Happy "Black Friday" Shopping Day

[crossbody]

Black Friday Shopping which continues well into Cyber Monday.

We know what happened last year in 2023. Packages not delivered by around December 15, the post office let those packages just sit at the post office until after Christmas. That's why people shop online fast and mail gifts quickly. They cut off ship before Christmas deadline way before the cut off date.

 

[JGalt]

Black Friday Shopping which continues well into Cyber Monday.

We know what happened last year in 2023. Packages not delivered by around December 15, the post office let those packages just sit at the post office until after Christmas. That's why people shop online fast and mail gifts quickly. They cut off ship before Christmas deadline way before the cut off date.

Not here. Today is "Hey honey, let's drive 15 miles to some place, get down on our hands and knees in the cold, cut down a tree that barely fits in the back of the car, and pay the guy $40." day.

It's a yearly tradition. Then that tree usually stands in the living room until late February when we're done with it, after which I drag it behind the house and set it on fire.

 

[August West]

Black Friday Shopping which continues well into Cyber Monday.

We know what happened last year in 2023. Packages not delivered by around December 15, the post office let those packages just sit at the post office until after Christmas. That's why people shop online fast and mail gifts quickly. They cut off ship before Christmas deadline way before the cut off date.

Are you a postal employee and that`s how you know about packages sitting at the post office?

 

[Blaster]

I don't bother to shop on black Friday.

 

[DakotaKai_fan20]

I don't bother to shop on black Friday.

Try going into a crowded Walmart. If there are people saying going after the PlayStation 5s and you want one, prepare for a fight. Anything can be fought over. Hell, you aren't safe at checkout.

 

[whitehall]

You can't get killed by a mob rushing the door by shopping on line.

 

[1srelluc]

**** that noise.....I really don't like being around very many of "the great unwashed" on a good day.

I wanted one of those wands that has the microfiber pad on the end (for inside windshield cleaning) as my old one broke yesterday. I just ordered it off eBay.

 

[crossbody]

Not here. Today is "Hey honey, let's drive 15 miles to some place, get down on our hands and knees in the cold, cut down a tree that barely fits in the back of the car, and pay the guy $40." day.

It's a yearly tradition. Then that tree usually stands in the living room until late February when we're done with it, after which I drag it behind the house and set it on fire.

That sounds like fun; enjoy. I grew as a kid and we had a bayou in our backyard. My mother would have us drag the Christmas tree towards the bayou and let it dicenegrate. Listen to your wife. Happy wife-happy life. It's really true.

 

[crossbody]

I don't bother to shop on black Friday.

That's good for you. Most of the sales start way before Black Friday. It's getting to where no one will need to shop on that day any more.

 

[crossbody]

Try going into a crowded Walmart. If there are people saying going after the PlayStation 5s and you want one, prepare for a fight. Anything can be fought over. Hell, you aren't safe at checkout.

I have never been at a Walmart for any Black Friday event. I have seen some of the commotion on the news.

 

[crossbody]

You can't get killed by a mob rushing the door by shopping on line.

Right, its a bit safer to do the online shopping.

 

[crossbody]

Are you a postal employee and that`s how you know about packages sitting at the post office?

I'm not a postal employee. This was on our local news. It may have been an issue in Texas only during the 2023 holiday season well into 2024 people did not get their packages.

Houston, we have a mail problem. Here’s what we know

Frustrations continued for Americans as they awaited their packages that were expected to be delivered months ago.

www.click2houston.com

Stuck in transit? USPS dodges questions amid major delays at Houston-area facilities

Have you been waiting for a package? It might be sitting with hundreds of others in a large warehouse either in north Houston or Missouri City. USPS says they have an answer but seem to avoid ABC13's questions.

abc13.com

 

[JGalt]

Not here. Today is "Hey honey, let's drive 15 miles to some place, get down on our hands and knees in the cold, cut down a tree that barely fits in the back of the car, and pay the guy $40." day.

It's a yearly tradition. Then that tree usually stands in the living room until late February when we're done with it, after which I drag it behind the house and set it on fire.

The tree was only $35 and the guy cut it for us. But the tree place was on a high plain with a temperature of 20 degrees and a 20 mph wind. I almost froze my old, white ass off.

How people have managed to survive up here in Wisconsin, I'll never understand.

 

[skye]

 

[daveman]

Try going into a crowded Walmart. If there are people saying going after the PlayStation 5s and you want one, prepare for a fight. Anything can be fought over. Hell, you aren't safe at checkout.

We were surprised. Went to our closest Walmart to get my MIL a birthday gift. It was crowded, but not crazy. Like typical payday busy. The checkout lady had been there since 7 and said it got really busy for a while early in the morning, but not as bad as other years.

 

[daveman]

That sounds like fun; enjoy. I grew as a kid and we had a bayou in our backyard. My mother would have us drag the Christmas tree towards the bayou and let it dicenegrate. Listen to your wife. Happy wife-happy life. It's really true.

After Christmas, the Corps of Engineers and Fish and Wildlife will set up places to dump your real trees. They turn them into fish attractors and dump 'em in the lakes.

 

[boevans]

We faked them out. People at CostCo and Walmart and whatever.

We went to Smiths and got cool goodies at discounts and filled up and 2.09 a gallon.

 

[daveman]

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This is how I expected to have to shop on Black Friday:

 

[skye]

This is how I expected to have to shop on Black Friday:

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Exactly LOL