someone please explain how this is stupid..

I'm waiting for Nubian Tuesday as the logical follow-up to Black Friday.

FirstNationalBastard: Tuesday

Tuesday means one thing and one thing only: Tacos.

I like the idea of Small Business Saturday, but you're still going to be faced with the same toy sold at Big Box Inc on Friday for $10 with the discounts but at the small family run toy store for $20 with small discounts, if they have it at all.

I'm only hitting up a small business that is having a minor Black Friday deal. They have an electronics kit I want to get my 7 year old. He discovered he can build his own radio.

My 5 year old told me he wants to learn to program computers. I downloaded Logo last night for him.

Once they've mastered that, I think maybe a Lego Mindstorm kit is in the future.

CornDog in 2012: [www.peacebuttons.info image 308x217]

Black Friday in 1850

But were there any BOGO sales?

It's an American Express promotion, isn't it?

http://smallbusinesssaturday.com/

/brought to you by Carl's Jr.

I'm starting "Stay Home and Make Your Own Damn Gift Sunday"

TheOriginalEd: but Cyber Monday has been around way longer than Small Business Saturday?

(Theyre all still stupid)

Cyber Monday is a myth, sort of like the "many billions lost in productivity due to March Madness" crap they spew out in the spring.

//Someone should write a book about this crap.

balthan: What about Suck My Dick Sunday?

Fine, but then we have to have Fondle my Balls Wednesday.

Carth: leftteffticle: someone please explain how this is stupid..

People don't buy things on Friday or Monday out of the goodness of their hearts, they do it because they think they're getting a great deal. Small businesses have never really competed on price.

oooh, k. kinda a stretch but i see what you're saying.

honestly, if it encourages people to go shop at the little craft store down the street or the farmers market or whatever... i'm ok with it, even if it is media fueled.

Small business owners are the glue that holds this country together. They are the job creators. The Real Americans. They should be held in an esteem normally reserved for military heroes and life-saving first responders...

...but if you make a concerted effort to "shop local" and patronize these small businesses, you're a smug elitist hippie who thinks he's better than everyone else.

envirovore: I think "Two dollar Jameson" wins for Tuesday.

Hmm... I like the way you think. You've got a real future at this company.

sigdiamond2000: Small business owners are the glue that holds this country together. They are the job creators. The Real Americans. They should be held in an esteem normally reserved for military heroes and life-saving first responders...

...but if you make a concerted effort to "shop local" and patronize these small businesses, you're a smug elitist hippie who thinks he's better than everyone else.

so very much this.

LaraAmber: /End up shopping for his family in addition to mine.
//Men have it easy.

Oh god yes they do. I have to buy for my mom,sister,him,his brother and his fiance,two of his friends and some of our neighbors that we're close friends with. He just has to get something for me since anything I buy for my mom will be from me and him.

/Ahahha only his brother,him,my sister and a few neighbors left.

balthan: What about Suck My Dick Sunday?

Approves...

sigdiamond2000: ...but if you make a concerted effort to "shop local" and patronize these small businesses, you're a smug elitist hippie who thinks he's better than everyone else

I'm hardly a hippie, in no way smug... and I make a concerted effort to shop local. Of course, I don't preach about it, and I have no problem hitting Wal Mart for stuff from time to time.

I love having unique stores and restaurants in my community (New Orleans). Many of them run by good friends of mine.

To me, there's a value in having a Wal Mart near by, as well there's a value having unique shops within biking distance to my house.