WERE YOU PART OF IT??

Does the above view look familiar? If you answered no then that means you were not involved in the busiest shopping day of the year. Yes, I brave it every year but it's actually not that bad. I get up about 3:30 to get showered and ready. Only because after I've shopped, I head to work. So I start at a local store at 5am and my husband even joins me. You meet up with friends in line and you also might possibly make new friends in line. Everyone seems to be in a fun spirit. I think the die hards that really are shoppers must have a good attitude. So that leads me to believe all the grouchy shoppers with no patience are at home sleeping, where they should be.

The morning rush of shopping gives me about a 3hr window of going to some stores nearby and buying what things I perused on the ads the day before. Then I go to work and I can work my day and make back what I just spent and I haven't lost any vacation time. Easy peasy. Some day I might take the day off but for right now this works.

I hear the same thing every year from people: "I can't believe you get up at 4am to get half-priced socks!" I do stick mostly to the deals on their ads. I also figure I can sleep later and I feel good that some of that stuff I would have bought anyway.

So thank you grouchy shoppers for coming out of your cocoons later in the season and not ruin the fun and havoc on Black Friday.

look how much fun these women are having...