First stop, Old Navy. We stood in line for at least 30 minutes to buy 2 pairs of jeans and a t-shirt. I was thinking that this was definitely not worth getting up at 4. Next stop, Target...we left after standing in line for about 2 minutes. The line was wrapped around the entire store and it wasn't worth standing there for a $17 scooter. Then we decided to go to Toys R Us even though we knew the Lego set would be long gone. Since we got there 6 hours after it opened, the crowds were gone. We immediately checked the Lego aisle and walked away disappointed. But then I went to check scooter prices and while over in the bike/scooter aisle, Eric spotted the Lego set on a shelf by the scooters. Someone must have tried to hide it to come back for it later. Eric was so excited. The only problem being that Eric was buying the set for Nathan but he really wanted it for himself. I figured he will get to help Nathan put it together (it's over 1,000 pieces.) But who knows, Nathan is getting really good at Legos. We found the scooter for $20 and I happily paid the extra $3 and didn't have to stand in line at Target. We also found a remote control helicopter for half price.
Next stop, Walmart. We looked around and enjoyed watching the crowd pick up nice, big televisions. I was a little sad to see so many people picking up big ticket items knowing that most of them were probably going into debt to buy them (I am really big on sticking to a budget lately and paying cash for everything...thanks Dave Ramsey!) The crowds was much worse than Target and so we left. We finished off our trip at Michaels and Sports Authority.
I was so happy that we found what we wanted at Toys R Us. I was glad that I didn't regret my decision to get up early today. But now I probably have 2 big kids that are going to want to go out every Black Friday.
1 comment:
glad you blog about black friday. Glad you got some good deals
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