I normally hate crowds, too, but I deal with it on Thanksgiving and Black Friday. I live in a pretty small town, so it's not like there will be 50,000 people at the mall. :lol: I don't usually shop for doorbusters, anyway, and that's what draws in the crowd. I have learned to come in about an hour after the doorbusters go on sale. Then I stagger my shopping that way, all night. Doorbusters are 5 at Target? 6 and 8 at Walmart? I head to Walmart about 9, shop for a while, then head to Target, then Dicks, Michaels, etc etc etc. As long as I stagger my time to visit the stores after the doorbusters are finished, I usually have no problem. It's about as busy as a normal Friday or Saturday night.