Dh and I were talking to some friends who just moved here (Texas) from Michigan. I use to go shopping with the wife when I lived up there and we were telling the guys we use to stay out from 11 PM on Thursday until about 9 or 10 PM on Friday. They laughed and told us we exaggerated and NO ONE could shop that long! LOL! They haven't met people on this board then.

So how long do you normally stay out shopping on Black Friday?

Usually until I get everything on my list or I'm too pooped to go any further, whichever comes first. :D

Until my legs become mush and I just can't walk anymore -

usually from 1 or 2am until about 2 or 3pm. It really depends on what kind of help I can get with babysitting. If I have the kids with me I'm not out nearly as long. I just get what I HAVE to get and then go home.

We are usually out til about 8pm or so. We make a few rest stops at home to drop things our finds, pirk up or drop off shoppers etc. I can't wait!!!

I go out by 1am (if Walmart is my first stop) then home by 8am or so. I go by myself so Im in and out of stores quickly.

I think it all depends on what the stores have to offer that year. If there's alot more stores that I need to hit up, then I'll be out later and vice versa. I'd say that typically we're done in the early evening around 5pm or so. Sometimes earlier.

I usually don't want much, but I end up having to stay for at least several hours whether I want to or not for the sake of getting through the crowds.

Unless we plan on going to Best Buy, we are normally out of the house by 3 or 4 am, and usually make it home by 1 pm. Most years, we take a nap and then go out for more shopping (non-doorbuster items and items that don't sell out quickly). Normally, I don't get any sleep on Thanksgiving night, so if I don't get that nap in the afternoon on BF, you don't want to be around me :fryingpan.

I usually head out about 5:30 am and get home around 1pm

usually from about 3 am until 9pm. But we have to drive about an hour to another town after Walmart. Our town only has a Walmart, no other good stores. Then we go another town over if we don't find everything we are after. It makes for a looooong day, but we LOVE it! :)

If I'm not going to BB or CC to get big items, I leave around 3 or 4 a.m. I am out until I get all the items I set out to get or until I'm too tired to go anymore. Usually around 3 in the afternoon. I usually stop somewhere for a good "late" lunch and head home to crash, literally!

usually we leave by 3am at the latest and dont get back home till around 5ish...sometimes thats it for the day but sometimes we grab a quick meal and head to the stores closer to home to see what they have left and if there are any other good deals to be had

This year, as in years past, I don't have to work on BF so for me....its gonna be a long day!! I'll head out at 3 a.m. and probably not get home until 2-3 p.m. :-)

Last year was messed up - we were out at 3:00 am at Wal-Mart, then we headed over to Target right when they opened the doors (since Wal-Mart wouldn't match until Target opened). Well after Target my van started messing up, we stopped by Chick-Fil-A to redeem our free sandwich coupons given out that morning, and then my van conked out for good. My tranny went out on BF and I had to have it towed home. I was so bummed we didn't go out anymore that day. I did alright though at Wal-Mart and Target before that disaster.

This year if all goes well we will be out like in years past. Out early depending on which store and then we pick up my grandma later in the morning and shop some more with her. We don't get back until probably around dinner time.

Wow, you guys are hard core. I only THOUGHT I was a black friday shopper. I start at 3 am, but some years I have been back in my cozy bed by 7:30 am. Last year we went out of town to shop, so we had some travel time and we were still back by noon.

I love to shop black friday as much as the next guy, but my pocket book gets a bit empty well before your apparently. :D Even if I had the stamina (which I don't) there's no way I could afford to buy everything.

Which leads me to my next question, how much do you spend on Black Friday? I usually keep it well under $300. But then, I don't really rely much on Black Friday for my overall Christmas budget. Usually I've bought most of the Christmas presents well before that time at various sales - and just use black friday to finish my Christmas shopping up.

Black Friday is my core christmas shopping day. THat is the day that I usually buy almost all of my stuff. I do have to get other things before christmas but that is my MAIN shopping day. I put a HUGE DENT in getting presents for children and hubby -

I leave the house around 4am and I'm back by about 11:30am!

I leave my house around 11:30 pm now that the Premium Outlet here opens at midnight. I get zeros sleep. Then I meet up with othrs around 3:30ish am. Depending on when I have to be home for hubby to go to work, usually 2pmish. Altho this year he is with a diff company, so I'm hoping I wont have to be back until 4 :)

For me, it all depends on the items in the ads for how much I spend. It could vary immensely.

it depends on what i am looking for and who i am with. If i am with my MIL/SIL we are out of the house by 330-4am and not back until 3/4pm.

