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Judi Nov 24, 2005

The Day After Thanksgiving is the busiest shopping day of the year here in the USA... Black Friday it's called in the retail world, though I never understood why. Is it because the stores open when it's still dark out, like 5 am?..... anyway, having worked those long hours with all those crazy shoppers for 15+ years I will be happily staying home, eating left overs and digging out the Christmas Decorations this year. Ahhhh..........

DITTO Daphne!!!  I wouldn't go near a mall the day after Thanksgiving.

shantell Nov 24, 2005

The Day After Thanksgiving is the busiest shopping day of the year here in the USA... Black Friday it's called in the retail world, though I never understood why. Is it because the stores open when it's still dark out, like 5 am?..... anyway, having worked those long hours with all those crazy shoppers for 15+ years I will be happily staying home, eating left overs and digging out the Christmas Decorations this year. Ahhhh..........

DITTO Daphne!!!  I wouldn't go near a mall the day after Thanksgiving.

ME TOO!!!   I think the term "Black" refers to being in the positive versus RED being in the negative...in terms of profit...cash flow etc.   You know, all that business, market trends, economics mucky muck I never understood nor care to.

Happy Day Happy Day...eat eat eat...

Daphne Nov 24, 2005

Shantell, I think you could have something there.... it does ring a bell! I was too focused on hiring and training and merchandising and ordering and all the day to day mucky muck to think about the Friday after Thanksgiving being anything but h@ll day!  :twisted:

gotobedbears Nov 24, 2005

Well, i don't know a lot about Thanksgiving but i sincerely hope that all you American Gals have a great day.

If there is turkey involved, i bet you'll all be eating the darn thing until easter like we do over here in Britain - how do the little blighters get soooo BIG!!!! Hormones i suppose?

Anyways, have a great time with your families - give the kids a good slap if they get over excited and keep Grandma off of the sherry

Beeg Hugs

Penny  :hug:

Eileen Nov 25, 2005

:hug: As an American living in Canada (I get TWO Thanksgivings) I want to thank everyone who wished us well.

I won't be celebrating Thanksgiving until tomorrow, when I go to Rochester NY to meet my almost new son-in-law and find out how well he cooks!! I already know that my daughter doesn't!!

This will be the first American Thanksgiving I've celebrated on American soil since 1976!!! I don't know whether to weep  or cheer  :dance: , so I'll probably do both!!

Ah--Thanksgiving is more than a harvest festival or a capitalist extravaganza in the US. You not-in-exile Americans should know better (tsk tsk)!

It's a celebration of a rough landing and a more-or-less survival of the first winter in a new world (only 5 women survived that first winter to cook dinner, all crabby Puritans, and it was probably pretty awful), it's a festival of thanks for finding enough to eat, even if it was awful and, best of all, it's the OFFICIAL BEGINNING OF THE CHRISTMAS SEASON!! Huge SALES, etc.

On 6th Ave. in NYC at this season, you can see camels being walked from the Central Park Zoo to Rockefeller Center. How great is that????! Camels on 6th Ave. ? What a holiday!!  :dance:

I can even remember dressing up in paper Pilgrim costumes for school pageants. I never got to be the turkey. Or the pumpkin, for that matter. 

Eileen