“Oh god thank you for this wonderful Thanksgiving meal and all that you have given me throughout the year.  Oh if you can find it in your heart… please ensure I hit some great sales tomorrow.”  This was a quote taken from my mom on Thanksgiving Day.

Women live for this un-official holiday…more than Christmas, more than Valentine’s Day, more than Mother’s Day.

The week before Black Friday women plan heavily with internet research and flyer analysis of upcoming sales.  The kitchen is transformed into a “war room”. Sale flyers posted everywhere, a giant white board by the frig mapping out store locations and Black Friday strategy.  In the den another white board with a back up strategy for Black Friday, just incase the strategy in the kitchen does not work.

The night before:  Credit card limits are checked and cards are polished to a shine.  The alarm clocks are set for 4 AM and showers are taken the night before (to save time).

Your wife will call you a 100 times a day on any other day throughout the year.  But on this day you won’t hear from her.  The only call you may get is from AMEX fraud department, stating “your card may have been stolen, it’s been charged 19 times in the last hour”. 

In the end, not a bad deal.  Your wife comes home happy as hell.  The money she saved… or thinks she saved is like an aphrodisiac.  She glows like her wedding day… but then Saturday comes, its time to put up the Christmas decorations, and life is back to normal.