Black Friday shopping
OK, I'm braving the crowds again this year with a friend. We actually had a lot of fun last year, and this year, we're a bit more mentally prepared for the crazy. LOL Anyway, I am thinking this would be a good opportunity to pick up some new clothes that ill eventually fit into. I'm just excited to do some shopping for myself! I need to break out of my slumpy, droopy look that I've been sporting. I don't think I've ever had clothes that fit me right, come to think of it. It should be an adventure!
Anyone else braving Black Friday craziness?
I want to warn you that shopping "ahead" may be problematic if you are trying to buy pants or anything else fitted. You may lose additional weight in your hips but not lose additional weight in your waist until later, for example, and it can be very hard to anticipate how something will fit when your body is changing both size AND shape. You may find that you end up wih a pair of pants that are too baggy in the butt by the time you can button the waist (and then you STILL look sloppy!). So I would stick to items that aren't fitted or have some elastic (I'm not suggesting buying full elastic waist pants, for example, but some very nice looking pants have hidden elastic in the back of the waistband that gives just a little to accommodate women with hips and waist that don't quite match up size-wise).
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
Not me. I don't care much for shopping at any time, but I really hate crowds. No way I'd go into a store on Black Friday. I know some people love it, though. My sister is really looking forward to it.
Just wanted to mention, for anyone that shares my feelings about it and does not want to go shopping on that busy day, remember you can order stuff from Amazon, Netrition and Quest through Nik's website http://www.bariatricfoodie.com and that does not involve crowds. You can also do it in your jammies.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
I kinda have moral issues with black friday, so i won't be doing it, unless it's a local, non chain store. We are making a huge focus on trying to buy locally made, and a min, USA made things.
that and i don't like crowds of crazy lol
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HW:288 CW:146.4 GW: 140 RNY: 12/22/11
Having worked retail for many years, only the last two year I have been able to take the day off. And that is only because I work in the buying office now. I am not a crowd person so my plans are to visit the Goodwill store in Seattle as they will have 50% off color tags. Other than that I started shopping this week as most department stores ads run Sunday -Sat so most things are on sale already except any door busters. There are normally no one in the department stores on the Wed. night before Thanksgiving also.
By the way- as far as working on Black Friday in a retail stores. I actually loved it as long as I wasn't asked to work another 6 hours 10 mins before going home for the day. I found that most people were as nice and friendly to me as I was to them. The day went by fast and I had a great time.
I plan to buy over 65% online this year. I have bought all my out of town gifts already because of needing to mail them. For those people I am making a gift basket of different types of foods from WA state- smoked salmon, apple cake mix, Brown and Haley's choc. you get the idea. It was also all bought at a local Seattle owned store.
RNY 8/29/12 5' 9" tall
