You buying anything in the black Friday sales
I'm getting a mattress and Christmas presents for my nephews.
shareNo. I wouldn't go anywhere near those stores on the day after Thanksgiving (the proper term). The holidays are not about pushing, shoving and trampling one another over some shoddy imported junk merchandise.
These After-Thanksgiving Sales (also the proper term) have been turned into one of the biggest con games ever conceived. Retailers mark up the prices, then stick a "40% off" tag on the items and hype it up as the greatest, must-attend, once-in-a-lifetime sales event of the year.
Stores conduct sales all throughout the year, with much better savings than this bogus event. Keep an eye out for these. If you see an item at a Memorial Day Sale that you know someone would like as a gift, purchase it then and store it away until December. You can have the majority of your shopping finished before Halloween, and save a lot more money.
There is no reason to ruin the Thanksgiving weekend.
Day After Thanksgiving or Black Friday - both mean the same thing. Not a big deal, IMO.
shareThere is a big difference in meaning. The proper term acknowledges Thanksgiving Day as the reason for the long weekend. A day to be grateful and to take a break.
The bogus term is the invention of the greedy giant retailers who see it as nothing but another money-making opportunity. The emphasis is on consumerism, commercialism and materialism, not on being thankful.
LOL
shareI fail to see what is so funny about this.
shareIt's funny because you're getting all upset over nothing. You can call the Friday after Thanksgiving anything you want but getting mad because others don't see it your way is just silly. Thanksgiving is just one day not a four day weekend.
shareI'm fairly certain this SaveTheSeason guy is just a troll, and/or a sock of another user here.
I mean, who creates a sole MovieChat account just to spew vitriol at trivial seasonal traditions. He's started posts as far back as 4 years and they're all just this same shit.
https://moviechat.org/general/General-Discussion/5dd95eedfa3d301332d54360/Enough-of-this-Black-Friday-rubbish
There are "seasonal traditions" and then there are contrived events; in this case it's a contrived event that emphasizes materialism rather than a holiday dedicated to giving thanks.
Anyone who believes they are getting a "good deal" and willingly participate in the madness and mayhem have been brainwashed by the advertising industry and media. Holidays are a time to take a break, not a time to sit in traffic and get into fistfights over parking spaces, or to shove and trample one another over some perceived "bargain."
Turkey dinners, parades and football games are Thanksgiving traditions. Commercialism is not.
Yeah, I really have no interest in debating this stuff on a movie forum.
share"Thanksgiving" means "giving thanks" not "buying stuff."
We've been hearing about this "Black Friday" garbage since October. It gets more mention than Thanksgiving, and it's sickening. The retailers, advertising industry and media are trying to shift the emphasis away from being grateful to wanting more, more, more. It's all about money and greed, and mainly about filling the pockets of the elite one percent at the expense of others.