Black Friday
I did go out shopping on Black Friday, but only thrift stores. I don't get the rabid frenzy of it all, especially the weirdos with the matching team t-shirts saying "Shop 'til you drop." I certainly don't think it's worth trampling a man to death. I don't know if there were any fatalities this year. Thrift stores definitely aren't places where "
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We have them, but they really don't generate the rabid hysteria like the thanksgiving weekend.T-giving weekend is usually a 4 day weekend for most people giving them plenty of time to shop. By X-mas people are too broke to buy anything, except with gift cards.
"I am jealous of the cat gym. There is just nowhere here you could get that"
The cats are really enjoying it too. They are playing "king of the carpeted cylinder" right now:
It simply baffles me that people discard such high quality perfectly good items, how much of their lives they invest in an object only to discard it after marginal use. It's like discarding life energy and finding it in the street.
I'm finding it's not how much money you make, but how well you spend it that really matters. I guess that's why so many lottery winners fall victim to the lottery curse where ultimately winning the lottery leads to their financial and personal demise. Me, I stick with small silent victories. They are the ones that ultimately win @ life IMO.
jv
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