Black Friday Madness
I got up out of bed this morning at a little bit past 4 a.m. I must be insane!
I’ve never bothered to get up this early for shopping on a Black Friday before. I usually wait and go right before the sale period ends at 10 or noon. I told my niece, in a moment of weakness last night, that she could call me on my cell phone when she got up this morning – and she did. She and my sister were already in line at the Toys R Us, so I figured that since the store is only a mile or so up the road that I would put on a bra and some shoes and join them.
I should have taken a hint from the hundreds of cars parked in front of the Circuit City last night at 9 pm. Why didn’t I see that only the certifiable do things like camp out and wait in lines that wrap around stores in order to have the honor of spending money?
It is a fairly unfortunate mistake, because we ended up stuck in front of news camera, broadcasting all of our sleepy-eyed glamour. Yikes.
I picked up the Baby Alive with the bonus pack and a couple 2-packs of fairy dolls and a Leap Pad book. Other than that, I just couldn’t muster the emotional strength to get into the buying frenzy that was causing people to fill two and three carts with things that were not even on sale. What madness,
We hopped on over to the mall to look at the Disney Store after that. They had some good sale prices and a 20% off of everything at the register, so I got a Holiday Pooh plush (winter white and gold – lovely), a Jasmine doll (my sister picked up Mulan and Pocahontas, because it is close to impossible to find anything except the “white” princesses at stores like Target and WalMart and Gigi has been asking for them), and a Giselle t-shirt (from the movie “Enchanted”), then I hit the line and got out of there. I did not have it in me to go on to the other stores with my sister. I suppose I just don’t like shopping enough. ?
Please, someone shoot me if I try and venture out into that mess next year.
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