Before I begin blogging about Black Friday, here is a definition for those readers outside of the USA, from Wikipedia: “Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States, where it is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season” (see Black Friday (shopping)). If you don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, like the rest of the world, then you just have Christmas sales. Canadians have their Thanksgiving in October, but some make the trip across the border to take advantage of Black Friday deals.

Personally, I try to avoid crowds of people, and rather look for deals online. I’m not alone in this, and some avid deal hunters get online before midnight on Thanksgiving to look for online deals. To them “Cyber Monday” is a non-event concocted by the media. They started shopping before the weekend.

Laptops are always a hot item, but CNET News Blog warns us to “Beware (of) Black Friday Laptop Deals“.

Another way of finding a laptop on Black Friday is looking online. Manufacturers like Toshiba and Lenovo are selling them at directly from their online stores, with discounts of 15 to 30 percent.

Another one of the items a lot of people are looking for this year is the Nintendo Wii Fit.