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Black Friday Furniture Sale Shopping Statistics: Good Deals or Myths?

“Black Friday” brings on seemingly insane sales prices from toys to full home furnishings. The frenzy caused by “Black Friday” shopping may be conducive for buying a video game but it may not be the ideal way to invest in your home furnishings. The high pitched fever caused by competing for those limited sale items make the decision making process distorted with high pressure and time limitations on thinking through the purchase. The competitive side of Black Friday Fever can make you purchase items that you normally would not just because you feel like you beat out everyone who did not get there in time. The other risk in using Black Friday ads for furnishing your home is that many stores stock up with low quality, generic, mass produced items that sell at seemingly low prices but then degrade very quickly just to get you in the door.

While the tradition of shopping the day after Thanksgiving has been around for almost a century the term actually originated in a negative reference to the shopping chaos of the 1966 holiday season in Philadelphia. “Black Friday” was tagged by the Philadelphia Police Department to describe that particular Friday following Thanksgiving Day. The Philadelphia Police were not fond of the massive traffic jams in the streets and on the sidewalks of downtown Philly from early morning to closing time. So disliked was this sale day that the term Black Friday was coined referencing the horrible stock market crash of 1929 called “Black Tuesday“.

Feeling the pressure to buy on one particular day because everyone else is buying and you are missing out may very well be media induced and not really accurate. For several decades Black Friday has been credited by the popular media as being the busiest shopping day of the year but in fact the most profitable day may be the Saturday before Christmas. Black Friday customer traffic may indeed be the highest that Friday but in terms of sales and profitability Black Friday falls short almost every year. In actuality, very few times has Black Friday been the busiest and most profitable retail shopping day of the year in the United States.

Instead of rushing out to buy furniture or home furnishings influenced by a sale on Black Friday instead consider purchasing from reliable vendors who always offer steady and valuable deals. Instead of buying disposable particle board furniture out of a box that you bought on sale, it is best to consider a retailer who stocks their inventory with solid wood bedroom suites, dining room suites, living room furniture and much more - all  from reputable craftsmen. Instead of being influenced by a Black Friday sales gimmick always decide what your goal is for each room and make a list or home decorating journal to follow. It is fine to check out holiday ads for sales but know that only a few people ever acquire an heirloom item worth investing their money and long early morning hours in. In other words, when buying for your home environment why buy just for the sake of a deal? This leads to unnecessary and low quality home furniture purchases spurred by Black Friday’s value depleted sales.

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