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Black Friday
What are your thoughts on this brand new annual event?
Is it:
a) a great way of picking up bargains before Christmas
b) a cynical exploitation of the gullible
c) a sad import from the U.S. like the bastardisation of Halloween
d) very racist (why isn't there a White Friday???)
Note...d) is a joke.
Really.
Is it:
a) a great way of picking up bargains before Christmas
b) a cynical exploitation of the gullible
c) a sad import from the U.S. like the bastardisation of Halloween
d) very racist (why isn't there a White Friday???)
Note...d) is a joke.
Really.
Answers
if you're looking to buy something, check the price a few days before and on the day. If it's lower, buy. If you're not looking to buy something, don't. Ooh look, only three days to Cyber Monday!
16:10 Fri 24th Nov 2017
Voltage
No need to apologise.
I don't get Black Friday at all. I totally agree with jno (hence 'Best Answer'). The rule my mum taught me is "If you want it before the sales and it's on sale, buy it...if not, then you're not really saving money - you're just spending."
Then again, my mum also thought that Kenneth Kendal was hot, so, y'know...pinch of salt and all that...
No need to apologise.
I don't get Black Friday at all. I totally agree with jno (hence 'Best Answer'). The rule my mum taught me is "If you want it before the sales and it's on sale, buy it...if not, then you're not really saving money - you're just spending."
Then again, my mum also thought that Kenneth Kendal was hot, so, y'know...pinch of salt and all that...
b) and c). Off to York tomorrow to start Christmas shopping with sister, daughters and eldest granddaughter. Christmas market has just opened so it will have a festive feel - but I've already bought quite a few family presents throughout the year (when they were on offer) so will take them with me and hand them and their cards over, thereby saving a lot of postage. :) Looking forwards to seeing them all and a nice lunch and shop.
C) - now if we had a holiday like yesterday in the States, it would make sense - the effect over there to defer Christmas starting to Sunday/Monday - as the shopping day over there is so popular, traditionally mother/daughters, it was the day that the shops tip over the profit line and into the black until the end of the financial/tax year in the USA which is 31/12.
Halloween was originally an Irish festival, taken by the Americans and bastardised-or Disneyised.
Halloween was originally an Irish festival, taken by the Americans and bastardised-or Disneyised.