Jen08 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I was just looking and so far it looks like Old Navy is going to be the first place I hit. This could change as more ads come out, but for now its Old Navy. They open at 3am, which means I'll need to leave my house by 1:30 to be able to get there by 2:30 and get a kinda decent place in line. Anyway, if I do this then I'll only get about 3 hours of sleep before I have to get up at 1am to get ready for BF. I'm seriously thinking about not even going to sleep but I'm afraid that I'll be dead tired by 10am on BF morning. I'll wake up on Thanksgiving morning at 7 to get the paper and then I won't go back to bed that night until 10. I doubt I get a chance to take a nap on Thanksgiving with all that we have going on that day. My question is has anyone else shopped on BF and went 24 hours without sleep and able to handle all that there is on BF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpr Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 My question is has anyone else shopped on BF and went 24 hours without sleep and able to handle all that there is on BF?You're kidding, right? We don't sleep until we get home, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjimslade Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Sleep is over rated like turkey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcwalker Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Lots of people are awake IN LINE all night. Two of the three years I have done BF, I got a few hours sleep then went out. Two years ago my brother flew into town (NYC from Texas), we didn't sleep, and headed out with my nephew around 2 AM to wait in the cold. (My brother says, "Never again.") You probably won't have any problem through friday morning and early afternoon, as the excitement will keep you going, but you may feel need for a nap around 3PM Friday. Be carefull driving Friday afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcwalker Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Sleep is over rated like turkey!Hey BigJim, don't mess with my turkey! ... (Sleep I can do without.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starbeck96 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I usually sleep maybe 2 hours, but this year my friend and her kids (they are around the same ages as my kids) are coming to stay Thanksgiving night w/us so my husband can babysit. So, I very seriously doubt that there will be any sleep this year. I am going Thanksgiving day to get all of the papers (we don't have anything but a Walmart here) so we can pricematch when we go out of town. Then we are going to stay up planning our route. I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL BF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpr Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I'll sleep on the plane if I make it home in time, lol. Heck, they keep posting the BF ads on this site and I won't be able to sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatandJacks Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 No sleep here. It's easier to pull an all nighter I think. It's worth it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elena_398 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I haven't slept the night before BF in over 10 years. It's a dreaded night but also exciting. I pass out when the shopping is done I'm the kind of person where it's worse if I do get sleep then go out. I would rather not sleep then get only a few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wittenlover Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 The first stores I hit open at 4, so I try to hit the sack by 10 Thanksgiving night and get a few hours in... I'm up at 2:30 and out the door by 3, being only 10 minutes from my first stop. I usually have my route planned (thanks to this site!!!) several days before Thanksgiving, so I just go through the ads really quickly to make sure they didn't change anything from the postings here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dad2trips Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I assume you mean the night before BF... Last year we slept from 9 PM to about 11 PM in the tent. Pretty broken sleep though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreaInNC Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 um .. I am normally at the outlet mall for midnight madness. Rumor has it that the outlet mall I go to will actually be opening at 9pm on Thanksgiving night - well the Yankee Candle outlet will be - I don't know about the other stores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgiapeach717 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 i go to bed very early (like 9ish) and sleep for 3.5 hours :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
queenofshopping Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I don't think I've ever slept that night...but then my normal schedule has me going to sleep in the wee hours of the morning anyway, so it's no big sacrifice for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffkin79 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 My week looks like this: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - make t-day menu, shop for grub, clean like a fool, prepare food Thursday morning - Put bird in oven, leave to pick up paper (perhaps at Kmart?) Thursday (after Kmart) - cook dinner, enjoy with family. Tuck kids into bed. When all calms down look over ads and plan (finalize) my attack (um, I mean shopping trip!) Thursday 11pm-store opening is a daze of half-hearted attempts at sleep mixed with waiting for the multiple different times that things are available for purchase online. Friday - shopping till around 10 or 12. Nap. Put up Christmas tree and watch the first holiday movies of the season with my kiddos. Saturday - catch up on a week's worth of sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areno79 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I used to sleep the night before, but as the years have gone by I've gotten less and less. The past two years I've just stayed up. I'm going to *try* to get some sleep this year...but I say that every year :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
braylan1 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Well if the rumor about TRU is true about opening @ 12 NO, I do not see sleeping in my near future. I'm always out the door at 2:30 a.m. to be at JCP by 4. You can sleep when you die!! I'd rather shop! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scjets Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 I usually get around 3hrs of sleep. If Toys R Us opens at midnight, I will stay up. I will sleep Friday afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikesgirl Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 If Toys R Us opens at midnight then I wont be sleeping at all since I be running to Old Navy afterwards... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dealluvr Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 i do all nighter too i get up early get the turkey in go to kmart and pick up last minute stuff at the store come home make a couple things and sit i might lay down and take a short nap i just take the whole day very slow and bytime its time to go i treat myself to a coffee and donut . i dont have kids at home that need me so whe i come home usually around 10 i juast relax or go to sleep for a bit then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmck Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Some years I have slept but not usually and probably not this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Star Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Thursday - Wake up around 3ish go to Meijer and then to Kmart for their Turkey Day Sales, come home help mom with fixing the food, take a nap sometime before the rest of the family gets here, then up til around 10 or 11, if i do get to sleep(my nerves usually don't let me) it's not good sleep and not for long. Wake up Friday morning around 3 again and head to our first store whichever one that ends up being, usually get a nap in sometime during the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allshoppedout Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Some years I have slept from 1-3 hours, but not typically......and most likely no sleep this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawnelise0004 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Last year was the hardest on me so far. I was up at 4 or 5 am on Thanksgiving morning and didn't got to sleep till about 10 pm BF night. So that's like 40 something hours straight I guess (math is not my strong point unless it's calculating percentages off...HAHA). I don't think I've ever slept Thanksgiving Day night in all the years I've done BF. I find it wayyyy harder to get up and get motivated after a couple hours sleep than to just stay awake the whole time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawnelise0004 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 um .. I am normally at the outlet mall for midnight madness. Rumor has it that the outlet mall I go to will actually be opening at 9pm on Thanksgiving night - well the Yankee Candle outlet will be - I don't know about the other stores.Concord Mills? This is one of those things I really want answered but for my own well being maybe I don't want it answered...LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gisellerol Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 nope..never but I can tell you the very next day I feel like crap..lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lennon2004 Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Yes. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sailorsakura89 Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Yes. I usually go to sleep right after i get home from grandma's house which is about 10pm or so, then I wake up at about 3 am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixiedust0208 Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 My sisters. neice and i meet halfway for us and get a motel for the weekend. I never sleep. I am too excited. (this year i am going to try. Maybe take some benadryl. lol). Last year we went to the movies in the mall when we got out of there the disney store opened at midnight. went back to motel and tried to get a couple hours sleep. Didn't work for me though. If toys r us opens at midnight i see no sleep this year either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stacya Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Last year was my first night out at midnight...usually just get up at 3:30 and go...much better doing it that way...I didn't go to too many places last year at midnight (just a couple of stores in the outlets here), and then I had to be at Kohl's for their 4 am opening...I got there at 2:30, after killing all kinds of time, and waited outside from about 2:45 on...I think if I'd been shopping continuously, I'd have been OK, but by the time 6 rolled around, I was exhausted...but then again, I was also about eight weeks pregnant, so that had something to do with it, I'm sure! Haven't decided if I'll do midnight again this year or not...depends on what else is in ads...if there is nothing I need until K-mart opens at 6 (I think that's when they open anyway), then I may skip the midnight thing and get some sleep, because this BF, I have a 5 month old!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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