So another term from the US has started to crawl into german language and eventually daily life/yearly routine: Black Friday.

And for me there are two reasons to reject this: first it promotes mindless shopping of "next years landfill", and second it is a historic term, the black friday of the stock market crash in october 1929, the same shit that we experienced in 2007/2008, for anyone that might forgot that.

So by accident I`ve stumbled upon the following page and I really like the Idea, and I`m gonna follow that simple idea :) and won`t purchase anything.

http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/

Ok, I think I missed something. We have that stuff here as well now? Since when, why and how?

Reclaim it by just buying lots of Black Forest Gateaux.

Black Forest Friday

In Romania we had Black Friday all month long. Don't ask...

Not sure it is really new. I remember to have heard from it already in history lessons in school many years ago.

But using it in everyday life? I'm confused what it should mean in daily life here? Never heard of it.

If anything maybe we could exchange. In Germany demonstrations are traditionally on mondays, thus the term "Monday demo" where demo is short for demonstration/protest march. And that actually could happen really every week.

Well I'll be working instead of shopping. If I do shop, it will be for regular grocery items since online deals are better.

In spirit of the custom arriving in Germany, to Mr. D...

Alles Gute zum Schwartz Freitag!

Just be a good citizen and keep buying shit :o)

I don't want to nitpick(so why am I doing it?) but it's "Schwarzer Freitag". Oder "der Schwarze Freitag". I know we have dumb grammar rules, but that's how it is. And there never is a "tz" in schwarz.

Nah, our grammar is alright, try russian or finnish grammar (among others), those are the real deal.

He or she probably confused it with the surname, which (at least in the U.S.) is sometimes spelled with a 't'.

Compared to english, our grammar is bullshit. And I don't know anything about finnish, but in russian I at least knew how to discern the different cases, unlike in german where it's just intuition and I never found a real rule exept these stupid questions.

I haven't seen a Black Friday sale in Germany yet.

Or Black Forest Games! :P

Yeah, but then again, you live in Wallis and Futuna. ;)

If theres a good deal on something I want. Then I tend to make use of that. I don't really care what time of month or holiday it is.

Living in the U.S., I don't even go out on Black Friday. It's crazy and crowded as people fall for the teaser sales ($200 60" LED TV - in fine print, while supplies last - 1 in stock), or, oh look, you can save $10 on some piece of crap you do not need. Some stores are even opening Thanksgiving night now.