Happy Turkey Day!

Have a great Thanksgiving everyone, and thanks again for the Respecting The Turkey!

Hope you are enjoying a day of rest and thankfulness with your family, stuffing yourself full of stuffing and sitting on the couch watching football.


(from: wikipedia - american football on thanksgiving)

Stores staying closed on Thanskgiving 2015

Hopefully everyone has their turkeys thawing in the freezer, and people are making plans to celebrate a day to give thanks for they have.

We all know black Friday is right after Thanksgiving where people jump right into the mad dash to buy things, and some retailers over the past few years have even been open for Thanksgiving shopping sales.

Thankfully some stores have come out now to say that they will not be open for shopping, so their employees can spend the day at home with their families.

TheBlackFriday.com has a good running list of stores that will be CLOSED on Thanskgiving Day.

If you're going out Friday, support the stores that support a day of thanks before shopping!

Stores Staying Closed on Thanskgiving Day

Attention Everyone: You Seem To Have Forgotten That Thanksgiving Exists

Nice article about remembering Thanksgiving over at BuzzFeed!

Writer Britney Gibson says:
Hey, remember that holiday a month after Halloween? It’s called Thanksgiving, and it’s important.

Lots of funny pictures and comments over at the buzzfeed article, check it out!

Attention Everyone: You Seem To Have Forgotten That Thanksgiving Exists

Respect The Turkey Top Tweets

Some great tweets out there right now under the #RespectTheTurkey hashtag!

Luke Vike, Sr. ‏@‏OlHossVike
I was surprised by how many Christmas lights I saw tonight. Let's enjoy Thanksgiving first #RespectTheTurkey

Adam Richter‏ @REagle
WHY ARE THERE CHRISTMAS TREES GOING UP? IT'S NOVEMBER 11TH. #RespectTheTurkey

Z-Dizzle‏ @zaczirzow
#RespectTheTurkey Thanksgiving is a holiday too don't skip over it

Tony D‏ @tony_demarinis
Everyone is excited for Christmas and I'm here like "Where's the turkey and gravy?" #RespectTheTurkey

Tweet on turkeys!

Don't shortchange Thanksgiving

Over at the Pensacola News Journal (pnj.com) writer Troy Moon has a great post about respecting Thanksgiving and fighting the Christmas creep.

Moon: Don't shortchange Thanksgiving

What we really need to be concerned about is the War on Thanksgiving, being waged by Christmas.

Black Friday is bad enough. But last year, the Christmas holiday season even swallowed Thanksgiving, to me, the best holiday of them all. A holiday built around family, friends, food and feasting. A day to count your blessings and enjoy the company of those you love most. But then again, some of us love the appliance aisle at the box store most of all.

Great to have another voice working to help keep the Thanksgiving holiday alive!

Check out the whole article over at pnj.com:
Moon: Don't shortchange Thanksgiving

Quartz Christmas Creep Calculator

Quartz news site has made a graph to extrapolate the future date of when the Christmas Creep will hit for years to come.

Apparently in London they are turning on the Christmas lights on November 1st, far earlier than they have in the past.

Taking that into account, there will be Christmas in July in our future some day.

Respect the turkey!

Read the whole article over at qz.com:

How long before we see Santa in July? Introducing Quartz’s Christmas Creep Calculator

Timely Tidings

Cartoon text:
We just wanted to wish you all-

A Happy Hallowee-!

WAP

MERRY CHRISTMAS!


From over at: ChaosLife by A & K

Ho Ho No

Cartoon text:
HO HO HO!
HELLO
EVERYO-

NO!
GET OUT!
IT'S OCTOBER
GET OUT!


From over at: Mandatory Roller Coaster

Time for Halloween and Thanksgiving

Just read a great post from Caroline Eagles blog chirish chatter over at Chicago Now:

I love America - Hallowe'en, Thanksgiving and only then Christmas

She's said in her post that in the US we celebrate Halloween and Thanksgiving before Christmas, whereas in Ireland and England they start celebrating the holiday even earlier.

And it's not just the shops. The media are just as bad - Time Out London has already published its guide to the jolliest activities and events for Christmas 2015 - in June. Time Out Chicago only did its guide last year in the middle of November. I listen to a magic radio that teleports me back to Norn Iron, reminding me how to say 'now' properly and where to buy the best soda bread - and already I've heard sleigh bells, a few 'Ho Ho Ho's and the dreaded 'C' word.

Sure enough as she posted, over at Timeout London they posted a guide to enjoying Christmas, in June of this year.


(Christmas in London - Timeout.com)

Glad to hear about people respecting Halloween and Thanksgiving and giving Christmas it's own time and place!