Two Reasons why I am staying in today

[felis_lupus]

The joy and happiness of yesterday continues today, with leftover turkey for lunch. Hot Cocoa with marshmallows (and perhaps some peppermint...) is on the horizon. I am staying in today. Not going to fight the masses of crazy people at stores, that's for sure. There may well be RockBand later, we'll have to see. :)

Wal-Mart worker dies as crowd rushes in The crowd ripped the DOORS off the hinges in the rush to get into WalMart. One employee dead, and at least one other person (or two people, depending on your personal views on the subject) injured; a pregnant woman, and (possibly) her unborn baby. Nothing in that store is worth that.

Buy Nothing Day "Black Friday" comes from the idea that stores will be 'in the black' again, ie profitable, rather than 'in the red', where many have been for the past year. This bit goes against that whole theory, but it's not a bad thing, really.

Argh.

Comments

[anna-mickel.livejournal.com]

I always knew Wal-Mart was evil, but this bit of news is just mind-boggling. Holiday shoppers need to be tranquilized...

[nightpaws.livejournal.com]

That walmart crowd was sick.

It was pretty zoo-ie up here, but not awful. Granted, Joe & I didn't go out crowd watching till well after 10 and we stopped for a while to chat with Kurt (our favorite dirty old man coffee guy) too... Our tradition is to go out early by my standards and mock the insane shopping people. It's very entertaining.

For the first time since we've done this (year three now) we both actually made purchases. He found a nice gun on sale at Sportsman's which he had been wanting for ages, and I used a Jo-Annes coupon to get a cross stitch kit I have wanted for two years now, but couldn't justify spending over $40 on. $20- oh hell yeah! BTW check your paper, the Jo-Annes flier has a 50% any one item of your choice all day Saturday on the very back. I all most missed that one, so I'm going to go back in the morning and score another pricey pattern I have wanted forever on the cheep!

Yeah, I know, I'm selfish but we did our shopping last weekend in Anchorage so this is the treat weekend. :D

[shadohrt.livejournal.com]

I've been celebrating "Buy Nothing Day" for years on "Black Friday" without even knowing it existed. Not dealing with the people is all the reward I need.