Black Friday? Another daft idea . Bah Humbug! I realise now that in my youth as the mother of two small children I would have been delighted by the thought of getting money knocked off stuff essential for Christmas... I was always very hard up as a single mum...days when I had to chose between feeding my family or buying a new tyre for my ancient Wolsley still live in my memory with horror!
Just driving a car made me very happy most of the time...the fact that it was the ugliest car I ever had absolutely adds to the memories but it got us all to school most days.
Buying my children new toys and providing suitably festive food, had to take second place to the main job of survival. I would have been very glad of Black Friday then.. now it just produces a yawn.
So in my old age , reviewing the road travelled from real poverty to comfortable old age I realise how very fortunate I have been. I know many old people who struggle . I try to help out if I can but tend to try to do it anonymously.. a couple of twenty pound notes inside a Christmas card works well I find ....for young families as well as the very old...
I don’t buy stuff on Black Friday...so far but .......taking this position for granted is another trap for the unwary! I would if I needed to but thankfully I don’t. Thank you God.
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Black Friday or Cyber Saturday are artificial constructs and evidence from WHICH is that most of the bargains are illusory. I did not buy anything, albeit I am looking to get a new mobile, but the choice is to spend a lot or just go for a basic phone which matches the ability of my elderly blackberry to receive emails and texts and to browse the internet slowly and carefully and very securely.
Modern phones are enormously expensive gadgets and accessing them from an eyeball or fingerprint or voice is just a pain to set up. My BB has a pin, which I can recall as it has resonance for a reason, which I don't discuss, ever, with anyone.
So, I will stick with a traditional blackberry, with a usable keyboard and operating system, now five years old, but still pretty robust. Unless, some windfall comes my way at Christmas.
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