Posted on 11/25/2023 12:50:35 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
I warned my lady, told her to be careful about getting between certain Black Friday shoppers and retail displays of wide screen TVs.
One of their butt cheeks weighs more than she does at only 105 pounds.
I just recently retired. I told my kids, Christmas presents are over.
The Lowe’s I went to was amazing busy.
The Walmart was no busier than any other weekday.
I bought a $3.99 hammer at Harbor Freight.
I’m finishing off the $3.46 bottle of Merlot from Walmart.
In the 1970s my mother said gift-giving was over in our family.
Shoppers who complain about inflation are ignorant right wing extremist insurrectionists—at least according to the New York Slimes, the Washington Compost, Communist News Network etal.
My daughter and husband and their 4 kids, she home schools they are Baptists, decided two years ago to not do Christmas as it’s a pagan holiday, tree, Jesus was born in March, etc.
My husband and I were sad at the time, husband died suddenly last October so no more Xmas’s with him and few years before he died.
I’ve accepted it- we still get together like in January and just have dinner. So I don’t buy now for Christmas and I do understand how they are seeing Christmas now vs years ago.
It has become over rated with over spending for many folks. Buy gifts to get gifts. We have lost the reason for the season for the most part.
I will still go down to husbands family on Christmas day as we have always done.
This year, what I got for Thanksgiving was a bad cold (which I’m getting over). For Black Friday, I had scanned all the store ads way ahead of time to make up my game plan. I got a Tineco hard floor cleaner for a great price, before actual BF. I got a replacement for the Kitchenaid Artisan mixer the movers stole. This was $100 off but it also came with $50 worth of kitchen prep slicer/dicer attachments AND $105 in Kohls cash. I turned the Kohls cash into 3 pretty sets of earrings and a new toy for the cats. And I got a Costco card for the usual $60, but with a $40 gift certificate, which I turned into a Samsung tablet to replace my misbehaving Amazon Fire tablet. So, I think I did pretty well.
Fry’s. The bargain Turkeys are gone now.
Black Friday “deals” are basically what you would have paid for it pre-potted plant presidency. And your money is worth less and it’s probably smaller with less features than before.
Thanks for the info.
Yes!!! So happy you were able to find your mixer at a good price! And the bonus of those prep items. Congratulations!
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