Anyone Else Went Black Friday Shopping?

[Leopold Stotch]

[LozHinge the Unhinged]

The best times in my life have been the result of (or resulted in) the smashing of furniture with hammers and sledgehammers.

[jmervyn]

This was a worthy rez.

My post from 2009 is still applicable in 2012.

What's this "dignity" you claim to have? However, I think Noodle's post more apropos:

I would rather sloooooooowly extract both of my eyeballs with jagged chopsticks than subject myself to shopping on Black Friday.

Yeah, I got dragged out to drive to Connecticut, while still fighting a massive head cold. My son's a great kid; he wanted to buy me XCOM for the XBox and I feel bad having shot him down over it (I want him to save his money). We bought a cover for the iPad Mini he's getting as the "big one" for Christmas. Wife got a couple of things from LL Bean. I bought some points for DDO.

Meh. This orgy of consumerism is a pretty disgusting phenomena IMO.

[stillman]

The best times in my life have been the result of (or resulted in) the smashing of furniture with hammers and sledgehammers.

In my case, I made the mistake of accepting a bunch of giveaways when neighbors moved out years ago. It was therapeutic breaking things down, but I shouldn't have taken in their old junk in the first place. Now, I just have one table, a desk, and my queen sized bed (hell yeah). My goal is to get the place to echo, like when I moved in. Hopefully, a lady won't move in and start hanging things on walls and hauling in shelves of junk. Everything is so much easier to dust/clean when it doesn't exist.

And beware: breaking things is addictive!

[Dredd]

This was a worthy rez.

What's this "dignity" you claim to have?

"Dignity" - not mingling with impatient shoppers who have no respect for themselves or anybody else. Watching normally decent people run, push, shove, curse each other, trample each other and generally behave worse than their own crotchfruit would even dream is something I'd rather not participate in - or even observe. It's shameful.

Meh. This orgy of consumerism is a pretty disgusting phenomena IMO.

We agree on something! Ha, I consider this an early XMas present.

I recently had the reverse experience, breaking down furniture with brute force and tools, bagging it, and putting dozens of bags in the dumpster (I don't have a vehicle to take it to the dump). It's wonderful to have the extra space around here, and it helps the air circulate. Less is more.

I wholeheartedly agree that less is more. Most of this summer was spent cleaning out my house (which included donating useful furniture and other stuff to goodwill and smashing/burning what wasn't worth it). I'd be perfectly content living in a micro house if I decided to get out of the sticks.

Dredd, your link leads back to here.

Sorry, mate. The link is working for me. Just back up to post #3 of this thread (which was posted in 2009).

[BobCox2]

The Wife went out a 12:00AM Thanksgiving night and got @$600 of gifts for the grandkids

[Ash Housewares]

they moved a bunch of sales to actually be on Thanksgiving, which pissed me off, sick of all this holiday creeping, so I didn't do any shopping out of protest/contempt

[Glurin]

The Wife went out a 12:00AM Thanksgiving night and got @$600 of gifts for the grandkids

Yes, but think about how much money she saved!

[Amra]

I did my shopping at Tractor Supply.

[jmervyn]

I did my shopping at Tractor Supply.

I love that store. I should see if they have a sale on tri-fuel generators in the Spring...