Black Friday

For Black Friday, some retailers inflate reference prices before applying discounts, making deals seem bigger than they are.

The first Cyber Monday occurred on November 28, 2005, but only in the US. Canada followed a few years later, starting in 2008.

On Black Friday in 2011, a woman used pepper spray on other shoppers at an LA Walmart to get herself a half-priced Xbox.

In 2009, K-Mart became the first store to start the trend of Gray Thursday by opening their stores on Thanksgiving Day.

Did you know that it's mostly men who spend online on Cyber Monday? Men account for 56% of the Cyber Monday shoppers.

Did you know that in the 1800s Black Friday was used to describe stock markets crashing?

Cards Against Humanity was created by a bunch of students from Highland Park High School as a fun party game for a New Year's Eve.