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Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving. It's the number #1 Christmas shopping day of the season. Stores will put on spectacular sales with products at outrageously low prices, but there's only a limited supply of the items. The stores tend to open their doors at 5am or 4am or even 3am. Naturally, customers wanting to get on these outrageously low prices will wake up at 2am or even camp out in front of the store on Thanksgiving Day to be the first line or at least near the front of the line. All of the stores put out ads in the newspaper and they come out on Thanksgiving so people can see what's going to be on sale the next day. I myself am guilty of getting up at 2am to get in line in the sub freezing temps to get a US$100 42" HD flatscreen TV or US$100 160GB Playstation 3 or even $20 PS3 games that are regularly $60. It's crazy madness. We also have Cyber Monday which is on the Monday following Black Friday where most retailers put on incredible sales only on their online outlets. We here in the US are hoping for good sales this weekend to help boost our national and local economies.