🖤 Black Friday Is Here: Buying Discounted Products… or Discounted Stocks?
This year’s Black Friday isn’t just happening in Orchard, Lazada, and Shopee.
It’s happening in the stock market too — and some price tags look even more broken than the mall deals. 😳💸
So the real question is…
👉 Are you filling your cart… or filling your portfolio?
Let’s talk. 😎✨
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🛍️ Option A: The Classic Black Friday Shopper
If you’re the type who has been eyeing:
• 🧴 Dyson hair gadgets
• 📱 New iPhones
• 💄 Cosmetics
• 🎧 Noise-cancelling headphones
• 🍳 Philips air fryers
• 🛋️ Shopee home gadgets you might never use again
…then yes, Black Friday is your Super Bowl.
You get instant gratification, nice packaging, and that sweet dopamine hit when the delivery guy arrives. 📦😌
But here’s the catch:
🟡 Most products lose value the moment you buy them.
🟡 Most stocks increase value over time… especially when bought on sale.
So one side empties your wallet.
The other side fills your future wallet. 😉
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📉 Option B: The “Black Friday Stocks Sale” Shopper
2024–2025 has been one of the wildest periods for market sentiment.
Some once-loved stocks are now sitting at:
• 30% off
• 40% off
• Some even 50–70% off from their highs 😮🔥
These are what we call “broken-bone valuations.”
They hurt to look at — but that’s when value hunters start sharpening their knives. 🗡️📊
Examples of discounted plays right now:
💠 AI + Cloud names that ran too hard → now unwinding
💠 China tech suffering from sentiment & policy
💠 REITs slammed by high interest rates
💠 Semiconductors with cyclical corrections
💠 Blue chips with temporary earnings drops
No guarantee they rebound…
but Black Friday is literally the season where fear creates opportunity.
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🔥 Stocks vs Products: Which Is the “Real” Deal?
Here’s the difference:
🧴 Buy products →
You get something shiny today ✨
But it declines in value tomorrow. 👎
📈 Buy discounted stocks →
You get nothing today (no dopamine)…
But you might get future returns, dividends, and upside. 💰🚀
It’s the difference between:
Short-term happiness 🛍️ vs long-term wealth 🌱.
Both have their place — the trick is knowing which one your future self will thank you for.
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💡 My Take: The “Balanced Black Friday Strategy”
You don’t need to choose either stocks or products.
You can choose smartly.
Here’s a thought:
✔️ Buy stuff you’ll actually use daily
(Health, work, productivity, quality-of-life items.)
✔️ Buy stocks you believed in before they fell
(Not random penny stocks that happened to be cheap.)
✔️ Avoid impulse buys — in both markets
Shopping carts and portfolios both suffer from “wah cheap!” syndrome. 😅🛒
✔️ Set a Black Friday budget for BOTH
For example:
• $300 for products 🛍️
• $500–$2000 for oversold stocks 📉
This way, you get the happiness of today and the potential gains of tomorrow.
Win–win. 😎✌️
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🖤📉📈 So… What Are You Buying This Black Friday?
A discounted gadget for your lifestyle?
Or a discounted stock for your future lifestyle?
The vainpot in me would buy cosmetics and the money-minded me would definitely jump on the discounted stock wagon. 😜
Either way, this year’s Black Friday is more than shopping —
it’s a chance to reset, rebalance, and maybe…
spark the beginning of your next wealth move. 💰🔥
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