by Joshua Minton
I love shopping the day after Thanksgiving and I did it again this year. To me, getting up at 4 AM to go shopping the day after Thanksgiving is about tradition, family and having a good time. My wife and I do purchase a significant portion of our Christmas presents on this day and Uncle Josh always gets his end wet as well.
This year, here was my loot:
From Best Buy:
- 100 DVD-Rs for $4.99Mission Impossible III on DVD for $7.99
- A 1GB SanDisc memory card for my son's Fisher Price camera we bought him this year
- Prison Break Season 1 for $19.99
- A 2GB Pro Duo memory stick for my Sony digital camera for $39.99 (this is 8x the size of the memory stick I previously had which has now become a backup)
Circuit City did not offer the same deal--they had rebates but lucky for me, nothing I got there had any. Here's my Circuit City loot bag:
- Halo 2 for the original XBOX for $16.99 (I haven't played a Halo game yet but everyone has told me that they were the shit for the original XBOX and they are backwards compatible with my 360 and supposedly feature a significant graphics upgrade to High Definition or near it)
- Red Dragon on DVD for $2.99
- The Untouchables on DVD for $4
- Memoirs of a Geisha on DVD for $5.99 (this one was for my wife)
And that was it for my Black Friday purchases. I know I'm getting older because while thumbing through the ads on Thanksgiving this year, I kept saying to myself, Don't need that--already have that--not interested in that. I used to have a list of shit I wanted thousands of dollars deep (far into the red, my friends--too far into the red!) But that list has dissipated into a been-there-done that.
All in all it was a great shopping trip which ended with a Tall Caramel Latte and an Asiago bagel from Panera Bread and some good stories to tell.
But beyond that, it inspired the idea for another How to Think about possession which I will be writing forthcoming.
I hope all your Thanksgivings were great and we'll talk to yous soon.
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I had this dream last night and I'm pissed off so here's the scenario. I'm in line to check out at Target and I've got my wife and kids with me. Everyone knows that Target has the best selection of Icee drinks (white cherry, c'mon...). Anyway, there is an Icee machine on top of one of those two door Coke cabinet coolers they put in every other line at target. I am next in line and I am parallel with the machine. As my wife moves forward with the cart, I decide that I really do want an Icee and I'm going to give in to temptation. So, I reach up (I'm a short guy so this is important), grab a small cup from the sleeve dispenser and start to fill up my Icee with a "Mint Lemonade" flavor mixture. 