BLACK FRIDAY

This blog entry by Lindy Pham

The story: "Thanksgiving so warm, but woe the day after "

The analysis:

The article illustrates Thanksgivings as a traditional United States holiday to give thanks at the finish of the harvest season. Thanksgivings was established as a national day of giving thanks and praise to God, a significant holiday in the United States. This is the time to get together, to be thankful, and to be with family and loved ones. The article insists on Thanksgiving as being so warm but woeful the day after. This is due to the fact that the day after Thanksgiving Day is “Black Friday”, one of the busiest shopping days of the year in the United States.
I chose this article because it is currently the Thanksgivings week and I think it is very interesting and important for us to know how to manage our time, our money and our stress levels on this special holiday. Black Friday is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season. Black Friday was formerly so popular because it has been one of the busiest days in terms of the customer tours, real sales amount, heavy traffic, and busiest sell shopping day of the year. Many stores will put out popular items on sale, just to attract people to their store to spend more money. We see buyers lined up early hours before stores with big sales open. Traditionally, Black Friday sales were intended for those shopping for Christmas gifts. The earliest uses of "Black Friday" refer to the heavy traffic on that day, an extremely stressful and disorganized event.
The purpose of this article is to give us opinions about what we should do on the day after Thanksgiving day: we should spend our time with family and loved ones, by going to the movies, listening to music with each other, walking in the woods, reading, eating leftovers, sharing and giving of our time; instead of spending our time, our money, our spirits running to the mall to get material possessions that we do not need and get in debt with our exceeding spending.
In my point of view, nothing is cheap enough to make me wake up very early, go out there in the cold weather and line up to shop. From my experience, I could not get the special things that I love on Black Friday because I always come after thousands of people. I also know that I should keep purses and wallets very carefully, carry little of cash, and it is also dangerous while driving in the shopping malls, it is easy get into an accident that day. I tell myself, I will never look for something I usually would not buy, but have to because it is 75 percent off in Black Friday. However, I would still wake up very early even I stay up late on Thanksgiving night, driving four more hours long to a famous outlet store get a brand name jacket worth $300, for a fraction of the price. We can not change a tradition, including me! Celebrate the day. Give thanks.
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