Cyber Monday

Black Friday is a distant memory. Small Business Saturday is long gone. Now, it's Cyber Monday's turn.

Many online deals that used to start the Monday following Thanksgiving have already been launched.

Shoppers seem to be just as enthusiastic about shopping on their computers and smartphones on Cyber Monday as they were about finding deals over the Black Friday weekend.    Online sales on Cyber Monday, which was started in 2005 by a retail trade group to encourage Americans to shop online the Monday after Thanksgiving, were up early afternoon by 20 percent from a year ago, according to data from

Cyber Monday was a term coined in 2005 after retailers noticed a spike in online sales between the hours of noon and 3pm on the Monday after Black Friday.

So your just finishing up Thanksgiving dinner. You're in the process of digesting enough food to feed you for a week that you swallowed whole because it's the holidays. Instead of going to sleep, you get all bundled up, grab your handy dandy credit card, get in the car and head towards your nearest outlet or mall.