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How long do you normally stay out on Black Friday?


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#31 joylarge  OFFLINE  

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Posted Sep 1, 2008 - 4:12 am

Last year we left at 2:00 Am and got back home around 9 that night. Depending on the sales we may leave earlier this year.

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Posted Sep 1, 2008 - 5:18 am

on/off all day. I start out about midnight on Turkey Day till about 1 or 2 on BF unload, rest and back out and about about 4 till about 7.
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Posted Sep 1, 2008 - 6:56 am

Our BF shopping is 95% shopping just for the boys. We are up and out by 4:30am.... shop until 11am, go to breakfast.... At breakfast we go over our lists and make sure we did miss anything..., them depending, we either go back to my parent's to get the boys or continue shopping a little longer. Since hubby has to work, this year is all messed up. So we already almost all of our xmas shopping for the boys done;). So I guess my mom and are going out instead, to "girl" shop...LOL

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Posted Sep 1, 2008 - 7:09 am

I'm usually in line at Circuit City between 2:30 and 3:00 AM (a friend trades off the 2:30 with me; the late arrival brings coffee). The past few years, I had to be back at my place around 8:00 am so I could get a nap and then drive back to Columbia for the USC/Clemson game (as I was in the band), but this year, I'll be watching it on the Big Screen TV, so I can stay out as long as I want on Friday. :D

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Posted Sep 5, 2008 - 7:45 pm

was in line at best buy at 6:40 pm thanksgiving evening was 38th in line, lol

#36 Yakyma  OFFLINE  

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Posted Sep 6, 2008 - 5:58 pm

I have been known to go to Walmart about 11:00pm on Thanksgiving evening and not get home till 9:00 or 10:00 pm Black Friday..., but on average out the door at 2:00am BF and home around 6:00pm. I usually grab a shower after unloading the car and crash and burn till very late Saturday morning. Then off and shopping some more at places I didn't hit the day before.

#37 rsb7706  OFFLINE  

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Posted Sep 7, 2008 - 9:17 am

we'll stay out until 11am or so then go to breakfast, maybe home for a nap then back out for the rest of the day. can't wait!!

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Posted Sep 10, 2008 - 11:32 pm

I usually head out at about 3:30am, and I'm done by 10am. However, the people in my network who go to Best Buy (yep...we have a network) are sometimes not out of there yet, so I'll hang out and hit some extra stores until they get back. After we make the exchange and settle up monetarily (they get my Best Buy stuff, I get their TRU/Meijer/Target/etc...), I still manage to get home before noon.

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Posted Sep 15, 2008 - 4:32 am

I stay out until 11 then home for dinner

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Posted Sep 15, 2008 - 5:16 am

I will start about 3 am and am usually home by 1 or so. I have to stop at BK for breakfast, that is the only break I will take!

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Posted Sep 15, 2008 - 8:06 am

Every year it's a little different depending on the sales and how well we do. Depending on store opening we are in line about 3am. Some years we get home in the afternoon, some years we stay out shopping for the night owl specials! Last year we were diappointed in alot of the sales so we didn't shop all day.

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Posted Sep 16, 2008 - 4:22 am

It depends on when we get done. I have been home at 11am and stayed lated in the afternoon.

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Posted Sep 16, 2008 - 8:36 am

My first round ends around 8am. Usually I sleep til 11 or so eat leftovers then head out again until late evening. I'm done for the day around dinner time (5-6), then we put up the tree. *ETA* my first round starts around 3am, this year my cousins 16 year old should be babysitting so we wont leave til 4am, I think.

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Posted Sep 18, 2008 - 1:10 pm

I usually leave around 4-5AM and get home around 10-11AM. This year however, since I can drive, I might check out a few more stores.

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Posted Sep 18, 2008 - 7:40 pm

I'm usually finished...and ready to eat.... by lunchtime.

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Posted Sep 23, 2008 - 9:46 am

I can leave home around 3:30 a.m., line up for Menard's and usually Target, zip into Sears, Walgreen's, etc., wait for a shopping bag/prize ticket at the largest, local mall - sit in the food court there (eventually they bring out the free OJ and some pastries for BF shoppers) and wait for the prize drawings (purses, gift certificates, last year a Wii, $500, etc.), then drive home (disappointedly-but I'll win one day!!) by 10:20 a.m. I don't think I am as gung-ho as some of the folks on this board!

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Posted Sep 23, 2008 - 8:23 pm

Usually leave home around 5:30/6 AM and come back home in the early afternoon. Before 3PM.

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Posted Sep 25, 2008 - 6:52 am

As long as I can keep my eyes open!

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Posted Sep 25, 2008 - 8:29 am

I am usually in line at 11:30 or midnight to get the things i REALLY "need" but I am almost done shopping for everyone now, so really this year is going to be a "shop for the thrill & for myself day" I think, since I am so close, and depending on the sales, I am going to be doing the "midnight madness" at the Aurora Premium outlets then head to whichever store I want to be at after that... Typically I am home with more stuff then I sent out to get by 11 with my pajama's back on, putting up the tree and watching the grinch!!!!

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Posted Sep 28, 2008 - 2:54 pm

All I can say is I'm normally finished up by the very latest 10 am. Time going out varies depending on if there are good enough buys to get there the night before. This year I will be going solo so it's going to be harder to decide where to go depending on what we need.

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Posted Sep 29, 2008 - 9:05 am

It depends on the sales, what we need to get and how much money we have. Some years we are done by lunch time and other years we do not finish until dinner time.

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Posted Sep 29, 2008 - 2:51 pm

leave around 3:30am and get back home around 10:30am. I have a preschoolers and they're up by 8:30 so I know daddy it itchin' for me to get home and I'm ready for them to nap when I walk in. So I can too!

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Posted Sep 29, 2008 - 4:15 pm

I'm out until either of the following happens... A) I turn blue B) I die C) The items run out D) Starbucks burns down (GOD FORBID!!!) E) Bestbuy burns down F) 4:00 PM. lol.
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#54 dancglady  OFFLINE  

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Posted Sep 29, 2008 - 5:59 pm

I leave my house around 3:30 or 4am and we are home around noon. We have leftovers on Black Friday so I have to be home to get all of that stuff ready

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Posted Sep 30, 2008 - 5:32 am

I go out about 3am and go home and get the wife about 9:30am and then we are out until about 6pm .

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Posted Sep 30, 2008 - 6:00 am

Last year we left the house at 4 and came back around 2. I don't know how some of you can stay out all day because I was dead tired come 2 o'clock. Not to mention that I hadn't bought much so I was not in the greatest of moods. We then went home and relaxed a bit and went out to a couple of local stores. Obviously at that time, there were not a lot of good deals left but we were just out to experience the holiday rush.

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Posted Sep 30, 2008 - 6:06 am

I'm usually done by lunch time and ready to eat then I'll go home and wrap what I got that morning and then may go back out that afternoon and then we put up the tree that night!

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Posted Sep 30, 2008 - 6:18 am

Usually, start between 1-2am, ending by 10am-1pm (thankfully). Really depends on the stores & so-called bargains. I am the only one that does the BF shopping, though frankly wish had some other ppl to "go around with".. Happy Shopping everyone!!!

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Posted Sep 30, 2008 - 7:17 am

I average about 6 hours.

#60 Bigbroad55  OFFLINE  

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Posted Sep 30, 2008 - 8:24 am

Out by 3:30 am back by 12 pm




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