During the Thanksgiving holiday, I am reminded of many things I am grateful for. Awesome siblings, my health (I was able to run almost 25km Thanksgiving Day without too much knee pain), super cool friends, lots of food, 4 day weekend and finally Black Friday. Black Friday this year is more important than any other year as Americans (probably the world) are trying to stretch their money as the economy is trying to stabilize itself. I for one, love to shop and I love sales and finding deals because its my nature, I'm pake (cheap) and Filipino.
Thanksgiving Day - Run
My Black Friday team this year consisted of 4 people (including myself). After eating a 5 course meal, the last course being dessert, where I served my take on a Filipino dessert. I made banana lumpia as normal, then coated it with cinnamon and sugar, and it was served with either whipped cream and/or ice cream, and more cinnamon sugar dust on top. I deviate from the topic because its dessert and it was a HIT with everyone. Our team decided to hit Walmart 1st. Which of course since it was 7pm and I consumed enough food for 4 people, I was such in a daze, I couldn't sleep. Plus not to mention, I needed to participate in online Black Fridays, which online retailers like Amazon and Apple participated in midnight PST (Pacific Standard Time), which was 10pm here. I bought a couple of things on Amazon, Apple sales sucked, Macys was great! I purchased a Kenneth Cole Pea Coat for $63.99, originally $250.00. I finally passed out at 11pm, only to wake up at 2am. The doorbuster sales began at 5am, so we arrived at 2:30am, which was the perfect timing. We received a map of where all of the doorbusters were going to be. We separated and stood by our respective items, which I can't discuss as some of you reading this could possibly get a gift that I lost a good night's sleep over.
These pictures were taken 15 minutes because chaos ensued and everyone swarmed their respective items in the middle of the isle covered by black plastic. My mission was successful and I obtained my 2 items (8 of 1 item and 5 of the other) successfully. Though the doorbusters was over in 10 minutes as the maniacs scoured the sales floor like their life depended on it, we did not leave until closer to 7am. One of our teammates was in line for a camera, plus the check in line was crazy. I even made a Starbucks run for us, right after I discovered my battle wound.
Black Friday - 1
Black Friday - 2
Black Friday - 3
My Black Friday Injury
After Walmart, we decided to head to Office Depot and yeah, there was nothing exciting there, so I stopped by Nordstrom Rack for 5 minutes and I realized there weren't even having a Black Friday sale, so off to Sears! I've been wanting a pair of Levi's 511 jeans for sometime. Online Levi's had a major discount, $40 your order of $100, of course, they didn't have my size. The Levi's store here at Ala Moana doesn't have my size. I called Levis.com customer service and they had no way of pulling up store inventory like other companies like Nike. At Sears though, I learned a very valuable lesson. The Levi's 511 skinny fit jeans were on sale and there was no sizes for me. I normally wear a 28" x 30", but since these are super tight on the thighs, I like to wear a 29" x 30". Well, I'm not one to just give up if something isn't on the sales floor, Black Friday or not, so I asked an associate if they had the size and she said, "You know what, they probably wen sell out at 5am, but you know, if you that small, go to the boys section, the size 18 or 20 should fit you, you know, cuz my son, he da same size as you, that's why." Needless to say, I'm a happy owner of Levi's 511 jeans, Size 11.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and hopefully you had an awesome Black Friday.
Boys - Size 18
Shoutouts to Jamie and James in Vancouver, they just had a had a beautiful baby daughter.
Mahalo for reading.
Until next time.
