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Tue | November 21, 2006

Vendredi noir où Acheter rien?

Buy Nothing Day - ADBUSTERS.ORG

Well I was thinking to celebrate my birthday by going to the mall and seeing what was up for Black Friday, which I have never participated in. I went to the mall once on the day after Thanksgiving, with Teresa Chuang and Jessica Moltisanti, years and years ago. Must have been 1995. But I didn't even know it was called Black Friday, back then.

I was looking online to see what was up and I found information about stores where I don't typically shop, which I think is a bad idea. I think I will just go to my usual spots... Macy's, the Gap, Anthropologie... and see what's going on with them.

I also found information about Buy Nothing Day, which I do remember hearing about, in college. And probably observing. Explicitly that year, and inadvertently every year besides that.

So I think I will still go to the mall early on Friday, if I feel like it. Early means... 10. Maybe I will also go to Bloomingdale's and Banana Republic, Sephora, Nordstrom. Express. I don't need anything, though. Besides FAT PANTS. And a Mac to replace my decrepitating PC. Hmm... Short Hills opens at 8. OMG Godiva is giving away free chocolates. And... that's it. Don't even know what these other stores are.

Really, though, I have a feeling that your "success" on Black Friday depends on your knowing employees who will tell you where the sales are. The woman at the Origins counter at Macy's gave me a little sample size ginger lotion when I got my face cream last month. How many times have I bought stuff from them and they don't give me anything. Then there was the time that the same woman, I think, gave me the still-nearly-full tester of grapefruit body gloss. Because it was discontinued. I didn't even buy anything that time. I was like, thanks. I just went there to ask about some other product that they didn't have. So anyway in the cosmetics department, especially, there are all these little freebies and bonuses you can get, if you chat up the reps a bit. Not that I ever do. But I see it happening, and I can just tell by looking at them, that these old puckered wasps are hoarding things. I mean sometimes they are younger and prettier but mostly they're seche. It's not fair because they give all the prizes to others like them.

DKNY, Coach. Free People. Gap has cashmere sweaters... Max Studio. kind of boring. That's it, that's all the places I ever go, ever. Papyrus. Pottery Barn, Crate and Barrel. Have not bought more than a bookstand from them. Victoria's Secret.

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