Thanksgiving Thursday VS Black Friday
I've never liked it. I think it's hypocritical to have a day of celebration of gratitude, to sit down and eat a meal with friends and family, to thank God for all He has provided only to follow it up by putting the dishes down and going to wait in line for the stores to have their Black Friday opening Thanksgiving Evening!
It used to be that the Black Friday sales could at least wait until it was actually Friday before returning us as a society to a covetous, greedy, selfish state. But oh no, my fashionable friends, now the madness has not only engulfed thanksgiving Thursday, but has surpassed it now offerering Black Friday deals on WEDNESDAY.
And some of us have gone further, camping out at the locations where these alleged deals are, totally foregoing the thanksgiving experience.
There is something very very wrong here. And I hate to say it, but it's our fault. If there was no demand, the stores wouldn't overhype us with their supply.
Megan McArdle' a writer at Bloomberg says "If we could all collectively agree not to open these stores on Thanksgiving, everyone would be better off: Retailers would be able to keep the store closed and save all that overtime, and customers would be able to eat their turkey in peace. But we can’t, and as a result, we’re all worse off."
She's right.
What it boils down to is us as consumers. Are we really going to sacrifice time with our families for a new t.v.? Are we going to substitute time around the table of good food and even better conversation for an ok-at-best deal on clothes?
It's just STUFF, guys. This time next year, it will be broken, or forgotten, or given away.
I ask you to consider it all. Me personally, I'm more excited about Small Business Saturday than any Black Friday. And of plan on sleeping in Friday. And that's how I really feel.
Now that I've got that out of the way. Happy Thanksgiving all! God bless.
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