Black Friday

The black of black Friday has permeated our society much too deeply. It has gotten to the point that it is overshadowing the actual holiday it follows. As a child, it was barely a thing for me. I just remember seeing my parents and older family members looking for Christmas gifts because that’s when all the catalogs came out full of Christmas goodies. For me it was at black Friday, solely because it was the day after thanksgiving that I was allowed to start thinking about Christmas. Nobody in my family has ever actually gone out on black Friday in the last 20 years. It’s a truly insane holiday not just for this, but because it’s really not that great a deal. On average, items on sale during black Friday sales are also on sale for the same amount 3 other times throughout the year. It just makes the whole thing insane, dangerous, and it pulls greatly from thanksgiving

I hold an entire different set of objections not as a family member, but as a retail worker myself. Black Friday is a huge money maker for my industry, and I understand that, but man does it make me angry. Every thanksgiving I spend with my family in Ohio, and then go to Kentucky to spend time with a different part of the family. Unfortunately this will be impossible this year because my store needs all hands on deck for black Friday. And all this new movement of stores opening earlier and earlier is just mind-meltingly frustrating. Thanksgiving is a national holiday. There are laws specifically in place so businesses cannot be open in some states. I saw a new term recently, “grey Thursday” which is such utter crap. That Thursday already has a name. It’s FRIGGING THANKSGIVING. Seriously. All this junk is just unreasonable. 

Happy Holidays