Black Friday and Beyond

So we headed out on Black Friday to catch a couple of deals and ended up seeing and hearing some crazy things. I'm really mad that I didn't remember to bring my camera to Cleveland because I would have had some classic shots.

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What we saw:

My mom and I went to HH Gregg so I could get 100 dollars off of a Dyson. I wasn't too worried that they run out of them considering the CRAZY deals everyone was offering on flat screen tvs. When we arrived at 5am there was a mob of people surrounding the door and then a short, single file line of less rabid people. Of course, when they opened the doors the mob attacked the man who was writing up slips for the 10 fifty inch Panasonic plasmas that they were offering for 1500 bucks, pretty much half price. People were screaming and trying to vye for this man's attention. We headed to the back of the store, got our vaccuum reciept and headed for line immediately. Even being the 13th person in line it still took us over an hour to get rung out. RIDICULOUS. While I was waiting for them to bring out my Dyson, the young couple next to me was on their cell phone trying to get a big enough car for their new television. When I asked them why they didn't bring a car, they told me this story:

They had only planned on looking and never thought there was a possibility they'd even get one of the big TVs. When they showed up at 5 (same time as us) they headed after the mob of people and quietly snuck into the middle of the group. While everyone else was screaming at the sales associate, the girl smiled at him and quitely and politely said, "We'll take one please." He immediately wrote them the last ticket. Of course this set everyone else into a rage.

Now they had no way to get the TV home. While they were still waiting for a ride, we watched the HH Gregg people load up another big screen TV into the back of a man's convertible. Not that great, until you hear....it was snowing. Heavily. And he was wearing one of those knitted hats with the ball on top and ear flaps. Yeah. I totally wished I had a camera. It was hilarious.

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What we heard:

Kendall made friends with the lady behind him while standing in line at Staples. She told him that Value City Department Store opened at midnight. Everyone was standing in a nice neat line waiting for it to open. The manager mistakenly opened the wrong door and the people at the back of the line decided to cut to the front. This caused a riot. No, a real riot. The manager panicked and locked a group of people in between the two sets of doors. They started to get angry and were beating on the glass trying to break it. He had to call the cops. What were the fighting over? Not the 32 inch flat screens for 400 dollars. They were fighting over the 10 dollars off a purchase of 20 dollars or more coupons. Yeah. Ghetto.

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What we bought:

A Dyson- which I'm returning because the girl who cleans my house can get it for me for half price. Yes, you read correctly, I have a girl who comes and cleans three rooms in my house. For 30 bucks. It's awesome. She's awesome. My house feels so much cleaner. Or at least the three rooms she cleans. :)

A Wii- we were getting it for our neighbor but her dad was able to get one too. Then we offered it to Dathan and Natalie. We were hoping they wouldn't take it because we can sell it on Ebay right now for almost double.

Just wanted to share a few pictures that we took over the weekend too. We cleaned up the yard from all of the leaves, mowed the lawn one last time, and hung our Christmas lights outside. I'll try to get a picture of them later. Plus I also want to show you a picture of the house down the street from us. Their lights are amazing!