by Nkechiye O.

Created on: December 03, 2009   Last Updated: January 04, 2012

Black Friday. People camp out for hours, even days before the sale begins. Waking up way too early for comfort, only to still be towards the end of the line.  Angry, sleepy mobs gang up when line cutters start to emerge. Surely this alone would convince you that it is not worth it, but I can do better.

Here are the top 3 reasons; it is not worth standing in line for Black Friday.

On-line Retailers& Black Monday

It is 2009. This year, computers do just about everything for us but raise our children. Wait, they do that too. OK, computers do everything but walk our dogs. We can write articles from our living room for the world to see, pay every bill that you have with 5 clicks of a mouse at Wells Fargo.com, even buy groceries! With big names like Amazon.com and Overstock.com having huge
on line black Friday deals, why even bother going out anymore.Sure that HDTV is only 1000 this year, but it will be hassle getting that home, and heaven forbid, upstairs. If you went on Best Buy or Amazon, they probably had HDTVs for 1000 plus a little extra for shipping, handling and installation. On-line retailers also gave the smart ones a break and had an on-line Black Monday! What is better than beating a crowd for a good deal, and swiping that last IPOD up from under another person’s nose?  Well, doing it in your PJ's, in the safety and privacy of your own home. Was it worth standing in the cold, getting a cold, and fighting to keep from falling to your death during the stampede into Wal-Mart? My guess is no.

Most of the Sales go on all weekend.

Aside from those pesky door busters, most retailers had their sale the whole weekend. Yes there are still crowds, but at least you’re not camping out all day on Thursday night. Some retailers have even extended their sales to Monday!

Black Friday is Dangerous AND Has Even Been Deadly in previous years.

Now this reason should be the reason to make you stay home on Black Friday next year and every year. Black Friday is supposed to be a catchy phrase, not a phrase describing the events of that day. Who can forget the fatal incident at Wal-Mart last Black Friday? Many watched specter of the stampede that killed Wal-Mart seasonal worker Jdimytai Damour, 34, that Friday 2008. In the melee, shoppers had pushed glass sliding doors to the ground, bending their aluminum frames like an accordion.The stampede resulted in the death of Damour, who was in the front vestibule helping to open the store for

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