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Is Thanksgiving weekend about spending time with family or saving money on gifts?
Black Friday has earned its reputation for bringing all of the crazy people out of their homes for one night. There are two types of people that go out on Black Friday: crazy people and people watchers.
The crazy people mark this day on their calendars as the day they will buy all the items they’ve had their eyes on all year. Within the crazy people there are several different groups.
The first group is the gamers. These are the people setting up camp outside Best Buy hoping to get the new Xbox and walking out bruised and broken inside.
After the gamers, we have the Walmart shoppers. This group is by far the craziest one. This group is made up of determined soccer moms looking to get gifts for their “happy accidents.”
Walmart on Black Friday is not for the weak. These people look like they’re lined up to race for their lives. When the doors open, people are trampled, mace is almost always sprayed by the one mom who doesn’t know when to stop, and every year people walk out of the store disappointed and, in some cases, felons.
Try to put yourself in the shoes of the kid whose mom got hauled out of the store in handcuffs. Probably wouldn’t be the best. Rather than spending Christmas with your whole family, your mom is spending it behind bars because she couldn’t keep her mace in her purse.
I had the chance to interview Seamus McCurren about his Black Friday experiences. McCurren happens to be the unfortunate child of a Black Friday macer.
His mother was dragged out of Walmart in cuffs, after dusting a crowd with mace in hopes to bring an Xbox home to her loving son.
McCurren saw this as an act of selflessness and has developed a Black Friday strategy or “mindset” that can’t fail. He claims that he is “not afraid to throw a few punches to get to the tip top.”
His techniques, although dirty, have gotten him results. McCurren was the first shopper to bring home a plasma screen TV in three consecutive years. Instead of spending Thanksgiving with his family, McCurren spends his day getting into “that killer mindset.”
McCurren is a perfect, living example of the downward spiral created by Black Friday. I urge you to avoid this downward spiral at all costs.
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