This year many stores kicked off their deals Thursday evening and although I feel for employees who were working (though I asked at every single store and lots were making at least time and a half if not double), I still wish stores would do this every year. I love being able to stay up a little bit later and get it all done, rather than sleeping for a few hours and then having to drag myself from my warm bed for several hours and screw up my sleep schedule for a week. But seriously, NO EARLIER. This is the earliest it should go! Hear me on this, DO NOT touch the sacred Thanksgiving meal corporations!
Please do continue to offer all your deals online Thanksgiving day that will be in stores on Friday. That is just magical and will definitely earn my money! We were able to knock out Dick's Sporting Goods, Under Armour & Lands End all by Thursday evening (plus some killer promos on Amazon!). So nice to cut down on the stops.
We arranged our shopping a bit differently this year to accommodate the early openings. Since the Ravens were still playing, Brent stayed home to enjoy the game and keep me updated on what was going on while my mom, sister and I hit up Michaels (open until 10PM), Walmart (deals kicked in at 10PM) and Kohls (opened at midnight).
Target's deals were crap this year and every single remotely good deal they offered was beat by an online retailer that offered free shipping but we were happy to cut a store from the list. I don't really like their return policies anyway, total hassle for the giftee and gifter.
Because we hit Kohls right when they opened and thus didn't join the hundreds who were silly enough to form a line wrapping around Kohls, we walked in with the first 10 people or so when they opened up the doors.
Sidenote: Why do people persist in standing in a non-store sanctioned line while waiting for a store to open? Just because you formed a line, it doesn't mean anything once the doors are opened unless the store has specifically set up a place for a line to form. I will never understand this. Such a waste of time.
Anyway, we were in and out of Kohls so fast. Gathered up our items and were in the line just as the lines started forming. We were in and out in well under forty minutes, a record for Kohls.
At this point some of the deals had included:
MichaelsS
50% of Melissa & Doug
Candy melts for $1
80% off Ribbon
plus addtional 30% off total purchase
Walmart:
DVDs for $1.96
Bluerays for $5 (including Cars 2!)
TV seasons for $9
Kohls:
Barstools for my parents new kitchen at 80% off
20 piece Pyrex set for $15
10 piece CorningWare set for $18
Cable Knit throw for 75% off
Source: kohls.com via Jen | Life Accounts on Pinterest
Source: kohls.com via Jen | Life Accounts on Pinterest
Source: kohls.com via Jen | Life Accounts on Pinterest
There were several other items from the above stores but I know a certain someone occasionally reads this blog and I can't risk spoiling their surprises! Needless to say, I knocked out a good chunk of shopping.
I will end it here and save the rest for tomorrow, this is long enough as it is! Did anyone else score any great deals during Black Friday? The deals seriously get better and better every year. All the naysayers who say that the deals during Black Friday aren't that great are totally off their rockers.
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I'd never thought about the fact that it's useless to stand in line if the store doesn't require it. I guess people just do it out of courtesy which is really surprising. Did you get any dirty looks?
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