Who here is saying "FUCK BLACK FRIDAY!" and staying home?

[HopeHoops]

[Pool Hall Ace]

1. There exists not a team of wild horses

strong enough to pull me to any of the SpendMarts at 4:00 a.m.

Or any hour, for that matter! :P

[Moondog]

53. Black Friday ~~~ meh. Wild horses or not, I'm not going .... n/t

[kentauros]

2. Every single year!

What I need for gifts I can buy at the grocery store and then I spend a couple of weeks making everything ;)

[mike_c]

11. +1

Yep.

[flvegan]

3. I planned ahead such that

I don't have to leave the house (except to see my mom Thursday) until next Monday.

[fishnfla]

4. Hmmmmm

No choice for working that day?

Interesting either you assume that nobody around here works for a living or everyone is lucky enough to have the day off

interesting that, assuming

[HopeHoops]

6. Apologies are in order. I meant it in the context of SHOPPING.

Working that day sucks even MORE than shopping that day.

[JTG of the PRB]

5. I will be saying FUCK BLACK FRIDAY very loudly that day, since I have to be at work at 5am.

Stupid retail job. x(

[texanwitch]

7. I will be driving to Austin for the weekend.

A nice quiet weekend in the country is what I want.

[Capn Sunshine]

17. Look out for deer

I assume you'll be in Hill Country

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

8. Here where I live

in Everett Washington there is a local coffee house hosting a "Buy nothing" day. She'll be open but nothing is for sale. She's encouraging potlucks and people getting together that don't want to be part of the 'mass consumption' mentality..........

[Odin2005]

9. I'm staying at my mom's, digesting the food!

Busy stores give me autistic sensory overload, anyway, YUCK!

[Initech]

10. I'll be doing my usual black Friday routine: sleeping until noon then not going anywhere.

[applegrove]

12. I think every one of my list are getting gift certificates this year.

[handmade34]

13. from the Church of Stop Shopping-

http://www.revbilly.com/work/music/songs/stop-shopping

we will make some tea and scones and enjoy the day with the kids or friends by the fire or playing games...

[Richardo]

14. I'm well into my fifth decade

:toast:

[Kali]

15. I never do the big shopping thing.

but this year I really couldn't if I wanted to.:(

[Skittles]

16. I'm not staying home, but I'm not shopping either

[quakerboy]

18. I had never heard of black friday

Until about 2 years ago, as I recall. I've no interest in it, and will not be changing my routines one iota. I've got old people who count on me, and that's what I'll be doing Friday.

[Luciferous]

19. I never shop on Black Friday

the people who do are fucking nuts

[MrMickeysMom]

20. I will pass wind in BF's general direction...

....... on my way to work!

[EFerrari]

21. I only ever did BF once and we got great deals on good shoes.

But, who wants to be out in a herd when you could be home with your family? It always seemed a little wacky to me.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

22. It's easy for me to say fuck Black Friday...I'm stone broke...BUT...

...my attorney invited me to have Thanksgiving dinner with his family this year.

His wife is a great cook...she's Sicilian, my family is from Naples, and the one thing we have in common is a LOVE for COOKING.

We open our homes to the people we love, our friends, and we show our love in our kitchens.

She's VERY PARTICULAR about sauce...as are most Italians...but she has told me that she loves MY homemade sauce.

So when I go to their home on Thanksgiving, I have no money for a fine bottle of wine, but I have a can of imported San Marzano tomatoes in my cupboard, and I will bring her a batch of my homemade sauce that she can freeze and use on a day when she wants real, authentic home-cooked taste...and is too busy to make it.

That, for me, is the "spirit of the season"...what it is supposed to be all about.

I do feel bad about the store owners who are depending on "Black Friday" revenue. I think that this year they will be among the first to feel the deepest sting of "Wall Street Bailout" versus "Main Street Recovery" actually means.

:patriot:

[Zavulon]

23. Not only do I saw "fuck Black Friday," but I also

plan on staying home with no television on and no access to news at all so that I can avoid what I call "Insignificant Bullshit Saturday," during which almost all of the media coverage is about shopping trends. Invariably, there will be interviews with random assholes telling us about how much of their shopping that they've done, how they're economizing and so on.

There is ALWAYS something more interesting than to report, and I don't give a fuck about what other people are shopping for or how they're doing it.

Few things piss me off more than media coverage on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

[cherokeeprogressive]

24. I'm going to Walmart, then to Olive Garden for lunch.

[HopeHoops]

28. Be sure to get the narwhal alfredo!

FUCK YEAH!!!!1

[kentauros]

32. Just don't mix it with the Unicorn minestrone!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6kNxf6axY4 :P

[NewJeffCT]

25. I think Black Friday is the only day my wife wakes up before me

though, she isn't one of those people that camps out overnight outside of a store to rush in at 5am.

[Callalily]

26. I hate shopping, so there's

no way in hell I'd be out on Black Friday. My shopping needs are so minuscule I can do most everything via the internet!

[EndersDame]

27. I dont like going to the grocery store during peak hours

[fortyfeetunder]

29. can't afford to

my money is going to the travel industry...

[nickinSTL]

30. I hate that day. Always avoid it

against my better judgment, I might go out this year, though.

Haven't decided what to get my wife, and my one idea is kind of expensive, so finding something on sale might be worth it.

[txwhitedove]

31. Never! I shop on-line, E-Bay and Craigslist to stretch the money.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

33. i hate shopping.

