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It's coming. That time of year where, as a nation, our rampant consumerism is celebrated so hard that the punchline becomes the joke.
Soaked in caffeine, fending off the 4am shivers with warm dreams of overdrawn checking accounts and revolving credit - we shop. We fight. We stand in line to save $10 on shit we don't need because The Man tells us that's the day to do it.
Black Friday is the day after American Thanksgiving and is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season in the United States. Since Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, Black Friday may be as early as the 23rd and as late as the 29th day of November. Retailers often decorate for the Christmas season weeks beforehand. Many retailers open very early (typically 5 A.M.) and offer doorbuster deals and loss leaders to draw people to their stores. Although Black Friday, as the first shopping day after Thanksgiving, has served as the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season at least since the start of the modern Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924, the term "Black Friday" has been traced back only to the 1970s.. "Black Friday" was originally so named because of the heavy traffic on that day, although most contemporary uses of the term refer instead to it as the beginning of the period in which retailers are in the black (i.e., turning a profit).
i'll be hitting black friday with my mom this year again. that woman is crazy
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HunterChemist with a heart of AuRegistered Userregular
edited November 2007
After having to work retail during black friday, I refuse to shop that day. I sit at home, eat left overs, and stay away from commercial shopping centers.
I worked black friday two years in a row when I did my tour of duty in the mall. I managed a hat world and a spencers both years. open one, close the other.
The horror...
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i think getting some decent 26 inch or so HDTV is okay on black friday
but if you're going all the way and buying a bigass full res screen, do your research and buy a good tv instead of an on sale tv
Yeah I already have it narrowed down to a Samsung and Panasonic on Amazon. I'm just expecting Circuit City to offer a free car with purchase of one of these shortly after I buy them.
Man, I got a 42" Sharp Aquos 1080p HDTV at Best Buy last Black Friday, and with delivery, tax, and 4-year service plan, it came to just over $1,100...at the time, that was something like 60% off their price. So I'm pretty happy with that.
Man, I got a 42" Sharp Aquos 1080p HDTV at Best Buy last Black Friday, and with delivery, tax, and 4-year service plan, it came to just over $1,100...at the time, that was something like 60% off their price. So I'm pretty happy with that.
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I miss my hand.
(i didn't actually i just don't want someone to make this joke)
Thank god I don't work retail.
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I have to work on Black Friday
I work in retail
But I don't have to be in until 12, so
I'm scared you guys
I'm thinking not
Also, lately I've been good at suppressing my desire to buy shit I don't need so
In fact, it's one of the slowest days of the year for us grocery folks.
It was like defending Leningrad against an unending blitz of mothers who would shiv the next one over for this piece of shit toy
FUCK YOU FURBIES
Really looking forward to whatever model I decide on going on sale one week after I buy it.
but if you're going all the way and buying a bigass full res screen, do your research and buy a good tv instead of an on sale tv
I usually had a great time.
This year, I think I am actually going to go shopping on the dreaded day just so I can get it all done in one big mad rush of pain.
I also need new pants.
we didn't have a single customer until 10, because our deals sucked ass
yeah well we'll have wiis on friday
you have boxing day deals or some such foolishness
everyone who's a civilized person is out at 4am the day after thanksgiving ready to knife a bitch for an elmo doll.
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The horror...
I read this post as "I red the titty as "clever titties on titties."
(I didn't actually i just don't want someone to make this titty)
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Luckily it will be me and a drill rig and noone else. Hats off to the retail folks.
I can usually get all the gifts I need to get online anyway.
Yeah I already have it narrowed down to a Samsung and Panasonic on Amazon. I'm just expecting Circuit City to offer a free car with purchase of one of these shortly after I buy them.
'Black Friday - clever titties on sale at Ham.'
probably because we were talking about ham in WoW
Taking a break this year, though.
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People just looooooove to come in and remind us all that "titles" looks sort of like "titties."
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60% off on a HDTV is pretty good.
I read this post as "titties titties titties titties titties titties titties fine."
Hey Monkeybomb, what is this about titties?
http://www.blackfridayads.com/stores/2
That has a 50" Samsung Plasma + installation for 1399
Not bad I guess, my friend has a 40" Samsung LCD and it functions just fine