It was interesting. I got up to put the turkey in and was surprised to see that overnight, we had just gotten a dusting of snow. Our bad weather was late!
So Thanksgiving went off perfectly with two turkeys, two hams and all the traditional side dishes. All the traditional people were there too. Good time.
The following morning was a far different story.
The local news issued warnings about unnecessary travel, really stressing that the snow was hitting some places very hard and that made travel quite dangerous.
But in the very next segment, they talked about the Black Friday crowd of shoppers. Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday here. The Friday after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday and is considered to be the kickoff for Christmas shopping.
Stores offer huge savings on things to entice people into their store. The crowds are crazy bad. I did the Black Friday thing once. It was scary, with people pushing and shoving, and being rude to each other.
You could not pay me to be a part of that even if the roads had been good.
The news reporter showed long lines of people waiting for the store to open its doors. Some people had been waiting for 5 hours in the snow. Traffic was backed up a mile at the entrance to the parking lot.
And then there was this: I watched in total disbelief. So many are struggling right now. It almost seems obscene to me. Some stores are making it easy: buy now, pay later
I'm not a grinch and neither is Tim, but we have never gone into debt for the holiday. This year, we are even more cautious than usual.
This excess just strikes me as foolish.
We have 10 inches of snow on the ground.
I am glad your Thanksgiving went well! Now you can just relax and "let it snow!". About seeming obscene. I agree. I am frequently on a neighborhood app. A big story today was that Mission Arlington distributed more than 7,000 free meals for Thanksgiving. Many posts were people asking for a turkey, and others offering to share groceries.
ReplyDeletePair that scene with many homeowners who have a great "need" for Christmas lights to be professionally installed on their homes! I don't understand why lights are so important this year. As to the huge amount of money predicted to be spent---- must be those rich people who got tax breaks who are doing the spending.