Black Friday is billed as the biggest shopping day of the years. We are told if you want to get the best deal of the 2011 Christmas shopping season, it will be on either Black Friday or Cyber Monday. In reality this is not always true.

This year I went to Wal Mart as an observer. I want to see what it was going to be like at midnight. This is when Wal Mart and a few others started Black Friday sales. What I observed and experience will remain with me the rest of my life.

It was the witching hour. It was midnight, when both hands of the clock strike the twelve. This is the moment that separates both November 24^th and 25^th of 2011. The moment that separates Thanksgiving Day from Black Friday. Suddenly the crowded store turned from a bunch of lookers to a school of hungry Paraná feeding. They weren’t just swimming around. It was as if the Parana were feeding on an injured water buffalo.

If you are like me, you are so don’t want to see any more food. You have stuffed yourself, on Thanksgiving Day. Most of you will be reading this post after hitting all those early morning Black Friday sales. Some of you will be waiting for the Cyber Monday sales.

Yes there are some great deals out there. However, there are some published deals that are not really deals. On Thanksgiving Day, I got an email from Amazon.com. It was telling me about some great deals on selected items.

Since I am currently looking for a 15″ Acer laptop for a family member. So I did some price comparisons. Amazon.com was showing me a of price was $349. The same laptop from Wal Mart the week prior to Thanksgiving was selling for $318.

Just a few days ago, I was talking to this lady, who with some friends and family members head out to different stores on Black Friday. They text each other as to which stores have what price on which items. The individual that is at that store, where it is cheapest makes the purchase for those who are not.

Grouponicus and Gobblepalooza are some of the fancy names we are seeing to describe the after Thanksgiving Black Friday Day sales. For about a week now I have been getting emails from Amazon.com and others announcing Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales. Some stores have jumped the gun and have already started their sales.

At one time Black Friday was the starter pistol firing, to signal the start of the Christmas shopping season. Last year we saw some stores, like Sears, who normally don’t open extra as early on Black Friday, open earlier. This year we are seeing a lot of stores having pre-Black Friday sales. Only a small number of store are not waiting for November 25th to launch their Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales.

I have read that Kmart and Wal Mart will be open of Thanksgiving Day. This is almost enough to make me stop shopping with them. Thanksgiving has always been set aside for family gathering and watching TV. In our fast pace disjointed world, Thanksgiving has become one of the few times families can come together and reconnect. Now those who have to work on Thanksgiving Day will have a harder time to connect with family members.

We are less than two months away from Christmas Day. The holiday shopping seasons officially starts in less than three weeks, with Black Friday. Already we are starting to see hints about Christmas shopping, and where the best deals will be at.

Commercials from Wal Mart stating the best deals will only be from them. Kmart has ran some commercials about how we need to use their Lay-A-Way plan as part of our Christmas shopping. Many other stores have already started displaying Christmas decorations.

Websites like TheBlackFriday.com have been posting what items are being sold and for how much. Then retailers like Target are wanting you to create an online account to see their Black Friday deals. Even the online retailers like Amazon.com are offering special deals from Black Friday thru Cyber Monday.

Last night world renown artists sang classic Christmas songs as a prelude to the lighting of Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center. Boise Idaho received a dusting of snow over ice. This made it difficult for shoppers to get home. Local Radio stations have started playing Christmas music from a wide variety of genre.

This year the feeling of Christmas is stronger than it has been in a long time.  Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade which normally signals the start of the Christmas shopping season was beat out by Sears.  For the first time in the history of Sears they opened on Thanksgiving morning with price cutting deals.

Wal Mart  has started the Christmas Shopping season early from their website. All the other retailers followed the lead of Sears and Wal Mart by blurring the lines of Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. 

Are you ready for tomorrow? Tomorrow is the biggest shopping day of the year. Have you been getting all those fliers in the mail? Have you been getting all those emails letting you know where big saving are going to be happening on Black Friday?

If you haven’t been getting them, you must of have been cut off from any contact with the outside world. Local and national news has been filled with there own versions of where the best deals can be found on Black Friday.

Today is Thanksgiving. It is a time of food, family, and friends. The day after Thanksgiving is Black Friday. It is when store offers blowout deals to start off the Christmas Shopping Season. My sources have all been telling me that this is the most optimistic Black Friday in years.

Today is Saturday. Thanksgiving is over. Black Friday is over. Until Christmas we are not going to be relieved from the bombardment of “DEALS” that we cannot pass. Did you know that there are other stores were you can get fantastic deals for other than electronics, cloths, and stuff?

Last night I had to take an emergency run to Winco, my local grocery store, because we were out of bacon. In our family, Saturday morning pancakes and bacon is a bigger tradition than Thanksgiving dinner.

We are  just one week away from the biggest shopping day of the year. Well, that is what all the marketing people tell us. Crowds storm shopping malls all across the United States for that great deal. or that must have Christmas present.

The day after Thanksgiving when all the retail stores say that they have their biggest savings deals for the Christmas season. Crowds of people line up outside malls all across the United States and Canada to rush in for those big savings, when the doors open.

The truth be known, those same deals, if not better deals can be found at different times through out the years. Then there is purchase Christmas gifts online can also save you a few dollars more.

This is where a recon can save you hundreds of dollar. All it takes is a few simple steps.