Must. Buy. STUFF!

[MoseyWalker]

TV says I must. buy. stuff!

Whaddya wanna buy? We have credit cards! The sky's the limit!

I wanna scooter

[BlueStorm]

1. Your post makes me think of that "Sliders" episode

where they ended up at this mall that is rigged up in the clouds called "The Sky High Mall." The mall requires that you use credit cards and if you go so much into the black the mall owns you until you pay your debt off. Well one of the ways they were able to get so many customers i.e. slaves was through the use of illegal subliminal advertising in their residences and malls.

Blue

[Deja Q]

5. Great program, 'Sliders'

'Luck of the Draw' is my all-time fave episode... which one's yours?

[BlueStorm]

8. Oh Lord, I can't remember the titles...

I really only sparsely watched them on Sci-Fi but if I can think, I liked the one mentioned above and the one where the doctor girl, not the one in your pic, gets connected to the collective unconsciousness in that world where art is forbidden.

Blue

[Radio_Lady]

2. I. Want. Good. Health. and. Happiness. and. I. Do. Not. Need. Anything. Else.

[MoseyWalker]

3. Just so we're clear here

are you sayin' you don't wanna scooter?

[Radio_Lady]

9. No scooter. No new car, either. No horse. Just what I said above.

Good health and happiness.

And a little piece of chocolate now and then.

[Initech]

4. I have spent a total of $0.00 so far.

I did go to a store, but that was just to pick up my contact lenses.

[astral]

6. I wanna buy very few gifts this year.

And today, Black Friday, is a day I **ALWAYS** avoid having to shop!

Expensive people with expensive friends are in a whole 'nuther ballpark with this holiday season stuff.

The hard thing about Christmas is everybody's using a different rule book --- Am I supposed to buy gifts for people I work with? What if some of them buy me something and some don't? Last year I bought something or other for **everyone** in the office and I do NOT intend to do that this year but I feel strange buying some people a gift and not everyone, yet I'd feel strange not buying anybody anything, which is the other only normal thing to do.

And everybody's stressing out spending money some of us having to go into debt for EVERY gift we choose to buy, and nobody knows why? Are we missing the point? I believe in opening my heart to generosity towards those who have less than they comfortably need. I do not believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God who will save me from Hell.

I do believe there is a God, and that he loves me even if I do not know His name.

So what is the meaning of it all? I just try to side-step getting all sticky-into-it when I don't have to prove to anybody what I think "IT" is.

[marzipanni]

7. I think, therefore I don't shop much

[Radio_Lady]

10. I'm Jewish, therefore I don't have to shop much.

We give some little gifts to the grandkids. Chocolates and a little gold "gelt" -- (money). A few seasonal cards to the Christians who have married into our family.

That's it. I've told Christians that the season of Chanukah just happens to fall near the traditional day of Christmas. Chanukah was a tiny, minor holiday -- its proximity to Christmas makes for all the commotion. Nothing in the Jewish ritual -- of the story of oil in the lamps burning for eight days, instead of one day -- is equal to the celebration of the birth of the Son of God.

But, of course, Jesus was not born on December 25th, so we have to go back to the pagan winter solstice ceremonies to get the real story.

[Connonym]

11. If the sky's the limit, I want a front-load washing machine and a new dryer

[yellowdogintexas]

15. yes you do. I replaced my dead washer w/a frontloader and I

absolutely love it. I got the most basic one at Sears, not the little apartment sized one but the regular one and later replaced the dryer. It is an Energy Star model, and I don't have to bend over to get stuff out of it, which is great for my back.. 14 gallons of water per load instead of 35 or some ridiculous number.
So when you DO get ready to purchase, You have the yellowdogintexas seal of approval!!!!!

[Robeson]

12. A home in southern France, a flat in London, and one in Amsterdam, too...

...I might as well throw a home in Ibiza in there while I'm at it, for those times when I want some sun and fun. That is all.

[sarge43]

13. My husband and I hate America, so

I'm treating myself to the double CD "The Essential Spike Jones". He's upgrading his winter wardrobe with a six pack of silk/wool socks. We might go into together for a new vacuum, but that's still in the talking stage. That's it until spring.

The rest of you will just have to take up the slack.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. Well, I out-black-friday-ed all of youse. And there's not even Thanksgiving in Brazil!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5876638&mesg_id=5876638

[yellowdogintexas]

16. MY Black Friday purchase: lunch at work, dinner with my kid

because it is Friday and that is what we do on Friday night. She works late on Fridays so I go after work and take her out to supper..except she had the shop by herself last night and couldn't leave so I went to Jason's deli and got us a couple of Salad Bars to go and we had a picnic on the tattoo chair (it folds out flat and makes a great table), in between her piercings and a small tattoo she did while I was setting up the food.

Then we hung out for a while and I came home. Another year of Black Friday avoidance. Now I may shop today, because I have some stuff I have to get before next saturday, but I could also do that tomorrow afternoon. The one thing I have to do today is go weigh in at WW and see if Thanksgiving dinner put me over LOL