Thanksgiving, the holiday that gotten eaten alive.

[Fawke Em]

3. I have, for years, finished the vast majority of my Christmas shopping

BEFORE Black Friday. I detest crowds and think most of the products aren't really all that much cheaper (especially if I have to fight a crowd to get it - I'd rather pay a few dollars more and live in peace).

However, to prove your point, my husband and I were in Home Depot yesterday. We're having a new bathroom floor put in the first week of December and we were looking at flooring. We were out doing some other errands and decided we couldn't get the flooring because it would have to be strapped to the top of the car and we were worried about theft, so my husband suggested we come back next weekend and get it. I said, "That's the weekend after Thanksgiving! Are you crazy!? I wouldn't step foot in a store that weekend!"

Two shoppers who were standing there literally looked at me like I was insane. Like *I* was the weird one because Black Friday is literally the LAST day of the year I'd pick to shop.

Our nation is too easily brainwashed.