Don’t Fall Into the Black Friday Trap

Holidays, and in particular, holiday spending can leave your budget seriously bruised…even if you do hit all the sales.

Remember, the stores are offering these great bargains out of the goodness of their hearts. They’re doing it to get you to their stores (or websites) to sell you stuff beyond the 55-inch 4k, 3D capable OLED television for $49. I mean, if you saved hundreds on that, you have hundreds of ‘extra’ dollars, right? And where better to spend it than the store that ‘gave’ you all that extra cash?

Don’t fall into the Black Friday trap. Have a holiday spending budget and stick to it like Odysseus sailing past the Sirens songs of deep discounts.

Holiday Spending Heats Up

Black Friday is also no longer a one-day event. It has morphed into a spending extravaganza that lasts almost 2 weeks. There’s early Black Friday specials that have already begun at some stores, there’s Amazon Black Friday Week, as well as Cyber Monday.

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