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"Okay, now that we&amp;#039;re past Black Friday and Cyber-Monday, I&amp;#039;ve got to get this off my chest. Last Sunday I stayed in bed trying to recover from ... the last pangs of pain from the rib I broke &amp;quot;fishing&amp;quot; in a large, metal framed bin for just the right size turkeys ... from having a houseful of family for a more than a week ... from preparing Thanksgiving dinner for 23 people - well you get the idea. I was watching Jenna Wolff (sp?) of NBC report on her shopping at Macy&amp;#039;s on Black Friday. Now I admit I was tired and somewhat groggy, but the sight of that huge mob of people freaked me out. There they were, waiting for the doors to open, squashed together like sardines, yet they all had an eerie, almost maniacal looking smile on their faces. It was one weird sight.  Jenna said she actually got some black and blue marks while trying to navigate her way through the store. Hmm, that sure sounded like lots of fun, I thought to myself.  Following this segment I saw a shopping expert give tips about shopping on Cyber-Monday. One of the first was to get ready &amp;quot;early,&amp;quot; like around midnight or 1 A.M. Reason? Low inventories and continuing price changes as the day went on. So with the blankets still pulled up to my nose, I couldn&amp;#039;t help but wonder who all those people are who go out first thing on Black Friday (maybe even the night before) to shop. Don&amp;#039;t any of them cook for Thanksgiving? Don&amp;#039;t they still need to clean up on Friday? Don&amp;#039;t they make turkey soup or enjoy leftovers with friends or family? And are there really lots of cyber-stalkers who sit at their computers all night, just waiting to shop? Now you know I&amp;#039;m a serious shopper who really appreciates good deals. But there&amp;#039;s no way you&amp;#039;d find me hanging out at any store - or on any computer -- in the middle of the night just waiting.  As far as I&amp;#039;m concerned, there&amp;#039;s not a single product or sale worth cutting into or taking time away from my most favorite holiday of the year! For me, that&amp;#039;s a sacrifice, not a deal.  Guess you don&amp;#039;t have to guess whether I think this kind of shopping is a deal maker or a deal breaker. I don&amp;#039;t know how many of you feel the way I do, but I&amp;#039;d love to hear from you. By the way, my almost full day in bed still wasn&amp;#039;t enough to recover. Still, I can&amp;#039;t wait until next year and have already started making notes about how to refine my menu "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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