Black Friday '08 Recap

Later I'll be posting a video of the opening of Macy's Herald Square on Black Friday. My man and I were standing on the steps in awe. People actually cheered when the doors opened at 5am! And I can barely form coherent sentences that early.

The line outside Old Navy on 34th Street at 4:30am was bigger than last year. Macy's Herald Square had lines at every entrance. And once they got inside, shoppers were buying. The husband was a little appalled at the frenzy in front of the mirrors in the coat department (note to the girls, don't shop coat sales with men), and the shoe section was buzzing with activity, particularly in Juniors.

What did I buy? This:

Origins Modern Friction, $37 before tax. I'm probably the only person who bought something full-price at Macy's on Black Friday morning. But I was desperate for an exfoliator. And l love it, it works like a charm, and will pay full price for it over and over.

Here's what else I wanted to buy:

Boots were an extra 20% off in the morning. I adore these purple Miss Sixty boots, so much that I could even overlook that big "Miss Sixty" written on the side. At least it doesn't totally stand out.












Plastic Island dress for $98 (full price). Love the color panel.

















And I almost talked the man into getting this:

Cuisinart blender+food processor, around $80 on Black Friday morning.

But he panicked last minute. I blame it on our fellow blender shopper who drove us away by waxing poetic about blender buttons for a good five minutes. Again, it's 5:15am and we're in the basement of Macy's Herald Square. I couldn't even muster enough energy to plead the blender's case. Oddly, just two days later at Costco in Queens, we had another blender discussion about the same Cuisinart with a couple of strangers. And still, I could not talk him into buying the dumb blender. My man is very skeptical of Black Friday madness and Costco discounts. Or I can only wax poetic about exfoliators.


Macy's Herald Square, 151 W. 34th btwn Broadway & 7th