It certainly is a wild ride when you take your precious littles shopping with you, so we imagine that taking your kids shopping with you on the most insane shopping day of the year — Black Friday — may just be what Peter Pan was talking about when he said, "To die would be an awfully big adventure."
If you're going to brave it and take your kids into the craziness with you, we applaud your bravery, but for most of us mamas, there are a million other things we'd rather be doing. We've come up with 36 alternatives, just to list a few.