Comments on: Did You Take Part in Diverse Complexion Friday?

By: Did You Do Black Friday? What’s Your Best Bargain? (Black Friday Killed US)

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:49:27 +0000

[...] Your Best Bargain? (Black Friday Killed US)By Debbie SchlusselDid you do Black Friday . . . er “Diverse Complexion Friday?” By that, I mean, did you get up early (or stay up all night–Wal-Mart specials began at [...]

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:48:33 +0000

Big5 (regional sporting goods store) had M1 Garand rifles on sale for $599 on black Friday. It was a 4 day weekend, and it turns out I only left the house once and that was for a 6-pack. I almost bit on the Garand, but nah. A friend talked me into looking into a Mini-14 instead.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:36:41 +0000

There is also a second reason for it to be called Black Friday. In the Philadelphia area the police called it Black Friday because the traffic created made their job impossible.

So they called it “Black Friday”, because in our culture “black” is linked to the term “bad” or “evil”.

So no, I can’t see any racist undercurrent for the use of “black”.

None at all.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:44:31 +0000

A friend of mine informed me that 94 was closed down for hours due to a fatality accident. You have to wonder if that person(s) was possibly influenced by the lure of Black Friday to drive less carefully and thus die badly. That highway is always closed down for wrecks but I still wonder. Somebody didn’t make it home to their family.

By: mK750

mK750 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:19:42 +0000

Linda, order your socks and towels from Landsend. They cost a bit more up front but wow, do they last. I have towels from there that are 9 years old and still look good. Ditto their clothing. If there is a problem you CAN schlepp to Sears for a full refund. Last time I used them before coming to Israel, their customer service was the best and STILL American.

By: lindapolver

lindapolver — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:27:00 +0000

everything I want I can buy on amazon, its books, video games and electronics. walmart, circuit city and (best) worst buy just annoy me to walk in. so I stay outta there.

By: lindapolver

lindapolver — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:24:06 +0000

I did not go out. I need some minor things like basic new bath towels, new wool winter socks…I dont like crowds. In light of swine flu and the general lack of manners america has, I stayed home.

these days I am choosing between gas $, food $, and my gym membership dues, insted of shopping.

Kohls is one of my fave places, they carry jeans that fit, no hip, no low cut jeans, so I go there, once in a while if I need something. when I need groceries I hit any 24-7 store from midnight to 5am. I refuse to shop in the crowds, too over whelming.

I first learned about the largesse of black fridays from my freinds in NC. never in my family did we go shopping the day after thanksgiving.\

happy thanksgiving everyone, G-d’s blessings to everyone

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:32:26 +0000

I didn’t go shopping either. I, like you, Debbie, HATE shopping with a passion.

…oh, and man, I thought I was ruthless on my blog. WOW!

Adding you to the Blogroll.

By: Ramjordan

Ramjordan — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:52:27 +0000

The root cause of our economic misery is the unlimited printing of money out of thin air by the Federal Reserve (which was created in 1913). The Federal Reserve makes possible the funding of unconstitutional big government like the welfare and warfare complexes which in turn have gave us a national debt of over 12 trillion dollars and the dilution of the value of our money (over the last century a dollar’s purchasing power has declined over 95 percent — i.e., it won’t buy what a nickel did in 1909).
If the dollar’s value had remained stable, U.S. wages would have been competitive with the rest of the world’s and we would not need to move jobs overseas nor hire illegal and legal aliens to take away jobs from Americans.
If the value of the dollar had remained stable and the Federal Reserve did not make so much unsupported money available, people would not have had to rely on debt like credit cards and loans for purchases because prices would be much lower.
We must end big government and the Federal Reserve and the first step toward this goal would be to elect constitutionalists and libertarians to local and national public offices. To continue to vote for Republicans and Democrats (with very few exceptions) would just prolong our misery toward a very bitter end.

By: cirrus1701

cirrus1701 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:01:26 +0000

I’ll admit that I was curious about the Old Navy sales. I even contemplated going over at 3am. But, I awoke at 1:30am and wandered over to the computer. I saw that the sales were online too.

My whole shopping experience took 2.5 minutes.