Anyone here participating? How intense do you get? Camping out?

I've got a few things on my list: primarily a couple of Keurig's for gifts (I'm going to BB&B because they're 20% off your whole purchase and I can't find it cheaper) and maybe Old Navy for the $15 jeans and there's a bracelet at Macy's I want to get for a friend!

What's the best deal you've found?

Black Friday shopping really turns me off. I just can't do it!

I have a couple of places that I go to on the day after Christmas to pick up my favorite Christmas things, but that's about it.

Not in a million years. I made the mistake of going shopping one day just because I wanted a candle holder I had seen and was thoroughly disgusted by the way people were acting.... especially the day after it had been set aside for people to be thankful for what they have.

I did black Friday ONCE and it was a nightmare. But since my boyfriend is in the Navy, the Navy Exchange has AMAZING deals on electronics (that's how we got our TV ) but he can go out, I'm staying home and sleeping in.

Omg - I love it. I'm a people watcher so it's fun to watch everyone and I'm competitive so it's even more fun for me.

I used to do Black Friday, but now with a lot of the sales online, I get most of my stuff that way. My mom and I still go out, but since we don't want any of the big ticket items we just head out later in the morning.

I'm sadly not hardcore enough to get up at 2 AM to wait outside for Walmart to open, but I plan on partaking this year! No specific targets for sales, but I do love the frenzied excitement of drowning in consumerism.

I was only hardcore like that one year - about 6 years ago and it was at midnight. LOL. Now I get up at like 5 (which is when I get up anyhow on most days) and go. I 100% agree! I just LOVE the frenzied excitement of drowning in consumerism. That is the perfect description.

I don't do Black Friday shopping at all. I dislike the notion that employees of all those places have to give up large portions of their holidays to deal with mobs of people.

I go out for a little while, but not early. Usually leave the house around 10:30 or so!

What about the stores that are opening on Thursday night? Do you go to those? I'm not.

No. Holiday shopping is not that urgent for me, and I dislike the crass commercialism of the whole thing. If we do go out it will be in the afternoon to get something we needed anyway and don't normally have the time to get, since we usually work Fridays and usually have full weekends.

I did it once, and that was because there was a flat screen 55" television I wanted for my husband for Xmas for only $400. It was totally worth it to see the look on his face.

I don't participate. I think (and no offense to anyone here) that's the whole Black Friday thing is insane. I'm not getting up at 3am to go stand in a long line outside a store to burst through the doors immediately upon opening and put up with the elbowing and shoving and other stuff that goes along with it. I know there are some crazy deals to be had, but at the same token I hate crowds with a passion, can't stand rude people, and it's just not worth it to me to put up with that to score a deal.

Most major stores are opening mid-evening Thanksgiving day. So waking up at an insane hour won't be necessary this year. I don't know if I will this year. I don't see anything I need to go wait in line for. I'd rather be at home with my family. I never had a problem with the early openings on Black Friday... But something about Black Friday now being on Thanksgiving just really irritates me.

I've actually never gone Black Friday shopping. It sounds like my personal version of ****.

BUT this year I'm going to go at midnight. I'd rather stay up late than wake up at the crack of dawn. I figure if it's really terrible I could always just go home and go to bed. Plus it's an incentive to not overindulge or I REALLY won't want to go.