Black Friday

Ok, here comes a long blog update.

The day after Thanksgiving started off the same way it did last year, with a crazy Black Friday experience. Dori has decided that she wanted a new MP3 player for Christmas. After a lot of research and convincing by me that the Ipod is overpriced and restrictive she decided to go with the Creative Zen Micro Photo. It was on sale at Circuit City for $129.

So we woke up and left Dori’s Dad’s house at 2:30 a.m. and got to the store about 3. By the time we arrived the parking lot was filling up and we found ourselves about 90^th in line. We weren’t really worried about being so far back because the first 100 or so people are always there to get big ticket items like computers and Televisions. The problem is that the stores usually only have at most 15 of each item which are snapped up by the first 50 or so people in line.

By the time the doors opened at 5 the line had swelled to around 400 people. Everyone rushed in and quickly clogged up the computer and TV sections, but the MP3 player section was relatively quiet. After grabbing the player Dori and I ran around the store and picked up some great deals on work related items. By this time all of the line was starting to empty into the store so it was becoming crazy. By the time we finished and hopped in line to check out I was having to hold the shopping basket over my head to maneuver through the crowd. All in all we spent a ton of money at the store, but after we send in the 30+ rebates that we have to file it will be chump change. It took the receipt printer 5 minutes just to print out all of the rebate slips we will need.

After the store we got back to the house around 7 a.m. and went back to sleep for a little bit before the rest of Dori’s family woke up.