The annual Black Friday Flyer Weigh-In

Author(s)

Janine Talbot

Document Type

Blog

Publication Date

12-5-2016

Abstract

A couple of years ago I started a new tradition. It's called the Black Friday Flyer Weigh-In. I find it funny - in that "Are you kidding me?" way and not so much in a ha-ha way - that we get not one, but two newspapers that we're not even subscribed to on Thanksgiving Day, both stuffed with advertisements from some of the most, and least, interesting places. I became curious over the amount of paper wasted, trees ripped out of the ground, and ink splayed over the surface of this printed wasteland. I'm still on paper, so don't expect actual statistics here.

Keywords

Erma Bombeck, humor writing, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, University of Dayton

eCommons Citation

Talbot, Janine, "The annual Black Friday Flyer Weigh-In" (2016). Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog. 1664.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ebww_blog/1664