I promise this will be my only whinge about Shopping Season

[firecat]

So now it's not enough that there is Black Friday and Cyber Monday...I have now received an ad telling me that it's Black Friday Week.

Comments

[bcholmes]

Oh, you Americans and your wacky shopping holidays!

(I had never heard of Cyber Monday before you posted this).

[azurelunatic]

Cyber Monday does not sound to me the way I think they want it to sound.

It either sounds like a day of amazing prostheses, or a day of really really NSFW chat.

[apis_mellifera]

I got one of those emails, too. Sigh.

At least the television ads I'm seeing from American Express encouraging people to patronize small businesses are encouraging something that I try to do when I shop.

[the_siobhan]

To be fair, we do have Boxing Day now-morphed-into Boxing Week.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

I have one better: last week I saw a promotional "Red Friday" advert. One can only assume this is the Friday before the black one? Sheesh.

[eggcrack]

I think Cyber Monday would sell well in my country.

[cleverthylacine]

I'd try to be scandalised and irritated, but I just saved $300 on a computer I needed to buy? sorry.

[tedesson]

At least if I shop online, I can avoid the music.

A good article with a bad title:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-brain-work/201011/new-study-shows-humans-are-auto-pilot-nearly-half-the-time

And I'm finding this site interesting as well, though a bit more focused on comparing accomplishments than I'd prefer: http://www.dharmaoverground.org

[firecat]

Yes about avoiding the music!

The PT article was very good, thanks!

The dharmaoverground site...I feel ambivalent about what I read in my initial explorations. What sort of good stuff have you found there?

[tedesson]

The frank discussion of the process.

http://www.dharmaoverground.org/web/guest/discussion/-/message_boards/message/96976

[firecat]

Thanks!

[prairierabbit]

Definitely yes to avoiding the mus-ick. I so hate mall Christmas/holiday music.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Oh, and now there's Small Business Saturday (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/19/AR2010111902897.html).

[ona-tangent.livejournal.com]

Black Friday sales started 2 weekends ago around here. Ridiculous.

[opalmirror.livejournal.com]

Deposited my thoughts on this here: http://opalmirror.livejournal.com/136962.html