We pulled out of the driveway at 3am and walked into Walmart at exactly 3:30. We have two that are closer, but decided to drive a little further to the one we thought would be least crowded. We guessed correctly!
Did the rounds and scoped out the store layout. Mom's priority was the 32" Emerson for $248. She got in line and was pleased to see them handing out tickets - very organized. My boyfriend waited for the $59 TomTom for his sister, which was strategically located right next to the $25 HP printer I wanted. He was able to get one right after the other; he even grabbed some $2 movies while waiting in line. I stood next to the $35 executive office chair until 4:30am, when the nearest Walmart employee gave everyone permission to take one. That was a nice time-saver. Then I headed off to wait for the $7 collage frames. The morning took a strange turn when I passed out cold at 4 minutes to 5am. Hit the ground like a brick. I'm hypoglycemic and made the mistake of leaving the house without eating anything.
Next thing I know I'm being asked if I need an ambulance. Nope...but a Coke will do nicely! So a wonderful employee brought me a Coke, which got me through the next two hours! By this time my mom and boyfriend found me and the first thing I told my mom was, "Grab me two collage frames!" Priorities, you know?
After the Coke worked its magic, we managed to find the 4GB flash drive and 4GB memory card I wanted. Mom bought the Corelle Livingware set for $18. The biggest downside was the checkout line. A family of 8 was in front of us, and they all paid separately. With checks. Which I suppose wouldn't have been so bad if they'd had their checks prepared ahead of time...and if every other item didn't need to be price-verified by the cashier.
Aside from the fainting and the checkout frustration, it was a pleasant experience. Even my boyfriend, a Black Friday newbie, said "What a rush!" as we left the store.
By this time it was 7am and I obviously needed something to eat. We stopped at Bob Evans, only to be informed after standing in line for 10 minutes that they only had 3 servers that morning. No thanks. We went next door to IHOP and enjoyed a filling, timely breakfast.
Next came Kohls. This was a relatively quick stop. We picked up a heated back massager as a gift for $18 and some other miscellaneous doorbusters. The checkout line looked intimidating, as it wrapped clear around the store, but it moved very quickly. I was impressed!
Ulta and Old Navy were in the same plaza, so we decided to stop in. Old Navy was a bust, but I didn't expect much. Ulta was a great quick stop. They had their 5 items for $5 special. Great selection to choose from.
JCPenney was our next stop, where we purchased a pajama set, sleep pants, and a shirt. We hit Macy's while we were at the mall and I bought this year's holiday sailor Mickey.
Target was the last stop of the day. All I wanted there was Season 4 of The Office for $13. Success! We browsed, but didn't find anything else. I wasn't impressed with Target's ad at all this year. We were finished by 1pm. Walmart was clearly our priority, so once we found everything we wanted there, it was smooth sailing. Another great year!
why would you go to Walmart Black Friday morning and get that stuff?? I most certainly would have gone to Walgreens or the gas station which were right nearby instead!!!
So we went to dunkin dounts and waitied for 5am to roll around so we could hit Lowes my brother wanted some kind of sets that were normally 100$ for the people he works with so he got 7 of those for 20$. I got my poinsettia for .99 then we hit walmart by now it was going on 6:30am all of the crazy people had left by then lol.. we found a parking spot no problem! I got all of the things I wanted with the exception of the fur real friends (I needed 3 I found 1) and the skateboards. They still had all of the major door busters left. TV's GPS Cameras you name it they still had it! We were in shock! There was a line to get a parking spot when we drove past at 4am.. I mean a LINE major line there was NO line when checking out. So we zipped up to Kmart. That place was a disaster! Wanted the creepy crawler machine.. they were out of those and almost everything else I wanted from there.. I took the ad with me to walmart to price match but they didn't have it or I couldn't find it. I got some of the 3$ tshirts for the kids they still had the wowwee alive animals so we scooped those up and I dont remember what else I got there.. all in all it was a good black friday.. spent LOTS of money the kids are mostly done with the exception of the oldest.. she is so hard to buy for.. she is in between toys and big ticket stuff so she has a mix of both... I'm going to head to the outlets and get some "fashionable" clothes for the girls next weekend and then they are done.. I have to pick up a layaway at kmart this coming friday too.. now to figure out where all this stuff is going to go... YIKES! I'm out of room!
