I wish I might
Get up out of my bed on my day OFF to queue up for a tv, computer, sheets or a blender? Are you kidding me? Don’t get me wrong now I know some folks need these items. Hell, I need a blender right now as I lost one in the divorce (a steamer/rice cooker too come to think of it) but getting up to get one for $10.00 or whatever it is in the dark and the cold (yeah 30 something is cold in GA) is not happening. I’m anti-Black Friday. I know it’s an American tradition, I know there are deals deals deals and all of that but I am not moved from my couch to go get in on the fun. I didn’t even know what Black Friday was until 2006. I knew that there were sales after Thanksgiving but I didn’t have a clue that there was a name for this day. Now that I do I am so over it.
Stop going for the okey doke
Back in the stone age when I was in college I studied marketing and advertising, the biggest okey doke of them all when it comes to consumer products. We create “needs” through marketing, notice the need in quotes. As a student of it nevertheless I became a victim of it as well and hated myself for it quite frankly. I had a lot of “needs” created for me that frankly I couldn’t afford but had to have and guess what I paid a bitter price for it. There’s no need to pay at all. If you are looking at an ad on television for a television and you have three already, guess what you don’t need it. Are you replacing the one you’re looking at or another? Why? Is it broken or does it not show hi-def 1080p or whatever they call the stuff and that’s why you want another one? Will the new fancy tv really add to your viewing experience? Maybe it does but will the cost of it in dollars, in travel, in sweat equity, in rearranging your home, in getting rid of something add to your life experience? Think about it.
