Black Friday 2011 -"Why do I do it?"

Today is Friday November 25th 2011, or in the shopper's mind "Black Friday"  This year it started even earlier on Thursday!  Let me set the scene for you, it's 9:00pm on Thanksgiving day, our bellies are full from the Turkey and Pumpkin Pie, now we are sitting at the table planning our "attack" for the evening.  We are excited, this year Black Friday is starting even earlier.  We carefully plan our attack as we give one final pass through all the ads from the newspaper.  What stores will we hit first.  What do we want to get, yes, I feel the rush start to happen.  Now it is about 9:45pm, we are off to our first stop, Wal-Mart!  Oh Boy!  we are in for a big surprise!  The normally empty parking lot was completely full!  We found a parking place and into the heart of the best we went, OK, the store, but what we were in for, WOW!  The store was a mad house!  Wall to Wall people, pushing, pulling and grabbing all the deals that were available!  I quickly went to what was on my list and met my wife at the designated meeting point.  Walking into Wal-Mart that evening, quickly reminded me that we were in for some serious shopping time!  We quickly got what we wanted at Wal-Mart then it was quickly off to our next stop.  We pulled up to Kohl's where we found the line wrapped around the block!  It was still 45 minutes before the store opened.  So we waited in line and discussed what we needed to get and our battle plan for that store!  The 45 minutes flew by the line starts to move, OK, let the rush begin!  We get into the store, Success!  We find what we wanted and off to the check out lines.  Another store down.  Now off to the next store, Game Stop!   Here we find another line of course!  So off we are into the waiting line.  This is where start to hear and swap Black Friday tales past and present.  Finally to the door, we are let in the Game Stop store.  We are excited, We find what we were looking for!  Our Black Friday is looking good!  Now we are off to our next stop, but first we must refuel ourselves!  Can't run on empty. It is now approximately 2:30am.  We stop to eat at Denny's of course because it is always open!  It appears that most of our fellow Black Friday shoppers had the same thing on their minds.  OK, refueled and charged up again, it is off to the next store.  Target here we come!  Most of the crowd is gone now and it is relatively quiet in the store.  To our amazement, we still found some great deals!  Now back again to yet another Game Stop where we needed to find a game that we were looking for!  Success!  It is now approximately 5:00 am.  Off to our final stop of the day.  Family Christian Bookstore.  It does not open until 6:00 am so we have an hour to kill.  We enjoy it together in the car sitting and listening to some Christmas music as we pass the time.  Now it is 6:00am.  The doors open and we are off and running again.  We found a lot of deals for us as well as our family!    We shopped for about an hour.  It is now 7:00 am in the morning!  We are FINISHED!!!  Another Black Friday in the books!  We survived and had a blast!



Black Friday 2011 @ Wal-Mart in Buckey AZ

You say, What in the world would possess someone to go out and shop in those type of circumstances?  To subject yourself to the pushing, shoving, sleep deprivation etc.?  Well, I am not crazy, but I will tell you this, Yes I do it because of the deals of the day, but it is truly because I love spending the time shopping with my wife!  Yes, I love to shop and I love to shop with the best person I know, my wife!  This is like the ultimate date for us!  We look forward to this time of the year every year!  We do it because we love the time we get to spend with each other.  We love the running around in all the drama, we love spending the time with other people in line and swapping Black Friday tales both past and present.  Ultimately though, I do it because of the time I get to spend with my wife!