[Deep13]

34. No interjection, just have no interest in shopping. nt

[MorningGlow]

35. I spent enough time on the other side of the counter on BF

If I can make even one retail worker's Black Friday less stressful by staying home, I will do just that. Because as we all know, everytime a shopper stresses out a retail worker (especialy during the holiday season), an angel's wings fall off. Truth.

[tigereye]

36. what bums me out is stores being open on Thanksgiving itself

that doesn't seem right, somehow.


Don't people get to have any holidays off? :shrug:

[Rambis]

37. Thanksgiving?

Thanksgiving for me is ground zero, the start of genocide of the native peoples. Am I the only one?:shrug:

[LibertyLover]

38. I hit "yawn" but really needed "Other"

I'll be driving out to my stepdaughter's house so that my daughter can meet and get to know my stepdaughter's soon-to-be niece. The step is getting married on Saturday and my 7 year old and her fiance's 3 year old niece are the flower girls. I am not looking forward to this wedding. Basically I want to get in, see the step married, take some photos of my daughter in her flower girl dress and get out. The soon to be step's in-laws are a bunch of right-wingers from Pittsburgh. Last year they were all sporting "Nobama" pins and telling everyone in earshot that Obama was an "Islamic" and hadn't even been born in the US. Yep - birthers. Oh joy. Wish me luck that my husband doesn't punch one of these idiots out.

[HopeHoops]

43. Spike whatever they're drinking.

[LeftyMom]

39. I have plans to go to brunch and then some thrift stores with a friend.

I don't really think that makes me a slave to consumerism. ;)

[jmm]

40. I'll be shopping on Friday.

I'm not a big fan of crowds but I even shopped last year on the day after Thanksgiving and it was my birthday. The 5 computers per store type of deals aren't worth waiting for since you probably won't get it but sometimes you really can get good deals. I participate in a few Christmas grabs so I'm usually able to get more for my dollar limit that day as well as save money on other gifts too. I'll probably pick up a couple of things for myself since I could use some winter clothes.

[tk2kewl]

41. Ummm... I will be at work.

[bikebloke]

42. Aye

Though I may do my Saturday grocery run on Friday, just to get it over with. But I don't do the other crap on any day.

Bah-Humbug gu bragh!

[Soylent Brice]

44. FUCK black friday indeed.

[bif]

45. You mean Saint Retails Day?

I always avoid the stores on that day.

[bigwillq]

46. Won't be shopping!

I hate shopping, although I did get a new TV today! :bounce:

[CBR]

47. Black Friday is nuts. My mother-in-law is a department

manager at Belk and my sister-in-law is manager at Forever 21. They have to go in at about 2am. Insanity.

[DemBones DemBones]

48. I have never shopped on Black Friday in my life,

because I value my life too much. I do like to shop on Christmas Eve because that's when shoppers are serious yet calm. No pushing, no arguing.

[Yukari Yakumo]

49. Other- Workin' nt

[Blue_Tires]

50. hell, i've always stayed home

i was staying home before it was trendy

[Lucian]

51. I'll be going out, but not to buy anything.

I'll be doing some sort of sociological experiment. :D

[HopeHoops]

52. Perhaps that would involve....

:beer:

[lunatica]

54. We haven't done Christmas for 15 years.

We dropped out of the consumerism of holidays and have never regretted it. We're all adults so it works, but it would be different if there were little kids and young teens.

[BuelahWitch]

55. I'm avoiding stores for the most part until the 28th of December

except for buying food and kitty litter. Even then I'll try and sneak in early in the morning before the holiday marauders are awake.

[MrSlayer]

56. I'm going to work.

And I shop online so Black Friday is meaningless to me other than serving as the title of a kick ass Megadeth song.

[astral]

64. that was steely dan

[guitar man]

57. Normally I wouldn't go out

But I got an ad in my local paper from guitar center, they have epiphone Les Paul jr's on sale for $89 Friday only. I have been looking for another general purpose guitar to keep around and that price is hard to beat

[name not needed]

58. I'm gonna get really baked and laugh at the idiots fighting over TVs at Best Buy

[Hippo_Tron]

59. I shop after Christmas

Better deals and less crowds.

[Kat45]

60. I have NEVAH done Black Friday. Won't go near a store all weekend.

Maybe a supermarket, that's it.

[Deja Q]

61. For a $300 computer on sale for $200 special, that uses $50 worth of parts and isn't worth 2¢?

[TheKentuckian]

62. I voted Yawn since I ALWAYS shun it and plan to shun it evermore

Too many people being far too crazy competing on a seemingly life and death struggle to acquire a nicely priced crock pot or whatever.

[XemaSab]

63. I'm going to the gallery in Red Bluff

and looking for a nice oil for over the couch. :D

(I blew $100 there last year on two very nice oils. One is a nice mountain scene and the other is of some Buddhist monks. Both were done in Southeast Asia in the 60's, and the painting of the monks is on green tent canvas! :o )

[MSchreader]

65. My communist wife and anarchist daughter just left to go buy a PS2 -- ask me anything!

:evilgrin:

I feel sooooooo betrayed. Guess I'll drown my sorrow in some more ginger brandy turkey.

[proteus_lives]

67. I love it how often communist and anarchists prove how neither system will never work in real life.

:rofl:

[proteus_lives]

66. I'll be working and I hope there are THOUSANDS of customers at my place of business!

More customers equals more shifts equals more money for me.

[Renew Deal]

68. Going out into this manufactured shopping day is about as dumb as it gets.

[XemaSab]

69. UPDATE!

I went to the gallery, and the proprietor said "Didn't you get that picture that was on the tent canvas? Right after you got it, a couple came in looking for it, and they were REALLY disappointed that it had been sold."

In short, I completely scored with that painting. :D