OT: Plan your Black Friday Shopping

What *will* they think of next?!

Natalie

You have to be dumb as a bag of hammers to go shopping on that particular day. Seriously....

Yet, thousands do. Go figure

Natalie

As some of our mothers used to say, "Just because your friends are jumping off the bridge doesn't mean you have to."

So by your definition, everyone is dumb because everyone does at least one thing that someone else will call dumb. This may be true!

However, some people have limited budgets and you can get a lot of chinese made shit for cheaper than usual on Black Friday. Do I go? Nope, I order online only.

My wife dragged me on those escapades a few times. At other times of the year, I pointed out to her that mall-type goods were just as cheap as during the "bargain season". People are more than happy to believe there are discounts when the ads tell them so. This is why Wal Mart is successful. Meanwhile, our local newspaper does a sample grocery shop at WM and area supermarkets. The total bill is *always* cheaper at the supermarkets. Go figure.

I'm with you on this. I break out in hives just at the thought, but, there are quite a few people that not only do go shopping, but also look forward to it. Different strokes . . .

You'd be chuckling if you'd caught the George Carlin special on HBO 2 weeks ago. He had a few things to say about this.....

Seriously, you can get great deals. I got a Black and Decker drill from Lowes last year that regularly cost $80 for like $15

No, they lack lives, the brainless idiots that they are!!

And HOW many hours did you spend driving to the mall, looking for parking, walking to the store, finding the tool, lining up to pay for it, and driving home? Frankly, my time is WORTH something to me.

'Black & Decker' tools?? I'd say it's probably worth what you paid. Try Makita or DeWalt...you'll see the difference.

Don, Dewalt is a decent tool, but if you are only going to use a power tool a few times, you can get by with a black and decker. For my power sander, I purchased a B&D, just because i liked the price and use it very infrequently. My cordless drills, I have a heavy weight and a light weight cordless drill are both Makita, but the pros considered Makita "homeowners grade".

The cabinet installers who worked on my kitchen and bathrooms all used Hilti and Milwaukee power tools.

Black & Decker /IS/ DeWalt, or vice versa (same parent company) - B&D is now their 'Consumer Grade' stuff brand, and DeWalt the slightly better. Usually.

They're ALL racing toward the bottom, between offshore manufacturing and cut-throat price wars, you can't count on being safe just buying a reputable name brand anymore. Even Milwaukee and Ridgid. You have to shop carefully, read the spec sheets, inspect the tool. And don't make a decision based on price alone.

I paid close to $200 on a biscuit joiner from Porter-Cable because it was much more solid than anything else on the market. There was a decent DeWalt for $120, passable Ryobi for $100 and a cobbled-together Harbor Freight knockoff for $40 on sale, but that was about all they were worth.

And then I saw the joke that Black & Decker put out... Frankly, the Harbor Freight looked better. Didn't even look for the price.

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That must be some drill for fifteen bucks.