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This weeks theme is shopping, so let me tell you about my first and last time Day After Thanksgiving shopping. It's a treat.
My friend, Jamie, and I decided that we needed to go Day After Thanksgiving shopping. We wanted deals. We wanted steals. We wanted carts full of half off goodness. I was 5 1/2 months pregnant with Claire, and out of my mind to wanting to be doing this in such a condition. The store we thought would be most beneficial to us was Toys R Us. If you've never been to Toys R Us during this day, DON'T DO IT..TURN BACK NOW..DO NOT PASS GO!!!! We got up to the doors, and there were people with carts in their hands and daggers in their eyes waiting for the deals to begin. At 4AM, the employees came to door, and everyone pressed forward in anticipation. The doors opened and BAM, people started running past us with their carts. It was insanity!! When we finally got in, I tried to make my way to electronics, only to be met by Toys R Us employees and a HUGE wall of boxes. We just grabbed a cart and started shopping. We would make it down an aisle, and there would be carts full of stuff sitting. We looked left. We looked right. No one. We came to find out that people were filling carts and abandoning them left and right because of the chaos in the store. There were women fighting over dolls. Men fighting over trucks. Couples squabbling over which high chair would be better for their daughters baby dolls. Jamie and I clung to each other like there was no tomorrow praying to make it out alive. Seriously, it was like cannibalism. If you got out, you were lucky. At one point, we seperated because there was an easel that Ethan wanted that was on sale, and I needed to go find. I get to the art stuff, and there on the floor is one easel and two couples fighting over it. I looked at one couple. I looked at the other couple. I looked at the easel. I said, "You can fight over it all you want, but my son is getting an easel for Christmas," picked it up and walked away.
Looks great in his room, doesn't it?
My friend, Jamie, and I decided that we needed to go Day After Thanksgiving shopping. We wanted deals. We wanted steals. We wanted carts full of half off goodness. I was 5 1/2 months pregnant with Claire, and out of my mind to wanting to be doing this in such a condition. The store we thought would be most beneficial to us was Toys R Us. If you've never been to Toys R Us during this day, DON'T DO IT..TURN BACK NOW..DO NOT PASS GO!!!! We got up to the doors, and there were people with carts in their hands and daggers in their eyes waiting for the deals to begin. At 4AM, the employees came to door, and everyone pressed forward in anticipation. The doors opened and BAM, people started running past us with their carts. It was insanity!! When we finally got in, I tried to make my way to electronics, only to be met by Toys R Us employees and a HUGE wall of boxes. We just grabbed a cart and started shopping. We would make it down an aisle, and there would be carts full of stuff sitting. We looked left. We looked right. No one. We came to find out that people were filling carts and abandoning them left and right because of the chaos in the store. There were women fighting over dolls. Men fighting over trucks. Couples squabbling over which high chair would be better for their daughters baby dolls. Jamie and I clung to each other like there was no tomorrow praying to make it out alive. Seriously, it was like cannibalism. If you got out, you were lucky. At one point, we seperated because there was an easel that Ethan wanted that was on sale, and I needed to go find. I get to the art stuff, and there on the floor is one easel and two couples fighting over it. I looked at one couple. I looked at the other couple. I looked at the easel. I said, "You can fight over it all you want, but my son is getting an easel for Christmas," picked it up and walked away.
Looks great in his room, doesn't it?After 3 hours shopping and checking out at Toys R Us, we made it out alive. Some of the other places we stopped were not insane. Best Buy was calm, Circut City had a long line and Target was the best. All in all though, I got all my shopping done for just over $200. Great deals, but I will never do it again. That day is all for David. He can shop to his little hearts content, and I will stay home with the kids and look at the ads. I'd rather window shop the papers than get run over in the doorway to Toys R Us.
4 comments:
My mom and I tried it once, about 12 years ago. We went to the Mall of America(we were so dumb). I'll never do it again. I like that you just picked up the easel and left them to their fighting!! I can only imagine the looks on their faces!
It sounds insane! We don't do 'Black Friday' here in Canada. I would miss the deals, but not the rudeness. I read about the Walmart employee that got trampled to death last year. Inexcuseable!
I laughed out loud at you picking up the easel. I bet they were dumb-founded!
I never, never, never, go to Toys R Us on black Friday. I can usually find the toys for cheaper on the at day at Target (or something at least very similar to what I'm looking for). You're brave...even for going the one time!
Loved you getting the easel! It sounds like madness, though. Glad you made it out alive!
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