Food, family and football. Thankfulness and turkey. All great things as far as they go, but now that they're over with, it's time to discuss what Thanksgiving is really all about: Christmas.
Oh, you know it's true. I mean, more than half the Thanksgiving hype is really just about the day after Thanksgiving, which is, of course, the day that we all go out and start buying Christmas gifts! (By the way, everyone in my family likes to stick it to the man by staying home and putting up the Christmas decorations on Black Friday instead of shopping. Well...baby steps.) And, really, how important of a holiday can Thanksgiving truly be when the Christmas commercials start not only before Thanksgiving itself but even before Columbus Day? (Here's my take on Columbus Day: Just another excuse for elementary school kids to do crafts and put on cute song and dance shows). Thanksgiving gets sucked into the Christmas commercial vacuum almost as much as all the other fall holidays. I mean, does Thanksgiving get any commercials of its own? Well, there are all those commercials for Black Friday sales, and as we know those really just lead back to Christmas....
So here's what I think the real purpose of Thanksgiving is: it's a buffer. It's like Christmas' somewhat lax babysitter. As long as Thanksgiving is there about a month before Christmas, there will be a limit on how early Christmas celebrations can begin. We can have Christmas parties on December 1st, but November 30th? Are you crazy? We just got done with Thanksgiving!
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You're right. It's kind of mind boggling that at some point nobody got the idea of hanging horns of plenty by the kitchen door for the Great Turkey to fill with gifts.
oo. The Great Turkey. I'm going to have to see if I can sneak that one past my family next year.
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