Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone had a great thanksgiving, and is enjoying some leftovers while putting up those Christmas decorations.

Crazy Christmas drivers

You know who you are!

Keep it in the Barn!

T-Rex Respects the Turkey!

They say that birds are descended from dinosaurs.

Maybe the T-Rex should be the official mascot of Thanksgiving, after Ralph the Rex and his friends went after some Christmas decorations put out too early!


TRex taking on Santa - Ralph_the _Rex

It's not even officially fall yet!

The first day of Fall is September 13th, but already some shops are getting ready for Christmas.

Newsround - Is September too early to start thinking about Christmas?

A few weeks ago, a Tesco supermarket in Cambridge even put their own big Christmas tree up outside the store - with 117 days to go until 25 December.

We still have Halloween and Thanksgiving seasons to enjoy!

Yes, it's too early.

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Too Early?

Keep those Christmas decorations in the closet for a few more months!

From over at: how the h* did i end up here?

Big money on Halloween

As stores are getting ready to line up their Christmas displays to make all that holiday money, hopefully they are paying attention to the other holidays too.

A report just came out saying a whole bunch of people are going to be spending a whole bunch of money on Halloween stuff.

Halloween spending slated to hit record $9.1 billion, NRF says - CNBC.com

Welcome Fall 2017!

Hopefully your fall season is filled with pumpkin spice, some cooler evenings, maybe some cider and donuts, and of course shopping for those Halloween costumes.

Word on the street is that some of the stores have already put their Christmas decorations out!
The Christmas Creep might be a little frantic this year after Toys R Us declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy!

There were a lot of changes for the positive last year, with a lot of stores closing their doors on Thanksgiving Day so that families could be together for the holiday.
Hopefully those good feelings keep up this year, and every learns to #RespectTheTurkey!


Here's a funny cartoon found over at The Diet Riot Show



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Jack-o-lantern: Well big guy, looks like it's your turn.
It's only two days after Halloween and I've already seen Christmas lights, fruitcake and scented pinecones.

Turkey: Hopefully by next year they will skip over Thanksgiving completely!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone is enjoying their Thanksgiving day with family and friends.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Respect the Turkey!

Here are some fun cartoons to give you a chuckle while you gobble.


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Turducken? Too complicated! The best I can do is Turstuffen.

From over at: go-comics - Half-Full by Maria Scrivan


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He's obviously had work done

From over at: offthemark.com - thanksgiving


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(Darth Vader cutting a turkey with a light saber)

From over at: starwars.com

Turkey Tweets

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

Patrick Raudenbush ‏@Patrickrbush
People keep talking about Christmas, but how bout we give Thanksgiving some love? #RespectTheTurkey

Rob Shepherd ‏@‏shepherdrob
This is your annual reminder that Thanksgiving comes before Christmas. Celebrate accordingly. #RespectTheTurkey

WFMY News 2 ‏@WFMY
#RespectTheTurkey and call before you have #Turkey drama at #Thanksgiving @butterball

Tweet on turkeys!

Mall of America Closed on Thanksgiving!

Halloween is over, and the Thanksgiving Season has begun!

Some great news has come from the Mall of America, where they have decided to close their doors on Thanksgiving Day to allow their workers to stay home with their families.

"We’ve been talking about this for months, looking at the numbers, looking at the pros and the cons,” said Jill Renslow, the mall’s senior vice president of marketing and business development. “We’re excited to give this day back to our employees so they can celebrate with their families."

Great work Mall of America!
Hopefully many other stores will follow suit, and Respect The Turkey!

Full article over at: Star Tribune: Mall of America takes bold stand by closing on Thanksgiving

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

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We just wanted to wish you all-

A Happy Hallowee-!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!


From over at: ChaosLife by A & K

Ho Ho No

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HO HO HO!
HELLO
EVERYO-

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


From over at: Mandatory Roller Coaster