Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Black Friday Shopping Unhappiness

I always look forward to Black Friday.  My day to get up hours earlier than anyone else in my house, grab a cup of coffee and head out shopping around 4am until noon.  What could be better?!
Nothing, that is what. Nothing for me could beat that.  I loved it every year.  I am so irritated that the stores are changing their hours this year to open Midnight.  I really do need to get some sleep before heading out to shop til I drop.  I liked going to bed and catching some zzzz's and then getting up early.  Now they are basically saying, either catch an hour of sleep and get back up or just don't go to bed so you are so exhausted you have no idea how much you are spending.  Is that their purpose or what is?
I keep wondering if they realize that a majority of the people out shopping are Mothers!  We are going to shop, shop, shop and then we have to go home and pull ourselves together and watch our children.  There is no nap for us or going to bed or back to bed when we get home, so basically what, we need to start popping Nodoz or something to make it through the day now because we haven't slept at all?  I just don't get it and I'm not happy about.  I still have yet to decide what I am going to do.  I know that at least for me I need to get some sleep or my immune system will be crap and the following week I will probably catch some cold from the germs floating around.
I will admit that I am a bit selfish and I do shop for myself on Black Friday. There are great clothing sales.  This year I don't know.  How am I supposed to start at Midnight and shop for 6 to 8 hours while I wait for the clothing stores to open up.  I won't that is what.  So either I miss out on some of the hot deals or I don't get to shop for my clothes.
As I said, I am really not happy about the time changes this year.  I will post an update after Black Friday of what my decisions were and if I survived this year.

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