Today is Black Friday in the U.S., or basically the day after Thanksgiving, “The official start of Christmas shopping”. Today, retailers will hope to entice us with amazing sales in order to get us to buy, buy, buy! After all, that’s what Christmas is about, right? 
Many stores opened at 2:00 or 3:00 AM with ‘door-buster’ sales, etc. I continued to sleep, door-buster sales or not!
I never go out on this day and stay as far away as possible from malls and shopping centers, safely tucked away in my house, hanging out with family, watching movies, and munching on leftovers from Thanksgiving Day. It also is the beginning of the Christmas movie season, so heading to a theater to see a movie, of which many of them are at malls, is out of the question. That’s double trouble! You might as well park at home!
With the recession still pretty strong, in my opinion, it will be interesting to see how consumers take to the malls and if retailers will be able to whip them up into a spending frenzy. I’ll order online and have my stuff shipped, what little that I buy! It’s the way that we’ve been doing it for several years!
Is there any equivalent day in Europe or Australia? Any plans to go out on Black Friday?
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I never venture out on Black Friday, but do my shopping like you, on-line, this year my wife joined the club and the shopping is done. Monday they say, is “Cyber Monday”
Awoke to cloudy gray skies and temperatures just above freezing. I headed to my favorite coffee shop, logged on to check email and updates on my favorite blogs (like yours). A light snow started then changed into large beautiful flakes. Quite pretty in my eyes. Talked with a husband who’d dropped the wife and daughters at the mall then headed to the coffee shop. He sipped on his coffee and chatted with his cell phone nearby. They were to call him when they were done shopping or broke.
I too will keep my distance from the biggies. I remembered the days when my parents shopped with Sears, Wards and Penny’s catalogs. We would get the Christmas catalogs and circle items we wanted. It was always fun and sure was simpler. Enjoy the leftovers and the movie!
I am right there with ya Paul. Living only 3 miles away from a large shopping mecca – you can imagine how congested it gets. I tend to stay at home also – work on the blog, website, process some images – all great alternatives to the white knuckle driving, lines and general chaos “out there.”
I also thought there was a lesson to be learned from the last year for Americans – that savings matter. Some of the clips from Obama’s speeches in China indicated that they may not be able to count on American’s as the world’s largest consumers. I wonder if he watches the Walmart ads!
Still, with it being a hard year – I have to also imagine that perhaps some also find comfort in spending again. No doubt it will be better for the economy, but I am not sure for us as individuals.
It is nice living 10 miles from the closest town and 50 miles from any kind of shopping mall. And the stuff I want to receive or give can’t be bought at a store. Most of us here have a tendency to give things year around when we see something that fits for a person we know, so this time of year is a bit of a no big deal. Personally I’ll be glad when it is all over and things get back to normal.
Nope, no such day here, neither the thankful one nor the black one.
And none in Austria, although the four Saturdays before Christmas are the strongest shopping days – which I plainly can’t understand, but then, there are people who like being in crowds
And none in Germany too. Fortunately! But also in Germany (and Sweden for that matter) people start to fall into a shopping-frenzy, with a climax on the 23/24. Dec.