Wal-Mart worker dies in Black Friday stampede

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by Langox510x

Let me put it this way.

If you personally would live your life only using the necessities and pinching every penny even if you didn't have much to start out with, then you sir are a cold fridge person.

Life is to short not to live a little.

But you're going from one extreme to the other - there's a middle point between "pinching every penny" and being able to "live a little."

I didn't grow up with a whole lot, and even though my wife and I do fairly well, we're not going to be spending a ton of money for Christmas presents this year. The problem is that people don't take a long view of things - you should look beyond the next month, and try to figure out how to make sure that things are ok over the long haul.

If you can truly afford it and buy expensive things that you and your loved ones will enjoy, then that's not a problem in my mind. But, using all of your accumulated savings to buy holiday gifts is just asking for trouble.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

But you're going from one extreme to the other - there's a middle point between "pinching every penny" and being able to "live a little."

I didn't grow up with a whole lot, and even though my wife and I do fairly well, we're not going to be spending a ton of money for Christmas presents this year. The problem is that people don't take a long view of things - you should look beyond the next month, and try to figure out how to make sure that things are ok over the long haul.

If you can truly afford it and buy expensive things that you and your loved ones will enjoy, then that's not a problem in my mind. But, using all of your accumulated savings to buy holiday gifts is just asking for trouble.

Precisely.

[christiangirl]

I heard about this when I was out of town. I heard about the two people getting shot at Toys R Us, too. Ridiculous.

We went shopping at like 9pm that night. I absolutely refused to go when stores opened--I'd rather go at night and get the leftovers. While I was trying out one of the massage chairs () at BB&B, I had a chat with the manager and he told me stories of what that morning had been like:

1. An elderly woman with a cane stole a cart from a lady who looked about 9 months pregnant. A man tried to explain that it belonged to the pregnant woman and the lady just said "I'm disabled so I get it first" and threatened to beat both the man and the pregnant woman with her cane if they dared try to take it from her.

2. A woman saw another shopper with something in her hand that she wanted and it was the last one. So she pushed her cart at the woman as hard as she could, causing her to hit her head on the floor and fall unconscious. The woman picked up the thing, threw it in her cart, and walked away leaving the other shopper blacked out on the floor. (A cashier saw it happen and she was led away by police. Whatever it was she took was returned to the other shopper after she woke up and was treated).

Honestly, I've never shopped on a Black Friday morning and never will as long as I have an ounce of sanity left. Not gonna happen.

[texas*princess]

I can't find a link, and I don't know if it's already been mentioned, but I heard on the news that a 28-yr old pregnant woman was caught in that same Wal-Mart stampede and ended up miscarrying her baby after she was rushed to the hospital

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

I can't find a link, and I don't know if it's already been mentioned, but I heard on the news that a 28-yr old pregnant woman was caught in that same Wal-Mart stampede and ended up miscarrying her baby after she was rushed to the hospital

Yeah, that was discussed a few pages back (lol, somewhere in there). It turned out to be misreported and the baby is actually fine.