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

There is an authenticity you feel from charity shopping, finding your treasure buried deep in the junk and jumble. It is an individuality you just can’t find from a main street shop, or a popular brand, promoting its latest fad or season

Black Friday is an entirely American invention, falling on the first Friday after Thanksgiving. File photo: James Manning/PA

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.