So Toby and I tried something new this year. I usually do all of the Christmas shopping myself; Toby doesn't usually shop for his own clothes, let alone Christmas. He's just not a shopper....at all. So we decided to try and hit some of the 9pm, midnight, 5am sales during Black Friday. It was CRAZY! I usually do the early Friday morning shopping the day after Thanksgiving - which is still a little crazy-but we started out Thursday night at around 9:00pm - and there were lines of people outside stores already. Immediately, I knew this was not going to go well with my not so savvy shopping buddy. He really tried though and I really appreciated his willingness to go with me and brave the crowds of crazy people. He stood in lines for me while I shopped - I would get done shopping and bring the stuff to him while he was waiting in line - and then we would wait in line until we were able to check out. We really found some great deals that saved us a lot of money that we probably wouldn't have been able to afford if we hadn't made the Black Friday shopping trip happen. We were able to get all of our Christmas shopping DONE-and we saved a good amount of money doing so - it did reek havoc on our patience, because both of us hate huge crowds of people - so claustrophobic~ and we basically had no sleep since we stayed out from 9pm Thursday night to 6am Friday morning. Thank goodness it's a once a year thing! Oh the things we do for our kids!
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