And I walked.
Oh how I walked.
I know some people hate black friday but I think it’s fantastic. I don’t make the same mistake others do. I don’t consider Black Friday a shopping experience, it’s not. It’s WAR. In war people get shot, and there are senseless tragedies. Just like on Black Friday. I consider myself a peaceful villager on the outskirts of the battlefields of retail insanity.
What does this mean?
Instead of getting up at 2am to get to the stores and line up, I sleep. Mmmm love sleep. And I get to stores at 10am. By then the truly desperate people searching for specific deals have either scored or they have come to terms with the fact that they lost out. This leaves me room to walk around and pick up things I need on the cheap. Why? Because I am CHEAP.
I bought:
A USB hub. Allows me to plug 4 USB items into the same computer port. It was handy and it's FREE with mail in rebate. It doesn't get any better then free.
My personal favorite?
An 8gig memory card for my digital camera. $5 after mail in rebate.
Does it hurt me to think about how much money I spent on the 1gig memory card I had for my palm pilot (I think it was $50 at the time) or the 4gig memory card I had for my camera previously ($25). It drives me totally crazy. I’m pretty thrilled with the $5 price tag this time around though. Awesome.
And of course Christmas is coming up so I had to get a gift for dad:
An 8 gig portable drive from HP
My dad destroys mini drives. Sometimes it’s a virus, sometimes he drops them and steps on them. You name it he’s done it. So I’ve started to buy him stocking stuffer USB drives. This thing was $7. Perfect!
So no clothing trauma for me. As a fat chick I refuse to buy any more clothes in my current size so I’m waiting for 10 more pounds so I can go shopping. If I can lose them before the after Christmas sales I’ll be buying clothes for cheap too! And let me tell you that’s a heck of a motivator.
What’s your biggest holiday food challenge? And what’s your goal for overcoming it?
My biggest holiday challenge is not food. I like to bake, but I like to give it all away to various friends and family (I’m sure some of them list me as *their* biggest holiday challenge). My biggest challenge is that when the weather gets colder and with all the holiday “stuff” to do, I give up my daily run. It’s always, “Skipping today won’t hurt.” “I can make it up tomorrow.” I never do, but it’s easy to convince myself that I won’t.
I’ve skipped quite a few days since Thanksgiving. I’m doing the Saint Jude half marathon this weekend. I’ll probably suffer from my skipping!
LOL Amanda, at least you know you’re everyone else’s biggest challenge.
And I relate on the skipping workouts issue, but today I fit into a pair of cords I didn’t expect to be able to wear for at least two more weeks so I’m all kinds of happy!