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My annual main holiday bit**! Thanksgiving only serves as the portal to BLACK FRIDAY and Christmas Shopping. Are you thankful? For what?

With much disgust and sadness I see that some families pay no attention to Thanksgiving and camp out at stores on that day to be first in line to buy bargains. When did Thanksgiving become worthless useless unimportant? Some do takeout so they can get in line early and then share war stories about the crowds and the deals and ohboy. My gosh how very very greedy seedy of them. They can 't even take ONE DAY to be thankful for what they have and whom they are and count their blessings? Not even one day out of an entire year to NOT BE GREEDY SOBS on the make for a great deal? Not even one?

Good luck to y'all. You will need it. One day futurely when you are OLD and look back on all your Thanksgivings past that you never honored or gave due respect to or for.. you will wonder what the he** was so important for you to buy that you forgot to be thankful. You will not be pleased with yourself. Time is not on your side. For all you know this could be the last Thanksgiving for people you know. Spent in line or on line out in the cold and the dark waiting for stores to open? A fond memory? Sheesh..

Posted - November 5, 2019
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  • 34762
    We enjoy Thanksgiving.  No Black Friday for me. I am normally done shopping by this time. 

    I did go once with my daughter.  Not for me...too many people.  I could not even find the way to the check out. They had all the aisles blocked.  I gave up and squeezed through.  And got to a register.  I heard one of the workers asking trying to figure out how I got there....I just paid and left.

    LOL

    I do know some families who love it.  They will scope out the store. They all have their job. Each person is in charge of getting however many the family needs of an item. They have fun with it.  To each his own. They are in store...not out in the cold.  Have their dinner as lunch and out the go. 
      November 5, 2019 9:28 AM MST
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  • 113301
    I find it to be not my cuppa tea sweetie. I have never once gone out shopping on BLACK FRIDAY. Even during hours I would normally shop. I will not be manipulated and orchestrated and brainwashed into lusting after THINGS. Not on Thanksgiving. Not any time at all really except well maybe for food I AM a Foodie after all. Oh by the by I got the regular seasoned Kernal and the Garlic Herb as well. I was so excited to see it just sitting there on the top shelf of the aisle where breading is. I NEVER ONCE EVER LOOKED UP! Anyway Thursday we go to Winco and it's there I'll buy something to bread which I'll fix on Friday. Any recommendations? Have you used the garlic herb blend? Anyway thanks for the info and the instructions and letting me know WHERE I COULD FIND in the Hemet Store on Florida in which aisle!. Gadzooks you're amazing! Thank you for your reply m2c! :)
      November 5, 2019 1:25 PM MST
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  • 34762
    Not my thing either.

    I have not used the Garlic.  But I have added garlic the original. I use it on swai fish, shrimp and chicken. This post was edited by my2cents at November 6, 2019 3:47 AM MST
      November 5, 2019 1:31 PM MST
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  • 113301
    I think I'm gonna go with chicken first. I have never had swai fish. Is it comparable to any other kind? In fact I've never heard of it before.  I like Tilapia and other mild fish. I never used to like salmon but I have developed a liking for it. You know my favorite shopping is for food. I get so excited...like kids do at Christmas. You never know what new thing will there. Besides being at home it's my favorite place to be. What's your favorite fish to cook at home? Thank you for your reply m2c and Happy Wednesday to thee! :)
      November 6, 2019 3:50 AM MST
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  • 34762
    Swai is imported catfish. 
      November 6, 2019 4:10 AM MST
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  • 113301
    Imported? From a different country? You know I don't know how big a seller or how popular catfish is in California. I don't recall seeing it at the market. Of course I never looked for it. Is it a mild fish? Thank you for your reply m2c! :)
      November 6, 2019 4:13 AM MST
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  • 34762
    Yes it is a mild fish. I checked and Walmart sell both swai and catfish in CA.
      November 6, 2019 6:10 AM MST
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  • 113301
    **hugs** thanks for doing the legwork for me m2c. AGAIN! Okay. Next visit to Walmart will be next Tuesday. However tomorrow is our Winco day and I will look for Swai there. Catfish too. I think of catfish as a southern states fish. I'm not sure why. Thank you for your reply! :)
      November 6, 2019 6:16 AM MST
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  • 10719
    It just goes to show what's more important to people - friends and family or things. 

    We're a materialistic society run by corporations.  They dangle the "carrot" and we jump for it.  The sooner they start dangling it, the more time we have to jump (and then more money they rake in).  After awhile we begin to think we deserve that carrot; it's owed to us.  We'll fight tooth and nail for it as if it were the last carrot on earth.  Once we get it, we quickly jump for the next one, and the next one, and the next one... never satisfied.  The things we "had to have" today are tossed on the trash heap or put into storage tomorrow.  Forgotten.

    This nation is very wealthy.  In fact, our poor are more "wealthy" than much of the rest of the world.  The recent blackouts in California showed how much people think that electricity is "owed" to them (the ranting still goes on).  Yet many places in the world don't even have electricity (how do they charge their iPhones?

    Many of us have parents, family, and/or friends.  Do we think they will always be there?  Fires, tornados, hurricanes, floods, car wrecks, disease, terrorists, war, (and such) can take them away at any moment.   Who cares!  Walmart is having a one-day sale and I must have things! 

    How does hearing "thank you" from someone you have something to or did something for make you feel?  How does not hearing it make you feel?   It is it asking so much to set aside one day a year to be thankful for what you've received/have?  Or are we just a bunch of ingrates complaining that what is owed to us should come more quickly!
      November 5, 2019 11:38 AM MST
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  • 113301
    I could not have said it better myself Shuhak. I've never even gone out of the house on BLACK FRIDAY as far as I recall. I resent what it represents and even if I needed something at some store I would not go out that day. Money makes the world go around. So does shopping and getting bargains apparently. Screw holidays. Screw family time at home together counting our blessings and enjoying talking to one another. Screw all of it because you can go out on Thanks giving day and buy and go out for a midnight special or camp out to wait in line with the others who are itching to get a really good deal. Why be thankful at home together when you can be out among strangers and spend buy acquire all day and all night long? It gets worse each year not better. Ever hear the song about TICKY TACK houses? Well sadly people have become so ticky tack and getting tackier as we move forward. Not my idea of living the good life. Thank you for your thoughtful repl Shuhak! :)
      November 5, 2019 1:36 PM MST
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  • 46117
    Black Friday is great if you shop by computer.  You don't?  I'd stay at home then.  Not worth any savings. This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at November 6, 2019 3:25 AM MST
      November 5, 2019 1:49 PM MST
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  • 113301
    I don't buy online. I do nothing financial online Sharon. Nothing. I know bargains abound if you do but I am a hands-on buyer. I don't trust pictures or promises or assurances. Not my cuppa tea. Thank you for your reply and Happy Wednesday to thee! :)
      November 6, 2019 3:26 AM MST
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  • 16937
    Thanksgiving and Black Friday aren't a thing in Australia. I do get annoyed with stores promoting Christmas this early. There are twelve days of Christmas and not one of them is in freaking November. The only thing I'm doing differently this month, as I do at this time every year, is letting my moustache grow out. I'll shave it off again on December 1st.

    I carry a pebble in my pocket to throw at people singing carols in November. I call it my jingle bell rock.
      November 6, 2019 4:24 AM MST
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