Maybe1day

We have much the same problem over here on this side of the world, all the important celebrations have become nothing more than commercial enterprises by the shops. They each vie against others to see who can pull in the most people and there for the highest profit. Commercialism gone mad!
So very frustrating. I get really cranky when I see the Christmas stuff being put out and it is only September.

Actually I never decorate in my house until the 1st Dec (I start putting out) I tend to take it all down and put it away 10 days after Christmas Day. So very sad that the real meaning of Christmas is being lost and we are being desensitized.

catrancher

We haven't forgotten Thanksgiving at our house. It's our favorite holiday--husband, two grown sons and a DIL.

TexasGurl

I SO AGREE!!!
By the time Christmas DOES arrive, I'm already tired of it!! I never decorate until the first week of Dec. and we're the last one on the block!
What's REALLY sad - we know quite a few people who have forgone all their Thanksgiving plans and dinners - to shop online or go camp out for the Black Friday hysteria! What message does THAT send to our children & grandchildren?? Crazed consumerism above ALL else - instead of a holiday spent at home with family & friends, let's all just sit at our computers or eat fast food & spend the night in parking lots!! CRAZY The end of civilization draws ever more near ... :(

Pam B

I skip Thanksgiving. We do not do anything that day...have our family get-together on Sat. So, we put up our tree on T'giving day so, sorry guests, my house is already decorated.

tmsrich

i agree - you would also think that Christmas should not be advertised until at least after Veterens day or Remembrance Day in Canada in respect of all the fallen men and women of both countries!! But alas - the almighty dollar prevails again

I thank all military persons of Canada and USA for keeping us safe in the past, present and future!!!!

cag1949

As I was going to see my mom tonight, someone had their house and yard all decorated and lit up for Christmas! Thought that was awful! Like someone else said, no money in Thanksgiving, except maybe in the turkey sales.

cosyquilter

I always told my kids we have to say thank you before gimme gimme.
I tell them now I expect them at my table for Thanksgiving. Do what you want for Christmas, (but do drop in Christmas Day or Christmas Eve) but Thanksgiving is mine.
No one listens though. Oh, we HAVE to go to his family. Tried to celebrate Friday so they could go to inlaws thanksgiving day; We're tired of turkey. this isn't thanksgiving. we have to hit the stores. to add insult, my daughter informed me my house is too small, thanksgiving will be at her house which is much bigger. true, but we will eat off paper plates with plastic spoons and forks. instead of the heirloom china and silver. I feel like I need to move to a nursing home or something. end of rant. oh well.

I won't do Christmas until after Thanksgiving.

jljack

I think a lot of people don't even celebrate Thanksgiving in the way it was meant to be celebrated...what I mean is the sentiment behind it. To give thanks to God for what He has blessed us with.

Mostly it's become a day of football and overeating!

Our family holds to the old traditional Thanksgiving Day celebration....big food of course, whole family together around a big table, a heartfelt prayer of thanksgiving to God before we eat. It's when we all try to be together..Christmas we pretty much keep to our individual families.