Black Friday? Cyber Monday? Is It All Just A Ploy?

Black Friday? Cyber Monday? Is It All Just A Ploy?

Now anyone who knows me will be very aware of how much I love to shop. Present shopping, food shopping, clothes shopping – it doesn’t matter to me. It’s all good. But I am fairly sceptical of this new phenomenon that has been imported recently from the USA – ” Black Friday and Cyber Monday “

What is it all about?

I am not adverse to a bargain or too, in fact I have visited various cities in the US post Thanksgiving to take advantage of their sales and snap up one or two deals.  But I find it hard to think that a Black Friday bargain from BT to save a few pounds on my broadband cost is what Black Friday is all about – don’t you?

Team this up with newspaper articles and radio reports that many of the items on offer have been on sale cheaper earlier in the year – It makes you sit back and think about it. Also, how many of us can get caught up in the hype – me, for sure!

So it just so happened to be a very happy coincidence that my Mum was 80 years young early last week,  and what do you buy the person who has everything she needs ? Definitely not a few pounds knocked from her broadband cost that’s for sure. So we opted for ……..

A long weekend in the stunning Lake District!

The house we stayed in was just what the Doctor ordered. It felt as though it was in the middle of nowhere – but that’s not too hard to achieve as we live fairly close to Manchester City Centre so to have a flock of sheep as your next door neighbours was pretty amazing.

I know it sounds glib and uncool but to have 3 generations of a family under one roof for a weekend, playing cards, sitting down around a table to eat all together and just generally enjoying one another’s company was pretty amazing – and as we had poor internet connection, none of us were tempted by any Black Friday or Cyber Monday ” bargains “