Black Friday 2021

 And now, following Thanksgiving, we get Black Friday celebrations! 

I have to work today, so no shopping for me.

But, I did take this picture of myself at work with a filter, and then I spent all day laughing at it. 

Black Friday '17

Black Friday has come again this year, and again, I have embraced it. The exciting part about this year is that my sister is home for the first Thanksgiving in about 6 years, so we finally get to do this together! We got started bright and early and hit many different places. We got all sorts of deals, and had a great day. Of course, by the time we ended, we were all exhausted, both tired from the early start and our bodies were physically so tired. What a great tradition, and one I'm glad to partake in!

Black Friday

Happy Black Friday everyone! If this day isn't your jam, I hope you had a good day at home. I had a successful day of shopping, in which I found many things for myself, and a few gifts that I'm excited to give. I have no stories to tell; nothing crazy happened, and no pics, because I wasn't taking pics of myself shopping ha ha. Now Christmas can officially begin!

A Different Kind of Shopping

This year, I did Black Friday shopping a little different. I didn't like how everyone was opening on Thanksgiving this year. In my opinion, that day is reserved for spending time with your family, eating, laughing, playing games and whatnot. I don't think you should shop, so I didn't do it. But I did do some online Black Friday shopping, which I thought was fun (because I got to do it all in my pajamas). I shopped at Amazon.com, and got some great deals. I visited gap.com and got jeans at great prices. Then finally today, I was like, oh might as well check things out, see if I can find any deals, and sadly, there were no deals left for me. Which I'm sad about, but at the same time, I waited about 2 days to get going on it, no wonder nothing was left. I did take advantage of one deal - I got my hairspray (Big Sexy Hair) on sale for half off, so that was pretty awesome. And then I got a good deal on a DVD player - a BluRay one. I wasn't even thinking about getting one, but then we saw it on sale while looking through things, and thought that we might as well get one when it's so cheap.
...and that's it. On one hand, it's weird to me that I didn't really buy all that much, but on the other hand, it's nice to have spent a lot of money on things, and that's really important during the holidays, when I'm trying to spend money on others. And I don't know if it's true, but I hear Monday, called Cyber Monday, has great deals too, so maybe I'll check those out. Who knows, maybe my new Black Friday shopping will all be done online from now on!

Today I am thankful for good deals. :)

We be shoppin'

Happy Black Friday! (sing it with me...Black Friday...Black Friday...everyone loves Black Friday...) I am writing to you now, done with the shopping of the day, and pretty tired. Black Friday started a little earlier this year - stores opened at midnight. So at 10:30, we (PJ & I) bundled up, and got to Target at about 10:45, and waited.

The line was huge already. We were pretty far out, even though we were over an hour early. Finally, a pretty chilly hour, and some exciting happenings (my button fell off my coat! It's now lost forever), the doors opened at midnight and we finally made it into the store 15/20 minutes later. We quickly grabbed the things we were looking for (DVD's, mostly) and back out. We went to Best Buy...the line was too long to stand in the cold. We went to Kohls...the line there was so long! We then went to Old Navy...no pants in my size/preference there. :( We went back to Best Buy and success! We got in after minimal waiting, got our items, and out again. We went to Shopko, they didn't have any of the things we had seen advertised. It was a little after 3 in the morning when we all shuffled home, tired and sleepy. (Those might seem like they mean the same thing, but in this case, they do not.)

On the way home, as I was turning off of Center street onto Orem Boulevard, I accidentally (in my sleepy state) turned too early and was on the wrong side of the road! Of course, on that road there's that median thing, so I couldn't just swerve back into my own lane, I had to drive for a bit on the wrong side, panicking the whole time that a car might come and hit us. Luckily, there were no cars - phew!

I went to sleep at about 3:30, then woke up at a little after 9:00. Then Husband and I went shopping at about 10. We went to a few stores, bought an elliptical at Sports Authority (we got such the deal on it! Thank you sales) and then I tried to go to Gap to get some jeans for like, 70% off, but sadly, I was about 15 minutes too late, so I didn't get that deal. :( Apparently this was not my week to get new jeans!

Finally, at about 2:00ish, we came home. After a long day, and a lot of shopping, I was pretty tired. But all in all, a successful weekend. I won't lie, this year wasn't as good as others. I think it's because the shopping all started at midnight, so instead of having overzealous people getting up at like, 3 in the morning to go shopping, everyone was like, dude, I can stay up past midnight, so there were a lot of teens this year, whereas previous years, there are rarely any teens. But I survived, and am here to tell the tale. And some advice - always make sure to drive on the RIGHT side of the road.

Sometimes, it just feels like insanity

Happy Black Friday, shoppers! All right, I don’t know that many of you hit up the stores, but it’s a holiday nonetheless. I of course, participated once again, even though stores opened earlier than last year. I awoke at 2:52 AM – my alarm was set for 2:45, but what I didn’t realize until I woke up is that I set it for PM and not AM – holy lucky that I got a text this morning and just happened to wake up for it! I hurried out the door and made it to Target by 3:30.

After standing outside in the freezing freezing cold for half an hour, we finally got in. We were really quick with everything there, then moved onto the next store. We basically just went from store to store for the next 6 hours, finally finishing with everything by 9:30. I came home and immediately went to sleep – I was so tired after my less than 4 hours of sleep!

I know that most people think that doing Black Friday is craziness, but I still like doing it. You go in with a great attitude, and you’ll have so much fun! I’m glad that I went, but I’m always glad when it’s over.