Friday and the day after Thanksgiving and the biggest shopping day of the year! I actually contemplated getting up at the crack of dawn and heading out like I have in the past, but then realized that most of my shopping is done. So what's the point? In years past the day after Thanksgiving was the first day of shopping for my friends and I.
I used to have to depend on a Holiday Club to fund Christmas. I'd save all year so I'd have the money to buy Christmas presents. The day after Thanksgiving was THE shopping day!
My friends and I would meet at a designated "starting" place; make tentative plans for lunch and off we'd go spending the entire day shopping. Sometimes we'd start at one Mall and then move to the next and so on. Fighting the crowds and traffic was stressful but it all just went with the territory!
It truly was more than just a shopping day though. Like men get together for whatever common bonds they share when hunting, we got together with our common bonds and shopped!
Age does bring some perks. Now we all make a much more comfortable living and buy whenever we want. Since I don't have to depend on the Holiday Club anymore I can get my shopping done early. Which is nice and convenient - right?
Something in me misses the old days though. Perhaps I appreciated it more when I had to scrimp and save the money for that one big day. The build up of anticipation and planning that went into it. Meeting in the mornings for coffee and then again at lunch, the shared gift ideas. It was all so much fun!
Common bonds shared among a small group of friends for so many years that seem now broken.
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