It’s almost 10 am and I’ve been at work for two and a half hours. No shopping for me today. Well, I bought bagels for those of us stuck in the office today, but I don’t know that those count.
Did you go shopping? I’ve got a number of coworkers who hit the mall at midnight or drove past the crazy stores this morning on their way into the office.
How about online shopping? I don’t know about you, but when I opened my e-mail this morning, it was filled with all sorts of Deals! Deals! Deals!
So I want to hear your shopping stories. Any great bargains? Horror stories? I did get free coffee from the (very bored) bagel shop employees this morning. Felt like a bargain to me!
Nope. The deals aren’t worth getting trampled by crazy ladies to me.
I wasn’t going to, but then around midafternoon, I noticed that my local yarn store was having a 25% off everything sale. I’ve been wanting some sock yarn from them for a long time, so we loaded up and drove the mile and a half to the store. It wasn’t as slammed as I feared–they said it had been steady, but not insane. And I got my gorgeous, gorgeous yarn at a fantastic discount, and feel like it was a good deal all around.
Part of that, though, is that I don’t think we’re really doing Christmas this year. Instead, we’re picking up small, random things for ourselves as we do Christmas shopping. Today we went to the Bazaar Bizarre and we each got new wallets (from this guy, who is totally awesome–my wallet has an octopus!), for example.
With all that said, you couldn’t pay me enough to go to WalMart or the like on Black Friday. Fuck that–I’d like to not be trampled to death.