Do you shop Brick and Mortar stores on Black Friday?

No, no, and another no. I can't stand shopping at any time, much less black Friday.
 

About 10-15 years ago, my older brother used to go to Black Friday sales. He usually made out great. I remember he got two printers for $10 each. But that was in the days before online sales became so big. Way back in 1963, I worked at an Ames Dept. Store. Whenever we had a big sale of things, we opened the doors at 10 AM, where there was a huge crowd. People ran into the store, and jumped over the line of cash registers to get to the bargains. It was pretty much the same when I went to a Wally World on a Black Friday.
 
Not in decades.

As a frugal economic peon not much into materialism, have never taken out a loan or been in debt. Always at least modest funds in the bank. So when I need something, I buy it unless there are reasons to delay doing whatever. That could mean delaying buying more expensive items until a sale occurs. However the kind of things I've bought over decades are not the kind of items likely to be on sale for Black Friday. Most of my life, have not had any list of stuff I intend to buy except when stuff is not available.
 
NADA! Those Black Friday and Box Day Sales seem to be full of recent immigrants. Me, I stay home and I feel my life is better for it. There are sales on/off all year long and I really hate crowds of people.
 
terry123 said:
I don't leave the house on either day. Online shopping only on those days. I am almost through anyway!
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What a strange old world it is. Growing up I have always been told that giving cash is vulgar and should be avoided. Well is that so? Whenever I have put a stash of cash in a greeting card, be it birthday, anniversary or Christmas, it has never produced a negative result. In addition to the cash I write in the card something along the lines of:
"I've spent hours searching for your perfect present, being the incompetent man that I am, I have failed miserably, so to be sure that you get the ideal gift, here's a portrait of the queen, you can trade it at most places for that ideal item that you must have and I know that you won't hand the money into a charity shop because giving cash is vulgar.
 
Now that Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping crazed have subsided, went over to Walmart and bought the below.

This last week after having annoying issues vacuuming with a beat up noisy 2 decade old Eurka floor model, my 4plex 2 story 2 bdrm residence, thought it was time to see what is new. Not like money is an issue, just if tools/appliances work, I don't mind old. Worst issue was there is quite a bit of micro dust that passes through all the filtering. Have like old small 12vdc car vacuum and a corded SuperShark portable both are noisy dust spewing jokes soon going in the trash.

So not familiar with the new era vacuum world looked at web reviews of all manner of products. Bought at 30% off this Tineco PWRHERO 11 Cordless Vacuum and have been surprised how much better it is in all ways. A stick vacuum style with detachable sections for portability. Runs off a chargeable 2500ma/hr lithium battery and actually has more suction power than my old Eureka with 3 times the motor wattage. But then many modern consumer products given market demands for better designs have been greatly advancing. Already used it yesterday in all ways.

This morning will attack my grubby Forester interior and then all manner of awkward to clean indoor areas.

https://us.tineco.com/products/a11-hero.html

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No. Don't have the energy or patience for such things. Tried it a couple of times a number of years ago but by the time I got in, what I went for had already sold out. Also rising in the wee hours of the morning and standing in a humongous line freezing when I could be languishing in a comfy, warm bed. I learned rather quickly the deals weren't good enough to justify that, especially when the quantity of door busters available was no where close to the number of people that came to claim them. So, no black Friday brick and mortar store shopping for us. Don...
 
Canadian stores took advantage of the BF hype in the US and started having sales tpp. This year they were calling every weekly sale a BF event. No need to rush in.

Our Big Sale day is December 26th, Boxing Day. Even that is not the event it used to be, thank goodness.
 
Not sure if this is true, I have read often that many of the "deals" are not such big deals. There are often better deals at other times of the shopping season. But I think these "special" days are the draw, rather than potential savings.
I remember learning that the term Black Friday comes as it is a day retailers can get their books int the black (positive profits) after a low selling year.
 

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