Most days are "buy nothing" days for me. I make my lunch. I don't buy gas except maybe once a month. I don't shop for clothes except like once a year, maybe twice. So making Black Friday into a solidarity against shopping day is easy. Except that today I needed something from the local hardware/home improvement giant, and it was something that couldn't wait until tomorrow (unless I wanted to be a complete lazy fucker). So I decided to head out and pick up a couple of paint rollers and the $20 electric heater I've been meaning to get for my mini greenhouse now that the weather was starting to get below freezing. Given the whole Black Friday thing, and that the home improvement store shares a parking lot with a Michaels and a Pier 1, I was afraid that my simple errand would turn into a drawn out battle for parking followed by endless line waiting. What was good for me if a bad signal for the economy was that I could park right up front, and I got in and out in less than five minutes. Leaving plenty of time left for actual painting. Dammit.
Posted by binky at November 28, 2008 04:17 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Economics