<p>Okay, so if I understand this correctly, people go and start shopping for Christmas at Midnight on the night of thanksgiving. </p>
<p>Will somebody please explain why people do this? </p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>I have no idea – by midnight on Thanksgiving all I want to do is sleep – for about 12 hours. The rule in our house is breakfast on Friday is at noon.</p>
<p>We were at our place in Hilton Head last week and many of the stores and malls there had big signs up saying that Black Friday shopping starts at 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving night! I don’t get it. I can’t imagine going out and shopping at 10 p.m. or 5 a.m. or any other crazy time that is guaranteed that you’ll be surrounded by hordes of other shoppers. I don’t care how great the supposed ‘deals’ are.</p>
<p>I don’t care how great the deals supposedly are- I have a strict budget & I try and get all my shopping done before Thanksgiving.
I don’t want to have to deal with the crazy after that, I would rather sit back and enjoy the days getting gloomier. ;)</p>
<p>I honestly don’t know why people do this. Ever since the tradition started a decade or so ago I have wondered about this. Perhaps it’s shopping as sport? A bonding experience for friends? A game like survival? I don’t know but you won’t ever catch me even thinking about it. the real killer of it all is it started at 6 AM…then it was 5 AM and now it’s the night before.</p>
<p>When I see videos of people trampled getting into the stores, it makes me think that it is completely nuts.</p>
<p>I know an extremely wealthy, accomplished man who goes out at 4 am every Black Friday as a sport; competes against his best friend to see who can get certain items…</p>
<p>My sleep is way too valuable to save a couple of hundred dollars on something I don’t even need…</p>
<p>Last year, we bought one of those Black Friday TV’s on Saturday on Txsgiving weekend at 7 pm for the same price as advertised on Black Friday…fine with me</p>
<p>Because some of the deals are incredibly good and some people have limited budgets. If your child really wants x, y, or z game system, etc. and you might be able to get it for several hundred dollars less, you try.That’s especially true if there is just no way you can pay the regular price.</p>
<p>All right then. I’m not crazy.</p>
<p>I keep looking at these ads thinking, really? Are you kidding?</p>
<p>I don’t even want to go shopping at noon the next day.</p>
<p>I don’t want to shop at any hour, on any day. My H is one of those people who has to get the “deal”. I go with him ~60% of the time on Black Friday. It’s always pitch black, 20 degress with biting wind or sleet. It takes about 5 miles before I wonder where my mind went.</p>
<p>If I can’t order it and the UPS man can’t deliver it, I don’t need it (and my recipients aren’t getting it). Amazon and ebay are my friends :)</p>
<p>I’m happy we have no relatives coming for Thanksgiving this year. They always want to shop in Freeport (LL Bean and other outlets) on Friday. Blechh!!! That town is a zoo then.</p>
<p>HA! You must live near where I was born.</p>
<p>Now, if I came to visit you, I would just want to spend the weekend eating in the great restaurants in Portland. That is one of the world’s best kept secrets. It’s got to be a top 10 food town in the U.S.</p>
<p>There is no chowder in the world that comes close to the chowder there. </p>
<p>I would go at Midnight for the chowder and a lobster roll. :)</p>
<p>I guess I’d rather eat than shop.</p>
<p>Cool, poetgrl! Yep, the restaurants here are wonderful. We live in a town between Freeport and Portland. :)</p>
<p>Some of the younger ones in my family (including my 20 year old son) do this. I think the camping out part is more of an ‘event’ than anything else. I don’t even get close to the stores on Black Friday. What a zoo!</p>
<p>^Maybe for the young hunters it’s that bonding thing. I’ll know when someone writes up their engagement announcement in a newspaper and says they met inline on Black Friday.</p>
<p>I am hoping to a lot of shopping online.</p>
<p>I went one year when my twins were like 2. This was seven years ago. My dh was off and could watch them for me while I shopped. I got a ticket for going through a red light. No… I don’t go through while it was red I went through while it was green and then it was turning yellow. It was red because my car stalled not once but twice while going through the light. Big ticket cost me more than anything I could save in shipping or on sale price. I have not gone again.</p>
<p>I don’t get it either, but apparently a lot of people do it, because this year even more stores are opening at midnight.</p>
<p>Not for me.</p>
<p>What is it they could sell at midnight that they couldn’t sell at 10 am next morning. How much could you save by buying at midnight vs next morning? What is your sleep woth?</p>
<p>Interesting to see the brick and mortar Black Friday trend on opening times. Seems like it began at 6:00 AM when it first started a decade or two ago. From there it just kept getting moved up by an hour every couple of years, as soon as another retailer made their move to get the first crack at the post-Thanksgiving holiday shopper. Now internet sites are jumping into the fray and moving up their holiday specials from the traditional cyber-Monday. </p>
<p>I don’t like shopping in the middle of the night and/or when there are huge crowds. It really compromises my enjoyment of the holidays. I could never work in retail, the way it’s done today. Could not stay up that late or get up for work that early…</p>