Everyone loves Black Friday, or so they say, but when the time actually comes does it actually live up to its hype? I personally am not a fan. I don't like the crowds, the chaos, getting to bed late, and coming out with essentially nothing. Here are the inevitable stages of Black Friday Shopping.

1. Pre-Black Friday Excitement

You're a poor college student so you think Black Friday is the perfect holiday for you. All you can think about are the sales that will allow you to finally afford the things you couldn't before and you're mentally making a list of everything you want to buy with the whopping $11 you have in your bank account.

2. Planning

Since you're so excited to go shopping you need to make a plan. You text all of your friends to see who will go with you. You then decide on the time, you'll probably choose somewhere between 3 am and 4 am because it's cool and different to go shopping in the middle of the night and today is the only acceptable today.

3. Post-Thanksgiving meal regrets

You've just stuffed your face with all of the delicious Thanksgiving food that you could possibly consume. It was all fun and games until you remember the Black Friday plans you made and that those are happening in just a few hours. You don't want to move, you can't move, and you really don't know if you'll make it to shopping. Maybe taking a nap will make you feel better.

4. Forcing yourself out

You wake from your food coma nap and realize you still don't want to move but you made the plans and there's no going back now.

5. PARKING

This is the worst part of Black Friday, don't @ me. There are never any spots by the time you get to the mall and you spend more time looking for one than you actually do shopping. The only thought crossing your mind at this point is, "Should I just go home?"

6. Instant Regret

You walk into the mall and see the mobs of people EVERYWHERE. You're way too overwhelmed to even decide what store to go to that you, again, think about just going home. You can't do this, there are too many people here for your liking.

7. You see the sales

You finally see what you came for: the sales. They're not even that great and you're immensely disappointed. You think, "why did I even come?" and that you should've just waited for Cyber Monday because this was just not worth it.

8. Waiting in line with friends

After you were disappointed by the sales you decide that you're not going to buy anything. Of course, your friend NEEDS this shirt she found so you're forced to wait in this 3-hour long line with her and you have to hold in your fury because you're a good friend.

9. Leaving the mall

Finally!!!! The moment you've been waiting for. You finally get to leave. You exit the mall and realize you don't remember where you parked and you spend 30 minutes walking around the lot trying to find it. You feel like you're going to collapse out of pure exhaustion but there's no choice because if you can't find your then car you can't go home.

10. Bedtime

The best part of the night has come-you can finally get into bed. You decide that you're never going to do this again but you know in the back of your mind that you know you will and you'll regret it all over again.

11. Monday

It's Cyber Monday, the day you were actually made for. You can sit in your bed and online shop with the same or better deals as you found in the mall. This is the stuff.