Black Friday is an annual event for retailers to entice consumers into stores with special, low price deals that aren't offered any other time of year. Every year, I enjoy reading about the great deals I could get. And every year, I enjoy staying home and avoiding the mad rush. Here are my reasons for not shopping on Black Friday:
So this year, as with previous years, I will be sleeping and missing all the great deals from retailers.
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3 comments:
Same here. It excites me that there are deals out there, but you wait in line forever, get up really early, and buy things you wouldn't have bought anyway. I think it's great if you needed something.
I agree completely, those deals may be enticing but restrictions on quantity or waking up at ridiculous hours put them in my "not gonna happen" list.
The only time I benefit from this shopping season is if they have good deals with no restrictions and preferably online. This season for example I hope to finally upgrade to an HDTV.
My mom used to drag me to stores on black Friday when I was about ten and over. We used to get "such great deals" on... crap.
As an adult, I've never gone black friday shopping. Not only because I haven't really had the money to purchase anything that I really wanted, but mostly because it just isn't right to me. I hate that the holy days of Christmas have become so commercialized.
However, if I am ever a homeowner, There may come a day when I am tempted to snag "a really great deal" on a washer and dryer set, or something like that if I can manage to actually wake up early enough and if there are actually enough to go around. I really only think that the big ticket items that are marked down are the only ones that MIGHT BE "worth it". Anyway.
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