(Not a) Shop Girl
I hate shopping in general, so shopping on Black Friday is essentially my hell. Which is why I have never done it, and likely never will. But the Giraffe and I did look through all the ads at my Grandma’s yesterday. There were some crazy good deals, and I understand why people fight the crowds for them, but there are few money-saving opportunities that would get me out of bed at 3am to stand in long lines with crowds of crazy people.
However, we were tempted by a mattress sale because of how awful we’ve both been sleeping lately. The Giraffe wrote all about that at S&M. We have also been wanting a portable external hard drive, but we were hoping to find one online without going to the stores. We didn’t find anything, and therefore didn’t buy one. I also clipped a 50% off Joann’s coupon that’s good only today in-store or online, but their damn website isn’t working, so that’s worthless.
The mattress was a success, but since we actually bought that Thursday night, I guess Black Friday was kind of a bomb for us. Maybe that’s what we get for our unwillingness to leave the house. Anybody else get any great deals?
I usually try to avoid the stores on weekends starting in Mid-November… people go crazy after that (’til Christmas).
I did however go out today to snatch up the good deal on DVD’s at Target and I have to say, it wasn’t really that bad. A normal Saturday is usually more crowded than it was this morning.
I hit the gym this morning for two classes, then party-planned and sliced veggies, etc. It was fantastic to not shop today.
target here had a great deal on a 1 TB Western Digital hard drive… I think it was $60. That’s the cheapest I’ve seen it! I’d check that out. I don’t think it was specific to Black Friday.
Joann.com has been down all weekend but they are going to do some specials online only to make up for the loss of getting sales and what nots. So, keeps checking.