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Nada.

I suppose I still need to worry about Christmas gifts.

Nothing

I went to the dollar store and get a salt lamp for $5, 4 tubes of Burt's Bees Travel Toothpaste (Flouride free) for $2, and a $15 Christmas Tree. Oh, and a $1 Aluminium Water Bottle and $5 Swim Trunks for my oldest; he's been using his mesh shorts as he just had a growth spurt.

Spent 900 on a 3d printer for kids to replace the 150 dollar one I bought for Christmas 5-6 years ago. 130 on sleeping bag liners to help with winter camping.

It's Black Friday, so I stole a bicycle, of course.

Nothing, fuck em, bah humbug.

If you remember some retailers have been calling their prices a continuation of Black Friday since Halloween.
They have taken the curiosity out of investing any interest on what those sale prices or items even are. Retailers are in lockstep on prices, so any price at one place is going to be the same at the other. Since they don't really compete, no retailer is going to blitz out $400 80 UHD televisions.

RC2006 says

Spent 900 on a 3d printer for kids to replace the 150 dollar one I bought for Christmas 5-6 years ago. 130 on sleeping bag liners to help with winter camping.

What did you get, $900 sounds like a lot of 3D printer? But I just look at the $500 and under models on Amazon, so what do I know?
I keep toying with the idea of getting one, but I don't need another doodad that use until the supplied consumables run out, then I box it away and never pull it out again. Until it gets pitched one day to clear out clutter. As by then they are usually antiquated, outdated and not wanted.

TurboTax

Nada. There's nothing on sale today, that I can't get better or cheaper some other day. And most of it's useless junk.

Tenpoundbass says

RC2006 says

Spent 900 on a 3d printer for kids to replace the 150 dollar one I bought for Christmas 5-6 years ago. 130 on sleeping bag liners to help with winter camping.

What did you get, $900 sounds like a lot of 3D printer? But I just look at the $500 and under models on Amazon, so what do I know?
I keep toying with the idea of getting one, but I don't need another doodad that use until the supplied consumables run out, then I box it away and never pull it out again. Until it gets pitched one day to clear out clutter. As by then they are usually antiquated, outdated and not wanted.

Bambu Lab P1S 3D
One of my kids uses it a lot for engineering projects. My old one was constantly needing more time getting it to work than running and wasting material, but it was a good learning experience for kids with all the screwing around with it to get it to work right.

Weed whacked 35 $
Bought 2 for 70 , battery is 50 so might as well get 2.

Got 200 $ in gc from Rita aid for home depot. Will buy bidet with it.

Biggest black friday sales volume ever. I don't think Americans are hurting too much.

Follow that up with most of it bought on credit. Bad time to be owing anyone anything...

Tools from 911 Motorsports. Among other things, they make floor jack adapters that fit my floor jack.

Also got tons of Churu for my cats.

Also booked some hotel rooms.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/how-to-find-real-deals-on-black-friday.html

Over a third of Black Friday sales aren't really discounts, study finds: 'There's some trickery happening'
Published Wed, Nov 26 2025

... But certain discounts you see online may not be as good a deal as advertised. In fact, 36% of items on sale for Black Friday offer no savings compared with how they were priced between Oct. 27 and Nov. 17, according to new data from WalletHub.