That means Black Friday sales of
course! I hadn’t planned on any major purchases for Black Friday other than
some DVD disks at Radio Shack and perhaps a wireless printer. But first, let me
tell you about how I was rear ended by a truck. As I was driving to the store
and while stopped at a red light, I suddenly felt something hit my car from
behind. It was a huge moving truck whose driver probably underestimated the
braking distance. I pulled over at the next turn to check the damage thinking
the truck driver would do the same. He kinda did but continued to drive away
slowly. I checked my rear bumper and only saw a few light scratches. The bumper
itself was intact so I gave the truck driver a thumb up sign that everything
was A-ok. I hope he didn’t perceive it to be the middle finger. That truck was
so high that the bottom of its front bumper hit the top of my rear bumper, thus
the scratches.
So I got rear ended on the way to a Black
Friday special at 8 a.m. To make matter slightly worse, the Radio Shack half a
mile away from home was out of the DVD disks that were on sale. Off I go to the
one two miles away and in the store I saw a guy picking up the last two packs
of the disks, or so I thought. When he saw that I was envious of him getting
the remaining disks, he kindly gave me a pack. Turns out he was a Filipino and
he told me he had just driven from Fry’s Electronics but the lines were too
long. As he paid for his DVD disks, I asked a salesperson if there were any
more. He went back to the shelf and showed me that there were a few packs left
that were covered by some other products. Well, the ones that the Filipino guy
gave me were DVD-R while the salesperson gave me DVD+R. They made no difference
to me since both work with my computer and DVD player. The Filipino guy said
DVD-R’s work better in all machines. As I approached the cashier, some HP printers
on half price sale was blocking my way. I read the features and decided to get
one of those too. $76 for 2 packs of 75 DVD disks and a wireless/internet
printer. Not a bad deal. That was the extent of my Black Friday purchase, and
done at a store that was not crowded.
On Saturday morning, I had goal
oriented run/walk. It consisted of running to Winco Grocery store, checking out
any green tag deals that I would find appealing, then running back home. I
managed all of those other than finding anything I might want to buy later. Too
bad they haven’t had a repeat of the pre Halloween special of hard candy for 99
cents a pound. On my way out, one of the cashiers and the security guard were
eyeing my suspiciously. They were probably thinking “what is this sweaty man
doing in the store without buying anything? Was he obtaining a five finger
discount?” Well, at least I got a 50 minute run in (4 minutes of running and 1
minute walking then repeat). For a cool down, I walked half a mile back home.
When Cyber Monday arrived, I
checked out the Tigerdirect.com website and saw that there was a special on
laptop memory: $14.99 for 4 gigabytes (with a $10 rebate). I wanted to buy two
of those but kept putting it off until the sale expired. Thank goodness! I felt
I already spent too much on Black Friday. After all, my laptop was already fast
enough and didn’t need the extra memory. On Cyber Monday, I didn’t fall into
the category of buying a product just because it was such a good deal to pass
up. I skipped the small business Saturday sales. Oh, I didn't get pepper sprayed either.
What about you? Did you do any
Black Friday and/or Cyber Monday shopping? Actually there was some other thing
I bought online last Saturday but I’ll have to tell you about it some other
time.
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