For those of you who have been reading my series on what I call "Black Friday Madness" today, we'll end the series by my asking of the nuts-n-bolts question of the hour -- which retailers do you plan to visit this Friday?

The answers from many millions of shoppers -- if not the majority of them -- will probably be "whoever has the best prices". That's a completely valid reason, I might add. The price-savviest consumers will be perched on a schedule and strategy that places product pricing above all else, retailer be forgotten.

But, based on where the bulk of your holiday shopping may be, there are some who will prefer to be at one retailer first before all else. Most national retailers will open early this Friday -- many at 5am -- to let the hordes of patiently waiting consumers into stores to rid the shelves and back rooms of any bargain that is available.

Yet others will show up at their favorite retailer to get the bargains from a preferred shopping partner rather than going where the absolute lowest-prices products can be found. Where will you be very early Friday morning, and what's at the top of your shopping list? Be careful out there and keep a level head this Friday -- don't let the triptophan mess you up from the day before -- ok?

Happy hunting, pecking, grabbing and swiping.

After eating a good portion of turkey, dressing, potatoes and cranberry sauce tomorrow, millions of us will sit down to a TV full of football (mostly men) while others will rifle through every possible newspaper they can find to circle the bargains they want and organize their next day into one of craziness amid several perfected strategies of store-hopping (mostly women). Notice how the football strategy seems so much more laid-back than black Friday shopping? That's because it is.

The experience millions of shoppers will have this Friday will be nothing short of a lesson in capitalism at its core, where supply and demand meet at a crossroads only to be ran over by the hapless shopper racing to get to the next store to save 30% on this year's choice toy -- or maybe a new plasma TV.

Are you looking forward to the experience that is Black Friday a few days from now? There are some people I know ho actually look forward to this with great anticipation and cannot wait for all the madness. There's nothing like the feeling of getting a perfect bargain -- and it's almost like being on a drug according to some. The exhilaration of getting that perfect bargain is like a bong hit of epic proportions. That seratonin really starts flying through the veins of some shoppers I think.

What's your stance? Do you participate in the Black Friday madness out of shopping necessity or out of the overall experience being uplifting in a strange kind of way?

If you're a web junkie, you've probably already seen websites like www.bfads.net and blackfriday.gottadeal.com which are two of the heavier sites for publishing rumors as well as actual scanned ads from dozens of major nationwide retailers that will really get customers pumped for the largest shopping day of the year -- the day after Thanksgiving.

I know of many people who don't use this day as a gift-giving extravaganza really, but more of a wild personal shopping day in order to get that new computer or television set for the living room. Millions of other shoppers use the day to purchase holiday gifts for giving during the Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa celebrations as well.

But, what about the time you spend wading through legions of advertisements, comparing notes and product prices, drive time to loads of stores, wait time in all the respective lines inside and outside the store, and the complete picture of all the resources you have to pull together to get all those *special* bargains purchased. Was it all really worth it? Was the total picture of money you *saved* larger than all the time and resources you spent to get access to those bargains and then ultimately purchase as many of them as you could?

When time is money, my bet is that the sheer experience of Black Friday shopping makes an analysis of the "time is money" economic concept go right out the window, or windows in this case. How about you -- do you believe that the actual cash (or credit card balance) you save is larger than all the time you spend trying to jump on as many bargains as you can?