Is Black Friday Worth It?

The biggest shopping day of the year. Black Friday. The day after Thanksgiving is the “official” sales day. Almost all shops have Black Friday sales and some have more then others. Malls and shopping centers are always pure insanity. People get up at 3 am to stand in line outside, in the cold. The hardcore shoppers start lining up Thanksgiving night. Is it really worth it?

Thanksgiving is a holiday to relax and spend time with family, not to stand in line with strangers for hours on end. First off, other shoppers can be pretty feisty. My one, and only, Black Friday experience I was slammed into a clothes rack by a very competitive shopper. Apparently getting the three dollar jacket was life or death situation. Secondly, are the sales really that great? I was disappointed when I went I Target because the not that many things were on sale. I stood in line for an hour, out in the freezing cold and I ended up only buying one thing. Black Friday is a definitely a good day to buy electronics such as TVs and what not. There are always those people pushing multiple carts filled with large flat-screen TVs.

It seems almost every year there is a crazy Black Friday news story. Sadly, there is usually a death. Someone gets trampled as the doors open to a major store. How can people be so determined to save money that the don't notice a dying person? Seriously? That's just being selfish. Then this year a store announced that they weren't going to open until their normal time and shoppers threw bricks at the store's windows. Come on people its not worth it! They only shatter the windows just so the could get good sales.

On Thanksgiving I would much rather spend time with my family then annoying bargain shoppers that would trample over people to their not-so-great sales. I have had one Black Friday experience and I don't plan to have another. So next year if you do plan to go shopping on Black Friday ask yourself: Is this really worth it?  
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