 | Black Friday is a holiday event I usually avoid. And, despite one of my classmate's assertions, it does not have it's origins in “slavery”. Black Friday has always been that busy, jam packed sensation, that's never seemed worth the effort. Until, I became a cash strapped college student. I took the twins out the day after Thanksgiving. A day that consisted of Chex Mix and Gilmore Girls rerurns. I had a clutch to buy for my mother. I paid for most of it in spare change and in the words of the salesclerk “this would be annoying, if we didn't need it.” Shop local everyone. They appreciate your change. |
For myself I bought a pair of hexagonal white sunglasses that I mistakenly refer to as my octagonal sunglasses, because I failed geometry. I took the twins with me for moral support and to take aesthetic pictures and (quite brilliantly) on my part, for them to point out things they liked.
“I love this!” and “isn't this great?” were all comments that signaled “THIS IS WHAT I'M GETTING YOU FOR CHRISTMAS.” You don't need to be creative when purchasing gifts, just take your friends and family out and have them point out what they like. It takes a lot of the guess work out of it. And, if you do it on Black Friday you might get 40% off.
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