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As much as I love shopping + hunting down a good deal, I don’t loveeeee the “real Black Friday experience” as some might call it. The thought of getting up early to face the crowds + cold temperatures, is a no go for me . . . it only leaves me feeling anxious as heck. I will always op to stay home + shop online, especially this year with all the capacity restrictions.<\/p>\n
I don’t know about you but in years past when the Black Friday deal went live, my anxiety levels went UP. I would have serious FOMO (fear of missing out) on a deal which led to over buy due to the pressure of the moment or on the other hand, wanting to throw up the tinsel all together + call it quits.<\/p>\n
With so many deals + special shopping hours that it can overwhelming.\u00a0So, to keep the joy of the season alive, I want to share a few tips + trick I use when shopping Black Friday sales . . .<\/p>\n
1. Shop from your desktop if possible:<\/strong>\u00a0when I shop off my phone, I feel more pressured to make in the moment purchases because its easier to lose your place or items you have sitting in your cart. When I shop off my desktop, I am able to be more intentional with my $$, since I can save my place + shop later.<\/p>\n 2. Shop with intention!!\u00a0<\/strong>I always have to ask myself 2 questions before hitting the purchase button “do\u00a0I need this?” + “is this a\u00a0gift for someone?” if the answer is no, it gets the boot.<\/p>\n 3. \u00a0Make your list before the sales are out:<\/strong> this has been one of the most helpful things for me when shopping, to avoid over spending or shopping. I always sit down a few weeks before + make a list of things I’m looking to snag + the people I am shopping for. I like to think of it like this . . . its like going to the grocery store hungry. When you don’t have a list, you end up buying the whole store because it all looks good in the moment, just to come home + find you already had that item. If I only had to give you one tip for shopping Black Friday, it would be to make your lists ahead of time.<\/p>\n 4. Do your research:\u00a0<\/strong>In addition to who + what I’m shopping for, I like to make a rough outline of where I am going to shop. Below are a few places + favorite deals happening this Black Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As much as I love shopping + hunting down a good deal, I don’t loveeeee the “real Black Friday experience” as some might call it. The thought of getting up early to face the crowds + cold temperatures, is a no go for me . . . it only leaves me feeling anxious as heck….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"smash-guide-single.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_5142.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mhS8-4Y1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19097"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19725,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19097\/revisions\/19725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}