Periodically, it’s good to review expenses that you’re paying out of habit more than necessity, things that you’ve stopped thinking of as optional. For me, one of those things was my monthly expenditures on movie rentals.
The day after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday because, for many stores, this is this day that they finally go “into the black” in terms of their income for the year. But this year, Black Friday may not be a reality for retailers who are so far “in the red” that they will continue to take losses as they cut prices in order to get you to shop.
Due to the current economic environment, you may find that the big Black Friday doorbusters and deep discounts of past years just aren’t there this year. [Read more →]