My lame Black Friday purchases

RetroRomper · Post by **RetroRomper** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 8:34 am

I'm sure everyone here is eyeing a new video game, television, hamster wheel or specialized hobby item (maybe an All in One board) that is now on sale this holiday season. My list is rather more mundane, treading into the "I am now an adult" territory:

1. Bras for hapticanimal ($400 worth of $61 bras at 25% off).
2. Boxers for myself (nearly a 50% discount and I bought a high quality brand in bulk)
3. Undershirts (buy one get one free!)
4. Leggings for hapticanimal (20% off)
5. Replacement hydration pack reservoirs (10% off quasi-military spec from a brand that is highly rated).
6. Bicycle panniers / saddlebags (15% off a boutique brand from Washington state)

I hold off on semi-major everyday purchases until Black Friday as the smaller / boutique brands I usually purchase from feel obligated to give some sort of discount (even if they are the least able to afford it).

Anyway, anyone have any better stories of catches for this consumer holiday?

loafergirl · Post by **loafergirl** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 9:13 am

We're going sledding.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 9:15 am

We have a long list of things we purchased for our kids today but none of them can hold a candle to high quality boxers or boutique brand saddlebags.

lethargic · Post by **lethargic** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 4:35 pm

Black Friday has been terrible. It seems all the good deals were yesterday. Apparently Gray Thursday is the new thing?

RetroRomper · Post by **RetroRomper** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 5:06 pm

Doesn't the whole sales event last four or five days now?

Grey Thursday
Black Friday
Small Business Saturday
?
Cyber Monday

Seen quite a few shops say "fuck it" and have either one or five day sales to cover all their bases.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 10:43 am

Pinback commented to my Black Friday Facebook post about feeling superior to the crazy shoppers out there. All I have to say is that I wish Stand Your Ground laws were more valid in WalMart. That would make a much more satisfying video than watching grown people act like starving hyenas around a wildebeest carcass.

That does make me feel superior.

THE
HIGH AND MIGHTY
AARDVARK

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 11:00 am

http://blackfridaydeathcount.com

Most Walmarts have a sign posted at the front door barring weapons from being brought inside. This means if you are a legal gun owner and have a conceal carry permit you cannot bring a gun inside the store. However if you are a bad person who is already planning on breaking the law, then Walmart's policy doesn't mean much to you.

Posted warning or not, I don't think I'd get within a hundred feet of those Black Friday mobs unarmed.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 1:18 pm

There are fifty million stores running "Black Friday" sales. The hyenas are the news reporters who scour the country looking for the handful of stories about people misbehaving.

99.93843% of everyone else involved is just having fun. But you go on thinking you're better than everyone.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 1:33 pm

Well, better than the scrambling animals at Walmart, anyway.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 6:05 pm

pinback wrote:There are fifty million stores running "Black Friday" sales.

TDarcos is slipping in his old age. A completely missed opportunity to manually count every store in the country having a "Black Friday" sale and compare it to fifty million.

If he doesn't respond to this one and tell us how impossible it would be to manually count every store in the country hving a "Black Friday" sale, God is dead.

And if he doesn't respond to THAT with a quote from somebody in regards to saying "God is dead," motherfucking Christmas is cancelled.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 6:29 pm

pinback wrote:There are fifty million stores running "Black Friday" sales. The hyenas are the news reporters who scour the country looking for the handful of stories about people misbehaving.

99.93843% of everyone else involved is just having fun. But you go on thinking you're better than everyone.

I love watching people act like animals at stores. Okay??? Can't I just have that?

Look at these fucking animals:

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Ha hahaha ha ha ha!

loafergirl · Post by **loafergirl** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 8:06 pm

We dropped a little over $300 at Target... And that about does Christmas! We might get one more big purchase or a couple more small things for stockings but that about does it.

Jizaboz · Post by **Jizaboz** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 1:50 pm

Finally bought Star Crap 2 for 20$. Didn't leave the house.

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 3:08 pm

"Walmart: Everyday low courtesy by other customers, every day!"

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 4:51 pm

We jumped from Black Friday to Crack Friday.