Who's doing the Day After Thanksgiving shopping?

diamondsnake · #1 11-24-2004, 04:45 PM

Okay, so who is going to get up at the crack or dawn and do the whole bargain hunting thing? What stores are you hitting? What are you in the market for?

GateandGarden · #2 11-24-2004, 04:50 PM

I can't understand this at all.

I can only take shopping for a few hours at a time, more like one hour of actual shopping and then a break to eat something. This girl in my history class says her family is always ready to go at 5:00 a.m. and they don't get back until that night.

Hillary

DrummerDeanna · #3 11-24-2004, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by GateandGarden

I can't understand this at all.

I can only take shopping for a few hours at a time, more like one hour of actual shopping and then a break to eat something. This girl in my history class says her family is always ready to go at 5:00 a.m. and they don't get back until that night.

Hillary

That's flippin' insane!!! I don't like shopping enough to battle the jungle of the day after Thanksgiving. There is nothing I need - and I find crowds to be big trials in anger management for me....people are rude and I usually can't handle the big crowded stores...not even for mega big sales...

sparky · #4 11-24-2004, 04:56 PM

Not to save my life or the freedom of my country. I would need a fistful of Xanax to deal with the crowds and frenzy. Sparky is almost done shopping. Little need for this madness. But, for those who like this scene, Knock Yourselves Out.

strandinthewind · #5 11-24-2004, 04:58 PM

In lieu of actual gifts, almost all receive from me a card that says a donation has been made to a charity in their name by be for the holidays. So, I have little shopping to do - but THAT certainly will not keep me outa the stores

dissention · #6 11-24-2004, 04:58 PM

I get up around three and am out the door by four.

AliceLover · #7 11-24-2004, 05:01 PM

Well im going Saturday and im going to be looking for stuff for my christmas list. All electronics- movies-cds-video games!!!

Jimmy

ontheEdgeof17 · #8 11-24-2004, 05:02 PM

I'll be driving back home from my parent's house on Friday. I don't think I want to hit the mall or anything. I worked at Old Navy for two years and know how it is. It wasn't pretty. Besides, I hate to shop and have no one to shop for.....

sparky · #9 11-24-2004, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

I get up around three and am out the door by four.

Crikey. You go out into that melee with your temper ?

dissention · #10 11-24-2004, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by sparky

Crikey. You go out into that melee with your temper ?

People are such assholes on the day after Thanksgiving, you can't survive without being one yourself. I was in the GAP last year and got into a fight with one lady over a pair of pants because there was only one left. I didn't get the pants, but I sure let her have it.

Villavic · #11 11-24-2004, 05:09 PM

When I went to NJ for Thanksgiving in 1997... err,, actually it was for the Reunion Tour, Madison Square Garden concert at NYC, but also to dine with my relatives, ha ha....

Well, the day after I woke up very early to go shopping at K-Mart (or was it Wal-Mart? can't remember). But the sales weren't that crazy I always heard. Yeah, cool prices but I didn't find any "incredible" sale, at least what I was looking for.

My uncles (who live in NJ) bought a TV, I think it was very cheap. Anyway, not a good idea for me to carry a TV to Peru, I looked for small stuff, but it wasn't big deal.

No big lines or crowded place, fortunately

sparky · #12 11-24-2004, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

People are such assholes on the day after Thanksgiving, you can't survive without being one yourself. I was in the GAP last year and got into a fight with one lady over a pair of pants because there was only one left. I didn't get the pants, but I sure let her have it.

Oh to be a bug on your shoulder for Friday's festivities. I can just picture you bickering with a woman over a pair of pants. That is rich.

DeadliestPoison · #13 11-24-2004, 05:11 PM

Mom & I will be out of here by 4AM on Friday. I need to get to Target, because Season 7 of Buffy's on sale for $17.77. Which is CRAZY. Buffy DVDs are usually $50-60 in stores, and there's NO WAY I'm letting anyone pay that much for Season 7 of all things.

Other than that, I'm not sure what Mom & I are going out for. She can't really get stuff on my list, because... I'll be there. My sister just moved out, and I have no idea what she wants.

dissention · #14 11-24-2004, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Villavic

When I went to NJ for Thanksgiving in 1997... err,, actually it was for the Reunion Tour, Madison Square Garden concert at NYC, but also to dine with my relatives, ha ha....

Well, the day after I woke up very early to go shopping at K-Mart (or was it Wal-Mart? can't remember). But the sales weren't that crazy I always heard. Yeah, cool prices but I didn't find any "incredible" sale, at least what I was looking for.

My uncles bought a TV, I think it was very cheap. Anyway, not a good idea to carry a TV to Peru, I looked for small stuff, but it wasn't big deal.

No big lines or crowded place, fortunately

You have to know how to get things cheap. For example, one little known fact:

If your local supermarket carries things like electronics and DVDs and advertises them in their flyer that week, you can get them for much cheaper by using triple coupons. I save coupons like "15% off your next purchase" and you can go into the store, get something on-sale for, say, $20 and then get an extra 45% off with that coupon and a triple coupon.

Always get flyers from all the stores around so that if you don't want to go to all of them, you can go to one that does price matching and get all the stuff you want in one store at the prices the other stores are advertising. Try to hit places like Circuit City and Best Buy when doing that because they also lop off another 10-15% of the competitors price.

dissention · #15 11-24-2004, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

Mom & I will be out of here by 4AM on Friday. I need to get to Target, because Season 7 of Buffy's on sale for $17.77. Which is CRAZY. Buffy DVDs are usually $50-60 in stores, and there's NO WAY I'm letting anyone pay that much for Season 7 of all things.

Other than that, I'm not sure what Mom & I are going out for. She can't really get stuff on my list, because... I'll be there. My sister just moved out, and I have no idea what she wants.

Amazon had all the Buffy seasons for $14.95 each a few weeks ago, along with a bunch of other Fox company DVD sets like MASH, Family Guy, Simpsons, Millennium, etc.