Black Friday
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Why "Black" Friday? Purple? Red? White?
Why "Black" for a day of exuberant shopping, for Christmas no less? If you are shopping you're living the American Dream. George Carlin said (paraphrasing) Americans do two things best, eat and shop, that we's eat fried raccoon's ass if it was sold.
Malls are creepy.
Why "Black" for a day of exuberant shopping, for Christmas no less? If you are shopping you're living the American Dream. George Carlin said (paraphrasing) Americans do two things best, eat and shop, that we's eat fried raccoon's ass if it was sold.
Malls are creepy.
Not from where I grew up. Used to be older folks two generations back that would jar and bury their money. Even growing up, you could hear pennies screaming in my house because they were being pinched so hard.
My dad's family was from Appalachia but they left for Chicago when he was about ten, He only went back once with my mom decades later but still found someone there that he had known. The closest I've ever been to people who live in the mountains was around Highlands NC, asking a guy with a denim shirt with flower crochet if I could cross his pasture. I took his words, unintelligible to me, for a "yes." He probably didn't understand me either.
I remember many a winter with either rabbit, coon, possum, or beaver in the stew pot. Strange to the younger crowd, but many a satisfied belly to us as kids.
Hahaha. That reminded me of whenever I went, "look, dad! It's 50% savings!", my father would reply, "and if I don't buy it it's 100% savings". Many times he'd oblige, but not without first saying it.
With very few notable exceptions, Black Friday consists of a few bait offers designed to get people in a frenzy and compulsively buy things they probably would've gotten cheaper any other time of the year. I much prefer the IPSD offers, the end of summer sales, Cyber Monday, etc. That said, the BOGO sale at P&C is nice. Sure, there are a million blends I wish were included, but the R.O. Series are a fantastic bunch, which one doesn't see discussed often.
I went with the 25% off at tobaccopipes.com ... With their high prices, after the discount is figured, the final price is just a little lower than Smoking Pipes normal price. So that makes them about even with each other on BF prices.
I thought that Peretti might do something based on last year, but reading the old thread led me to realize that they didn't discount their own tobacco, which is what I wanted to get.
Its not just Black Friday now, most companies,well here in the UK say Black Friday finishes next Tuesday, my inbox is full of unbeatable deals when in reality its probably old stock they have been waiting to get rid of.I'm with sablebrush, wanna save money, don't spend it.
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