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How to find great deals and avoid needless spending on Black Friday

Shopping frenzy and marketing mayhem is taking over malls, email inboxes and online shopping sites. But how can you stick to finding the deals you want and avoid getting sucked into buying things you dont need? The Deal Diva has some tips to help you navigate.

The holiday shopping season has begun and it can be overwhelming

People are pictured shopping in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia on Tuesday, November 22, 2022.
Black Friday deals can be tempting, but they can also manipulate the brain into falling for a marketing technique that creates what psychologists call "artificial scarcity". (Ben Nelms/CBC)

Black Friday marks the unofficial kickoff to the holiday spending season, but you don't need to wait until the actual day to score all those great deals.

The marketing engines are in high gear alreadyandthey won't let up until Cyber Monday. So if you are doing your holiday shopping or lookingto replace some household necessities, now is the time.

Click the link below to hear the Deal Diva chat with the Afternoon Edition's Peter Mills about how you can score great deals leading up to Black Friday and avoid being sucked into the marketing frenzy.

Anna-May Zeviar is CBC Saskatchewan's Deal Diva. This week, she joins Afternoon Edition guest host Peter Mills to talk about one of the busiest and most aggressive shopping days of the year.

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You can find more money saving tips at cbc.ca/dealdiva
You can find more money saving tips at cbc.ca/dealdiva (CBC Graphics/Lianne Sabourin)