framing fowl said:
Got the sale papers yesterday to see if any deals were to be had... found ammo buy 1 get 1 50% off so I sent the DH in this morning at 6 am and saved $30!
awww dangit..I forgot to get my husbands .223 ammo... It was on sale...I bet it's gone too
Today I saved money by hitting the black Friday sales, and by buying less for my children than I had in previous years. Thanksgiving night, I carefully plan out what I am going to get the next day, and then write everything down, circle it in the add, and write down the page number. I get to Wal-mart at midnight so that I don't have to rush, and put everything in my basket that's on competitors ad, then wait for the 5am and get everything else on my list that walmart is selling on their sales ad(though this year at the store I went to, they didn't have their pallets covered like usual, and everyone had the sale items way before 5, except for the big ticket items..we had to wait till 5 for those.. and we were standing in the checkout line for an hour instead of dealing with the crowd to scramble for items)
I imagine they did it this way b/c of the tramplings last year, and it was an excellent idea.
This is
worth it to me for these reasons:
1:We don't buy a whole lot for the kids for Christmas anyway(too much clutter and we are lessening the grip of materialism on our kids systematically
)
2:We save a Ton of money!
3:I love people and go into it with a great attitude of: the items are not more important than the people around me trying to get those same items, and I'm here to have fun!
4: I have a well thought out, planned, and executed game plan, and if anything doesn't workout in that game plan, I don't get bent out of shape about it, I just roll with the punches.
5: I don't pick out anything that the kids wouldn't like, want or need just because it's on sale...the same method I use for using coupons.
I LOVE Black Friday shopping! It really is what you make of it!
Smart going! Here's to the scammers 
