Tag: Black Friday
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Black Friday matters…
In years past, I hustled to Walgreens on Thanksgiving morning with the sole purpose of buying a local newspaper — for the ads. The news in the thicker-than-Sunday paper at the daily price was largely ignored, but inner advertisements, on their slick, shiny paper were carried here and there as children wrote their Christmas wishlists […]
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I have succumbed…
“I have succumbed…” seemed the right title for this post somehow. Although now that I’ve typed that post title and checked the definition of “succumb,” I’m thinking the word may be a bit strong. I meant it as the first definition “fail to resist” rather than “die from the effect of a disease” — because I […]
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Confessions of a former Black Friday shopper…
I used to get Good Friday and Black Friday confused. “Good” seemed an odd name for the Friday of Christ’s death; “black” fit better. Mourning, sadness, depression. However, “good” seemed a perfectly obvious choice for shopping and sales. I am not going shopping on Black Friday. I am not. But I used to go — […]
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