Thinking ahead; Black Friday Shopping
Seeing a lot of posts recently about Christmas creeping into the store displays already. Although I thoroughly despise the over commercialization of the real meaning behind celebrating Christmas, I do loves me getting a good shop-on.
We live in a semi-remote area of Oregon. There's not a lot to choose from around here for shopping, as compared to where I grew up, San Francisco Bay Area, California, baby. Man how I miss the malls, restaurants and city life. Portland really doesn't get my city fix.
Here on the Oregon central coast, we have Walmart, second hand stores, garage sales and Fred Meyer! Hooray for Fred Meyer. There are no FM in Cal, and I shyed away from it for a while when we first moved up here, unfamiliar territory. Now, with such slim pickens around us, I am loving FM.
The clothes are cute, trendy, quality and the best part about FM is it truly is a one-stop-shop.
It's time for back-to-school shopping for my 12yr daughter and she's not my little tomboy anymore. She is asking for, and quite frankly deserves, girly girl fashionable quality apparel and shoes.
My favorite time of year to shop is definitely black friday, the day after Thanksgiving. Brings me back to all that Christmas talk. It took me a few years to catch on to the early-rise, shop til you drop, day after Thanksgiving stampede, but now I am hooked. We got sooooo many great deals last year.
FM has a tradition of opening at 5am. Since it is "the place to go" around here, customers start lining up around 3am, because it is a madhouse as soon as the doors open. Crazed dingalings fight and grab for all the lined up carts and bolt down the aisles. It's fun and stupid at the same time. It's an adventure, and heck, it's only once a year.
To help me plan my shopping bonanza, here, cyber monday, is a great site that will show us all the black friday ads before they even appear in local papers! I am ALWAYS looking at ads to plan my shopping routine. I love this idea! This site even offers email alerts to new ads that will be coming out.
I think I'll start a little Christmas shopping now, just so I don't have to fight with a fully loaded hand gun, I mean, loaded push cart on black friday. I can't wait to get my after-turkey-day black friday groove on. Join me.
