hot commodity. But, not since then. My dh and his mom always get up early, though. I cannot stand shopping in crowds, so I stay home with the kids. Dh usually buys the bulk of our Christmas gifts. Nice setup, eh? :happydance:
:teehee: I have never gotten up and went shopping on black Friday…My brother works for wal-mart and the stories he has from that day…it’s awful how some get and how they will fight over items…last year I did order jeans on line they were having the same specials on their site as they were in the store… and shipping was only .98 cents or free…something like that :happydance:
As a former retail rat, I am philosophically opposed to getting up at obscene hours and shopping! 
I will go out and do a little light shopping later in the day - more browsing than an actual mission. But I can’t bring myself to join the crush of people bright and early.
I like to hit some online sales! 
Not just no but OMG DO YOU THINK I’M NUTS?!?!?!
Never, ever do I venture out on Black Friday–The roads are full of crazed people as well as the stores.
ROFL, last year hubby mentioned stopping somewhere on Black Friday on the way home from night shift to pick up a gift for his adult son. I warned him, but did he listen?----Noooooooo. he was over 3 hours late getting home and walked in with his eyes wide and announced that the checkout lines had to be one hundred people deep! I just laughed at him and asked why he thought I warned him not to do it!
Last year DH wanted to get something at Staples, which is 25 miles away, so I hit the Wal-Mart in the yuppie neighborhood instead of ours. BIIIIG mistake. That place was a screaming, clawing zoo. (So was Staples. The employees had bought all the laptops they had on sale anyhow, as I found out later when he handed me this one.) We stopped at our Wally World on the way home, and it was packed, but nobody was going crazy like that.
Not me, but then we always have rehearsals for the Nutcracker so we are working.
Ditto here. I won’t go out the day after Thanksgiving. But then again, I don’t go near the mall on Friday night, all day Saturday, and on Sundays, either during non-Christmas-time shopping, so I avoid the mall especially on days during the Christmas season when they’ll be most busy (evenings and weekends)…I try to avoid the mall completely as it is anyway, but sometimes I need something from there. I’ve found that it’s usually best to go on a Tuesday morning if you can if you need to shop during Christmastime.:psst:
My cousin Mary goes every year with a friend of hers. They LEAVE at 5:00 AM and go until midnight! That is 19 hours! Of shopping!
And my cousin doesn’t even like to stop to eat but her friend makes her.
One year my best friend and I went the the Wrentham Village mall in Wrentham, MA (AWESOME outlet mall!) and we couldn’t even get into the parking lot and the place is massive. My stupid idea.
Nope, no, absolutely not. That Friday I will be curled up with my cat, my dog and my knitting!
Nope.
I was never a fan of Black Friday shopping - but for the past dozen or so years I’ve been doing interactive street theatre on that day anyway - so am unavailable to shop.
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I’ve done it in the past, when opening “early” meant 7am. that’s about as early as I can get. the last few years I’ve been too tired from T’giving.
Usually, we don’t need the “hot” gifts, so there’s no need to beat everyone in line… I generally prefer the day after Xmas shopping to get wrapping paper, gift bags, and tissue for next year.
Never have and probably never will. I don’t see the need to be shopping at 5am. One of my good friend’s mothers always makes her go on an annual trip to Kohls on black Friday and they go at 5am. This year their going to to be in CA so she’s very upset about missing it. I think its kind of funny. I like my sleep and don’t really shop for those “hot” items, so I don’t think I’ll ever do it.
Wrentham is a great outlet mall, but like you said–completely insane during shopapalooza times. I won’t even go near that place til after January. Ugh.
WOW! This is very interesting. I thought I was the only person in the world who didn’t like to go shopping the day after Thanksgiving!!! I feel much better now. Although, as I said in my previous post, I will probably go this year. There are too many good deals on things I want, especially for my son. I, however, will NOT be leaving the house at 5 am. I probably won’t go out until around 7 or so.
I love it. Every year, me and my mom get up at 4:30 so we can hit the stores by 5:30. Its one of my favorite times to go shopping. And we have so much fun doing it, because really, if you want that dvd player, or that tv, you have to rush to it and battle to get it. But I ususally find the spots where a battle is already going on and just reach past them, grab the object and power walk away, lol. Its a great strategy.
No way. I have worked retail too many years to deal with it ever again. 
Absolutely positvely no way. BUT my DH does every year. On Thanksgiving Day he plots his route and gets up very early (we live quite a way from Columbus where any decent shopping is other than WalMart!) On my part, though, it would mean fighting crowds (which I despise) and fighting crowds with my two fighting children (which is even worse).
I did, however, decide to go to Old Navy after my DH got home from his early morning trip a couple of years ago. As I was getting ready to leave, I was putting away a pyrex baking dish that I’d used for Thanksgiving, and it was on a shelf higher than I am tall and didn’t bother to get out the step stool, so the heavy lid came crashing down on my head. 3 inch scalp laceration, a number of stitches later, I decided it was not meant for me to be shopping on Black Friday. . . . .