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Nov. 28th, 2025 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
totchipandaI did my bi-weekly budget and paid my most important bills, and there shall be no shopping for me today. Or for the next two weeks. I can't commit to anything until after the reimbursement from my therapy session comes in, and by then most sales will be done. I'm OK with this, really. I haven't ever really been able to take advantage of these sales before, plus most places aren't offering a significant enough discount to make the exchange rate worth it.
With the caveat that this will always refer to the F5 tornado that ripped through when I was a kid, flooded my basement for a week and killed 27 people in addition to other damages and injuries, I feel like this has changed a lot. I remember hearing stories of people being crushed in the mad rush to score whatever hot item was on sale, and the discounts really were that good. It's being pushed up here more, but the "deals" still aren't omg wow amazing. Even Boxing day (our usual big shopping day) isn't that great. There's convos in here about consumerism and trends and all that, I don't need to reiterate any of it to you. I guess I just find it interesting that sooooo many places are touting GREAT DEALS!!!!! and you're barely saving the sales tax.
Do what you must. A fandom friend had been pre-shopping and got some good deals on stuff she'd been looking at, and they have said that the deals were good this year. I don't see it, but it's also very far outside of my experience. The things I was looking at, I don't really NEED. I can wait.
My partner in crime Nicole and her husband got PUPPIES!!!!!!!! Their markets are done for the year, pretty much until April, and they'd been talking about adding more floofers once they were done with those. Their last market literally ended sunday and yesterday they sent M and I photos of TWO TINY LITTLE CAVALIER PUPPIES. PLUS VIDEOS. M is free Sunday as it turns out, so we are going to go snoogle PUPPIES!!!!!!! Dang that's exciting!
Writing night with Trick, tomorrow is for journalling (and we got snow last night, so we'll see if I choose to drive or take the train). Gotta feed myself (as usual) and keep on keeping on. And I really need to let the complex know about how cold my back rooms are. I really think the radiators aren't on in them.
With the caveat that this will always refer to the F5 tornado that ripped through when I was a kid, flooded my basement for a week and killed 27 people in addition to other damages and injuries, I feel like this has changed a lot. I remember hearing stories of people being crushed in the mad rush to score whatever hot item was on sale, and the discounts really were that good. It's being pushed up here more, but the "deals" still aren't omg wow amazing. Even Boxing day (our usual big shopping day) isn't that great. There's convos in here about consumerism and trends and all that, I don't need to reiterate any of it to you. I guess I just find it interesting that sooooo many places are touting GREAT DEALS!!!!! and you're barely saving the sales tax.
Do what you must. A fandom friend had been pre-shopping and got some good deals on stuff she'd been looking at, and they have said that the deals were good this year. I don't see it, but it's also very far outside of my experience. The things I was looking at, I don't really NEED. I can wait.
My partner in crime Nicole and her husband got PUPPIES!!!!!!!! Their markets are done for the year, pretty much until April, and they'd been talking about adding more floofers once they were done with those. Their last market literally ended sunday and yesterday they sent M and I photos of TWO TINY LITTLE CAVALIER PUPPIES. PLUS VIDEOS. M is free Sunday as it turns out, so we are going to go snoogle PUPPIES!!!!!!! Dang that's exciting!
Writing night with Trick, tomorrow is for journalling (and we got snow last night, so we'll see if I choose to drive or take the train). Gotta feed myself (as usual) and keep on keeping on. And I really need to let the complex know about how cold my back rooms are. I really think the radiators aren't on in them.
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Date: 2025-11-29 03:52 am (UTC)Of course, if shipping weren't the obscenity it is now, the discounts would technically be better, but yeah :)
PUPPIES
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Date: 2025-11-30 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-01 03:06 pm (UTC)I hit local things and shops but didn't do black friday or local Saturday...I was busy doing other things