What are you doing on Black Friday?

[Cabin Fever]

Our tradition is to attend the annual Icefishing House Parade in neighboring community about 10 miles from here. It's a blast!

 

[Cabin Fever]

 

[Patchouli]

@Cabin Fever Looks like fun for those who enjoy being out in the cold and in crowds....
I'm anti-social, avoiding crowds, traffic, and parking lots, especially on BF. I do like parades though.

 

[Cabin Fever]

@Cabin Fever Looks like fun for those who enjoy being out in the cold and in crowds....
I'm anti-social, avoiding crowds, traffic, and parking lots, especially on BF. I do like parades though.

We don't like crowds either, that's why we don't shop on Black Fridays. I never felt crowded at this parade, YMMV.

 

[Haertig]

Black Fridays are for shopping. But from your computer and certainly not in a physical store IMHO. You could not pay me enough to go into a mass market store, no matter what low advertised price was in some ad. Maybe a small family owned one of a kind place, but not Best Buy, Walmart, etc.

I do very little shopping, but will take advantage of Black Friday sales if they are for something that I've been wanting. You usually don't have to wait until Black Friday to get bargains (relatively speaking). Usually you can find all the sales and get whatever you want bought and delivered before Black Friday even hits.

This year, I think I'm going to try to snag a Blackstone grill somewhere. We'll see if any of those go on sale. I've convinced myself that I desperately need one - despite having not even heard of one a year ago. Sigh...

 

[Ekatarina]

I will stay home as usual.
I go drive out only to go grocery - to see the veterinian

 

[snappy1]

Probably staying home. Not shopping.

 

[Morgan101]

I hope we are staying home. We don't have any plans to shop. My wife is more of a day-after-Christmas shopper, where she can take advantage of all the sales. I will do my usual mechanical work, and put a rear end in a recliner.

 

[Pearl]

WORKING!!

 

[Bacpacker]

We are planning to go camping starting Wed. Before turkey day. Staying for a week

 

[Pearl]

WORKING!!

No sad emojis..... I'd rather make money than spend it on stuff I don't need and deal with crowds!! If there is anything REALLY awesome, Hubby will go get it!

 

[Mountain trapper]

It's just another day for us.

 

[dademoss]

Digesting Thanksgiving Dinner , and another nap.

 

[Tim Horton]

ONCE... As I recall when my kids were in middle school I took them early morning to a big box store.. Can't remember which one.. Just so they could see the mayhem of ..Black Friday.. They never wanted to do that again.. At least while they were under my roof.. At this point in life there isn't a thing I need to go to that again..

 

[LadyLocust]

Hiding from people most likely.

 

[rice paddy daddy]

Staying home inside our perimeter wire, with the gate locked closed with logging chain and padlock like it always is, 24/7/365.
My wife has always hated malls and will not go to one, for this I remain eternally grateful.

We haven't even needed to go grocery shopping for over a year now. Kroger delivers, even out on dirt roads like ours.

 

[Amish Heart]

I've been out on Black Friday, but that was years and years ago. We'll still have some of our kids here visiting, so I'm sure we'll do something, but doubtful it'll be shopping. Maybe go visiting.

 

[Bacpacker]

Depending on the weather this year, we plan on taking a little hike along the creek coming down the ridges around the campground. And have a nice fire most all day.

 

[old tex]

About 10 years ago my wife & a few of her friends planned a BF shopping trip. The friends arrived here about 6am for coffee & planning. Surprise, surprise the ladies wanted to shop together & became worried that stuff would be sold out at some of the stores before they could get there. They needed someone to go to the stores they didn't think they could make in time & looked around, nobody in sight at 6am except me. Even though I HATE CROWDS & HATE STANDING IN LINE, I volunteered (as in honey you go here & get this & then there & get that. Just in & out, it will be simple & quick.). OMG! Men should never be subjected to that level of insanity! I now do not "DO Black Friday", it's the law!

If I want something on BF I order online. If I have to go to the store I don't want it that bad.

 

[sonya123]

I know what I am NOT doing : shopping ! ( well unless it is something I need online)
I did black friday shopping once in my entire life, long time ago before I had major anxiety issues and sister in law and mil talked me into it , in Vero Beach Florida. This is not a huge city, and the mall there was fairly small but OMG, what a nightmare!! I will never forget that. people standing in line to get the last toy, people FIGHTING ( mostly ghetto trash type people) over stuff, hell no! Why on earth anyone would do that to just save a few $

Most of the time when we lived in Florida we went camping for Thanksgiving. Whatever friends and relatives wanted to visit us at the campground were welcome . We deepfried a turkey at the campground and I brought pies along I made the day before. I have good memories of camping in Ocala NF or Anastasia SP at the beach

 

[rice paddy daddy]

I like in the evening of Black Friday to watch the videos of it posted to YouTube.
They are a real hoot!!!!

 

[Ekatarina]

Probably now its illegal migrants doing crap on Black Friday

Me I am doing a fire outside and burn some wood

 

[dademoss]

Just finished my Christmas Shopping, it will all arrive next week.

 

[UserNameTaken]

Probably buying everything we will need for at least the next four years before the price goes up.

I used to like going to the midnight sales, just to watch the craziness unfold. Once we were in San Jose, CA at the Walmart. There were cops doing parking and crowd control, several thousand people all running around in a semi-controled frenzy in the middle of the night. Good times. LOL

 

[Hooch]

I've never been into the black Friday ..didn't want anything enough to want to hang out with hundreds of crazy shoppers.
I can barely deal with the crowds of shoppers on a boring day.
I did go down below to bimart yesterday and got a few things, so I'm good till spring. I don't like driving in snow or on icy roads if I don't have too. Sunday looks like my areas first bigger snow 3 to 5 inches they say. As far as I'll go once that starts is to work n back.

 

[Haertig]

I used to like going to the midnight sales, just to watch the craziness unfold. Once we were in San Jose, CA at the Walmart. There were cops doing parking and crowd control, several thousand people all running around in a semi-controled frenzy in the middle of the night. Good times. LOL

I went to one such thing back when I first moved to Colorado. One of the sporting goods stores - I think it was named "Gart Brothers" maybe? - had a yearly sale of snow skiing gear. They called it the "Sniagrab" ("bargains" spelled backwards). People would line up for the morning start of the sale all through the night. Out there at midnight in the middle of winter on downtown Denver sidewalks all bundled up in sleeping bags. I went to this sale once after newly moving there. I got my skis, boots and bindings. At a good price. There was none of the Black Friday madness - everyone was peacefully lined up, holding places in line for each other as someone had to run off and find a secluded restroom substitute. Not many of those in downtown Denver back in those days, but now 99% of every big city probably qualifies as a "restroom substitute".

I wouldn't do this middle of the night line waiting now, but back when I was young it seemed like a reasonable thing to do. I still have my Olin Mark IV Comp skis, Solomon 747 bindings, and Lange XL1000 boots I bought at that sale. The last time I skied was over 20 years ago and I was proudly using my Sniagrab purchases from the early 80's. I remember a guy riding next to me on the chairlift looking down at my equipment and remarking that it was amazing that I would still be skiiing on that stuff. Oh well - change comes to me slowly!

 

[Peanut]

I'll be staying home hoping nothing happens that requires me going anywhere near a town. Happened a few years ago, don't remember the details but I had to go to town of black friday. It was just as bad as I imagined.

 

[Pearl]

Luckily where I am working that day is NOT in town!!