Black Friday Memories. . . . .

                           This photo is supposed to be a real pre-lit Dakota Fir from Costco.
                                This picture is lots better looking than my tree ever looked.

Adam wants a personal history.  Here are my black Friday memories.
In either 2006 or 2007, Susan went to JoAnn's black Friday sale.
She got there when the store opened at 5:00 a.m.  She called me
about 6:00 a.m.  We lived on Anne Circle.  She told me she had
a pile of bolts of fabric and there weren't any carts left and she
wanted me to come over a "steal" a shopping cart from another
store, because there weren't any left in JoAnn's.

Susan couldn't leave her fabric pile or people would take the bolts
and she wouldn't get it.  I got up and went over and found a cart
outside (not JoAnn's) and took it in and found her.  We met a
lady who was the first one in the store when it opened and she
knew that the Orem Joann's only had two of the door
buster, 7.5 ft Dakota Fir Tree with 800 clear lights on it.

Susan wasn't the first one in the store so she didn't see the trees.

It took us several hours to get out of the store, but then I called
JoAnn's complained there were only two trees so they shipped
one to the Orem store and I went over and got it and paid the door
buster Black Friday price.  The box says $99.00.  I think it was lots
less but can't remember.

You don't want to go to JoAnn's.  First you have to get the fabric,
then wait in line to get the fabric cut and then get in a different line
to check out.  I waited in the check out line while Susan waited
in the fabric line and we were still there until about noon, which is
quite a bit of time when you started before 5:00 a.m. in line outside the
store.

I plan to throw away this tree this year.  We have used it every year
and it is starting to look like a new tree loosing its needles.  I am sad to
part with my first black Friday purchase.

In 2014, Janice and Jill Ivie bought Daddy the Walmart 50 " Black
Friday TV at the Walmart in Saratoga Springs.  It was $218. on Thanksgiving
starting at 5:00 p.m.  They were in line at 4:00 p.m.

Mary bought Daddy the Nikon L330 20.2 MP with a 26X zoom lens
 Camera Black Friday sale on Thanksgiving
at Target.  It was a $230.00 camera for $100.00.  Mary got the camera
after she bought the things she wanted so the cameras didn't go fast.
Her sister got one too, also after she got the stuff she wanted first.
(The camera is in the lower left hand corner of the photo above.

The camera turned out to be a good deal.  The television is probably better
than the one he had with the bad pixel, but not such a good deal as the camera.