Anyone up early to go shopping or plan on going today?

[Scooter24]

Only a few hours until most stores open for the busiest shopping day of the year? Just think of all those 6am-11am sales.

Are you going to be one of those lucky people? :)

[Sirveri]

1. Boycott.

Nope, I'm unemployed and nobody is getting gifts this year. I am boycotting the holidays.

[shraby]

4. I never go shopping the day after Thanksgiving.

There are better sales just before Christmas. In fact, I may make my gifts this year.

[Scooter24]

5. I made the mistake last year

of going to Walmart the day after Thanksgiving (it was the closest open store) at 6am for some milk. I was appalled when I saw a pregnant woman get punched in the stomach over the last computer.

[Cobalt Violet]

2. Boycotting too.

:)

[Carolab]

3. Didn't you get the memo?

It's national NO SHOP DAY.

[proudbluestater]

6. Nope, Not Gonna Do It!

By Michael I. Niman, AlterNet. Posted November 12, 2001.
Buy Nothing Day

Friday, November 29, is my third favorite holiday of the year, after Halloween and World Car Free Day. It's Buy Nothing Day, an annual revolt against consumer culture.

Buy nothing day falls every year on the day after Thanksgiving, the busiest shopping day of the year and the start of the annual Christmas shopping frenzy. The Buy Nothing Day TV ads tell us:


"...The average North American consumes five times more than a Mexican, ten times more than a Chinese person, and thirty times more than a person from India."

"We are the most voracious consumers in the world..."

"...a world which could die because of the way we North Americans live..."

"Give it a rest. November 29 is Buy Nothing Day."

http://www.alternet.org/story/11901

Cheers!;)

[intheflow]

7. Boycott, boycott, boycott.

Boycott all stores tomorrow.

Boycott all national chains between now and Christmas.

[Spinzonner]

8. Going to Fry's

but I only buy the free-after-rebate stuff.

Only the govt gets my money: taxes and postage.

[Scooter24]

9. I didn't realize

Fry's was having a sale. So far in the past 30 minutes on TV, I have seen a Target, Walmart, Sears, JC Penny, Kohls, and Best Buy commercial for their special sale.

[Spinzonner]

11. Fry's doesnt advertise on TV (or radio that I've heard)

have multipage colored ads in the newspapers though every Friday and single page ads except Tesday and Thursday (last day of sales cycles).

Black Friday is a big day there. Most all of the many registers open.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

10. I am going to buy me a winter coat .

And that's my gift to myself for the season . I am saving all of my money because I am going to be in a " just in case " mode for the next 4 years .

[Swamp Rat]

12. Nope. Not even the "Free Republic Dollar Store" to buy one of these:

[Spinzonner]

13. Oops, just had a Buddy Knox flashback

http://www.webfitz.com/lyrics/Charts/1957/06219b1957.html

But I bet Buddy never imagined her ...

[Kire]

14. I have to get a prescription filled.

does that count?

[Spinzonner]

15. Well, there's sickness involved in both

but No.

[Kire]

17. then, good

I hereby join the boycott.

[REP]

16. No, Because My Shopping Is Done

Today I will be mailing off large packages of holiday joy to my family, and I'll spend December being smug.

[pamela]

18. I'm not buying anything today...

and will only be buying gifts this year from progressive, Dem-supporting businesses. However, everyone on my list is getting at least one CD from one of the artists who participated in the Vote For Change concerts.

[whodiedandmadeUSgod]

19. Going to work

Just enjoying my first cup of coffee with DU.

[Abelman]

20. Nope!

No where to go!

(I wouldn't anyway)

[huellewig]

21. No, I spent today making gifts for my family.

I decided to make gifts for my mom, aunt & uncle, and my sisters family. Mom got homemade gift certificates for free computer repair. Last year she spent a few hundred cleaning up her mess. A&U get a card and a picture placed in a frame I made this afternoon. My sisters family gets a family statue I constructed with parts from a few old Macintoshes, some re-bar, lots of beer cans, old books, and spray-paint. It's not safe for the kids to be around. It has lots of sharp edges and is about three feet tall. But it took about twelve hours, and that is way cooler then getting some crap I bought from Target for Twenty Bucks. I hope.

And props to my neighbor who let me use his welder and plasma torch this afternoon.

[billyoc]

22. Boycott. n/t

[Kellanved]

23. actually yes

I'll buy me a nice new monitor later today. As for x-mas shopping, I already have most presents.

Of course, due to the absence of thanksgiving, the day is by no means an especially busy shopping day over here :hi: .

[Eurobabe]

24. have to get appliances for new house

braving the masses to save a few $$.

[auburngrad82]

25. I'm participating in National No Shop Day

I'm not spending a dime today.