Archive through November 23, 2001
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Archive through November 23, 2001
Ocean_Islands | Saturday, November 17, 2001 - 03:16 pm   What are you going to buy next? How much is it going to cost? We tend to get all wrapped up in only thinking about what we might buy next. Break out of this destructive pattern -- buy nothing for one day. Buy Nothing Day |
Wink | Saturday, November 17, 2001 - 03:52 pm   I wish they had T-shirts. I'd buy one. |
Angelnikki | Saturday, November 17, 2001 - 07:39 pm   what are you talking about Ocean?? what is buy nothing day?? |
Maire | Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 12:19 am   About 25 days out of a month I buy nothing, so that's really nothing new for me to do, or rather, not to do. |
Cutiepie007 | Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 01:03 am   angel - the friday after thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day of the year, and all the sales are great. i like what ocean said. lol the president wants us to keep spending our money. easy for him to say, he has a lot. lol as for me, i will not be in the stores on the 23rd. i've already spent so much money this week, my husband won't let me near a mall. but i am still trying to figure out how spending money is helping the war effort. if anyone knows, can you please tell me? the only thing i can see is that it is keeping people employed, which is always a good thing, but it's making me poor. |
Sandyc | Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 10:49 am   I'm with Maire... Christmas shopping.. What's that? Mosttimes I can't even afford groceries. |
Max | Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 08:06 pm   I confess to being tempted to shop on the 23rd. It's tempting because my $ could go a long way towards buying toys for the kids we are sponsoring at the local children's hospital. I'm quickly cured, though, when I think of the mobs of parents flocking to the toy stores and fighting over the newest, hottest toy of the season, then getting angry and impatient with clerks they think are too slow and parking lots that are too full. No, I'll stay home and start putting up Christmas decorations. I might shop online, though! |
Whoami | Sunday, November 18, 2001 - 08:23 pm   The day after Thanksgiving is the day I stay holed up in the house. NO WAY am I gonna get out in that madness and fight the crowds! On a funny note, one year I was Christmas shopping at a mall. I had no car, so had to do all my traveling by bus. As I left the mall, and headed across the parking lot (the bus stop was at the edge of the parking lot) I found myself being followed by a driver who had apparently been looking for a parking spot. I can just see him telling his companion, "hey, there's someone leaving the mall, let's follow her to her car and get her parking spot when she leaves." Having the somewhat "evil" sense of humor I do, I strolled casually down the rows of parked cars, and on over to the bus stop, pretending I never saw that car following me! After I passed all the parked cars, he hit the gas, and looped into the next row of cars to pursue his quest.... |
Cutiepie007 | Monday, November 19, 2001 - 02:07 am   max: i have done a lot of shopping online and i love it. the store sites are secure so you don't have to worry. i think you get a better price, but probably make up for the difference in the shipping charges. but what you don't have is the stress of driving to a mall or a store, dealing with all the other people there looking for bargains, trying to find a salesperson (which is next to impossible these days), and even finding a cash register so you can pay for what you bought. lol lol i don't buy clothes, shoes or underwear online because those are things i have to try on, but you can certainly find all sorts of gifts for xmas and there is no stress. it usually takes about a week to be delivered. try it. i think you will like it. good luck!!! my online purchases have been a new printer for my computer, many vcrs and now dvds and also books. i did go to the bed, bath and beyond site for linens, but for some reason, it didn't take, so i will have to go back. i also get cigarettes online (yes, i know they are bad for me) as the prices are way cheaper than they are here in california. i've never had a problem with any purchase and no one has ever gotten my credit card number. |
Gail | Monday, November 19, 2001 - 05:12 am   I already did almost all of my shopping - mostly online via ebay and also via friends at work who went to Korea and England. This year for my 3 brothers, I was going for a nostagic theme. There were a lot of things I remember from when we were growing up and my brothers and I still talk about them. (Do you remember this . . ?)Certain music, comedians, etc - I have found LP's on Ebay that I am going to record to either CD or cassette. One of my brothers is a big Jonathan Winters fan (so am I) I found an album and a couple of books that Jonathan winters wrote along with a book of paintings he did and an old magazine ad of him as Maude Frickert that I am going to matt and frame. When I was 9, 2 of my brothers and I had corgi replicas of James Bonds Austin Martin that had machine guns, ejection seat, etc and I found them on Ebay. All of us loved the Green Hornet but for one brother, I found a deck of Green Hornet playing cards, a newly released Corgi of the Black Beauty car, etc. Following up on all that (there was a lot more but don't want to get boring) I made up a cook book 2 years ago of all kinds of recipes we had when we were growing up - mostly things my mom made that we all love - apple dumplings, chocolate sauce, spaghetti, corn fritters, etc. Through the years I have found (or made up) a few more recipes from friends, and family, etc. I made up cookbooks and gave them to all my friends but none of my brothers or their wives had given me recipes so I was holding off giving them cookbooks. (I want the cookbook to have each family's special recipes too) Anyways, I now have a few of their recipes and what I am going to do is add old family photos to the recipe pages - (I am also working on doing a family photo slide show but that will be for next year I am afraid. ) I am hoping to be done with the cookbook this weekend and I am going to try to go to the post office next Monday to mail off most of my packages and I will be DONE. As for shoppping this weekend/Friday - well, I won't be shopping but I did volunteer to wrap presents Saturday to help earn money for our squadron. |
