This season I heard several comments about Black Friday, some analogies, some sayings.
Black Friday is like the zombie apocalypse: people flood the streets attacking one another; Everyone else locks themselves in their homes.
Black Friday is a made up holiday by the government in order to improve the economy once a year.
So I thought I’d add my own two cents…
Honestly, Black Friday seems over rated to me. Sure, there are some good sales, but for the most part, couldn’t a store stick a 80% off sticker on something, then raise the price 20 bucks?
Black Friday is a freaking scary thing. The horror stories that come afterward just prove that it’s not really worth it to go out. A lady carries around pepper spray in her purse to spray other shoppers because she must get one of those Wii remotes? Really? A guy dies in Arkansas and everyone continues to trample over him to get to the stuffed animals?
A kid in one of my classes was telling everyone how he and a buddy went to Wal-Mart to see if there was anything worth buying. They couldn’t even get into the store it was so crowded.
It’s just not worth it! Most of the stores have caught onto extended Christmas (holiday) sales anyways, not just Black Friday sales.
We actually went on Saturday afterward—most of the sales were still kind of going on, but the shelves were picked clean like meat off of the turkey dinner.
Guess that means there’s some advantage to going on Friday… but not really.
I suppose this shows you whether I was a zombie or locked up in the house on Black Friday.
~C0urtney