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So you are now passed THE DAY in which you stop worrying about your lackluster bank account, your home in foreclosure and your empty fridge. You are now taking a break after hitting every store and shopping mall in your city, and spending $326 in gas to save $43 on some useless items that are still 10% cheaper online than what you just paid. You spent approximately 7 hours and fifty two minutes fighting delirious zombies for parking spots, just to come out and see shopping carts piled up around your car, and three fresh dents. These dents will cost $400 to repair, unless you find one of those car body specialists at a Swapmeet to do it for $50 bucks and a bottle of Popov Vodka.

Now that you’re home and staring at the pile of shopping bags, shoeboxes, and that empty box that contained your $400 “High Definition“  television that will break down 2 days after its 30 day return policy, were the blisters on your feet worth it? How about the bags under your eyes that are big enough to carry all the needless junk you just purchased, after pulling a 72 hour bender fueled by heart raging Red Bulls, triple caffeinated Starbucks coffees and cavity causing Cinnabons? Was trampling a security guard doing his job at a Walmart in order to save $20 on Guitar Hero worth the life of another?

Today like millions of others in America, you took your debt to a whole new level by forgetting about the necessities and stocking up on overpriced luxuries thanks to Uncle Amex and Auntie Visa. You put your families wellbeing on hold to purchase something that you think might be of use, because the term 20% off SALE was attached to an item that as marked up 30% since last week. Your short term memory hindered your better judgment, and you forgot that these practices are what got you in this tornado of trouble to begin with. For 1 day, you saw the light, and it was a neon one spelling out the words SALE.

At the end of the day when that lighted SALE sign sputters and shuts off into nothing but darkness, it will be then that you realize why they call the day after Thanksgiving…Black Friday.