Don't buy anythingFollow

You're right. Despite huge sales on massive amounts of goods that people are going to want to buy for themselves and their loved ones in preparation for the holiday exactly one month away, sales will be staggeringly low across the board.

I'm actually likely not buying anything, simply because I haven't seen anything worthwhile yet. This holiday season's looking to be kinda crappy from that aspect.

I'll be going to my grocery store which, thankfully, is only on the verge of all the retail stuff in my area. I don't have anything on my gift list that is worth dealing with those crowds for. I want to get my mom a laptop, but I'm not waiting in line at two AM at best buy or walmart to maybe get one super cheap.

Communist!

Is that "buy nothing" like "Eh, I don't think the deals are good enough" or like "I'm making a stand against consumerism!"?

Things like one day gas boycotts never made much sense to me since you just buy gas the next day. "Haha! I won't buy your milk and eggs today! See you tomorrow?"

Things I bought today.

Uncharted 3
Batman: Arkham City
Battlefield 3
Gears Of War 3
Assassin's Creed Revelations


If I could've found Skyrim on sale I would've bought it as well.

Drink the beer. Worry about the rest tomorrow.

So apparently my ram IS on sale...

Shame though they black model is out of stock, seeing as thats what I have. But I do have blue leds on case/keyboard/mouse and my mobo is also blue.... That would look pretty cool....

Yup gonna buy some ram, 16gig here I come.

Quick... I need reasons that validate my purchase of ram to my wife.

Give her the same excuse she gives you when she buys shoes- "but it was such a great deal!"

Trivia: Australia Post has experienced a large drop in letter traffic/revenue since the widespread take-up of e-mail, however this revenue has been completely compensated for by the large increase in parcel deliveries from the widespread take-up of online sales.

We just got told that the in-laws of my sister in law are requesting "no adult gift giving" at their house on Christmas day, as their other son is presently unemployed and cannot participate. This means they are only giving stuff to the grandkids, and want us to do the same so he doesn't feel bad.

I'm rather relieved. They're pretty well off (the grandparents) and getting stuff for them is difficult.

We've adopted this sort of policy for years now. A long time ago we switched to an adult gift lottery (kinda like a secret santa thing). Each person would draw two names and get gifts for just those two people in the $50 range. That kept costs from getting ridiculous, and you could buy an actual decent gift for someone. At some point, we decided that was still too much of a pain, so now we just do a book exchange. Everyone brings a book, and we draw numbers and pick/steal books. It works well, is fun, and doesn't cost much (in time or money).

Of course, we get the kids gifts. Cause they're kids.

Edited, Nov 30th 2011 7:13pm by gbaji