Pcakes2 | Monday, November 19, 2001 - 06:18 am   As a small business owner, I cannot stress the importance of the Day after Thanksgiving to kick off the Xmas shopping season. My suggestion would be to avoid the monster shopping malls, and seek out Holiday Arts and Craft fairs. You can usually get much better deals, better customer service, and a better quality product. |
Wink | Monday, November 19, 2001 - 09:37 am   If you are going to shop the day after Thanksgiving and you live in a city on or near the Canadian border come to Canada to shop. Your dollar is almost double and Canadian Thanksgiving is long passed so you won't be faced with hordes of shoppers other than those smart Americans who decide to join you. |
Car54 | Monday, November 19, 2001 - 10:29 am   I am in the Boston suburbs, and I went to one of the bigger shopping areas this Saturday and it was absolutely insane- no parking, the crowds were enormous, the whole thing was just crazy. Made me want to do all my shopping on-line! |
Twiggyish | Monday, November 19, 2001 - 10:50 am   Gail, I love those ideas for nostalgia. I am a shop-a-holic! I love the hustle and bustle during the holidays. But, this year, I might do something different. Online shopping is good, except you don't get quite the same "feel". There is something about being in a store, and hearing those chirping birds, ringing bells and canned music. People are friendlier then, too. (except around the sale and bargain racks) |
Ocean_Islands | Monday, November 19, 2001 - 01:30 pm   Buy Nothing Day is an invention, once again, of those subversive Canadians! Buy Nothing! Revolt against rampant commercialism and corporate mind-wipes! Click here for more on Buy Nothing Day: Buy Nothing. Now! |
Littlebreeze | Monday, November 19, 2001 - 05:51 pm   For those who'd go into withdrawal if they didn't do battle at the malls on the traditional holiday shopping kickoff day on the 23rd, don't worry. The 24th is Buy Twice As Much Day. |
Max | Monday, November 19, 2001 - 07:57 pm   And let's not forget the frenzy that is shopping on December 26th! |
Twiggyish | Monday, November 19, 2001 - 08:45 pm   wooohooo Littlebreeze, I like your holiday. |
Ocean_Islands | Friday, November 23, 2001 - 08:42 am   ~ |
Spygirl | Friday, November 23, 2001 - 09:03 am   This was a quote from someone on that site: <<As a former retail employee, and a proud participant in a Buy Nothing Day event, I can state with unequivocal certainty that the "day after Thanksgiving" sales are actually the least valuable sales major stores have all year. If you really need to buy something, you can find your desired item usually in more than one store, on more than one day of the year>> Well, this person apparently didn't check out the K-mart and Walmart sales flyers -- when was the last time he/she saw a DVD player for $69.96? Or a 19" Color TV for $79.96? Or a VCR for $47.00? Or a digital camera for $29.95? Or Monopoly for $4.88? I bought PROUDLY today and was home before 9:00am. The rush was minor and well worth the less than three hours I spent dealing with it. I just added up the money I spent today versus the regular prices, and I saved over $250.00 on Buy Nothing Day. |
Wink | Friday, November 23, 2001 - 09:18 am   Well Spygirl you would have saved even more if you had stayed home!!!!! |
Max | Friday, November 23, 2001 - 11:25 am   I ordered a new computer today, but did it in my bathrobe (Dell GX240 P4 1.5GHz system). They have a holiday promotion going that saved me $150 on the system and provided free shipping. I don't do much holiday shopping. I buy things throughout the year and stash them away. I also make a lot of my gifts and buy stuff online (thank God for Amazon.com and Proflowers.com) for friends who live across country. Of course, it helps that it's just me (no spouse, no kids) and my family is small and doesn't do a lot for Christmas anymore. My biggest Christmas doings center around a toy drive at work and food/gift baskets we do at church for families sponsored by the local food bank. I love the holidays and will be decorating the house like crazy, but it's more about celebration in general than gifts. To those of you who have gift lists to fill, though, and are willing to brave the crowds, enjoy the sales! |
Tess | Friday, November 23, 2001 - 01:34 pm   I'm not buying anything today. My 5 year old daughter and I are baking Christmas cookies to exchange with our friends. We do this every year on the day after Thanksgiving and on Saturday we get together for lunch and exchange cookies. When we're done, we've had a great time baking, a wonderful time with our best friends and we have several dozen assorted Christmas cookies to take home. It is one of our very favorite traditions. This year is our 11th annual cookie exchange and nearly every year there is a new baby added to the crowd. The most fun part for the children is the decorating of the sugar cookies. It is an amazingly messy, hilarious, fun-filled afternoon and we wouldn't trade it for anything. What little shopping I have left will be done while my daughter is at pre-school. No huge crowds for this mom. |
Tess | Friday, November 23, 2001 - 01:40 pm   Oh and, Max---I shop throughout the year as well. I have those big rubbermaid tubs in the closet with gifts ready for birthdays and Christmas for a number of people. By this time of year, I don't feel any stress because there are just a few things left to do so I get to enjoy the feel of the season without the "panic attacks". In my MUCH younger years I used to do the Water Tower Place in Chicago with my sister on this day. Now that place is a zoo!! |
Karuuna | Friday, November 23, 2001 - 01:41 pm   I bought a new microwave. If you're wondering why, see the consumer complaint thread.  |
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