Black Friday

I am not a Black Friday shopper. I can remember a handful of times growing up trekking out with my mom, but as an adult I have never once deemed it necessary to get up at the butt crack of dawn to stand in serious lines for a "deal." Really there just aren't that many things I need THAT badly. In recent years it's seemed like the Black Friday deals online have become the rage. Four years ago I booked honeymoon plane tickets to St. Lucia on Black Friday. Not because there was some special holiday deal but just because they were the lowest I'd seen in my three months of stalking them. And that really concluded my Black Friday experiences until this year. This year, I worked. So I decided I'd take andvantage of the online deals and get all my Christmas shopping finished in one fell swoop! The problem with this was nothing I wanted to buy was really any sort of special deal. In fact stores that usually send me awesome coupons only sent me mediocre ones. And I didn't really feel like their prices were any better than usual. Maybe I just wasn't shopping for the right things. The high tech electronic crap and such. And I don't have any kids on my shopping list, so I wasn't trying to get a bargain on the most recent pooping baby or talking whatever. I ended up buying one gift on Black Friday. Then on Sunday I got a "Stellar Sunday" email from the same store that was more along the lines of their normal offers. Curious, I logged on and the item I purchased was $10 cheaper! So I reordered it and with my better coupon saved another $20! Out of pure curiosity I logged on again on Cyber Monday and the item was the most expensive I'd seen it and we were back to the diddly coupon deal again. Moral of the story. Black Friday shopping is for the birds. I'll stick to my bargain hunting/couponing on the less crazy days of the year. And it seems as if I'm not the only one to feel this way.