We had a wonderful Thanksgiving... spent it at my mother's house with my sister and her family and one of my uncles! As always, we gorged ourselves with too much food and drink, which made for a very long and tiring trip home that evening!!! And of course it was late when we got home... CJ's Dallas Cowboys were playing, so we couldn't leave until that game was over! We got home about 9:30 pm. By the time we put everything away and got every one to bed, it was almost 11:00. Not good when we were going to get up a few hours later to go shopping...
Normally, I try to avoid "Black Friday" shopping!! There doesn't seem to be much sense in freezing your buns off at 4:00 am while waiting in a LONG line for the stores to open. Then you have to push your way through people to get to what you came there for... However, upon looking at the ads on Thanksgiving Day, we saw several items that were really good deals so we thought we would try this "shopping frenzy". Wal-Mart was one place I needed to go and their doorbusters started at 5am. Since we have three Super Wal-Marts that are open 24 hours here, I decided to go to the one clear on the opposite end of town, away from the mall and shopping centers! It was great! I got there about 4:40 am and parked right up at the front of the store!! I was able to go inside since they are open 24 hours... they have their "doorbuster" items on pallets in the aisles and wrapped in black plastic so you can't see what it is. There is a Wal-Mart employee standing at each pallet to make sure no one tries to rip these open before 5:00 am. Because everyone was out at the Wal-Mart by the mall, closer to the shopping areas, there was not very many people here at the one I was at! I was able to get everything I came for (which I can not list here since they are Christmas gifts... someone might read this!), I didn't even have to wait in line to check out, and I was out of the store by 5:05am!!! It was GREAT!!! I can't say the same about Target, though! They are located over with the shopping centers and the mall!! BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!!!! After I finished at Wal-Mart, I took my purchases home. CJ was going to go to Target, but since I got done quickly and made it back home before he left, we went together. Our first mistake was the time... we didn't get there soon enough! We arrived about 10 minutes before the store opened.... BAD!!!! This is a Super Target with two separate entrances on the front. There were lines formed from both doors and going back around the corners to the back of the building... on both sides!!! We saw Shannon Ewart, whose son played baseball with Zach this summer. She was about a third of the way back in line, and she said she had gotten there at 5:00am and had been waiting in line for an hour outside already!! Well, CJ and I didn't think we were going to get what we wanted at this store, but we were there, right?! Might as well get in line and see what happens!!! Well, we didn' t have to wait outside in the cold very long... once 6:00am came and the doors opened, the lines moved very quickly. But we aure didn't get what we wanted! By the time we got to the shelf where it was, they were sold out of them!!! So we pushed through the maze of people in there and headed out! It actually took us longer to get out of the parking lot than anything!! CJ went home and went back to bed, while I took off to work. I was still pleased with my Wal-Mart purchases, though! Note for next year: Plan ahead and leave the house earlier!!! :)
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