Depends how you look at it I suppose. I used to like it when there were sales once a year. I remember when there was a fissure of excitement coursing through my body (how verbose is that?) each year when HMV had a genuine record sale. It only happened once a year and there were genuine bargains to be had.
Now we have "the best sale ever" which morphs into "an even better and bigger sale" which usually morphs into "the biggest sale ever." Then we are told sale must end on Tuesday, but we know that there will be a bigger and better one starting on Wednesday.
Sales, by and large, are now cons. And I can't get excited about Black Friday, particular now it extends to a week or a month.
I even saw an advert today which said "Last day of Black Friday." How many days of Black Friday can you actually have?
Mind you there was a good deal on Echo Dot speakers each equipped with Alexa. You know the one that you can ask to tell you a joke or can inform you what your favourite fruit is if you have forgotten.
I was once somewhere where Alexa resided and was getting a little tired of her (or should that be him or it?). So I said some naughty words. "Alexa shut the ---- up," I thundered.
"I'm sorry I don't understand," he, she or it replied.
So glad to say I haven't bought a single thing on Black Friday or on Red Monday or Brown Wednesday for that matter.
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Spent the day stripping wallpaper which I find pretty mindless and in a strange way therapeutic at the same time. It's very messy. Sticky paste-ridden globs of paper sticking to trousers, socks and anything else that gets in the way. Took over six hours to do one wall but at least it kept me away from being subjected to Black Friday advertising.
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Finally today an apology. I got my Strictly and Bake Offs mixed up yesterday and referred to cake maestro Giuseppe as Giovanni. Apparently Giovanni is a dancer and not a pastry chef. Actually who really cares?