Next year forget the turkey and head to Walmart

This year more stores than ever were open on Thanksgiving Day. This first started happening a few years ago and only a few stores did it. Walmart and ToysRUs were pioneers of opening Thanksgiving evening, but apparently the evening was simply not enough. This year more stores were open for more hours, and more people stepped away from the dinner table and headed off to the stores. Retailers are thrilled but WWTPS (What Would The Pilgrims Say?) What is Thanksgiving anyway? The definition is in the name Thanks For Giving. The Pilgrims thanked God for sustaining them in the New World. Over the years we have seen all of our holidays no matter how sacred turned into an opportunity to shop. We’ve got the President’s Sale, the MLK Holiday (last year a swim suit company put his image in a wetsuit as part of their sales strategy), The Easter Sale, Memorial Day Sale, Labor Day Sale and now the Thanksgiving Day Sale. Black Friday as bled into the holiday, and is attempting to completely blot it out. The true meaning of the holiday gets lost in pursuit of the dollar. So next year let’s forget the turkey dinner with all the trimmings. Who has time to cook all the goodies? Who has the time to spend with families and friends and talk about the good ole days? Who has time to teach younger generations how to to bake a cake from scratch or how make homemade macaroni and cheese? Nobody has time when there are XBoxes, 100 inch televisions, Tablets, Sweaters, shoes and boots to buy. The fact is all of these things need to be purchased on Thanksgiving Day because on Friday there will be nothing to sell? That’s not true everything will be there for the next month, but all the media hype sent families out in the cold when a few years ago they were home enjoying another piece of pie.