If i am alone, then i am usually gone by 430/5am and back home by 12/1pm.

i usually start around 2am (i have to work on turkey day from 7am til 7pm) and the kids and i shop until about 1 or 2 pm...that's when the money usually runs out!!:yup:

Last year we were at Walmart by 1am it was like a ghost town lol (a 24 hour super walmart) we went through the store getting our ad match items and literally just "hung out" waiting for people to show up. Employees started bringing out pallets around 3ish we asked what was on which pallet and they told us. When we had everything we needed we stood by the pallet we wanted and waited. The store started geting really busy around 5ish. When the plastic came off we grabbed what we needed and headed to the electronics register to check out. Took me less than 5 minutes in line. Then we were off to our next stop. We usually get home around 12ish, take a quick nap then we all go and pick out the Christmas tree. It is cut down and put up by that evening. Then I crash!!!!!

9-10am, sometimes I forget the real time. I'm always thinking its like 2-3pm when I get home.

Since the Tanger Outlets opened at midnight last year we headed out at 11:00pm. We got home around 3pm. I was very tired when I got home so this year I may need a nap after Thanksgiving dinner.

We get to BB around 7am on Thanksgiving, we nap on and off until about 11pm then that is it and we are up until about 11am Black Friday...home to drop stuff off and a 2 hour power nap then back out for non-doorbusters for a few hours then...:gdsleep3:

We are out the door at 3am since we go to a different town about 30 minutes from home. We usually are shopping until 3pm or so. I budget about $600 to spend. I have to save some energy for Sat too since we get up early and hit Joann Fabrics for the BIG fleece sale.

Ok...just talking about this is getting me excited and it's only August. :g_dance:

We leave about 4 am and will finish up around lunch time. A couple of times we didn't finish until late afternoon. It all depends on how much stuff we are getting and what stores we need to go to.

Last year I went to the outlet mall, so we headed out at 10pm Thursday, and my cousin and I didn't stop until about 3 or 4pm Friday!! It was crazy -- we both were about to fall over. The others dropped off much earlier than that - like before noon.

Not sure if I'll do the outlet mall again or not. If not I usually leave the house around 3-4am and back around 3-4pm --- ok putting it in writing makes me see how crazy it is!! lol!! :eyepoppin

It depends on what we are looking for. Normally leave our house at 5pm on Thursday and go over to a friends till about 10 pm then head out from there, and we are home about 2pm Friday.

I'll stay out a total of like 2 hours, maybe.

Till noonish. We eat and head on home!

It depends. Last year we were planning to hit up the outlets at midnight, and then go wait in line at Walmart and do the rest of our shopping. My boyfriend ended up having emergency back surgery at 10:00 p.m. the night before Thanksgiving so I didn't get to shop.

In past years I"ve left the house about 4:30 a.m. and gotten home about noon, and gone back out in the evening.

It varies. I like to be done by noon with everything on my list. There have been a few years where I've gone back out shopping in the afternoon - early evening.

Coming from Canada we always stop at the Cracker Barrel for Thanks giving Dinner on Thursday night and then head straight to bed at the hotel. We are up at 4:00 the next morning and go all day until 8 p.m. went we head to our favorite American resturant for pasta, bread and salad: The Olive Garden.

The next day we are up early again and shop until evening when we head across the boarded back home to wrap and stack our presents and compare with all the others who also shopped on Black Friday.

This is a yearly tradition for me and my friends - this is year 6 for us!

We usually head out to the stores around 3:00a.m. and get back home around 3:00p.m. I'm pooped after that, I don't see how some of you guys do it!

Normally we leave the house about 3:30 am and get home about 10 am.

My husband and I went to Best Buy, around 9:30, Thursday night and got our 32" Flatscreen, around 6:15 that following morning, and yes ,we had to go to work!!!!:cheesy: But it was WELL WORTH IT !!!!!

Usually home by early afternoon, we don't go until about 5:00 in the morning. We don't have a Best Buy, we go to Walmart first and we usually get everything we want.

usually all day!!...usually its that whole weekend depending on the sales...cuz sometimes stores have a saturday only sale and sometimes they are better than the friday...so its like bf all over again...lol...(and then u have sunday with all of next weeks goodies...lol)...but those first few hours Friday...LOADS OF SHOPPING!!!

