to think everyone will have the same idea as me this weekend!?

[solidussnake]

black friday
payday weekend
I plan on going christmas shopping on saturday at 8am as soon as the shops in town open. AIBU to think everyone has the same idea as me? i'm going to end up killing someone
I just want to go have a nice christmas shop! this is the first year I'm able to do this! This is also the 2nd year I've heard of Black Friday over here! why is everything so commercialised & americanized?!
aibu to be this stressed out over some pajamas and Lush stuff!?

[Mammanat222]

Well I for one will not be at the shops... Couldn't think of anything worse!

[Mammanat222]

I may have a wee looky online though!

[dwinnol]

I went last Friday so I won't be there if that's any help.

[BaffledSomeMore]

I'm not going. But you're right it might be everyone except me.

[PoirotsMoustache]

No-one will be there. They'll have gone shopping on Black Friday and snapped up all the bargains. You'll be left with full-priced crap.

Sorry.

[solidussnake]

i would have gone last friday but this is Christmas Payday. We also get paid before christmas too but that has to last through January, don't want to be spending loads. I hate shopping, i will be in and out in an hour on normal days. The centre will be heaving. I'm going to have a panic attack

[LadyPenny]

Not me, mines all done and wrapped.

Yes I know I am Mrs smuggity smug face

[solidussnake]

poirots fucking bollocks not getting more stressed out at all nope

[BuzzardBird]

This is why God created the internet...it's a Christmas miracle!

[Waitingonasunnyday]

If you don't like shopping, don't go! I do most of mine online. With one trip somewhere pretty for 'Christmas shopping' which should really be called 'Christmas mulled wine drinking'.

[DidoTheDodo]

I've finished my Christmas shopping.
Another smug one here.

-buy I may go online to see if there is anything nice for me

[PrimalLass]

Two words: Amazon Prime

I can't face normal Christmas Shopping these days.

[solidussnake]

buzzardoh come on if I could buy boots that would fit me from the internet, believe me I would. I've learnt my lesson... Town it is. Also, if I buy the wrong game for DP i can't send it back in time! then there's the dress for the christmas work's do... arggggghhhhh

[solidussnake]

I need to look at the things! there's soooo many things, and I can't buy Lush Soap without smelling it!
I love this time of year... but only when people are buying things for me. Black friday sales can lick my shiny metal arse. the boxing day sales are welcome though!

[HelpMeGetOutOfHere]

I'm worried about that too, as I'm off to a different shopping centre to hopefully finish my shopping off. So everyone planning on going to Festival Place in Basingstoke please stay at home ds2 desperately needs a new coat too, as does dd. darn these blinking growth spurts. ds2 is now taller than me and I'm 5'9, he's 12!!!!!!!

[flowery]

Not everyone will have the same idea because surely most people do most of their Christmas shopping online now?

We do what Waiting does - we do it all online, then DH and I take a day off during December, go into Cambridge "Christmas shopping" which actually means soak up atmosphere, have a nice lunch and listen to the Sally Army play Christmas carols, with no pressure to buy presents.

Having worked in retail previously, I wouldn't go into a town centre a few weeks before Christmas on a Saturday with a gun to my head.

[helpful]

[solidussnake]

None of my coats fit me. I'm well under 5' so my coats are age 11-12 if im lucky, but I need boots that fit (wide calf, small fit, size 3) and skinny jeans that fit, 25" legs, and a coat that isn't longer than my knees!

Then I need PJs for DM & Dsis, y'know them fluffy ones? as well as some other cute stuff I find for them, dad's getting joggers & shower gel set, then DP's getting a game, some new joggers, dressing gown & slippers. His mum's getting a wash set as with his stepdad, with brothers getting gloves & undies and grandparents getting lush stuff & the new terry pratchet book.

i hate christmas.
I love it.
But i can't stabd it when I have to spend money :(

[solidussnake]

I can't do mine online because things just won't get here in time. Primark, game, lush, superdrug & WH Smith are life savers. Also wilkos. also I live with my parents and they like opening my post if i'm working and they're not. 9 times out of 10 no one's in anyway so I miss delivery, don't have a car and our delivery office is 9 miles away!

[smilingthroughgrittedteeth]

Ive finished my christmas shopping, I will be going to tesco tomorrow to do some food shopping then wont be setting foot in any shop til after new year.

[Shockers]

I won't be shopping, so that's one less .

I have to pay the balance on our Feb half term skiing holiday this week, so it's a satsuma and a lump of coal for my kids this Christmas .

[solidussnake]

shockers has it right! Although, I asked my wonderful father for a laptop. The joys of still living at home, right?
I'm having to save up for a holiday to portugal, too. then my parent's wedding later on in the year abroad. money is so tight.

[OftheTwilighttheDarkness]

I will have to go in this weekend with DH and the kids. That will be fun ( not).

[WyrdByrd]

I'm doing double Christmas shopping this weekend - off to nearest city on my own tomorrow & home town Christmas market & lunch with a friend on Saturday.

I do most of it online, but for little knick knacks you can't beat a proper wander.

Am going to Tiger, Lush & the little hippy shops for DD's stocking fillers. Saturday will mostly be about food, wine & browsing .

[Minerves]

if you want to do black friday like a real american you need to go to the shops on Thursday night ... black friday starts then and people shop in the night ... insane!

[Hatespiders]

And yet another Mrs Smugface. All bought and wrapped. Cards all written. Will send them out during first week of Dec. Got into this habit while teaching. Everything done during half-term week at end of October.
And yes, it's got terribly commercial. Black Friday indeed! When I saw that expression for the first time last week, I thought the Stock Market had crashed!