For your consideration, "Black Friday" alternatives, #1

"Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. In recent years, most major retailers have opened extremely early and offered promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season," we are told in Black Friday's very own Wikipedia listing. "Black Friday shopping is known for attracting aggressive crowds, with annual reports of assaults, shootings, and throngs of people trampling on other shoppers in an attempt to get the best deal on a product before supplies run out."

For your consideration may offer you some simple, stay-at-home alternatives to today's bedlam, via West Texas Missioner's Twitter feed ? Thee are some neat ideas out there ... including many that really do capture the true spirit of the Thanksgiving/Christmas season.

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I am Second: ‏@IamSecond
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Living Water International: ‏‏@livingwater
Brave the #BlackFriday crowds but first kick off your Christmas with Give Well! Instead of gifts, ask for safe water: water.cc/givewell .

International Justice Mission: ‏@IJM
This #BlackFriday, take a stand against consumerism and help fund a rescue operation: bitly.com/GiveFreedom .