What a fantastic holiday this was!..Last year, I was here for Thanksgiving, but I found the whole idea of getting up at an ungodly hour in the morning and running for deals and standing in a long queue a bit foolish. Also arnav was too small and it was too cold and windy so we were looking only for online deals.people were purchasing at so very fast rate that till we think and decide to buy it... its over....items were out of stock!
I don't know what brought about the transition, but We were quite excited to do major shopping this year. For all those who don't know, Thanksgiving is the biggest holiday in the US. We get 4 days holiday! The limelight of this holiday is the Black Friday Sales.Major shops all over US offer items at cheap, discounted prices. Most of the shops open at 6am Friday morning and offer early bird sale.Few open at 12 AM like macy's,Kohls.JC penny, Sears etc However, people who want to buy costly items such as laptops, stand in the line from Thursday evening or early night.Crazy na? But I think it's understandable. I mean, if I am getting a 800$ laptop for 500$ bucks, even I would stand in the line.The details of these deals are released on certain websites such as this and this. Your local newspaper sold on the previous day also contains details about all the deals.
We purchased the newspaper Thursday eve weighing around 3kgs from walgreens. I even took a snap of the width of the paper. We sorted out all needed deals and jotted down what we wanted to buy from where. While browsing on the bestbuy website, I came across a cool deal for a lenova laptop. We immediately bought it for the gift for mom and dad.
In walmart event 1 was going to open at 8PM.Nikhil was in shop from 6.PM only as we had heard when deal opens people immediately runs and grab it.If you will reach by 8 then everything is over.Also we wanted to purchase TV and deal was going to open by 10 PM but line started from 7PM only so nikhil again came home to pick me and arnav as it was impossible from him alone to run everywhere...Finally at 8 we got vaccum cleaner,slow cooker, Mini chopper,few rubbermaid utensils and big collage frame...
At 10.PM event 2 was open and finally we got 40 inch big LCD TV....that was most happiest moment for us...we also purchased 2 digital frames,1 portable DVD player,Game-Lego for arnu,nice pair of winter shoes for me,a pair of CD's,Blu-Ray player,1 TB hard disc and HDMI cable....We thoroughly enjoyed shopping and running here and there....I was planning to buy towels as they were just for 1 dollar but till I reach there all were gone!...I was bit disappointed but considered myself lucky as we got big Emerson TV at very good price.
We were planning to at least drive to Best Buy, toys R us ,and oxmoor mall at 12am,to see the line as we had heard that people actually put up tents outside these shops! but were totally exhuasted as were standing in long queue at walmart for billing.
Next on the list was Cyber monday...Again cyber monday is like only online deals mainly on amazon are opened from sunday evening or night which continues till early morning of monday but here also you need to decide fast and book it immediately otherwise everything is gone! We picked up a MP3 player, Ipad Accessories.. I was eagerly eyeing the Fabberware 14pc non-stick cookware set sold for 50$,and pressure cooker indian style sold at macy's when Nikhil reminded that we possibly couldn't carry all the items to India whenever we went. I was really sad to let such a fabulous deal slip out and also health of nikhil was not good...but yes next year will surely plan for buying it!
It was very, very cold the very next day...otherwise was planning to visit winter wonderland parade,christmas celebration at Galt house in downtown... but instead we visited kohls and macy's clicked few snaps shopped miscellaneous items and returned home...that day rush was so much that it was impossible to find parking. We shopped for 6 hours...We both were very happy with all the shopping and most importantly we didn't buy unnecessary stuff. Over all a great shopping experience that I will never forget. :) Eagerly waiting for next thanksgiving to shop little more and have lots and lots of fun.....
I don't know what brought about the transition, but We were quite excited to do major shopping this year. For all those who don't know, Thanksgiving is the biggest holiday in the US. We get 4 days holiday! The limelight of this holiday is the Black Friday Sales.Major shops all over US offer items at cheap, discounted prices. Most of the shops open at 6am Friday morning and offer early bird sale.Few open at 12 AM like macy's,Kohls.JC penny, Sears etc However, people who want to buy costly items such as laptops, stand in the line from Thursday evening or early night.Crazy na? But I think it's understandable. I mean, if I am getting a 800$ laptop for 500$ bucks, even I would stand in the line.The details of these deals are released on certain websites such as this and this. Your local newspaper sold on the previous day also contains details about all the deals.
We purchased the newspaper Thursday eve weighing around 3kgs from walgreens. I even took a snap of the width of the paper. We sorted out all needed deals and jotted down what we wanted to buy from where. While browsing on the bestbuy website, I came across a cool deal for a lenova laptop. We immediately bought it for the gift for mom and dad.
In walmart event 1 was going to open at 8PM.Nikhil was in shop from 6.PM only as we had heard when deal opens people immediately runs and grab it.If you will reach by 8 then everything is over.Also we wanted to purchase TV and deal was going to open by 10 PM but line started from 7PM only so nikhil again came home to pick me and arnav as it was impossible from him alone to run everywhere...Finally at 8 we got vaccum cleaner,slow cooker, Mini chopper,few rubbermaid utensils and big collage frame...
At 10.PM event 2 was open and finally we got 40 inch big LCD TV....that was most happiest moment for us...we also purchased 2 digital frames,1 portable DVD player,Game-Lego for arnu,nice pair of winter shoes for me,a pair of CD's,Blu-Ray player,1 TB hard disc and HDMI cable....We thoroughly enjoyed shopping and running here and there....I was planning to buy towels as they were just for 1 dollar but till I reach there all were gone!...I was bit disappointed but considered myself lucky as we got big Emerson TV at very good price.
We were planning to at least drive to Best Buy, toys R us ,and oxmoor mall at 12am,to see the line as we had heard that people actually put up tents outside these shops! but were totally exhuasted as were standing in long queue at walmart for billing.
Next on the list was Cyber monday...Again cyber monday is like only online deals mainly on amazon are opened from sunday evening or night which continues till early morning of monday but here also you need to decide fast and book it immediately otherwise everything is gone! We picked up a MP3 player, Ipad Accessories.. I was eagerly eyeing the Fabberware 14pc non-stick cookware set sold for 50$,and pressure cooker indian style sold at macy's when Nikhil reminded that we possibly couldn't carry all the items to India whenever we went. I was really sad to let such a fabulous deal slip out and also health of nikhil was not good...but yes next year will surely plan for buying it!
It was very, very cold the very next day...otherwise was planning to visit winter wonderland parade,christmas celebration at Galt house in downtown... but instead we visited kohls and macy's clicked few snaps shopped miscellaneous items and returned home...that day rush was so much that it was impossible to find parking. We shopped for 6 hours...We both were very happy with all the shopping and most importantly we didn't buy unnecessary stuff. Over all a great shopping experience that I will never forget. :) Eagerly waiting for next thanksgiving to shop little more and have lots and lots of fun.....
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