Once again, I did not attempt to wake up at 3AM to try to go shopping on Friday. I just can't imagine doing it. I did not even get up until around 8 or 9, and waited until around 1 or 2 to go to the grocery store. It didn't seem very full. We later attempted to get a pizza at Little Caesers, but found out the wait was 45 minutes, so we passed. A lot of people were attempting to get pizza that night. They must have been tired of turkey from Thanksgiving!
I decided to shop local and small yesterday for Small Business Saturday by going to both bookstores. This is the first year for both of them. At the "new books" store, selected books were 40% off and I got one. I also got three from the used one. The used bookstore has a dog mascot, unlike most bookstores that have cats. The dog attempted twice to lick me under my chin!
It remains to be seen if I will get anything tomorrow on Cyber Monday. I did order one thing once on Cyber Monday, a pair of pajamas from Lane Bryant. I've been trying to find some deals on Amazon, but not a lot has invested me.
I do wonder if the scenario depicted in this cartoon is true:
BTW, we don't have to get a lot of family gifts, so all the stuff I got was for me. My friend is planning to order herself a microwave on Cyber Monday.
So where does Small Business Saturday fall into this scenario? And why is there no shopping day for Sunday after Thanksgiving? I guess Sunday supposed to be a recovery day. I'm not sure what I'll even be doing the rest of today.
4 comments:
Yes, I'm trying to shop small and local to the largest extent that I can this Christmas. I like the "extrovert/introvert" meme, LOL!
I support my local bookstore by shopping there in person. 10 years ago we had 3 bookstores plus a fabulous used book store. Now we have only 1. People are using their kindles more. I am a librarian and love to shop at bookstores.
We did our Thanksgiving on Friday. (Host had to work Thursday.) I used to work Black Friday, so I don't shop it. (One day I'll write a blog post about working the doorbusters when the manager scheduled all the *new* cashiers for that rush. It did not go well.)
It seems like Black Friday has been going on for weeks now. At least I have been seeing ads for a while saying, Black Friday deals start now.Things have changed a lot with so much more shopping being done and malls closing.
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