I just saw an advert for Kohl’s after Thanksgiving sale. Though I still do not want to hear a damn thing about Christmas until after Thursday, I can’t fault the stores for advertising the sales, as they have this little thing they like to do called staying in business.
What killed me is this - they’re opening at FOUR IN THE MORNING. I just can’t even fathom being up and at a store that early in the morning for anything or anyone. I’m fairly certain I don’t like anyone that much in the first place.
I realize that there are people that DO go out to these sales at the crack of dawn - what I can’t quite fathom is who and why. What gift or recipient is SO critical that you would get out and torture yourself that way? You’ve just survived a major family holiday and now you want to go deal with insane crowds and risk an elbow in the eye because some store only has 5 of this season’s hottest toy actually in stock?
For full disclosure, my brother & I usually venture out on Black Friday. Wander around, check out the Santa Claus to see if he’s decent and get a late lunch. It’s more a spectator event for us, never before noon, and I’m fairly certain I don’t remember a single time we’ve actually bought anything that day.
November 20th, 2007 - 9:16 pm
Many people are insane. I only have to buy about 8-10 gifts, which will be done largely via internet. If I have to get something in person, I usually take a day off in the middle of the first or second week in december and get it over with.
November 20th, 2007 - 9:24 pm
This year is as close to being able to cancel Christmas as I’ve come. Can’t take much of anything to PHX and that right there solves a lot of problems. ;)
November 20th, 2007 - 9:27 pm
Oh come on. Where’s everyone’s Christmas spirit at 4 a.m. on the morning after Thanksgiving? What a bunch of humbugs. ;)
November 20th, 2007 - 9:32 pm
Oh come on. Where’s everyone’s Christmas spirit at 4 a.m. on the morning after Thanksgiving? What a bunch of humbugs. ;)
If I could skip straight forward to somewhere around January 3rd, I’d do it.
November 20th, 2007 - 10:47 pm
I heard that commercial a few times on WTOP.. I can hardly fathom being -up- at 4am without a damn good (and social, and entertainment-based) reason, to say nothing of being at a department store before, oh, 8am.
November 20th, 2007 - 10:57 pm
I can hardly fathom being -up- at 4am
If I am up at 4AM, it’s a 99% chance it is because I’ve not gone to bed yet.
November 20th, 2007 - 10:59 pm
Too true!
…like I did the other night.
And then the phone rang for work at 0615.