What happened to Thanksgiving?

[BarryH]

I'm celebrating Thanksgiving in the traditional way. I'm inviting my neighbors over, we'll have a nice dinner, and then I will kill them and take their land.

[Moose]

Hell, local stores were putting out the Christmas decorations for sale before Halloween.

 

The whole holiday is a construct of the 19th century based on a heavily mythologized view of the Pilgrims; that being said, I do love a good roast turkey dinner.

 

Aren't most holidays complete bastardizations of their origins?

[bobafett]

Around here in Philadelphia I started noticing the Christmas displays going up around late August early September which is WAY TOO EARLY for me. I hate it that they shove Christmas down my throat. I myself love Halloween, I love it so much that my wedding reception was Halloween themed(October 29). I wanted to get married on Halloween but the year I got married it fell on a weekday so we had it as close to Halloween as we could get. And I still have my Halloween decorations up and it is now Thanksgiving. I do this every year just to be spiteful when all my neighbors are putting up their Christmas decorations. I think it is too commercialized. Some people can't afford to have a nice holiday and that makes me sad so I donate food and toys every year to local charities. We have no children because we chose not to have them but if we can make difference to a family or two so that they can enjoy the holidays then that makes me feel good and isn't that what the holidays are all about? And besides I'm an adult so I don't need anything. Well if Santa could give me lower gas prices I wouldn't mind that as a Christmas present.