Dana wrote: > Why? You don't see some value in just refusing to be programmed to run > out and spend a few hundred because that's what you're supposed to do? > It's actually pretty hard to spend *nothing* and sure, the effect on > the economy is less than negligible, but I take my symbols as I find > them.
I go out shopping on Black Friday because you can get things cheaper on Black Friday than any other day of the year. That's a simple fact. Now I'm not totally insane, so the only place I went at 6am was Home Depot to get a lighted christmas wreath that was on a fantastic sale. We also went to Target, but only because we were already out and figured we might as well get some of the shopping for our daughter done, and numerous things she wanted were on sale. Could I have waited until Saturday? Sure. I wouldn't have gotten the wreath though (I know this because we bought the wrong size and I went to return it 4 hours later, and they were completely out of them, and they won't be 40% off when they get them back in stock). I also wouldn't have gotten the 5 DVDs we bought for $8 because they would've been out of stock and I might've had to have paid $12 for them a week later. For some people, saving money is important. For others, I guess fighting consumerism is important. I'm not spending money that I'm not going to spend anyway, so the only affect on me is that I have to get up really early one day out of the year, and maybe stand in some long lines (this year, I didn't actually stand in any long lines, I just got up early) Here's how I fight consumerism: I don't buy christmas anything before Thanksgiving. I don't listen to Christmas music before Thanksgiving (one local station starts playing Christmas music November 1!) I did, a few years ago, purchase a set of Calphalon cookware as a present to ourselves the day before Thanksgiving, because Kohl's had it on sale, and Calphalon rarely goes on sale, and I already knew it wasn't going to be on sale the day *AFTER*. So we went to Kohl's for the pre-Thanksgiving sale. If you've ever been to Kohl's on Black Friday, you'd understand :) Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:221264 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
