Commercial Break: Black Friday Sale!!!1
You won’t see this often, and I feel a bit like a gimp for doing it because this place is about as noncommercial as things get BUT… well… a man has to buy Christmas presents for his family, right?
There’s a Black Friday sale on my photographs today, until 11:59pm Pacific time — so if you’re in the US, you have until midnight. If you’re in Europe or the east, you have until about midday Saturday!
The deal is: $10 off if you spend $40 or more. Most prints are $40, but some are less — so you’ll either have to buy 1 or 2 photos to ‘enable’ the discount. The discount will be applied after the order, because Etsy is a bit silly like that — I have to refund $10 to your PayPal account/credit card after you’ve paid.
It’s a significant saving! Buy now! (Have I flogged this enough yet?)
There will also likely be another special offer before Christmas, I just don’t know what it will be yet.
Anyway, now you get a block of pretty photos to entice you into buying one of them. See you on Monday…! We have a special ‘52 Weeks‘ planned and I’m quite excited. Now, I need to go and find my eye-makeup…
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Ahem. SOME of us in the U.S. will have only until 10pm.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:10 pmHah.
My original draft actually had that as ‘the most western time zone available’ — but I figured that wasn’t very clear…
You can have until midnight Hawaiian time, Eleni — just you.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:15 pmWHat is Black Friday?
I always thought it was Friday the 13th, but that was a couple of weeks ago and now a lot of my international flist are talking about Black Friday sales and I’m confused.
November 27th, 2009 at 11:53 pmIt’s the day after Thanksgiving in the US.
Think it’s named after lots of smog/traffic I think — or borrowed from some financial crisis way-back-when.
Lots of sales… MILLIONS of shoppers (like… half of America go shopping. 150 million…)
November 28th, 2009 at 12:32 amAw, a special deal just for me. Now I’m feeling guilty, like I have to buy something…
I think Black Friday is less about smog and more about the terrible traffic, the mobbed malls, and the long lines. Not only are there a lot of shoppers, but people start shopping EARLY, with some stores open at 4am, 3am, or maybe even all night in some special cases. Best deals early in the morning, and only early can you be sure they haven’t run out of whatever it is you want to buy. I worked retail while in college, but I was always careful not to tell my employers I was around during Thanksgiving weekend. Dodged that bullet.
November 28th, 2009 at 2:08 amThe term “Black Friday” actually is in reference to the one day of the year where retailers expect their holiday sales to jump “into the black,” or, profitability. Thank a reporter, who had to cover the madness at 6 a.m. yesterday and is all-too-knowledgeable about the tradition.
November 28th, 2009 at 7:49 pmThe Wiki page would disagree with you, and say that the term is a little ambiguous…
But your version is just as believable as the others!
You poor thing — was it madness?
November 28th, 2009 at 7:51 pmIt was! It is every year. P.S. – Wikipedia is a horrible source for anything, but where the term originates might be accurate on there. I haven’t actually read it. But what I said is just what it means for retailers, who are the ones who run the whole show, anyway. At least, according to the Associated Press and my more than one year of Black Friday coverage under my sad little belt. haha.
November 28th, 2009 at 8:00 pmYar, I’ve heard the ‘into the black’ derivation before — and a lot of other ones too!
I think the smog/traffic one sounds most likely… but what do I know. I’m a Brit.
We have Boxing Day sales over here — the day after Christmas. I guess both are the same… you have to waddle around while still-stuffed from the day before.
November 28th, 2009 at 8:05 pmThat’s OK. Brits are still awesome. Boxing Day sounds intriguing. More like a day where you’re going to punch anyone who crosses you and tries to take your Tickle Me Elmo … or whatever is the cool, hot toy nowadays.
November 28th, 2009 at 8:09 pmDid you look up Boxing Day?
It’s quite cute — back in the olden days, all the snobs would re-box their unwanted gifts and give them to their slaves/maids/staff/etc.
Very… British. Very Imperial.
November 29th, 2009 at 4:11 pmWow. That sounds … perfect. I kind of wish it involved sweaty violence, but I’ll take that.
November 29th, 2009 at 5:53 pmMust… not… biting back offer of sweaty violence…argh…
November 29th, 2009 at 5:55 pmDO IT!
November 29th, 2009 at 6:13 pmWe have Boxing Day over here too. It is jokingly suggested that it’s when you box up all the crap presents you got from your relatives and take them back to the store for a refund.
November 30th, 2009 at 12:39 pmWell, that’s the modern interpretation of it, yes…
But I think the Brits are slightly more… conscientious…
Australians probably less so
November 30th, 2009 at 12:42 pm