Yes, it's true. Even I get sucked into the Black Friday madness. And about eight years ago, I

answered a call, a dare from my family to brave Black Friday for a $200 shopping spree.

I know, it's totally crazy, but I do love a good dare. And who doesn't love some free money?

But I certainly learned a few lessons about how you can win on Black Friday and not be one of the

66 million people expected to go into debt. I'm Shawna Compton Game. This is Millennium Money,

and today we're talking that time I took the Black Friday Dare and Black Friday deals. Millennial Money with Shawna Compton game.

It will expand your brain. Millennial Money with Shawna Compton Game.

It will expand your brain.

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Stay tuned to hear more about the well-connected 2019 Lincoln MKC. You're not going to want to miss this. Now on to the podcast episode. It all started with a dare a few years ago. My family

dared me to get up at 2 a.m. go stand in line for at least one Black Friday sales opening, like actually

in person, not online. And the idea of standing in line with hundreds of other people waiting

for the store doors to open, it didn't sound like something I was exactly excited to experience,

but if you know me, you know I love a good challenge.

I am up for any challenge that you throw at me, specifically if you're going to actually put

some dollars behind it.

So $200 may not seem like a lot of money, but I'm thinking, okay, if I got to wake up in

the morning, I could do it if someone's going to give me

200 bucks to go shop and buy whatever I wanted to buy. I mean, how could I say no?

So on that Friday, literally after gorging myself with turkey the day before, because that's

what you do on Thanksgiving, right? You eat way too much.

I say that anything that they put on the Thanksgiving table has absolutely no calories. So I don't freak out about it. I just, you know, I can undo those calories later. But I remember getting

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