Bagging a Black Friday bargain

It was all purple kettles and huge food mixers/nespresso type things when I looked in the early hours.

However a few days ago I bought a lovely wool coat, In Wear, for £9. 95 from a charity shop.

And that is true pheonix. I dont think you know for sure with a lot of items, whether they will be eventually reduced or not.

I will however, have a look on the internet a bit to compare prices, but that is my normal limit.

Over the summer I waited months for a jacket to be reduced in price. And many clicks on sites.
The hassle was not worth the £ 30 or £50 I saved.

So no, Black Friday will not be seeing me.

I dont buy that many big ticket items in a year.
When I do, I am not generally prepared to wait and wait. I want to enjoy the moment then and there.

Just checked in case they had reduced my fridge freezer (I've already paid for it) and luckily they haven't, if you see what I mean?

Sleeping in cars even !!!

Utter madness,my local asda has barriers,security guards and people sleeping in cats overnight,and its only a small local branch !!!

I am not prepared to demean myself by becoming a Black Friday Lemming.

I did wake up in the early hours (as usual) and I've just finished looking at a few black Friday websites, particularly John Lewis.

Mainly electricals and the kind of things I wouldn't want anyway.

I've grabbed a few bargains recently, mostly thanks to the lovely Martin Lewis' MSE site. Vax have an annual sale that I've been waiting for, so in the last month I bought myself a top of the range Vax carpet washer for less than £150 and my daughter bought me a £100 steam mop, plus extra cloths and detergent all for under £50 in the same sale. Both had 'damaged' boxes supposedly and that's why they were so cheap.
My mother would walk a mile to save sixpence and I'm the same; I just don't understand why people will pay full price for things automatically when, with just a little bit of research and sometimes a lot of patience, the same items can be bought for a fraction of the price. I had a list earlier in the year of what I wanted to buy online for Christmas gifts and some 'back up' items in case the ones I wanted couldn't be got in the sale and I've managed to get everything I hoped for all at reduced prices. I won't go into debt, so I try to spread the cost as much as possible and I try to buy things when they're on sale or I use a discount code. There are a few things that I accept I will have to pay the full price for, but not many.

soutra

If I wake in the early hours as usual I shall go online to see what bargains are about.

I am all done. Did it all on line last week.

Not at all. I get too stressed by xmas shopping as it is. It stresses me more and more as each year passes.

I bagged a grey Thursday one today in JL- I have had my eye on a grey jacket by East for the last few weeks and today they had knocked 30% off the price(£110) so Santa came early and I got it for £77!!