If you shop on Thanksgiving Day or last minute shopping on Christmas Eve night, realize that someone else will not get to be with their family because of you. But you don't care. Its all about you and your family. You have no clue about the meaning of Christmas.

Do yourself a favor and send a message that you are above material things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day

Being without a job for the past eight years shopping is not a top priority. I will bake for my family at home.

From a Christian perspective, Black Friday and the month running up to Christmas is when one can observe the words of 2 Timothy 3:1-5 in action. (Take a read when you have a moment.) What does that say?

 In my opinion, GREED feeds GREED and the Heartless come out of the woodworks...I think the Federal Government and States should come back with Blue Laws and ban stores from opening on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and SUNDAYS.  The only exception being places like drug stores and small convenience marts so that emergencies can be taken care of ...especially for childrens needs and and the sick and elderly.  Companies want to make like they REALLY care for their employees, instead they cut benefits, hours, treat them with disrespect, and then want them to leave their families during these holidays to help them make more of a profit.  Once one store opens on Thanksgiving the flood gates will open, trust me.  Thanksgiving will be a family holiday no more...but a holiday of Greed, which goes totally against the meaning of the holiday.  What is worst, people feed into this....STAY HOME and ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE AND BE THANKFUL....

When I was in college, I used to work in a grocery store. When I had to work on holidays, people would come up to me and say, "It's such a shame you should have to work today! Poor you..." The irony is they were shopping in the store and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have to be working that day in the first place! The worst part was that if you hadn't been employed there for 90 days or more, the store didn't even pay you time and a half. Think about that...there are people who are going to have to be away from their families on these holidays and they aren't making more than minimum wage (and do you think the stores are going to put the long-term employees on staff when they can pay someone min. wage to work a holiday?)

If you really feel sorry for the people who have to work on Thanksgiving, then don't shop on Thanksgiving! The management will realize that if nobody shops on that day, it's pointless to keep the store running. If the cost of operating the store is more than the profit, then the store won't be open next year and maybe those poor workers will get a day with their family as well.

I'll be getting in line Thursday night for Black Friday 5am store opening. With the bad economy deals are better this year, and, more importantly, with the bad economy I can't afford not to take advantage of them. I don't want to deprive my family so a night out in the cold and rain and the pushing and shoving in the morning are worth it. As it is they will be getting less this year. I usually shop online but I'm not seeing evidence of the same deals. I actually would get in line sooner if I didn't have to go to the in-laws. I wish I could visit my own family but they are out of town and I can't.

They used to wait until after Thanksgiving to begin their hungry lust for your money. Now they no longer hide their contempt for you.

shopping days are targeting people earlier with ads, etc.

I have never done Black Friday and do not intend to. I like online shopping I don't have to deal with people at all and truthfully the way people act who would want to ?