Black Friday

**nhcigarfan** · 11-20-2006, 11:23 AM

The Day after Thanksgiving. It is always a friday, because Thanksgiving is always on Thursday. Most, if not all, retail stores, malls, etc. have big sales on Friday because almost everyone has the day off and are with family and can go Christmas shopping.

(Does Canada do Thanksgiving?) I thought it was an American Holiday but I can see how this could be a spill-over event seeing when the land was "found" by whitey there wasn't a division between the US and Canada, or an US and Canada for that matter.

**drew_goring** · 11-20-2006, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by nhcigarfan

The Day after Thanksgiving. It is always a friday, because Thanksgiving is always on Thursday. Most, if not all, retail stores, malls, etc. have big sales on Friday because almost everyone has the day off and are with family and can go Christmas shopping.

(Does Canada do Thanksgiving?) I thought it was an American Holiday but I can see how this could be a spill-over event seeing when the land was "found" by whitey there wasn't a division between the US and Canada, or an US and Canada for that matter.

So then why is it called Black Friday?

Yes, we have thanksgiving in Canada, however we celebrate it in October.

**Shelby07** · 11-20-2006, 12:09 PM

Lots of retailers make their profits for the entire year at Xmas. It's when many retailers find themselves out of the red and into the black.

**WOXOF** · 11-20-2006, 12:28 PM

I always make sure I don't need to go to any stores on Black Friday. I made the mistake of going to Best Buy one year. They had some good deals and I was working Thursday night anyway. After work, I figured I would go stand in line with the rest of the waterheads and wait until it opened. Never again! Folks were hiding in bushes and waiting in cars for the doors to open. Once the doors opened, all the fucktards made a run for it totally ignoring the folks in line.

I don't think you would have that problem at a B&M. Hell, it would be a great way for us guys to get away while our crazy-ass wives went and did their thing at the malls. Dan, you may be on to something.

Originally Posted by kevin7

I will NOT buy Christmas presents on CREDIT and spend the next months paying off CC bills.

While most of my family can't comprehend this concept, my wife and I don't even use credit cards. We have one for emergencies(when traveling) with $0 balance. If we can't pay cash for it we don't need it.