Every year on the day after Thanksgiving, most of the news seems to be devoted to "Black Friday," the official start of the holiday* shopping season. Personally, I'd rank getting up at the crack of dawn to fight over sales items right up there with getting up at the crack of dawn to sit in a deer stand waiting for a hapless victim to wander by. In other words, neither is ever going to happen -- but that's just me.  

Where do you stand on the post-Thanksgiving shopping lollapalooza? And if you participated this year, how did it go? Great sales and crowds, or not so great?

*just doing my part to wage the war on Christmas