Thanksgiving is upon us once again and let me tell ya how excited I am to stuff my face all day long with a bunch of carbs and calories (ahem, pumpkin pie) and of course turkey!
I got a killer sweet-potato recipe, of which, I will be bringing to my Aunt's house this Thursday..it's more like a dessert however, it is very sweet!
So after "Brown-Thursday" (that's what I call it...get it?...turkey?...brown?...LOL) we roll into, literally at 12am, this thing we now know as "Black-Friday". This is the day when all the stores have some pretty ridiculous sales on all the stuff you want (or others want) for Christmas. For awhile there, I didn't understand why it was called "black" Friday (cuz numbers and money$ are not a favorable subject for me). I get that concept now and for those of you that don't, well here it goes...
...Black Friday is when all the stores that are in the "red" according to their accounting records for the year, actually have a fighting chance to get off life support and out of the red and into the black...ah, where we all want to be...I'm still trying to get there...apparently so is our country...phew, I'm thankful I don't have their debt!
I must admit however, I have NEVER experienced this crazy way of shopping in the middle of the night with a bunch of others racing through the aisles at Walmart, Best Buy, Target or whatever your [drug]store of choice is. I haven't done so yet becuz I never have enough capital this early in the game to take advantage of such great deals.
Yep, I'm one of those that waits til the last minute, right before Christmas...that last paycheck before and running to the stores to make my purchases. It works for me though. Don't get me wrong, I have a plan...I do know what I am going to get and for whom and I've mapped out my paychecks til then to know what I can afford.
The two big-ticket items I need this year are the iTouch and the PlayStation 3. Once those are purchased, I'm pretty much home-free from there!
What I would like to know is, which one of you will be out bargain-hunting this Friday and what items are on your "to-get" list?
Successful or not so-successful stories wanted...and of course any of those stories of fighting over such items is always entertaining to hear also. =)
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