Black Friday

I'm relatively new to the tradition of Black Friday.  I usually opt out, preferring to sleep instead.  But this year, my good friend Whitney asked if I wanted to hit the stores that were opening at Midnight.  She was looking for one particular item at Best Buy but after driving through the parking lot at 8 pm and noticing how long the line already was, decided to try a few other stores instead.  We wanted to check out the craziness of Wal-mart.  And it was PURE chaos.  We didn't even get out of the car...we couldn't even find a parking spot!  So we went to Target.  A couple of things I wanted were on sale, marked down almost 50%!  So we got in line at 10:30.  Yes, 10:30!  We waited and waited and waited.  Then we made friends with the people in line behind us (who actually is a police officer for our city and said he'd let us off with a warning if he ever pulled us over.)  It was cold, but not snowing, so we made the best of our waiting time and laughed a lot!

We finally got into Target, a little after midnight.  My items were still available but Whitney's wasn't :( .  We left Target and went to Carter's.  The entire store was marked down 50%, plus an additional 10% if you paid before 5 am.  Add to that the 20% off coupon I had and we were in business!  We each got a bag full of clothes for our little ones.  Then headed to the mall.

By this time, it was between 1 - 2 am.  There were SO many teenagers at the mall.  Whitney and I were a little shocked but not as much as when we saw little kids, like babies - 5 year olds, with their parents shopping!  Seriously, it was close to child abuse!  The poor things just wanted to be in bed.  We even saw one sleeping on a bench with no parental supervision.  We felt so bad for them and were extra grateful to our husbands for letting us have a little fun and join in the Black Friday insanity!