That's one angry shower.

I would argue to say black Friday is dead. The deals were definitely not that great this year and there is no time crunch anymore since it's like a whole weekend or week and nobody has money to do that anymore.

If I didn't need to buy cough syrup, I wouldn't have spent a cent today.

Took a walk, sat on a bench, played decade old games, decorated the tree, and ate leftovers.

I used the day to decorate my reusable tree with sentimental ornaments I've been collecting my whole life. My kid did about half the work, holiday music was played for ambiance.

hands off my 40" Sorny

In Germany there's a "previous price" button and they're not allowed to first raise the prices. I just got a sweater I'd been ogling for months for less than half price.

Relevant comment I left on a similar post:

It's even worse in Australia. A long while back we had a really bad bushfire that resulted in something like 70 people dying called black Friday. More recently we had a bushfire that resulted in over 150 people dying and 400 injured called black Saturday

It's honestly insulting to see these corporations come in and have these black Friday sales, showing that they don't care or respect for the history of Australia or its people, all while they flaunt the masquerade of "It's for you!!!"

Yeah I just... Don't need that much stuff. Most of my money goes to food and shelter.

Black friday used to actually be good. but like everything good, corporate greed ruined it.

It became a week long event, then a month long event, then companies figured out if they slightly hurt sales in late october/november by doubling prices, they could massively increase sales for black friday, and make those sales at near normal retail pricing too thanks to JCPennying.

I still shop black friday when I can. not to buy into marketing hype, or to buy something for its normal price and think I got an amazing deal, but because I hope to find something i actually need in a discount price I can actually afford. . . Which is getting rarer and rarer with each passing year.

Black Friday be like:

Item is $300

Day before black Friday

item is $300 with a "$399" with a slash through it beside it.

I've found the removed about prices going up to present bigger discounts to be mostly not true unless you are just mindlessly buying small cheap shit.

I've definitely saved some money shopping today.

Hey, today's Buy Nothing Day!

Black Friday is beyond bizarre.

This women I work with gets up at 430 to get in line for the sales.

Great way to ruin thanksgiving.

I'm sorry you're being held at gunpoint to make shitty purchases. I tend to just ignore it, and I've survived so far.

I'm sorry you only buy stupid crap on black friday. I stock on on useful shit I used throughout the year and wait to make large purchases so I can save $100s. I've saved like $5000 over the past 5 years with black friday deals on stuff I was going to buy/need anyway.

Like many other commenters here, I spent the day not shopping, not watching TV (I don't even own one and haven't even heard of your favorite streaming services), not listening to any popular music or even the A sides of albums by some bands you've never heard of, eating only whole foods that didn't show any form of suffering during their demise when harvested from the community garden, identifying 2026 candidates to align with (whom I shall never name here lest someone bring up an imperfect act they once failed to adequately denounce), and telling loose acquaintances that I am an ally for their non-traditional romantic entanglements.

Was it Black Friday?

I'm buying all my Christmas gifts this month, and all the stuff I had earmarked I found on good deals in various sales. I therefore have more money to spend on things I need than I would have otherwise.

Got ‘em