Nov 25
Black Friday 2009 Sucks
If you know me, you know that the holidays are my favourite time of the year. We have Thanksgiving and Christmas (which are great excuses to eat lots of fat food) and then there’s of course – Black Friday!
Year after year I look forward to Black Friday. I think it’s probably because for one, I like to buy things. And secondly, the prices are usually so great that it provides a great excuse to buy things! But this year, I can say for sure that I could really care less about Black Friday. If you go to Bfads.net (which is where I go to typically stay up on the latest Black Friday deals), I think you’ll see a general consensus that for whatever reason, there are very very few good deals to be had. I don’t know if it’s because of the economy, I don’t know if it’s because there’s no more Circuit City, but the ads are just not attractive.
And what may be worst of all – It seems the only decent Black Friday has been put out by… Walmart. Are you kidding me?! I HATE shopping there in general! And now knowing that everyone and their mother will be there and after the mad trampling last year!? Child please. But you know, even after Best Buy and the rest disappointed me, I still had hope for Micro Center. After all, Micro Center and what used to be CompUSA always AT LEAST have great deals on hard drives. And as I scanned through the Micro Center Black Friday ad, I found that one deal – And pretty much nothing else.
Maybe what’s going on is that I don’t “need” anything this year… Though I have to believe that never stopped me in the past. I’d always find a reason to start building a new computer, replace some home theater speakers, buy some new video games, get a new [fill in the blank]…
But this year, nothing. Black Friday 2009 sucks.
How about you guys? Is there ANYTHING you’re really excited over this year?
November 25th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
As you know we don’t have Black Friday over here, but I can remember previous years you were out crazy early getting all excited. Sucks that isn’t happening this year.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
@Pete – I’m glad you know how much this is hurtin’ me! BTW, we still don’t have free health care. (#):(
November 26th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Ha ha, I was just planning to start work on a post on how Black Friday breeds overconsumption for the sake of overconsuming… for my frugal blog! I love technology but I am careful about buying stuff.
November 27th, 2009 at 5:47 am
Hey Bush… I was planning a kind of boycott black friday post and yours inspired me to be a little more harsh about it… And I stole your image! http://frugalzeitgeist.com/say-fk-you-to-black-friday/…. Just thought I would let you know and if you want me to remove it please let me know.
November 28th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
@Forest – I think I’m careful about buying things too. In fact yesterday I only bought two Blu-Ray movies and some towels! I’m pretty proud of myself. (#):) Though I’m not sure if I can really ENDORSE a Black Friday boycott… I still love the day of sales, I just wish they were GOOD this year! (#);)
BTW, you were nice to give me a head’s up about the image stealing though we all know that I didn’t scan that picture in myself ha ha ha