Let’s Go Shopping!

Black Friday is the “biggest shopping day of the year”! It is the Friday after Thanksgiving and it usually involves early mornings and more recently even late nights of shopping! Stores offer their best deals during this time to kick-off the holiday shopping season. I used to work in retail and I love to shop, so I normally am in some store or mall on this day….  Not last year!

Last year I spent my black Friday at Lowe’s and Home Depot! Never thought I would be saying that in a million years but that’s where I ended up!

My boyfriend and I went there just to check out the deals that were going on and we got to talking with one of the workers at Home Depot and he was telling us that this particular sale was the best they’ve got all year. I was shocked that this was true for appliances, because generally I associate black Friday with clothes, toys & electronics.

“Just looking” turned into two credit cards later and some awesome interest-free deals!

I ordered a stove, microwave and a new washer and dryer at Home Depot and got two full years no interest on top of the awesome deals they had. I still haven’t seen my same exact appliances cheaper than when I got them.

I ordered my fridge from Lowe’s because I fell in love with the stainless Samsung French door with the ice maker on the door and inside the lower freezer door. Again I got no interest, this time for 18 months and also I still haven’t seen my fridge as low as I got it for. I would recommend anyone in the market for appliances to check out Black Friday sales. My fridge was not easy getting into the house the doors had to be removed for it to get into the house since the doorways are super small, true for many smaller Royal Oak homes. As much as I love my fridge, if I ever move it's probably going to stay!

 

I didn’t get a matching dishwasher because my dad had given me a gently used stainless one that he bought from a friend. Once my kitchen was all put together, we installed this used dishwasher and it would run and then as soon as my dad would leave, the dishwasher wouldn’t fill with water. It was bizarre, so finally after a couple weeks of my dad coming over and trying to fix it, he bought me a brand new stainless dishwasher and installed that one! Come to find out, we determined the issue as we were disconnecting the used one. The water hose was getting kinked when we would push the dishwasher back into place under the countertop, so it wasn’t really broken after all. After all the hassle we just installed the new one and now I have a gently used dishwasher I am trying to sell! Let me know if anyone needs a dishwasher!