Do you shop on Black Friday and what precautions do you take?

Black Friday is the only day of the year Apple goes on sale, so if I am looking for an Apple product I would buy it then. Otherwise I stay the hell away.

I don’t, typically. What I have done, however, is go out late on Friday. The people who were out Thanksgiving and out early Friday are then home resting up. If I do go out around 4 or 5, stores are empty. This year, I am going with a friend to IKEA. We’re not looking for Black Friday stuff, we’re just going because we’ve been meaning to find a day when we’re both free and Black Friday happens to be it. For other Black Friday stuff, now many stores have online sales all this week.

What I really need to do is think about who I am buying for and what I am getting, otherwise I tend to buy myself stuff and little or nothing for others. The hard part is coming up with ideas for gift giving.

I never have. Our time is spent at home with our children and any relatives who decide to visit. We play board games, watch movies, eat and go for a short hike if the weather permits.

I just mentioned to my husband this evening that Thanksgiving has turned into a shopping holiday and it really annoys me. This is how I feel:

Rather than enjoying time spent with family or friends, people will rush out to battle strangers in an effort to buy more distractions. Distractions from what they already have. Distractions from what really matters in life. Distractions from time spent with others. source

The gifts I buy for Christmas are put on layaway in early November because it’s the only way I can pay for everything, but the past few years I’ve had to wait until my husband gets his bonus, which is usually the week before Christmas.

I totally avoid it.

No. I observe Buy Nothing Day and remember that I just finished celebrating a holiday based on being thankful for what I already have.

I completely avoid black Friday shopping, i hate waiting in lines. Also i would be likely to punch somebody if that snatched an item out of my hand (from what i understand people do grab stuff right out of other peoples hands). Be mindful of the area you go shopping at, if you go to a high crime area do not go with a car full of gifts also avoid bringing things like a designer handbag with you. Last year while my cousin and her aunt were out shopping they were robbed these criminals not only stole every gift in her aunts vehicle but they also waited for them to leave the store where they stole their designer purses and knocked them to the ground. So even if you go shopping with somebody else you still have the risk of being robbed.

Hello no! I hide in a corner at home.

I don’t. I can make more working from home than I could save standing for hours in the cold with lunatics.

Opportunity cost and all.

Nope. I can’t even stand shopping at Walmart after the church crowd is released on Sundays, and that’s only a fraction of the amount of people out on Black Friday. Nope, I don’t like people.

We will be going out this Friday, but only to our local nutrition store. One of the employees told us that, if we spend $100, we get a big bag filled with free samples and even full size products. Protein powders, pre-workouts, vitamins, protein bars, and other supplements. So, we’ll be there when they open, get our free stuff, and then get the hell out of there and back home to do a bunch of nothing until Black Friday is over.

No. Never. The last place I want to be is in a full parking lot with a bunch of people acting crazy.

Never have, never will.

I shop on all holidays, but I do it online. I take the same precautions as your link.

No, I do not do any store shopping on Thanksgiving or on Black Friday. I value my life too much to shop on Black Friday, almost every year someone gets hurt or even killed, no thank you. I will stay home, sleep in and enjoy turkey leftovers and still find bargains for gift giving later in the shopping season. Or go online and shop there.

No, never have and never intend to. I heard two women were camping out three weeks before the store opens. Crazy.