Black Friday
OK, yes, it's a little early for this. But you know we love a sale, and there's actually some things we want to buy on Black Friday this year. So we've been going through the store ads as they get posted, and we're starting to plot.
The question for all of you is, does anyone else want to do the Black Friday thing? Our plan right now is to do Hagerstown, since that's close to us. I'm likely going to be in line overnight at Circuit City (or possibly Best Buy). But I'm thinking that if we've got some other folks who are doing similar things (or plotting daytime shopping trips), it might be worth organizing and all getting together in one area to do this.
Hagerstown is nice because all of the retail is in two main areas (with Best Buy, Circuit City, Home Depot, and Walmart all right next to each other), and those two areas are only about 4 miles apart along I-81. If we've got a group of people spread out at several stores, we can keep each other company, have someone floating between stores for potty breaks and food runs, and generally make it more pleasant. Plus it means faster runs between stores where needed (and less parking shuffle a lot of the time). And we can split up trips (I'll get X, Y, and Z for you at this store if you get A, B, and C at the other store and we'll sort out the money later).
We're planning on possibly renting a moving truck, since we're talking about getting a TV, possibly a washer/dryer pair (for the business), and several other things. We could easily all share a truck for pickups and split the cost. We can also have crash space at our house Thursday & Friday nights. Shared child care might be a possibility too (though we have daycare for Bella at 6:30am).
Poll Black Friday 2007
The question for all of you is, does anyone else want to do the Black Friday thing? Our plan right now is to do Hagerstown, since that's close to us. I'm likely going to be in line overnight at Circuit City (or possibly Best Buy). But I'm thinking that if we've got some other folks who are doing similar things (or plotting daytime shopping trips), it might be worth organizing and all getting together in one area to do this.
Hagerstown is nice because all of the retail is in two main areas (with Best Buy, Circuit City, Home Depot, and Walmart all right next to each other), and those two areas are only about 4 miles apart along I-81. If we've got a group of people spread out at several stores, we can keep each other company, have someone floating between stores for potty breaks and food runs, and generally make it more pleasant. Plus it means faster runs between stores where needed (and less parking shuffle a lot of the time). And we can split up trips (I'll get X, Y, and Z for you at this store if you get A, B, and C at the other store and we'll sort out the money later).
We're planning on possibly renting a moving truck, since we're talking about getting a TV, possibly a washer/dryer pair (for the business), and several other things. We could easily all share a truck for pickups and split the cost. We can also have crash space at our house Thursday & Friday nights. Shared child care might be a possibility too (though we have daycare for Bella at 6:30am).
Poll Black Friday 2007