Did you bring your child BF shopping?

[inkedupmomma]

Did you bring your child Black Friday shopping with you?? To me that just seems nuts! Especially when I saw SO many kids waiting out in the cold long lines at Toy R Us! The best was seeing the amount of kids being yelled at! Uhm..hello, maybe they were cold and tired?

Idk, I know some can't go shopping without their kids, but good grief!

So do you take your child?

 

[21yankees]

I did. But I went early (2 am) first and then came back to the house. Then we all left the house together around 6.


steph

 

[3boymthr]

I chose heck no, but you need a third option - part of the time. I went out in the morning (at target at 5 AM for open), then stayed out til noon by myself. Oldest DS desparately needs winter clothes that fit - so after Christmas Shopping I went shopping for right now stuff for him at Hollister which almost never does sales. I grabbed some stuff there to get the sale price and Early Bird Special of a free $25 gift card. None of it was what he likes cause he's soo darned fussy but he and I went back last night to exchange for stuff he does like then to TRU to return some stuff I'd ordered early in the season but gotten better deals on yesterday and then to Target to pick up a B-day present.

 

[Juliee8]

No, I didn't! Mainly for 2 reasons, first of all I was shopping for them (santa) and second of all there is no way that my kids would have gotten up at 2:30 am and went all the places I did and stood in line at Target for as long as it took. They would have been miserable and so would I. Thankfully dh has that day off, so he stayed home with the kids and they got to sleep in while I shopped.

 

[clh2]

Yep - we did bring DD. But I think I should clarify...she is 15. And...we didn't do any of the early morning stuff. We did leave the house at 8:00 AM. Which...for a teen is EARLY in the a.m. on a school vacation day.

There was a HUGE bonus for me...DH wanted her to try on Northface fleece, since they are so expensive...she didn't like it, she opted for a $27 Columbia fleece instead!!!

 

[PaulaSue]

I always do but we never stand in the cold. We go later than opening but earlier than regular store hours. They actually got mad at me that I didn't get them up earlier for Target and we did miss some of the DS games they wanted but got enough of them to keep them happy.

 

[disneychrista]

I always have. But we never "shop." We go to JCP to get the mickey snowglobe and back up until a few years ago Mervyns to get a free gift/coupon and any other places doing freebies.

 

[DawnM]

We went shopping at 10am and brought the kids.

 

[angiedora]

I brought my DD this year for the first time. She's 14y. We had a blast together!

 

[fac]

I never brought them because it was the time to buy their presents.

However, there wasn't anything interesting for me to buy this year and I considered not going...but then I told them if I went, it would be around 5:00 am and if they got up at that time then they could join me.
I happened working late, wasn't sleeping and both girls had their alarm clocks set so off we went.
We didn't stay in the cold and only stopped at shops that had already opened. I told them I was the horrible mom to bring their kids for black friday shopping.

 

[soccerchick]

I think little kids and big kids (age 12 and up) are two whole different things.

I can't stand shopping with my kids(6 and 10) at any time; I'd NEVER get them up early to go with me.

I came THISCLOSE to saying something to a mom at Kohls. She had a 4-5 year old boy who was obviously tired and whining. This was a little after 6 a.m. She was not so nicely telling him to stop complaining. Please lady - don't set your kid up to fail/misbehave. YOU were to blame, not him.

 

[Microcell]

I was out taking the kids to breakfast at 9:30 and up drive my very tired neighbors and they shared that they went to Walmart (I wouldn't go there in June muchless on Black Friday) and then they asked me if I went anywhere.. I just looked at the kids like "how exactly would I do that?" (they know my DH works retail so I am a single mom till January).

Never dawned on me.. of course thanks to my boyfriend Dave Ramsey the only people I am buying Christmas presents for are my kids anyway!

 

[fac]

BTW, my kids are 9 and 11, I did feel horrible..having a kid getting up so early, but I let them join me partly for the experience and we had tried to stay from the crowd. We could have been to Target and Staples before open, but we didn't.
On a side note, by the time when we entered staples, the laptops were still available, they were giving out tickets, but we didn't any computers.

 

[vroomagain]

No way! I try to avoid bringing my 2 grocery shopping I did see some people out with little babies and to me babies that are still in their carseats are portable anyway.

 

[delmar411]

I wouldn't bring my kids out until normal daytime hours but I did see a lot of infants in carriers at Walmart. That's not too bad since they can sleep anywhere and Walmart wasn't really rough this year so no safety issues.

I took my girls out (6 & 11) to the mall around noon though. They enjoyed seeing all the people and my 6yr old told DH "everyone in the whole world was at the mall!". LOL

But most of my pre-dawn shopping is for the kids so it would be pointless to bring them along even if they wanted to go.

 

[jms531]

I don't bring DD (2). Too many people, too many crazy drivers (vehicles and carts!) not a place for a toddler. I was disgusted by how many INFANTS I saw out this year. As I was standing in line outside Target at 4:45 in the freezing cold and rain I saw multiple parents with their infants waiting for Babies R Us to open next door OUTSIDE! I felt so bad for those little babies...It didn't get any better either, everywhere we went after there were babies everywhere. I was in shock.

 

[libinatorsmom]

I took mine with but wish she wouldnt have been... missed out on some great things for her.. including Zhu Zhu accessories because she was with - granted we didnt go until around noon

 

[IDoDis]

When my kids were little, my first BF stop used to be TRU. I could never understand why parents brought their young children (excluding infants and teens) with them. The kids were seeing and picking out their own Christmas gifts. To let my kids pick out their gifts, take them home where I wrap them and put them under the tree where they sit for the next month would have been pure torture for my kids! Not to mention it takes away the joy of giving and seeing their surprised faces on Christmas morning which is priceless and only lasts for a few short years.

When I went back to Target to get my price adjustment later in the morning on BF (yesterday), I did a little bit of shopping while I was there. I remember a kid around the age of 7 seeing something in his parents' cart. He picked it up and the mom snatched it from his hands, threw it in the cart underneath something else and yelled, "That's one of your presents! You're not supposed to see that!"

Ummm... Leave him home with your hubby so you can shop and your child can be surprised! I just don't get it.

 

[momof1princess]

yep. she's 12 and it was HER idea. she wanted some of the $15 jeans at old navy. we went on thanksgiving day AND black friday (fleece tops for $5). we also went to wal-mart yesterday and bought groceries and to sam's club and home depot.

 

[Colleen27]

I brought my youngest because she's still nursing first thing when she wakes and DH would have had a devil of a time dealing with her without me there, but she just slept in the Baby Bjorn through the early morning stops. I wouldn't take DS11 under any circumstances because he hates shopping. DD8 wanted to go but since her gift was the deal I was after on my first stop, I told her she could join me later; I picked her up around 9 to go to the craft stores and out for lunch with my mom.

I wouldn't do something like Toys R Us, Old Navy (this year, usually it isn't as bad), or Best Buy with the kids, though. The waiting out in the cold is just too much for them IMO, and even though we're having pretty warm weather for this time of year, it was still below freezing when I first ventured out. I wouldn't want to have any of the kids waiting with me for hours in that.