Do you eagerly anticipate Black Friday?
I ran across another helpful website:www.blackfriday.info
Americans love to shop any time of the year, but I’ve discovered that on Black Friday you can get some serious deals… sometimes just for showing up at the store at 3am in your jammies and slippers!! No matter who’s on your Christmas list, it’s always best to get good stuff for cheap!!
This Black Friday site offers Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, steals, coupons, and more for a wide variety of stores ranging from Walmart, KMart, and Target, to Overstock.com, Kohls, and Linens & Things. They even have a few that surprised me (and would delight my sweet husband) like Bass Pro Shops and Harbor Freight (a tools & cool stuff sort of place).
BlackFriday.info keeps the BF ads up year round so that you can get an idea of what they offer. They ALSO show specials from these stores year-round. Just click on the Deals link. For instance, today you can get a Sony MiniDV DCR-HC38 Camcorder on sale for $196.92 after a $70 instant rebate and $7 shipping from J&R, and a nice-looking crock pot from Walmart for just $15 (order online with free in-store pickup).
Another innovation is under the Shopping Tools link. They’re offering free plug-ins for Firefox, Google Toolbar, and the iPhone that will alert you to coupons when you’re shopping online (remember that little coupon code box in online order forms? It’ll give you those codes!).
Start shopping for Christmas now… believe it or not, you’ll be a better steward of your money than if you wait. Why? Because you’ve got plenty of time to find excellent deals (including at BlackFriday.info), you’ll get the RIGHT gifts for those you love, and you won’t feel the pressure of having to do it all in the next couple of days whilst fighting off crowds!! But do save some shopping for Black Friday because that’s where the deals are!!
March 15th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
What on earth is Black Friday? I know it as the day of the 1989 stock market crash, but that seems like kind of a warped thing to commemorate with sales.
Unless it’s something like, “I know you’re poor and don’t feel like shopping, but if you don’t get out there and consume, then market forces have won!”
March 16th, 2008 at 9:00 am
LOL Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving, when everything in the world goes on sale. Some stores will practically give you a new car if you come in and do all your shopping there.
How are you doing?
March 16th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Ahhhh. Black Friday is an ironic name, then? Or was it so named by the harried sales staff?
I’m doing kind of all right, mostly. Academically things are going really well, but this term is otherwise kicking my butt in so many interesting ways. One week a student gave himself a concussion in my class; the next I slipped on the ice and hurt my arm badly enough that six weeks later I still can’t rest it on anything; the week after that, the folks who came to fix my sink told me, fifteen minutes after they’d started, that by the way, I’d have to find another place to sleep for the next few days. Most recently, I worked…well, it’s a long explanation, but it was a lot of extra work, and I got three hours of sleep a night and didn’t see Will for like a week–and I found out that next year my hours and therefore my salary will be sliced in half. And someone invited me to be a union steward! And I sent out a novel. And that was just this past week.
Sounds like you’re pretty busy too! And it’s good to hear you’re over the flu.