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Moms View Message Board: General Discussion: Archive November 2007: Black Friday
Please tell me all about Black Friday. Is it really a big sale?
It's a really big sale, sometimes ridiculous deals for real early birds the day after Thanksgiving.
Wal-Marts ad will be posted on Nov 19!!!!!!
The walmart ad is up on gottdeal.com, if it's legit, but it usually is. They have others too.
I can't find it. I can't find "gottdeal.com" I'm hoping you mean gottadeal.com and forgot the a. Anyway, I still can't find it.
DD works at Walmart as a cashier, she has to be at work at 4:45 in the morning, they have hired in 15 partime cashiers and they are having every register opened the morning of Black Friday. Every year they have been in our town, Black Friday draws a crowd so big that the lines are all the way back into the clothing department. I have gone two years and it is absolutely nuts. My sister and I did the run from store to store things one year and we went to a toy store in the mall first, an hour and a half before the store was to open and we were lined up outside and they had us go in 15 at a time. LOL It was crazy.... So how bad is it? It depends on the size of the store and what big items they have on sale. They had a fist fight at our Walmart last year, they actually have police on duty in the store, now how nuts is that?
I am familiar with Maine shopping - where in Maine are you going? Northern and midcoast Maine will probably be busy, especially the outlets, but parts of Maine near the NH border won't be to bad, because there is no sales tax in NH so people on the border in Mass, Vermont and Maine will shop there. Except Kittery, Maine because they have a ton of oultets there too.
We avoid going out on Black Friday. It's just too crowded and hectic for me. LOL!
It is gottadeal.com and they have a post up that they received a letter from Walmart's legal team stating they were to take the ad down. They will be posting it at 12:00 tonight.
www.theblackfriday.com is the official Black Friday site. I've never used anything else.
I'll be working at the clinic from 8:30am to 5:30pm. I don't want to be anywhere near those stores, in the morning!
Wal-mart's ad is up on Gottadeal.com.
I'm going to go to meijer early in the morning but i will be regretting it i'm sure since i work until midnight the night before...i'm going for the digital picture frame...reg.79.99 on sale for 29.99
Oh sorry! Yep, forgot the a! I LOVE this site! I did almost all my Christmas shopping through heads up I got from this site last year! It's good year round too. There was a big post about walmart threatening legal action about the ads being posted but they never cared before, and they did it anyway. They also have Sears, toys r us, and more. I didn't know they came up so early. I just found this site about this time last year. They've been up awhile. I also benefited because in January I found out Old NAvy was having a huge sale and got all my kids nice clothes for school for nothing. I wouldn't have known about it otherwise. It's fun!
Wal Mart has posted there ad, I received it this morning. they have some pretty good deals, I like the three piece towel sets
Oh my fault, the ad in on blakcfriday.com
These are the 6 sites I've been told about:
Oh no Colette! That's exactly where we are going. We can't go though until after work on Friday so I'm guessing (hoping) that maybe most of the crowds will be done by then???? We will leave here around 4 on Friday and get to Portland that evening. We'll do some Christmas shopping in Kittery and Freeport on Saturday and Sunday and head home Sunday.
My boss approved me to take the morning off (every manager in the building is working Thanksgiving, and I'm also scheduled at 0900 on Friday) so I will be doing my Black Friday shopping from about 0400 to noon! I'm stoked, I *LOVE* BF shopping!!! Sadly, my best girlfriends are not here, one is in Iraq and the other is in VA until her hubby gets home from Iraq, so I'll be flying solo.
I would love to have some girl time too but I have no one to take with me.
Paula,
I know. That would be pretty cool.
Yep, it will be absolutely crazy. I think it's so fun though
We won't be shopping on Friday either. We can't leave until Friday after work so we won't get in to Portland until late Friday night. We'll shop in Kittery on Saturday. I'm looking forward to outlet shopping!
Have fun! looks like the weather will be nice for shoppping.
I mean shopping.
I want to go with crystal and paula too wah lol = ) too bad we don't live near eachother we would have a blast = )
Crystal, I used to love Black Friday shopping too. Haven't done it in a few years since we've been traveling on Black Friday. I'm actually considering going it alone tomorrow - though I have to think about it more. LOL I'm not as young as I used to be. I'm going to check the ads today on the sites listed above, *try* to make a list, and maybe go EARLY.
Around here, Kohls and Penney's are opening up at 4am! Yikes! Kohls is only about a mile away, but Penney's is no longer local to us. The nearest ones are about a half-hour away. No way! I have to work at 8:30am, so I don't want to be up half the night, so I'll still be sleeping.
I'm driving 45 minutes to Topeka to go to Kohl's. They are having the best sales around, and a few items I have been looking for locally without success are there. So, I'm excited, but it's going to be a long day tomorrow!!
OUr Kohls opens at 4am tomorrow as well. They are having GREAT deals on toys....50% off everything. My mom is heading there first thing. They had 40% off a few weeks ago on toys though also, so DH and I finished up our shopping for Nat then. Have fun finding the deals Crystal!
So, will we still get some deals on Saturday?
Paula,
I went and i'm back but i'm not happy lol mainly because my sister in law got a digital picture frame that i was wanting and she didn't even want it.and then she was laughing about it i was thinking whatever! oh well it was my fault because i had planned on being up earlier and getting to meijer sooner but i got up at around 5 when everything started going on sale...i did get my husbands stuff though = )
I'm just leaving. Digital picture frame is on my list. LOL I got a late start. Another thing on my list is a $200 leather jacket that I'm going to get for $50 today! :-)
good luck Karen lol = )
My dh went to work this morning at 6:30. He called me laughing. He said there were TONS of people on the road, plaza blvd which is the road between the mall and a shopping center was packed. He said there was even a line at Michaels! He said usually when he stops at Starbucks on Fridays there are 2 people in line, this morning there were 20 people before him.
Ditto Bellajoe!!
ah it wasn't bad at all = ) i even braved walmart lol = ) my mother in law got my digital picture frame though there = ) first i went to meijer though to look again for the digital picture frame again and i found one ! yay so i got one at walmart one at meijer and then i also purchased 3-2gb sd cards for my camera = )
Black Friday Mania in Sheboygan
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That is the last ad I'm waiting for. Yes, Black Friday is a crazy day to go shopping. My sister, mom and I consider it a sport. It is a sprint to each store for the best deal. It really is a lot of fun. Yes, I order what I really want on line but the fun is being out with people. 
I may ask my ex-assistant (she was promoted, not fired, lol) if she wants to go, just to have some girl time!