Last year was the longest I have been out in a long time including travel time and waiting I would say close to 7 hours.

This year I don't plan to be out as long. Nothing major I want, that requires camping out, so I am hoping to be home by 7AM. (After leaving home at 4AM)

I like to get the items on my list and go. Hopefully if my mom and sister go with me again this year they will feel the same.

Til I drop ;) but normally I'm back home by lunch, when I eat then pass out. :yup:

I'm usually done by 11:00. And I think I will have to work this year. But only that afternoon.

As long as it takes!:yup:

Last year I was out of the house by about 3:30 am. I got home at about 10 am. This year since I'll be going with DH- we plan on shopping all morning. Getting some lunch. Going to a movie. Shopping some more and after all of that, heading off to look at furniture and new cars. So- I believe we'll be out until between 8 and 9 pm.(oh- and we plan on waking up at 2 and out the door by 2:30 am).

I am usually too excited to sleep the night before, so I stay up to do the online BF shopping (Kohl's, Best Buy, etc.) Then I'll go out and do any other shopping that I want to do. I am usually in bed by 10am.

I am at WalMart 11:30 p.m. - midnight the night before and never see home unless it is to unload something really big till 3:00-5:00 p.m. Then I crash about 8:00 P.M Friday night and don't get out of bed till noon on Saturday....LOL

we are usually in line about an hour before the stores open and we are usually done within 4 hours

Usually from about 2am till around 10am

Last year we were at BB at 9am on Thursday (2nd and 3rd in line so there was 1 person more nuts than us. He had arrived Wednesday night and slept in his van!). We're usually out until 2-3pm on BF. Then we pass out... :eyepoppin

We usually run out of steam around 11am. We have been known to drive to another local town with different stores, grab lunch and a break, and then start again through the early afternoon. Depends on the deals to be had!

Not as long as alot of y'all ;) . I'm usually done by 11AM, so about 7 hours in all.

As long as it takes! Usually mid afternoon.

My friends and I get the day started about 4am and uually get back home between 2pm and 4pm.

We are usually back in by 1 or 2.. After we do all of our shopping we get lunch and then go home.

I go as long as it takes:eyepoppin

as long as it takes but usually home by 2

Wow, and I thought we were out late last year! My husband and I did our first BF together last year AND hosted the whole family for Thanksgiving, so we got no sleep whatsoever. We were up at about three and home by ten. Slept for a while then went back out to browse some and see if we missed anything. At least we got 99% of our shopping done that morning! I love it, but I don't know if I'll be able to drag my hubby out again this year. :(

I leave my house about 3 Am and I get home late in the afternoon. I can not wait for this day!!!! :yup:

Leave for a midnight-opening around 10:45 pm and return home around 3 pm. :tired:

about 23 hours last black friday.....Ít´s very common to me stay all night in line....

I get up about 2am and come home when my feet hurt or run out of money but i save a little money for some coffee :gdmornincoffee:

For me, it's usual up at 4AM to get to Wal-Mart when they open. Then I hit all the other stores in my town (Target, Kohl's, Sears, etc) depending on what they have that is good. Then home for lunch and to watch the UT/ATM football game and take a nap. Then back out to another town closer to the big city (Houston) to hit the stores we don't have in my little city. Needless to say I am exahusted by that night!

It really depends on what I want to buy. If it is something really hot, like a computer, I'm out by midnight. I come home whenever I am done, usually by noon. Last year was awesome! I did most of my shopping online with Google checkout, and I was in and out of Target. Home within 20 minutes!

About 5-7 hours, but back by 10

i am usually out between 330-4am then home by noon

:slaphappy Can't Wait! 3 Girls dressed in our Black Friday tshirts & sweatshirts leave house by 3:00 a.m., meet up with another group of girls for lunch & margaritas. Leave there for a few more stops, usually home for around 4:00 or 5:00 p.m. Long Day! But a BLAST!

We usually start later than most. Usually i'm not looking for any of the big ticket items. So we can get out there around 7 and still get most stuff we want. We generally stay out till dinner. Then if we're up for it go out again after.

I start early in the morning of BF when all the BF specials run. After the 5am-12pm specials are over then I continue shopping til I drop, or run out of money, which ever comes 1st!! I am a SHOP-A-HOLIC :eyepoppin and not afraid to admit it!!!!

I usually leave here at 430 and am back when I am done. Dh is in charge of the house and kids so there is no rush.