You know "black friday" is out of control when...

[994]

You know "black friday" is out of control...

A month ago, we had our garage door openers replaced by a local overhead door company. Today I got a "Black Friday Savings" email from them about buying new garage doors or garage door openers. Maybe this works for them, but I would think garage doors aren't really Christmas gifts (but honey, it's the new LiftMaster 3000 with two remotes and more sensitive close control - kind of like this guy), and you either need one or you don't. Doesn't seem like much of an impulse buy that a new lens might be (or sweater or electronics or even a trip away). What's the next black friday special - toilets?

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Growing up, my brother and I were the early model LiftMasters. We always had to get out and open the garage door when the chariot arrived. And we didn’t have a nice aluminum door, but a heavy wood door on tired old springs. You became a qualified opener when you were tall enough to reach the handle. It was a happy day when dad got a non-human garage door opener. Little did he know it could have been a Christmas gift!

 

[BlackrazorNZ]

Makes about as much sense as when I bought a toilet seat online and Amazon spent the next 6 months trying to sell me a wide range of associated toilet seatery.

I was replacing a toilet seat, Amazon. Not collecting them. Or creating a toilet seat themed movie theatre.

 

[exakta]

What's the next black friday special - toilets?

Caskets

Septic tanks

Bomb shelters

 

[994]

Growing up, my brother and I were the early model LiftMasters. We always had to get out and open the garage door when the chariot arrived. And we didn’t have a nice aluminum door, but a heavy wood door on tired old springs. You became a qualified opener when you were tall enough to reach the handle. It was a happy day when dad got a non-human garage door opener. Little did he know it could have been a Christmas gift!

When I was a kid, my dad said of the people who recently moved in across the street "they're the kind who added an automatic garage opener" - wealthy was a relative term in our lower middle class section of town (we were the last house with color TV and the last ones with cable).

 

[John King]

It is crazy if we are to measure a person's worth by the gadgets they own and display!

However, conspicuous consumption has been the order of the day since my late childhood.

Whatever happened to concepts such as duty, honour, honesty, kindness, community, neighbourliness and the like? Far more important than mere possessions ...

 

[RichardC]

Is it okay to be a bit dutiful, sort of honourable, mostly honest, somewhat kind, have a sense of community spirit, be quite neighbourly and also have a wardrobe full of camera gear?

If so, I'm in.

 

[RichardC]

We were totally skint when I was a kid and dad was 'away working for the Queen' for most of my childhood.

I was a polite child who went to Sunday School, but otherwise, the moral highground stinks.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

We were totally skint when I was a kid and dad was 'away working for the Queen' for most of my childhood.

I was a polite child who went to Sunday School, but otherwise, the moral highground stinks.

Yes, but the high ground is where some of the best photo spots can be found.

 

[ac12]

I was driving to Costco, turned on the radio and . . . Christmas music.

 

[994]

Yes, but the high ground is where

Obi-Wan is, so don’t try it.

 

[exakta]

Look what arrived in my email for Cyber Monday....

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