Friday, November 24, 2006

Black Friday Carnival: What's your Experience?




This week over at MomGadget forum we were writing about Black friday, any experiences you've had, if you went out and just about anything on it. Know great deals? Let us know, etc. You get the drift.

Now, I'll share a bit about myself dealing with black friday, I never heard about it until my second child was 3 months old and I went to Ohio to visit family. My relatives were all getting up around midnight to stand in line, I couldn't understand why. I stayed at their house that year not wanting to go out and wait in freezing temperatures, that is until they came back home around noon. I went back home to my husband telling him how much I wanted to do it the following year. We did, with the kids in tow. That wasn't a great idea, you must worry about them getting trampled or a toy following on top of their head as someone is crawling on top of one of the aisles to get those last bob the builder toys (it was the year they came out with the talking ones). We agreed never to take them out.

Here are some experiences of the other MomGadget ladies:

There were a few brave souls that ventured out to do some Black friday shopping. Shelly over at Soup and Nuts went out at 4:30 a.m. to hit up those deals and got lucky. Granted she wasn't lucky enough to get one of those 1st 100 in the door to get the gift certificates but she did get some great bargains.

Gayla over at SuperNanny Rules remembers a time when she was younger and went black friday shopping with her aunt and mom. She was 12 and didn't walk away with the treasured Cabbage Patch but she did walk away with a black eye. This is one of the reasons I will not take my children out shopping with me on this day. I did it once, never again. She's like to know if you are ga-ga over the new TMX Elmo doll or playstation 3.

Kristi over at Momma's So called Life decided to shop online for those Black Friday sales, especially since she would have to brave the world with her two boys. Do ya blame her?

Char at Casual Keystrokes admits to not wanting to shop on this crazy Black Friday. She says, "I am more likely to log on to my trusty computer, coffee in one hand and a mouse in the other and do my shopping that way." I'm right with her on that one.

Denise at A Writer's Journey, would rather go get a root canal than to shop on Black friday, ouch that's one way of looking at it. She reflects last week when the playstation 3 was released and only 5 in each store and people were lined up outside and barely anyone walked away with one. I know that one, we were one of those idiots. lol.

There you have it, stories, deals and the meaning of black friday. If you have any stories comment below or send me an email and I'll link it here.

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6 comments:

Purrfect Polkadot said...

Thanks for being the hostess! I hope everyone got great deals today.

Delphine said...

I didn't step foot outside the house on black friday and didn't buy anything on cyber monday. I'm really not in the mood to shop for some reason.

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