500 sheet ream of multipurpose paper (copy, printing) @ Staples for 1 cent a ream (4 reams max). Gotta remember to send in the rebate, tho’... The store was almost deserted - I was in and out quickly.
12 markers / pack of “Sharpie” markers (including ultra fine pack option) for $1 also @ Staples. Gotta remember to send in the rebate, tho’...
46” / 5500 Lumen LED shoplights @ Menards for $15. The lumen rating seems a bit exaggerated, but not outrageously so. I bought 5, wish I’d bought 10.
5000 Lumen (claimed) 50 watt LED worklight, also @ Menards, for $20. IMO, this does NOT compete as claimed with a 350 watt halogen bulb, but, it seems close to a 250 watt bulb, and, it is certainly cheaper to operate, as well as a much lower fire / burn hazard. Damp location rated, too, and I suspect I can safely waterproof it for outdoor use. (It’s probably already fine for under an eave, and so on.)
$80 for a 4 TB external backup drive @ Best Buy. I missed getting this by seconds online (they ran out), went to local BB on the way to see Mom and literally got the last one in the display rack. :-)
My wife got a really nice, pretty coat for our daughter for (after all 3 discounts were applied!) $5(!) @ Kohl’s. No, it’s not a $100 “quality” coat, but, the stitching and so on looks good, and so far she’s grown out of every modest quality piece of clothing purchased for her B4 she wears it out.
Best of all, in a way, though it was a huge PITA (long story not told here, that had nothing to do with Black Friday shopping), was a purchase for a family friend: Staples ran some laptops at lower prices PRE-Black Friday than for Black Friday. So my wife’s friend now has via me a Dell laptop with a core i5 7200U processor, 256 GB SSD, 8 GB RAM, DVD drive, fairly decent but not great 15.6” HD screen, a nice, full backlit keyboard, pretty much most of the other stuff one might expect at a $500-$600 “sale price” level laptop, and even decent sounding speakers (for a laptop). No, it’s not a screaming gaming machine, CAD machine, etc., but, it is a quick, solid machine that should be plenty capable for her business and general “household” use. It’s better than any laptop I’ve ever had!!! $480 B4 tax.
People say family first, and I agree, but I was still able to work everything in - in fact, it gave me a much needed diversion from Mom’s health problems. Tomorrow is church and then the rest of the day, family, too... BBQ chicken leg quarters for $.39/lb., on the grill - yum!!!
Rural King had some pretty good ammo deals too...