Top 10 Reasons to Avoid Shopping on Black Friday

I am not a Scrooge or anything, but it has been quite a while since I have ventured out on Black Friday to chase deals in the early morning hours. There is usually only a thing or two I am even remotely interested in, and it is not really worth it to me to try to get out there and get one before everyone else does and they are gone. I also do a lot more shopping on the internet, and usually find fairly comparative deals there anyway.

So with a touch of sarcasm, here are the top 10 reasons not to shop on Black Friday.

“Top Ten Reasons Not to Shop on Black Friday”

1.) You will save gas and the environment- you won’t burn up gas driving all over town if you don’t actually go shopping.

2.) You can sleep in- Some stores open at 4am, some at 5am, Toys R Us is even opening up at midnight! It’s probably already too late to be 1st in line there anyway, so you might as well sleep in.

3.) You won’t experience buyers remorse- If you don’t take advantage of the deals on Black Friday, you won’t have to worry about regretting your purchases next week.

4.) Won’t get sucked in by the limited quantities available- Come on, do you really believe that the $300 TV at Best Buy is in such demand they could only ship 3 to each store?

5.) Won’t have to wrestle over the last zhu zhu pet in the store- No one wants to get involved in a physical confrontation, but if that is what it takes to make your kids happy…..

6.) You won’t get suckered in to buying an extended warranty that costs as much or more than the item you are buying costs- Sure the extended warranty for the $300 netbook costs $249, but what if something happened to it?

7.) You won’t finish your Christmas shopping too early- Part of enjoying the Christmas season is the experience, and if you finish up the day after Thanksgiving, you won’t get to see all of the last minute shoppers scrambling on December 23rd or 24th trying to find something.

8.) You will avoid buying something you don’t really need- But that 32″ LCD is so cheap! How can I not buy it? Sure, I don’t have anywhere to actually put it, but still-it’s a great deal!

9.) You won’t have to look through 400 ad flyers in your Thanksgiving Day paper to find the very best deal- Seriously-the plastic bag my paper come in was ripped open this morning because the paper was so heavy- there are a lot of ads in there!

10.) Cyber Monday- Why waste your time in the “real world” on Friday when you can do all of your shopping 3 days later in the “virtual world” and get great deals off of the internet! Interaction with real people is way overrated.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!