I mean we celebrate it here. We went to the grandparents for Thanksgiving day and had the big dinner and the turkey and pumpkin pie and everything, but that's about it.

I'm seeing all these tv shows making a huge deal out of it with big decorations and the like. It gives the impression that Thanksgiving's as big as Halloween or Christmas.

Is this the correct assumption?

For me its different than either of those, because its not that rampantly commercialized, and more of just a weekend off to be with your family, eat good, and RELAX...oh, and in my family by relax, we mean GET DRUNK.

And also, in all seriousness, reflect on how good you have it, what you have to be thankful for, and how awesome this country and the world we live in really is.

Easily my favorite holiday (really the only one I like)

Eh, holidays arent a big deal to me....Just a chance to see some cousins and relatives.

Bigger than Halloween (easily) but not Christmas.

I love Thanksgiving. Good food, two days off of work, see people I don't get to see much...

i like thanksgiving more than christmas.

christmas is probably my least favorite christmas. not really the day....but the holiday season in general.

it's usually very rushed though. i have to get together with both sides of my family and try to relax with them.

i second the sen. loogar in that i do take time to reflect on how good i have it. how loved i am. etc. (though i do try to do that all of the time.)

my favorite thanksgiving tradition is...
listening to this in the car on my way from my mom's family's to my dad's family....:

Thanksgiving Friday is the official start of the Christmas season. Anybody doing anything remotely related beforehand is sorry.

Planning a turkey dinner at my place on Thanksgiving Sunday. Awwww yeah.

Yeah, mine too.

ha ha. oops.

i meant: least favorite HOLIDAY!

here in the States I think it's an opportunity for all Americans to sit and reflect on how much they ate and wished they hadn't. Also an opportunity for us to get as big as halloween and Christmas combined.

i like it, good food, not much else.

and also i got a huge record show the saturday after.

Its just a good opportunity to get the family together and have a good meal. For me, I've always watched the Macy's parade on tv and grown up with Williard Scott and Al Roker in that regard. But in general, it just gives me a chance to sit and relax and for one day I put my worries aside and focus on what I have rather then what I want.

That might make sense, i don't know. I only had 2 hours of sleep last night.

Without Thanksgiving my mom would have to find other avenues to guilt her kids to get together. This way it's fairly tidy.

My favorite holiday.
HAs been since I was a kid... even moreso than Christmas and Hannukkah, despite all the presents.

Football. Cowboys, Lions.

<-- Misses the old NU-OU/NU-CU t-day match up.

definitely my favorite holiday for the reasons already stated:

great food
family
football
alcohol

and back in high school/college, thanksgiving day was also the biggest tackle football game get together. i miss that. it was better in college because it was like a reunion of sorts.

Yes, and it's our holiday. You can't have it.

I agree with chowgurt - it's the only truly American holiday insofar as everyone can celebrate it, no matter what your ethnic/religious background. Easily my fave. Hell, even the homeless get to eat.

Yeah, But you can have Groundhog day. I have no use for it. Who wants to watch what an overgrown rat does anyway?

I LOVE Thanksgiving... more than Christmas, more than Halloween, more than my birthday. I don't have any close family here where I live, so we've started a tradition of having our Portland family join us for the holidays. We usually end up cooking for about 14 people, lots of wine is flowing, and we all chill out and have a good time.

Geez Kitty,

Did I say that? I must have been on drugs or something. You make me seem coherent. I LOVE it when you read between the lines like that! Thanks!

it's ok but frankly a little depressing. most of my family has either moved away or died in the past 10 years so its now down to me, my wife, and my mother. my sister doesn't come, my uncle doesn't come, cousins live elsewhere...

whatever - my mom usually cooks up food for about 20.

I celebrate Thankgiving by bringing Injuns to my house, letting them teach me how to cook, then killing them slowly over the next couple hundred years.

It's not a big deal for me being that I don't really have family around nor get along with them. So usually I just go out to eat with my uncle and I sit there while he criticizes me for every fuck-up I've done in the past... or I go over to a friend's house for dinner. I was going to try to see my mom this year (haven't spent Thanksgiving with her in about 8 years) but unfortunately it ain't happening.

I fuckin HATE the holidays. Sorry.

That was a tradition in our home as I was growing up! Damn hippie parent, heh

Huge.