Pluggers by Rick McKee for November 24, 2023

Ah consumerism. Ain’t it fabulous.

Hey, if they had all the sales on one day, you’d run out of money too fast. This way you can run up even bigger bills!

Heck, I remember when the day after Thanksgiving was just a Friday. When did it become Black Friday? Save that name for the 1929 Stock Market Crash, darn it! (—

Never did understand the Black Friday shopping thing …..

I remember when my kids were young getting up early so my daughter & I could drive 1 1/4 hours away to shop when they opened the doors at 7 Black Friday, got some great deals…all this before computers!

I’m SO over anything “Black Friday!” Next Friday will be “Black Friday 2.” Every sale is “Black Friday in July,” or whatever. The good sale prices are limited to a certain number, and the prices are just as low, if not lower, online.

I wonder what happened to “Jesus is the reason for the season”? Christmas has become so commercialized anymore as well as politically correct. It isn’t “Merry Christmas” anymore, it’s “Happy Holidays”. Come on, Christmas is Christmas, just like Hanukkah is Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa is Kwanzaa, etc.. They all celebrate special holiday/feast days; join or not but don’t alter them or belittle them.

One day and not a charade

Black Friday indeed. The day we go out and buy up everything , needed or not, and beat up everybody else to get to it first, after stuffing ourselves with everything edible and being verbally grateful for everything we have, the day before. For those that partake in live shopping today, best wishes for a safe return!

Indeed.

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Pluggers remember when Black Friday was the day when President Grant’s brother-in-law caused a Wall Street panic in an attempt to corner the gold market, ultimately damaging the Grant Administration’s reputation. Apparently it’s a sale now? And it goes on for several days? Who knew!

I never shop bricks and mortar on Black Friday…. Amazon on the way !

“Our holiday deals go on until February”? Great; then I don’t have to leave the house in search of them today!

I only worked the Christmas season in retail once in the pre-internet days. My experience was that Black Friday was a solid day of business but overhyped. The crazy really got underway in the days leading up to Christmas. We closed at 6:00 on Christmas Eve with a line for the cash registers extending to the rear of the store. We lowered the gate to the mall to prevent anybody else coming in and had to raise it as each customer paid.

That Plugger doesn’t partake in Cyber Monday.

You could have added, “…and so will the car commercials…”

Black Friday was never a good idea. And the public has stopped tearing the doors off looking for bargains in favor of waiting until the worst is over.

We don’t go out shopping on Black Friday. At some point between now and Christmas husband will buy himself whatever gift(s) he wants and give them to me to wrap and put under the tree on 12/24 night. That finished our holiday shopping. I don’t get any presents and we have stopped giving gifts to our nieces and nephews as they are grown- stopped giving to siblings/my mom long before that.

He will not spend hundreds of dollars on his gifts not even a hundred usually. I really don’t understand why people want so much “stuff”.