Next friday is Black Friday. Many people think that the black part refers to the utter chaos that surrounds the crazy deals and people. This, however, is wrong.
When accounting books used to really be books and not all in Excel sheets, accountants used 2 colors of ink depending on whether the money total was positive or negative. (you can make Excel do this :-) ) Black was for positive numbers and red was for negative numbers.
Hrrmmm......now we have a common occurrence. Black.
Shop owners would sometimes rely on holiday sales to ensure that they ended the year in the positives. The day after Thanksgiving is a huge day for retail and would cause stores to be in the black.
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everyone has those little pieces of information that they use maybe once in their lives. I know uncountable little tidbits about random things and so does everyone else. So, in the efforts to enlighten you (or just make you feel smart around your friends), I decided to share the ones that I hear about or feel the need to pass on.
I make no guarantees on when I'll update this. I'm a graduate student and that means I'm supposed to be doing research and not blogging....but we'll see how well that works out.
everyone has those little pieces of information that they use maybe once in their lives. I know uncountable little tidbits about random things and so does everyone else. So, in the efforts to enlighten you (or just make you feel smart around your friends), I decided to share the ones that I hear about or feel the need to pass on.
I make no guarantees on when I'll update this. I'm a graduate student and that means I'm supposed to be doing research and not blogging....but we'll see how well that works out.
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