Black Friday is my personal favorite day to shop till I drop. The excitement and anticipation is so overwhelming, it makes my adrenaline shoot up to the sky! It’s that one day you can go out at four in the morning to shop and not be considered completely insane. I can’t even forget to mention the running around, carts over flowing, and everything else that seems to be entirely “normal” while Black Friday shopping occurs.
Although this phenomenal holiday normally consists of a lot of ups and downs, there usually are more positives but this year there has been a dramatic change. Don’t ask me who decided to make such an idiotic decision, because I have no idea but I firmly believe that Black Friday was perfect just the way it was. This year, Black Friday will start at 10 p.m., Thanksgiving Day; let the complaining begin.
Thanksgiving and Black Friday were completely separated for various, upright reasons. Thanksgiving is the holiday that you get the chance to spend more quality time with your family than usual and get time to relax and enjoy a good cooked meal that’s prepared better than every other day. It’s a special day to give thanks to everyone special in your life, watch football, visit relatives, have amazing bonding time, and everything else that’s good.
Most importantly, the reason this all can happen is because nobody has to work! Even if they do, I’m sure they get released a lot earlier than they normally do. It’s already bad that they have to be at work so early and have the most hectic day of their lives cleaning up and helping everyone individually. Since they have changed the Black Friday time, I’m sure that most people won’t be able to have Thanksgiving off work.
Secondly, another reason this was a horrible idea is because that for all the people that can and will still spend Thanksgiving with their families but still want to go shopping, everything will be long gone by the time they begin. Also, there won’t be that traditional, once a year excitement and anxiety to shop in the middle of the night.
All in all, it just won’t be the same one bit. The whole idea of “Black Friday” is to shop on a FRIDAY, not a Thursday night, regardless of the fact that it’s also Thanksgiving Day. I can’t even imagine how the people that have to work and their families feel. Now I guess everyone will have to make the big decision to “shop or not to shop”? I wish the best of luck to everyone.