Most of the time is 'buy nothing' day - and the last 4 years I observed buy nothing day.

But 2/4/8 gig flash ram on a discount, along with the $120 rebates on Samsung 245BW monitors (ok, bought at 4 AM on Thursday) bought because of 'need' (The open source nvidia drivers want matched monitors so my present 21/22 inch 1600x1200 monitors no longer work at 1600x1200) I'm "justifying" the purchase on the idea of lower power consumption. The bicycle lifts were on sale at harbor freight and the blood pressure monitor was 'on sale'. Bought a few CVS cameras to hack.

Spend the whole damn day in the car friday, and yesterday asleep - trying to catch up on sleep.

Today - re-lace a power bike hub one I put away all the 'treasures' from Friday.

Actually, I went fly fishing for steelhead.
Being a non christian who has not participated in this holiday madness for quite some time, my advice to the reason based community is just stop, quit buying. After a few years your meme infested religious friends and family will get the message that you are serious. It will all fade away.
(it is going to fade away anyway, get it over with now)

Hmmm, Harbor Freight, yeah, I tried to get their on-sale bike lifter. They used to be a good place to stock up on cheap tools and misc, mostly from China, while our US$ is still worth anything. Lately their service seems to be falling apart. Like most other US businesses I've been dealing with -- perhaps they're sensing, even if subconsciously, that their world is about to collapse, so "who cares"? Anyway, they used to send you back-ordered stuff later, now they simply cancel 1/3 of the items in your order, with no explanation (but still charge you the whole shipping amount, and still ship what they do ship in 2 or 3 boxes...). You'd think when you order on-line their system could tell you if something is not in stock?

Anyway, I stayed home these 4 days, but it seems that, for most, the American way of life is not negotiable