Jennifer Horgan: Turn your back on Black Friday and embrace the humble charity shop tradition

We’re still a week out, not that you’d know it. Ads are rolling in like thunderclouds announcing Black Friday, more soulless dross from across the Atlantic. 

Yes, along with the global scourge of the Donald, Black Friday is an entirely American invention, falling on the first Friday after Thanksgiving.

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