The Mad Dash

Preparing for the Mad Dash, going over sales fliers on Thanksgiving.

Day after Thanksgiving: The Mad Dash

The Pomplun ladies spent the day after Thanksgiving as a part of the mad shopping society. Rose, Kali, April and Rose's friend Jen, spent Thanksgiving night at Jasmine's apartment in Janesville. Apparently, none of them slept! At 2 a.m., Jasmine and Eric went to Toys R Us for the 4 a.m. opening to get the advertised "Zune's" (a mp3 player). Rose, Jen, Kali and April went to Kohls for the 5 a.m. opening to get various items. Jasmine and Eric were fifth and sixth in line. There were only six of the advertised Zune's. They were lucky. The lady behind them was not.

We need to contact our legislators to start a bill that says a store may not advertise a product unless it has XX amount (100 quantity, or enough to satisfy the first 50 customers or whatever). Several stores did the same thing, advertised something in a national flier, then each store only had three, or five, or nine or whatever very limited quantities. This is classic bait and switch, which is illegal. Get people in the store by advertising something cheap and inexpensive (two different things), then "switch" them to buying something more expensive. RIP OFF! We will be contacting the Better Business Bureau and our legislators, even though we weren't the ones who were ripped off, this time at least.

The boys? Smart guys stayed in bed. Hmmmm... next year I give them the list!

We did get a lot of things on our list and saved mucho money -- although I'm sure we would have saved a lot more had we just not gone shopping and skipped Christmas gift giving! No? You sure??